Sqwertz wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 19:05:52 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> > On 7/22/2017 5:48 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >
> >> When you rent rooms to college students, you are not trying to keep
> >> long term tenants who will care too much about the condition of the
> >> house. They typically spend little time at house. John is
> probably >> the only one who actually uses much of the common areas,
> and I get the >> impression he's there most of the day. Which is not
> the ideal >> landlord situation.
> >
> > I don't think this is the typical landlord situation. John is more
> > than landlord, he is surrogate parent. That can be good or bad but
> > most collage kids will look up to an adult that is not their
> > parent. He may be just what the kids need.
>
> OTOH, John openly considers them "Cheap Chinese Crap". So I kinda
> doubt he emits that respectable, fatherly aura. Rather, they are
> representations of his childhood teddy bear - to cuddle with when he's
> high, and to ignore and abuse when he's low.


You missed a beat. It's the land owners he calls that, not the fellow
tennants

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