The Chelsea Chamber

And to think it all started with a simple couch theft...

Floor antics reached the level of ridiculous last night: Due to the obscene amount of work I had to do (and of course a nice mid-afternoon nap), I did not leave my room until the evening, some time around 5:30 pm. Upon entering the common room I was met with the news that, sometime during the previous night, someone had made off with our couch. Yes, because someone must have left the common room door unlocked, the 20th floor was hit by couch thieves. This strikes me as a rather inconvenient heist to pull off, as there are cameras in the elevators and who wants to drag a couch down twenty flights of stairs? But the fact remains that someone took the couch. Speculation was widespread that in fact someone on the floor had taken the couch, but given the limited space in our rooms this seems a rather silly thing to do. In any case, our C.A. (Josh) was notified, and all I really cared about was not having to pay for its replacement, cause I sure as Hell didn't steal the couch. Add this to the fact that our cable was out and our common room became an even less accomodating place to chill.

Then it happened: the floor was thrown into uproar because apparently some time within the 5 minutes that the common room was just left unoccupied, someone stole the other couch (the smaller one). The stairwells were vacant and the bottom floor was occupied by all the C.A.s who were having a meeting, so no one could have pulled a couch out of the elevators past them. In my opinion, that pointed to one conclusion: that someone on the floor had taken the second couch as a prank; and the prime suspects, Amanda and I concluded, were Waseem and Ian, just because that is something they would do, and they appeared too scandalized when we put the notion forth. So, unsurprisingly, Ian, Waseem, and Justin were found sitting on the couch in the guys' washroom shortly thereafter. The floor all shared in the humour of this joke... then it got funnier, because the three thieves were stuck on the couch. Yes, that couch was only designed to hold two people, and let's just say that neither Ian nor Waseem are skinny guys. So this is the sight with which we were met upon entering the guys washroom:


To make matters worse, in his efforts to "dislodge himself," Waseem managed to pull the papertowel/ trash receptacle right off the wall. So there are some floor damages for him to think about now.

This morning, when I entered the common room, both couches had returned and the cable was fixed for the TV. This has yet to be explained. Hahaha. So that is the tale of the couch thieves of the 20th floor... now I must go eat something because Ian, Mandi, Justin and I have an appointment to view a possible house for next year. Figuring out where we are living next year is irritatingly complicated. Wish us luck.

I am voting tomorrow. Hope you all plan to do the same. Have a nice week, everyone.

Chelsea Out.

posted by Unknown @ 1:58 PM