Jill my landlady

My landlady is AMAZING. Her name's Jill and she's a lovely old crotchety 80 year old granny type lady. She's the type of woman who'll go on a rampage because we haven't been recycling properly. She was muttering darkly for a whole week of having a building meeting and fining us until the recalcitrant offender wised up and startred putting the recyclables in the right container. She's also the same lady who puts out candy in a pumpkin basket by the front door at Halloween, puts up "Happy Halloween Everyone!" signs, "To our American friends, Happy Thanksgiving!" in Nov, "Happy Thanksgiving!" in Oct (The Canadian Thanksgiving) and a flashing lights Christmas wreath above the stairs in Dec.

My favorite story about Jill though is how I almost got her high. There was one day when all the doors in the building were given a fresh coat of paint. Everyone's front door was left open to dry and Jill was sitting on the steps smoking as she habitually does (she's an unrepentent chain smoker) to watch over the apartments and make sure nothing got stolen. She had a book with her but she looked bored as hell as she lit up yet another Marlboro.

I was coming back home after class and I felt sorry for her so I was going to bring her out a cup of tea. While making a pot I noticed that Jess had been busy last night and there was a plastic baggie of cookies on the breakfast table so I decided to bring that out too. Cup and cookies in hand I walked out the door calling "Jill?" and nibbling on a cookie. Halfway out the hallway my tastebuds kicked in and I realised these were special cookies. I had almost got my teeny 80 year old landlady high!!!! Ahhhh it was great I had this mental image of Jill flat on her back high as a kite as she stared at the walls for hours...She probably wouldn't have noticed too, you don't really notice a high when you've got nothing to do...Thankfully I found the UNspecial batch Jess had made and took that out to an unsuspecting Jill who hadn't heard a thing. She cooed over the cookies with "Thank you dear! That's lovely!" but she had no idea what a narrow escape she had. Obviously I would never have gotten her high, God knows if her heart could have taken it (?!) but it still makes me laugh when I think of it :P