This made me so mad I just had to say something about it.
I rent an apartment and, like all apartments, periodically a maintenance man has to come in and fix something. No biggie. It is a fact of life for renters and as a matter of fact, I appreciate the service.
For the past month or so, my shower has been leaking. And not just leaking, but pouring water constantly. Now, I don't pay for water—it is covered in the rent—but it is annoyingly loud. The apartment manager has known about it for a while and the maintenance man promised a while back to fix it.
Today when I came home for my lunch break (the double-illusion hour), I found a set of keys in my lock. Just sitting there. A few other tenants were going about their business but there was no maintenance man or apartment manager to be found. Just keys hanging in the door, which I quickly found to be unlocked. When I came in, nobody was inside.
So I took the keys out and went on inside. A bit later, the repair guy came around and knocked on my door. Stumbling over his own words and scratching his head, he informed me that he fixed my shower; he didn't mention anything about any keys. Before he walked off, I showed him the keys.
He quickly offered an explanation, which made the situation much worse. "When I have to work on a bunch of units, I leave keys in the doors that I need to come back to." Greeeeaaaaat, so he does this all of the time and to everyone here.
The worst bit about the whole situation was that he didn't even remember that he had left any keys in my apartment. For fuck's sake, anyone could have come by and snatched them, since he was nowhere to be found when I came home.
I haven't decided what to do about it. I asked him to please not do that again, and after an initial protest, he agreed. I just hope he doesn't decide to do something nasty in return, like giving my keys out or taking something out of my apartment.