I have been hesitant to relate this story as I thought I might actually be going a little crazy - well, maybe a lot crazy. Now, I am either certifiable - probable - or have just uncovered something amazing.

See, I live in a two bedroom apartment in Maryland. It's a third story walk-up. My building sits on the side of a hill so at one end there are three flights of steps on the other there are four flights because, on that side, you would have to come up through the basement. I usually go up the four flights side since there is usually more parking there and my apartment is located on that end of the building. The basement is also where the community laundry is at - don't know why I told you that, it really has no bearing on what has happened but, I don't know, maybe its one of those interesting facts everyone likes.

Anyway, I don't really need a two bedroom since it is only me living there but the deal on two bedrooms in this complex was so good (only 20 bucks more than a one bedroom) that I couldn't pass it up. It is definitely an older building - red brick with a regular gabled roof rather than the flat roofs that are prominent today. There is green mold on the outside in the corners at the bottom. If you look really hard you can see it - otherwise it seems just off. Lots of old looking trees surround it so it really gives off that "almost a dump" type vibe. The hallways remind me of a dorm hallway in college - some old carpeting that has about a bazillion stains, white painted walls and ceilings that seems like they have over twenty coats of paint but you can still see the cinder block outlines in it - on the walls that is. The ceilings every so often have an attic access on the third floor - my floor. The hallways also have blue fire doors about half way down. The basement floor has that crappy off white cheap linoleum tiles that screams 'old folks home' instead of the carpeting - I really don't know which is worse.

So, that's the outside. The inside of my apartment is a little weird even on first glance. The door opens to a tiled entrance with the kitchen on the right, coat closet with a water heater on the left and the ever popular living room/dining room right in front of you. Just before the Great room and just after the coat closet on your left is the hallway. Down this hallway there is: on the left, the only bathroom; on the right a small second bedroom; and at the end (the hallway dead ends into it), a much too big master bedroom. Inside the master bedroom are two closets - one a normal walk-in closet and a second tiled over storage closet. Weird huh? I mean who wants a storage closet in their bedroom - why not make it a second bathroom? It gets weirder trust me. The second bedroom is about half the size of the master. In it there is the regular 'ole closet with those sliding type doors. And in the corner, next to a window is another locked closet. I don't have a key to this closet so I assumed this is where the air compressor for the air conditioner is located. What's that old saying? 'Never assume because it makes'....well, you know the rest. Needless to say I shouldn't have assumed.

Read part 2 here

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