If you have to deal with the public on a regular basis, you realize that it can be difficult to do so. Although many of the people that we deal with every day are going to be perfectly fine and some of them are even going to be pleasant, those who are difficult are often going to stand out in our mind as being the ones that ruled the day. It doesn’t matter if you deal with hundreds of people on a daily basis or just one person on occasion, the problem can be the same. That is easily seen in the following joke about a problem tenant.
A married businessman meets a beautiful girl and agrees to spend the night with her for $500.
He spends the night with her but before he leaves, he tells her that he does not have any cash with him, but he will have his secretary write a check and mail it to her, calling the payment “RENT FOR APARTMENT.”
On the way to the office, he regrets what he has done. Realizing that the whole event was not worth the price, he has his secretary send a check for $250 and enclosed the following typed note:
Dear Madam:
Enclosed you will find a check in the amount of $250 for rent of your apartment. I am not sending the amount agreed upon, because when I rented the apartment, I was under the impression that;
1) it had never been occupied;
2) there was plenty of heat;
and 3) it was small enough to make me feel cozy and at home.
However, I found out that it had been previously occupied. That there wasn’t any heat, and that it was entirely too large.
Upon receipt of the note,
The girl immediately returned the check for $250 with the following note:
Dear Sir,
First of all, I cannot understand how you expect a beautiful apartment to remain unoccupied indefinitely. As for the heat, there is plenty of it if you know how to turn it on.
Regarding the space, the apartment is indeed of regular size, but if you don’t have enough furniture to fill it, please don’t blame the landlady.
Send the rent in full or we will be forced to contact your present landlady.
