Hey, it happens. Sometimes apartment office folk aren’t any brighter than the maintenance staff they hire, on whom it’s too easy to pin the blame when they goof up.

Then again, maybe he is just stupid. I had one at my last place who struggled and struggled with the water source pipe in the bathroom, convinced there was a leak from my apartment into the unit below (there wasn’t). Unfortunately, what he struggled and struggled to do was turn the source valve the wrong direction.

Why can’t people just remember “righty-tighty, lefty-loosey?”

Anyway, this chap couldn’t, so he wound up breaking off the handle.

I later had to replace the 20-year-old toilet tank innards. I did this myself because maintenance, I figured, had broken enough. I ended up having to use needle-nose pliers to maneuver a leeeeeetle tiny plastic nubbin to shut off the water. It didn’t work perfectly, so I got soaked.

Yeah, I retract my earlier supposition. He could very well be stupid. And if nothing else, he is rude as all hell for leaving that seat up. Yeesh.