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Daily Grumble

I’d like to know what kind of sadistic fucker thinks it’s funny to stock all the back pain remedies on the bottom shelf an inch off the floor? That’s all I got. That, and Thermacare is made of the awesome.

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Crap. There was another big high-rise fire a couple of blocks from my apartment yesterday. Dozens of injuries. What is it about the Upper East Side and disaster? Remember the plane that crashed into a high-rise three blocks from me? And the brownstone that exploded? (That one was made into an episode of Law & Order.) Then there was the …

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OK, the TV ads for U.S. Window Factory have got to stop. The manic hairpieced Australian pitchman vowing to move to America just so he can save on windows was bad enough. But their female shillster with her Queens accent, ratty hair extensions, eyebrows like McDonald’s arches, and lips blown up so fat they’d embarrass Amanda Lepore? Make. It. Stop.

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So I had a few firemenz in my apartment last night. (Cue porn music…wacka wacka wacka.) Sadly, they were here on business as the woman upstairs somehow set a flowerpot on fire, panicked, and hurled it onto her fire escape – where it set her other dead plants on fire too. Two things. People, fire escapes are for escaping fire, …

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In the winter, the warmer it is outside, the colder it is in my apartment. You see, in apartments that have steam heat, city law only requires the buildings to light the boiler when the temperature falls below 55° between 6:00 am and 10:00 pm and 40° between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am. And since it’s 57° outside right now, …

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After a New Year’s weekend with temps pushing 50, I wake up today to find the wind chill at 7 degrees. Wha’ happened? If it’s gonna be this cold, I demand snow. It’s only fair.

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Are all smoke detectors designed so that their batteries fail at 3am? After the beeping invaded my dreams (something about a truck backing up and I had to move my car, which I don’t have one of), I had to get up and drag a ladder out so I could rip the thing down. Bother.

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