So our apartment has been having issues with the hot water for some time and today I get a call from the company that's currently trying to figure the issue out. As soon as this man realizes that I'm a woman (barely) he gets all condescending: I'm sure this is to complicated for you so let me explain the issue in simple terms.

Goes on to tell me the stupidest explanation for why our water won't turn warm. Something about one of our faucets has to be broken so when we turn on the hot water cold water gets pushed backwards in the pipes. So I tell him we only have this issue if we weren't using any water for a few hours so the issue isn't in our unit then. He laughs at me and tells me he just knows better and goes on to explain how the water would be pushed backwards and get into another pipe or something and I told him that the two pipes he is talking about are literally not connected. Like if I open the panel with the water meter you can see they are connected totally separate and he tells me I must be seeing things wrong and he just knows better.

I don't know everything about pipes and water but if the pipes aren't connected at all they can't push water into each other.

In the end he asks if he can speak to the man of the house (male roommate) because he is sure he will understand him better. I am the one that handles all of these things because I know a thing or two about this stuff and even fix stuff myself to a certain degree. Neither of my male roommates even knew how to adjust the valves for the water correctly when we moved in. They dissolved in panic when I wasn't here and they had to turn the water off because we had a leak.

I still tried my best to be respectful to this man on the phone but I was ready to scream. Anyway next week he will come by and check all our faucets and I guess show me how those two pipes are visibly connected (they aren't)

And btw, I was right about all of it. He was here with his boss (who was very nice) and I explained everything that I also explained on the phone. His boss looked at our pipes and faucets for less than 5 minutes, realized we weren't the issue and those "connected" pipes were in fact not connected.

As it turns out the issue was another apartment unit in the building who refused to turn on their heating and messed up some of the systems because they had freezing water running through everything.

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

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Simon Riley’s Sugar Baby

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“Si?” your voice calls out from the doorframe of his bedroom, his shirt not even fully covering your ass.

He looks up, watching how you shift on your feet slightly, antsy. you’re still getting used to this whole arrangement, it’s been only a week and a half. for most girls maybe they’d be used to it, elated even. you are, obviously. it’s just, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop.

“Can you come back to bed please? i miss you and i just found a movie for us to watch!” you’d been watching movies none stop, introducing him to the fabulous cinema he’s missed out on.

you haven’t made any move to sleep with him yet, and neither has he. the night you brought it up he calmed your worries with one sentence. “meant it when i said we’ll take it at your pace. i’m a grown man, i can take care of m’self.”

“yea, s’rry bun, just finishing up work.” Simon closes takes off his reading glasses, resting his pen on top of the stack of paperwork on his desk.

walking to you, his hands come to rest on your hips as he stared down at you with that same smile that got you to come home with him in the first place.

he watches you bite your lip, knowing what you wanna ask. “something to say?” you blink up at him, feigning nonchalance and obliviousness. “huh?”

“don’t play dumb baby, know ya smarter than that.” you blush, looking down at your feet before staring up at him through your lashes.

“kiss?”

he nods letting you stand on your tip toes to try and reach him. he tilts his head back everytime you get a bit closer to reaching his lips, watching the way you huff each time you’re too slow.

“No fair!” your cross your arms and turn to walk back into the bedroom before he catches up behind you, picking you up off the ground as you giggle in glee.

“jus’ playing with you bunny, my sensitive girl.”