It used to be a popular expression, ” you are stressing me out.” It was often used to escape scrutiny by those that are intent on seeking the truth from those who are a bit shifty in coping with the truth. The twisting and turning finally surrenders to that expression. It gives relief for the escape artists in truth.
With the issue about our Strata Title management now in full swing I decided last week-end to get to the bottom of this strange quarrel. I approached the slasher owner and his committee secretary cohort while they were busy slashing. ” Could you show me in these minutes where and how you decided to spent forty thousand dollars on re-painting”, I asked? I put the two pages of the last AGM in front of the slasher. It would be a futile and useless exercise. In the past it was almost impossible to get coherence from him. His usual way in giving an answer would be by starting to walk away. He would use it effectively and might well have been his modus operandi during his entre life. I decided to reverse by walking with him while waving the minutes in front of him. “Where is any painting mentioned, I asked again.”
He increased his walking speed. So did I. I have a feeling that playing cricket might well have been his favourite sport. He walks ramrod straight. The walk of an Army General or a sports master at a girl’s exclusive high school. Of course in cricket, walking in when you are out or walking out when you are in, seems to be the essence of a sport I never got a handle on. In any case, on the news channels cricket is a sport shown where people whack at balls and walk a lot while wearing white uniforms and sloppy caps.
He had no chance of getting rid of me. I noticed the secretary woman cohort stopped her electric slashing tool. With the noise gone it turned all to seeing how this strange walk would turn out. Of course, if the walk would have continued it might well have ended in crossing the road, passing shopping centres with perhaps finally ending up on the six lane expressway towards our capital, Sydney.
He abruptly stopped; “Look Gerard, your minutes are not the real minutes, there are other ‘special’ minutes on the AGM.” “Oh, I see!” “Have you got a copy of those special minutes of that meeting”? “No, that’s why they are ‘special,’ he answered.” He was by now very nervous and stopped walking. The cohort started revving up her Electric slasher.
I would be amazed if the Department of Fair Trading that oversees Strata Title regulations would be impressed by ‘special’ minutes.
We shall see. I will keep you all informed.
September 9, 2015 at 11:43 pm |
He must know what he’s doing is criminal …
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September 10, 2015 at 12:42 am |
Yes, it is depressing isn’t it? How is your case going M-R? Did you kick the housing inspector in the groin? 😉
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September 10, 2015 at 2:30 am
Ho. I await the lawyer’s letter for my approval …
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September 9, 2015 at 11:52 pm |
Tracy Grimshaw rang. She has a position for you!
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September 10, 2015 at 12:41 am |
I could cope with Tracey. Better than Andrew Bolt or worse, Alan Jones.
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September 10, 2015 at 5:35 am |
Good For you Gerard, but just don’t let it cause you stress LOL. They must obviously take you for an idiot Gerard, and you are far from being one.
Poor simp,e minded excuses for neighbours/ home owners etc etc.
Love the way in which your story is written by the way.
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September 10, 2015 at 6:21 am |
Yes, we will fight this and if we lose it will be with heads held high. Remember, one does not get justice in Courts, one gets law.!
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September 10, 2015 at 5:51 am |
Sounds exactly those two blokes who do impersonations of two politicians talking or sometimes one being interviewed by the other, Clarke and somebody I think.
What a ridiculous situation and exactly what those two chaps sound like.
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September 10, 2015 at 6:21 am |
Yes, those two are very good, brilliant really.
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September 10, 2015 at 7:06 am |
It sounds an unbelievable situation. I hope that you can get it sorted.
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September 10, 2015 at 10:14 pm |
I do hope so too. Nothing can be taken for granted though. You get law but not always justice. We shall see!
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September 10, 2015 at 12:36 pm |
What a mongrel he must be to just walk away from someone asking a legitimate question.
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September 10, 2015 at 10:13 pm |
It is the way those shifty characters operate.
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September 10, 2015 at 3:21 pm |
Good for you….”Go Gerard” 🙂
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September 10, 2015 at 10:12 pm |
Yes, walking tall we must.
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September 10, 2015 at 5:43 pm |
Go for it Gerard. He’s on thin ice and he knows it. Don’t back down.
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September 10, 2015 at 10:11 pm |
No, we won’t, Andrew. I can’t see how this can get passed when there wasn’t a single referral to any painting and spending $40.000,- ( which is not in the sinking-fund) in the last AGM’s minutes.
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September 11, 2015 at 8:59 am |
So good to hear you confronting this imbecile. I do hope Fair Work will help you sort out the ‘secret’ from the normal minutes, and put them in their place.
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