Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Basement

There have been a few things stopping me from setting in to the basement.

Some were easily resolved. Giant crickets, for example, were no match for a vacuum. The same was true of the spider corpses - dangling from cobwebs like tiny marionettes.

Others not so much. I spent half an hour trying to pull the refrigerator door open. When I finally did get it open...

There's food in there from before my grandma died... it has spawned some sort of horrible black mold which has plastered itself all over the fridge's interior. The top of the 'fridge used to be a freezer compartment - now it's a giant block of ice: inside you can sea bags of peas trapped like woolly mammoths sans paleontological significance.

The biggest problem, however, is my height. This basement was never meant to be an apartment - but that didn't stop my parents from trying. The result is a well featured basement with a ceiling that's about two feet two short. Lots of head injuries ensue.

2 comments:

John Rocco Jennette said...

That fridge sounds as if it could hold some paleontological significance, though. You can never be too sure with black mold.
You'll just have to walk around doubled over all the time, which (while painful) would go great with a little vest and a concertina shanty, with a little jig thrown in for flavor.

Yvonne said...

Hahaha....and that is a prime example of where shortness wins over height.