I was a landlord of a set of apartment rooms. Skyscraper housing comes cheaper nowadays compared to years ago. I knew almost all the tenants over my twenty years working as a landlord except for one peculiar lady on the 37 th floor. The boarding contract and rooms registry both say that the lady lives in room 3732. However, contrary to this, I have never seen her before. When I took up this job, the previous landlord , a old man, had always stressed this one thing to me when introducing me to the job. Never disturb the tenant living in room 3732, no matter the circumstances. Any further attempts to elicit some explanation as to why were promptly dismissed with a thick silence. Anyways, I had no need to approach any particular tenant unless I had to request for an overdue payment or fulfil some maintenance requests such as damaged water pipes or electrical outages or something like that. Nothing too out of the ordinary for such an old building. It’s quite amazi...
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