Tantrum Thread .. OK People! Sound Off!

[Grandma M]

I can't believe she would do this......

I live in a condo and the lady??? in the condo next to me is afraid she will catch something from my orchids. She complained to the management. They called in a specialist to come in and test my air for mold, odor, chemical toxins, and biological pathogens. WOW, that is quite a procedure. He came in with all his equipment and tested several areas.

I didn't sleep very well for the next couple of nights.

The report came back: My humidity level is higher than they would prefer, and they detected mold spores in the air samples.

Now I need to scrub down my walls for mold, which I can't even see, with an anti-mold product. And I also had to buy an air purefier..... they aren't cheap. I keep thinking about all the orchids I could have bought with that money. At least I don't need to pay for having all the testing done because I didn't order it. The condo management request it and said they will pay for it.

After I finish scrubbing down all the mold, which I can't even see, I will post some pictures of a couple of new Masd plants. At least something good happened this week to cheer me up.

Marilyn

[DelawareJim]

That's too bad!

I hope they tested for mold spores in other condos too for comparison since they're generally found everywhere.

This is why I'd never live in a condo or development. Ignorance and fear rule.

Cheers.
Jim

[OrchidSue]

Sorry you have to deal with this. A number of years ago my condo building had a similar situation. Not involving orchids, but problems with construction defects and water ingress to the building. Unfortunately a common problem in the Northwest. I had a neighbor like yours that was convinced that her unit was rotting out and mold was everywhere and making her sick. Similar testing had to be done and nothing conclusive was found. However, this crazy woman would not give up. She ended up trying to sue the condo association, the building's developer, and contractor. Ultimately she dropped the suit on the association. She was really and truly a whack job. The lawyers involved with the remaining lawsuits finally told her that they would clean up her unit and she would go away or they would take her to court and prove what a nut job she was. She agreed, then sold the unit and left .

Susan

[harrywitmore]

The whole mold spore testing and treatment biz is just a gimmick to get people to spend money. Mold spores are everywhere all the time. That along with bits of skin, dust mites, fern spores, moss spores and bacteria.

She's sick most likely from the formaldehyde gas coming from her carpet or the various other gases given off by our indoor environments..

I could not exist in a condo for sure. I wish people would be rational.

[johnblagg]

wow what a pain.

[Gin]

Exactly why I live in the country, no close neighbors too make my life miserable .
There was a nut like that in So. Calif . lived next to a friend of mine every time she saw any kind of bug outside or inside she called the health Dept. and blamed my friend

[cb977]

That's terrible...what a lonely boring life they must have if your beautiful orchid collection angers them

Sorry to hear you're having such a problem, Marilyn

[LinhT]

A couple weeks ago, I was rearranging the grow area. The top part of a clip fan broke off and went flying, hit the side of my giant $30 CFL, and cracked it. Then it hit several of my Dend. moniliforme and broke off several canes on a few plants. Those canes had buds forming on them. One of my moniliforme is in a Japanese Raku pot, which, the fan also hit and cracked part the rim off.

After that disaster, I moved on to another grow shelf to hang some neos against the window. I tripped on the step stool, went towards the window and got my long hair caught on a yellow sticky trap I had hanging. The door bell rang. I had to answer it with that yellow piece of grid paper stuck to the side of my head.

Things were not bad enough so they had to get worse. I ordered a plant last week from a vendor who I've ordered from many times. I needed a heat pack because we have temps in the 30's F. She was busy with shows and couldn't get a heat pack until this monday. It went out Mon. "Track and Confirm" with USPS online was down most of last night. When it came back up, it said my box was shipped at 3pm on Wed and returned at 4:23pm because of "unknown addressee". Could not call USPS, closed. After much deliberation with shadytrake and psyguy10 in the OB chatroom, I decided I would think up an excuse to get out of part of my 9am jury duty this morning, find the nearest station and hunt down my plant.

Got up at 5:30am today, checked online again. Nagoran-shima had left the Minneapolis sorting facility at midnight and is on it's way back to sunny CA. Relieved that I did not have to lie to the jury office about having diarrhea but sad that my not so cheap, variegated Sedirea had left miserable MN. I emailed the vendor last night and she apologized about possibly not writing the correct address on the box and that she'd replace the plant if it went to Japanese orchid Heaven by the time she gets it. They do not do FEDEX, USPS is the only way they ship. I had no insurance on it. Why? I am an idot, of course. I waited to get this plant since last winter. It was too cold to ship safely then. By Spring, she was out of stock. I waited months for her to import another one from Japan. The positive thing about all this is.....I had the chat room regulars to whine to about it last night during the peak of my "freak out fest". God bless the unfortunate people in the chat room last night and thanks for letting me complain.

[cb977]

Oh Tracy...you lost me at the visual of you answering the door with a yellow sticky trap stuck to your head!

[johnblagg]

ahhh now it is all good ....a good rant can lower the Bp and make it better in general...LOL I love the chat room.

Damn now Im compleatly off topic HUH no rant for the tantrum thread