{"id":2471,"date":"2007-03-03T01:09:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T09:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2007\/03\/03\/slightly-passive-communication-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T01:09:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T09:09:56","slug":"slightly-passive-communication-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2007\/03\/03\/slightly-passive-communication-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Slightly Passive Communication, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I received a handwritten response to my heater note<\/a>:<\/p>\n

CLIFF –<\/p>\n

WE CAN TALK WHEN WE’RE BOTH HOME, BUT THIS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY:<\/p>\n

AS I’M SURE YOU’VE GATHERED, IT WAS ME TURNING OFF THE HEATER. 1: I DON’T WANT THE HOUSE TO BURN DOWN. 2: THERE’S NO REASON IT SHOULD BE ON IF YOU’RE NOT HOME TO BENEFIT FROM IT. OTHERWISE, YOU’RE DRIVING THE ELECTRIC BILL UP & CREATING A FIRE DANGER. YOU’RE RIGHT, I SHOULD’VE TALKED YOU ABOUT IT, BUT I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL IT HAPPENED AGAIN. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON & TIMES I HAVE ENTERED YOUR ROOM W\/OUT PERMISSION. I DO NOT WANT TO COME HOME TO FIND OUT I NO LONGER HAVE A HOME. DURING THE WINTER PORTABLE HEATERS CAUSE MOST FIRES HERE.<\/p>\n

LIKE I SAID, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT PLEASE DON’T LEAVE IT ON WHILE YOU’RE NOT HOME ANY MORE.<\/p>\n

THANK YOU,<\/p>\n

[BARRON]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, yes it was hand written in all caps! (okay to be fair, there were a few lower case letters written at the same size as the capitals.) Also, I had to resist the urge to correct grammar when I was transcribing this just now. I had read this a while ago and put it out of my sight to make sure I wasn’t over reacting. <\/p>\n

But I’ve come to the conclusion it is generally better not to talk to her. After I wrote the Barron blog entry<\/a>, I thought about taking Cindy’s advice to heart and working it out. But, I thought some more about it, and really realized that I don’t really value our relationship, and I think she is not someone I want to be around in general, so why put more effort into it? I mean she hasn’t even mastered the common written use of the verb to be. I’m not looking for full blown conjugation skills, just your average knowledge.. <\/p>\n

So my response, which is again taped to the heater:<\/p>\n

To [Barron]:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. You still shouldn’t be in my room.<\/li>\n
  2. I pay my share of the electric bill.<\/li>\n
  3. I am responsible for my cats, they benefit from the heat.<\/li>\n
  4. The thermostat is set to 60 degrees when I am not home, this isn’t excessive.<\/li>\n
  5. I have blocked the heating vent in my room because there is too much dust in the system and it annoys my allergies, thus I don’t get the benefit of the central heating system in my room.<\/li>\n
  6. This is a ceramic space heater, it doesn’t get hot enough to start a fire. I was at one point worried that it was a fire hazard, but I am now satisfied that is it not a fire hazard.<\/li>\n
  7. I will not have you dictating what I can and cannot do within my room. You do not own this house; you do not have that right.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Oh, and anyways I’ve been apartment\/roommate hunting for about a month now..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, I received a handwritten response to my heater note: CLIFF – WE CAN TALK WHEN WE’RE BOTH HOME, BUT THIS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY: AS I’M SURE YOU’VE GATHERED, IT WAS ME TURNING OFF THE HEATER. 1: I DON’T WANT THE HOUSE TO BURN DOWN. 2: THERE’S NO REASON IT SHOULD BE ON […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}