This one is my personal favorite.
Dana,
James Pierpont Morgan was a Wall Street Banker, and Robber Baron, before and during The Great Depression, which began in 1929, and continued until the beginning of World War II. His name is on one of the biggest Wall Street banks, J. P. Morgan - Chase.
A famous quote of his is as follows: "If you have to ask the price of a yacht, then you can't afford it."
Similarly, if you can't afford to buy enough water to keep a Hot Tub filled, then you can't afford to rent a house that has a Hot Tub.
As I have explained before, if the water level in the Hot Tub falls below a certain Threshold Level, then the water pump for the Hot Tub will be sucking air instead of water, and the electric motor which drives the water pump will burn out.
I have been taking care of the Little House, and the Hot Tub, for quite a few years now. And during all those years I never had to worry about the water level in the Hot Tub, because the various tenants were careful to keep the Hot Tub full.
According to Clause 11 of the Lease, Tenant's Maintenance Responsibilities, "Tenant will (1) keep the premises clean, sanitary, and in good condition, and, upon termination of the tenancy, return the premises to Landlord in a condition identical to that which existed when Tenant took occupancy, except for ordinary wear and tear;"
As I explained to Robert, when showing the house, pouring cooking grease into the kitchen sink would be a very bad idea, because it would clog the drain pipe. But dumping a large quantity of barbecue grease into the Black Barrel and the Blue Barrel is also a bad idea. A better method is to pour the grease into a container such as an empty coffee can. Or you can cut the top off an empty plastic milk jug, and pour the grease into it. Then you can place the grease-filled container, right-side up, into a plastic garbage bag, and tie up the bag. Then you can place the container, still right-side up, so the grease doesn't spill out, into the Black Barrel.
The Blue Barrel is for recyclable materials such as paper, cardboard, plastic, aluminum, glass, etc. At the Recycling Center, somebody has to go through all those items, sorting them by type. Adding Barbeque Grease to the mixture is a dirty trick to play on those folks.
Also, when I'm showing the house to prospective future tenants, I'm going to be embarrassed if they lift the lids of the Black and Blue Barrels, and get a whiff of the Barbeque Grease coating the inside of the barrels.
If you don't have enough time to clean up afterwards, then you don't have enough time to barbeque in the first place.
I'm remembering that you wanted me to call an exterminator to kill all the cockroaches which were infesting the little house. Of course, a couple of puddles of Barbeque Grease will draw cockroaches, and other vermin, in large numbers.
Steve
Apparently it did not occur to Steve that we'd been on our honeymoon for three weeks and couldn't have been using our bbq, cleaning our bbq, or playing any other dirty tricks.
