You Gotta Be Kidding!

As you may remember, I’ve been looking at apartments for the last several weeks. By this point, I’ve seen a wide range of living situations, but in all my apartment hunts past and present, I’ve never seen anything quite like the one I saw earlier today.

As I mounted the tiny stairs, I pictured two bedrooms filled with Lincoln logs and Legos instead of furniture. “How did you manage to get a queen bed up here?” I asked the girl who was showing the apartment.

“Through the window,” she explained, without a hint of irony. “We popped out the screens and shimmied the bedframe up the fire escape.” I guess I’ll keep looking…