The Bugs Came out of the Air Conditioner.

There are two air conditioners in my flat. When I last April first moved in, one of them began leaking which prompted a phone call from management informing me of this quality of life abomination. At the time, in my ignorance, I didn't bother to inform the landlord: I simply started the other air conditioner up and, it working perfectly, didn't have to trouble myself over these infernal machines for a year.

Last week, however, that all changed. The other machine, which had held up so well as to beguile me into a false sense of climate-controlled security, unleashed a steady trickle of water - drip, drip, drip - onto the flats below. Nonetheless, what between the myriad professional revelations and the impact of years of spiritual checks inundating me this past week, taking care of this leaky contraption dropped off my radar, up until the verbal warnings given to me by the building management became written ones, to which I surely had to respond.

It took a few days to finally reach my landlord with whom I had rarely spoken since he took control of the flat a few months earlier. In the meantime, I had called the repairman - that same surly bloke who has visited me on numerous occasions during my stay in this building; a verily grim reaper of repairs - to attend to the matter of fixing the leaking units. He came, pulled the unit out from the wall after exerting himself mightily, and then judged the situation - hopeless. The air conditioners indeed were so old and were installed so ineptly that removing one from its precipitous resting place to examine, even, would destroy the machine as he had just discovered. The verdict was to scrap the air conditioners and to purchase new ones. The repairman left the carcass of the conditioner on the floor, and used its cover to plug up the gaping hole in the wall as best as he could.

The landlord and his wife eventually visited the flat a few days later. They had never seen the flat before, and had purchased it as though they were blind and dumb. Unfortunately, upon inspecting the awkward configuration of the unit and hearing its disrepair history, which I readily supplied, both they and I realized how we had been conned by the previous landlord, a shifty sales agent who knew how to cover structural blemishes with a wave of a hand and a few cajoling words. The flat, as far as they were concerned, was not as they had imagined in their ignorance based on the duplicity of the previous landlord; and little wonder that that landlord wanted me to take responsibility for the air conditioners, I realized! The new landlords, humbled by their tragic mistakes, departed my abode to consider their options, the foremost of which is to flip the flat as soon as possible.

Actually, it hasn't been too taxing to sleep without an air conditioner. I purchased a steady fan which can blow a comforting gale into my face for hours at a time without it offering as much as a flinch.

But, the bugs began crawling on the walls. They either came out of the air conditioning unit, or they came in from the outside, through the hole in the wall. I only noticed these diabolical, diminutive vermin a few days ago. I had just stepped out of the shower when I examined closely the wall and remarked, "crap, there are dozens of small bugs crawling on my wall!" The initial shock rattled me greatly, only to transform into an arctic chill deep within my bones when I saw a few of these insects on the frame of my bed. That they were the benign sort neither bent on eating my flesh nor crawling into my orifices was my prayer. Thankfully, they have so far stayed away from my pillow, settling instead comfortably on my wall where they have multiplied exponentially over the past few days. The landlord recommended getting the repairman to remove the air conditioning obstruction from my flat as soon as possible, and covering up the hole in the wall with plastic wrap as well.

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[eyg2181]

what brand was the air conditioner, if you remember?

[mckln]

Hitachi

[airconguy1]

The airconditioner was used so much in humid weather that the water in the drain probably overflowed. That or it never could get out of the unit

[jasonxe1]

i had the same bugs all over my wall today. I killed them all!! The AC weaken their movements.

[ted850760]

what a freaking 'Drama Queen'..bug traps.less than five min. to remove a frame...cover the opening and get a life..till they install a new a/c...btw walls still up

[Ashiefaceee]

I'm freaking out. I'm having spiders/ants/moths/other bugs coming out of mine. I hate bugs, and are allergic to most. D: I can't kill them all. What do I do? Please help me D:

[jayguy173]

there supose to drip

[mamushi72sai5575]

I don't understand. you have an american accent. why would an american be in hong kong? are you a merchant? marco polo? how many years did it take to travel such a long distance? how many horses did you have?