Sent: 9/6/2001 11:02 AM
We live on the 5th floor, the top floor, of our apartment complex. Just a stair-climb away is the door to the roof. Our roof is a very large U shape with 3 other roof-access doors besides ours. The reason I'm providing this rather boring information is in hopes that you can visualize our apartment building because of the story I'm about to tell. Clear?
Last week, Leonardo and I were going up on the roof to enjoy the beautiful weather that we have been blessed with lately. As we climbed the stairs, we noticed a disgusting smell - that smell of a port-a-potty after it's been in use all day beside a street fair. Then, noses filled with nausea, we saw it. It was on the top landing just below the door. You see, someone (and it's definitely a someONE and not a someTHING) had used the bathroom, Number 2 in our stairwell. And this specimen was not left there by a child either - it was definitely adult poop.
Thankfully, Leonardo opted to clean it up only to tell me later that it was also maggot infested. Yes, YUCK! We were both shocked that someone would do that at all. Perhaps someone was drunk and couldn't make it to the bathroom in time, but still, in OUR stairwell?? It was disturbing.
But wait, it gets worse. You see, it happened again THIS week. As I was leaving work yesterday, I noticed toliet paper deliberately thrown on the stairs that leads to the roof, a paper trail, and as I peered around the corner towards the roof's door, there IT was, again. It seems that someone is doing this on purpose. It seems that this is malicious in nature. We're being shit on - literally.
So now we're a little scared and perplexed. Who is doing this? And why?
