The Ever-Vigilant Roof Monitor

Dear Ms. Bendhard, Let us set the record straight. I have never entered your condo illegally. As you know, I have a number of listening devices, including a stethoscope that I use to locate running water. Wayward water and wayward vixens are my concern!

Written by

jaron summers (c) 2003

 

Angle Bendhard
Penthouse
2345 Twit Road
Los Angeles, CA 90077

Dear Ms. Bendhard,

Let us set the record straight.

I have never entered your condo illegally.

As you know, I have a number of listening devices, including a stethoscope that I use to locate running water. Wayward water originates when the rain roof drains fail or when a pipe bursts within a wall.

As you have been told many times, I am the roof monitor (R.M.) and in charge of minimizing rainwater damage. Normally, I would be concerned only with the roof. However, since the wall monitor was arrested on trumped-up vice charges, I have assumed his responsibilities.

Renegade water can cause thousands of dollars of damage. That is why I use a stethoscope and other listening devices (purchased out of my own pocket) to track it down and tame it.

You ask if I have a tiny camera that I can push through walls to videotape occupants while they are asleep or engaged in illegal activities. You have no proof of this so I won’t dignify your ludicrous charge with a response.

Here are the facts of Friday.

You came home at 3:22 a.m. I was on the roof, keeping an eye on things. Rain was not forecast. But I did not become roof monitor by relying on probabilities delivered by TV newswomen who dress in short skirts and flaunt large breasts to kick up their ratings.

When I walked past your condo at 3:55 a.m, I heard water running. I knocked on your door but you did not answer. I feared you might have drowned.

Because I deemed that other condo residents might be in imminent danger of flooding from your unit, I woke up the manager and we forced open your door (4:07 a.m.) so we could enter your condo, look for leaks and, if necessary, CPR you.

You told me you lived alone. When a large naked man — who I thought might be a robber — jumped out of your bed, I assumed he was reaching for a weapon and shot him with my taser. (4:08 a.m.)

The charge from my taser is non-lethal, except in circumstances where the target is in water. I regret that the naked man was incapacitated; however, you must bear full responsibility since you had installed an illegal waterbed. I draw your attention to page 67, paragraph 3, Amendments to Condo Living.

I had no intention of driving your boyfriend out of your life and I am sorry that he remains hospitalized. No doubt you will find a new lover. (Women such as you seem to have an easy chore of that.)

Yes, Ms. Bendhard, I admit you are a beautiful and sensual woman, but that does not give you the license to flaunt condo regulations.

I am not fooled or beguiled by you. You are a vixen who simply needs taming. I hereby put you on notice. I shall tame you the same way I tamed the roof, itself a type of vixen that thought she could beat me with her animal cunning — but in the end I subdued her.

Apparently the water “sound” from your condo was a high-speed “personal” vibrator. What with the recent power rolling blackouts and in light of your condo board’s vote of 3-5 to curtail unnecessary 110-volt gadgets, I had little alternative but to confiscate your implement.

Respectfully,
Jaron Summers, (Roof Monitor)

P.S.:  The board will convene a tribunal tomorrow noon to discuss appropriate disciplinary actions that we regretfully must take against you for once again refusing to allow me to have a key to access your condo during the rainy season.

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Jaron Summers wrote dozens of primetime television and radio programs, including those for HBO, CBS, ACCESS TV and CBC. He conceived the TV and Film Institute of Canada. Funded by the University of Alberta and ITV, Jaron ran the Institute for 12 years, donating his services for a decade.

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