{"id":31712,"date":"2024-05-22T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=31712"},"modified":"2024-09-11T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:51:08","slug":"what-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/22\/what-smells\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT SMELLS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nLast week <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Ms. Seif, a tenant, claimed she needed to move out because she\u2019s allergic to the smell of Indian food, which was coming from the restaurant below her apartment. She is on the second floor, above the restaurant. Her text to me read: “I am allergic to the Indian restaurant spices. I keep smell it everywhere especially in the toilet.\u201d She also said she went to her doctor, “and he asked me if I can leave my apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n

She phoned me:,\u201cI\u2019ve been stuck in bed for a month. It smells in the toilet.\u201d She\u2019s a foreigner and her English is a bit peculiar.<\/p>\n

\"\"I said, \u201cThere are a billion Indians in India and they\u2019re not allergic. One-eighth of the world! You were aware there was a restaurant when you moved in. We have a good venting system here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Seif has been a tenant for only three months, and she has been late with her rent twice, and she tried to install a bidet herself and ruined the coupling, so the toilet leaked into the Indian restaurant.<\/p>\n

Four years<\/strong><\/span> ago, when the Indian restaurant opened, I was concerned about possible odors coming from the restaurant. That\u2019s why we have a good exhaust fan. Nobody else has complained so far. Just her.<\/p>\n

How can you be allergic to a smell? Don\u2019t you have to eat something to be allergic to something? Or at least have particles in the air, like hay fever. Strange: Indian spices make you sneeze and put you in bed for a month.<\/p>\n

Ms. Seif is 27. I\u2019m probably going to let her out of her lease, but she definitely is not getting her security deposit back, and I\u2019ll try to get an extra month\u2019s rent from her. She\u2019s got nine months to go on her lease!<\/p>\n

. . . A relative of hers just called. He said she is recently divorced and has a kid, and he feels sorry for her.<\/p>\n

I just stopped by her apartment. She seems friendly enough. I said, \u201cMs. Seif, to change the subject, you sound like you have a Spanish accent but have an Arabic name.\u201d I was hoping she was Lebanese from South America, so I could practice Spanish with her. She\u2019s Egyptian.<\/p>\n

\u00a0. . . She moved.<\/strong> <\/span>She left the place “pristine,\u201d says the on-site building manager. She left the bidet. Our new rental ad will read \u201ctoilet has bidet attachment.\u201d Maybe that\u2019ll help rent the apartment.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t get the extra month\u2019s rent.<\/p>\n

What smells?<\/p>\n

—
\nSeif is a pseudonym.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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