Episode 92: My landlord has called me by the last tenant's name for five years and I let him because I figured she had been there a long time
Submitted by Junie — Queens, New York. 38. I moved into 4C in the fall of 2019. It's a one-bedroom on the fourth floor of a six-story building in Jackson Heights, Queens, prewar, with a radiator that knocks like somebody wants to come in. The rent was nineteen hundred, which in that neighborhood that year was a gift, and I signed the same afternoon I saw it. The landlord is an older man who owns the building and two others on the block. He did the lease himself at a card table in the lobby. It was a typed form, and where the tenant's name goes it said Ruth, and a last name, and he laughed and…
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