Fiction: Legal Theft Project-- Old Friends.

Ilene posted the following notice on every floor of her apartment building when her old college friends came to visit: "The Ladies of the 202 club would like to apologize for any loud noises or otherwise indecent behavior that may occur from their visitation this weekend. If you feel in anyway wronged, please submit your complaints to apartment 21B, and we will rectify the situation as soon as possible."

Morgan, kindly referred to as "The New Roommate" even though she had lived with Ilene for the five years since she had left college, wondered if the signs were strictly necessary the first time the college friends came to visit.  She tried to talk Ilene out of hanging the signs, and then laughed when Ilene headed out to post the signs.  But after that first visit, three fires, one pant-less voyage into a random hall, and two extremely loud and entirely off key renditions of Maroon 5 songs, Morgan apologized for mocking the signs, and helped to hang the signs in all other visits.

Ilene often found herself doing household chores for her neighbors above and below her. She had to buy Mrs. Anderson in 53D a new front door. She's had to pay for a carpet steam clean on three of the five halls of the apartment complex. Almost every time she got together with her college friends, there was property damage.

She wouldn't change it for anything.

 The first line of this story was legally stolen from my dear friend Gwen. See what she did with the line I gave her today, and see what she originally wrote for this starting line tomorrow over at http://apprenticenevermaster.wordpress.com/.

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