Tenants suck

Last night chocorua went up to Kinney Hill, the place containing the boarding stable, my tractors, hayfields and extra freezers, and the giant house I call the brick elephant.  The Brick elephant is inhabited by tenants.  Lame ones.  When J. got there, the heat was non-functional, as evidenced by the garage (containing freezers and tractors) being almost  0C.  I'm just not going to go into the major disaster it would be if all the pipes froze in the garage and the room above it.  So J. goes in a queries the tenants.  Turns out the heat has been not working since noon the day before!  UG!  Well, at noon the day before, one of the tenants had left a massage here at my house.  Where I was not. J had not called them back that evening because he had gotten in too late.  Said tenant tried to repair the boiler by himself (unsuccessfully). No one called me, and they do have my cell #.  So last night, I called the furnace repair man, who assured me that he would be right out. "Right out" turned out to be 10:30 PM. And I had told him to call me with a status report once he had looked at it.  So at almost 1Am I get his call back.  All fixed.  Why, why, why could the tenants not have called me on the day the furnace actually failed????  so now it is morning, I haven't had enough sleep, but I have stuff to do.  Grr.

A response to comments about FEAR

Both marmota and frobzwiththingz have made posts about the Fear Factor, and feste_sylvain had some additional good commentary.  Here I will add my $.02. 

I have lived in fear my whole life. Every Day, All the Time.  I was raised to BE AFRAID of what happened if I didn't measure up.  Up was a long, long way from where I usually was.  I have very strong 'run away from danger' reflexes, and 'danger' in this case is can be as simple as a constructive comment.  (implying ultimately that I am 'bad' and should be beaten.)  While many kids didn't have it as bad as I did, in terms of Fear Conditioning, it is my feeling that we have raised several generations of people in this country that do not know how to be rational in the face of a threat.  It took me until I turned 38 to figure out that my irrational behavior in certain situations was a Fear Response.  I am now trying to re-condition my thought processes to cope with that.  I am coming to understand that when I no longer have that 'excuse' to be irrational, that I will then have to be totally and solely responsible for my actions.  Now THAT will be hard.  And that's the thing.  Most people really, really don't want to think for themselves.  They take the scriped material that they have been fed, which, in the case of the police, reflects the fear of the organisim of Government, and use it.  That is easier than being an individual critical thinker.  I know this from personal experience.  I am sad for our society's state of affairs, but I have some empathy with the misguided individuals. I wish they would (I may be optimisitic in believing they CAN) open their eyes and their brains and stop being brainwashed and start Thinking.  Your milage may vary.