Current mood:

aggravated

Dramatic/Traumatic Weekend
This is the last time I want to retell my tale of horror, coz it's not pleasant and I want to forget about it.

On Wednesday, 4 of my friends came all the way from Toronto to London to help me pack and move. They planned to stay for 2 nights, since they want to have fun as well. As a polite gesture, I informed the guy who lives in the basement, the landlord's nephew. He said no, because his mother from China came over to visit about a month ago and that she won't allow it. I said, "I'm telling you as a polite gesture. They are coming over on wednesday to help me move and that's that. I'm simply informing you, not asking you." Then he went on about how his uncle owns the house and that I have no rights. Apparently they have this mindset where it doesn't matter if you have pay them rent or not, you are still 'living under their roof'.

The drama unfolds on the night of wednesday, after we have came back from bubble tea. To be exact, it was Thursday morning as it happened at 1am. Since my friend who drove here had to make 2 trips to drive my other friends back home, she drove me and another person back first. I left the driver with the door key, hoping that they can come in without causing any direct confrontations. The landlord's nephew's mother, who shall now be known as 'the lady' (a far stretch but meh), sat in the living room and giving us death glares. We ignored her and proceed upstairs. Shortly after I went back to my room to pack, the landlord's nephew Wei, came into my room and said 'they cannot stay'. I said that we are not bothering them and that we will be gone in 2 days. He said no and that he will call the police if he has to, so I told him to go ahead. A few minutes later I heard a lot of screaming and shouting downstairs so I went to see what was happening. And there she was, the lady stood at the door, yelling and raving like a maniac. Yelling in mandarin saying "I won't let them in I won't let them in". I ran and grabbed my cellphone, and told them if they touch my friends, I will take their asses to court. Wei, busy holding his insane mother back, said childishly "she didn't touch them, go away!" Ignoring the non-sense and turned my attention to the picture as a whole: 1am in the morning + exam period + student populated neighbourhood + 1 ruckus causing madwoman.
"tell her to shut up or else I'll call the cops."
and my friends said that the cops were already here, excellent. I proceed to walk pass the two wrestling mother and child, eager to talk to the police who might be the only sensible 'adult' who I can talk to. And as I walk out the door, I faintly heard the mother and son still screaming "we didn't sign contract....." "I don't care, my house, let them arrest me..."
After I finish telling the police my side of the story, Wei came and pretty much repeated my story, emphasizing that the house is his uncles, his mother is his uncle's sister in law etc.
The police told him that my guests are upstairs in my room and my roomates' rooms, it's reasonable for them to come and help me move since I'm from out of town. It is also reasonable for them to stay for 2 nights since it won't be possible to pack and move everything in one day. Later he also added on that the lady is also a guest at the house, she has no rights to intrude on other people's business. "tell her to get her nose out of other people's business. It's nice for her to visit you, you should show her around, Niagara falls would be a good place."
After we all got back into the house, Wei was like "oh...I don't know that you didn't need my permission....I didn't call the cops to drive you guys out, I only wanted to ask them a question (bullshit), sorry about that."
fair enough, if you are reasonable to me, I will also show you some respect. So after a calm exchange, he went back to the basement and we went back up stairs. I was relieved and the night was peaceful once more.
However, this wasn't the end.
The next day, one of my roomate was waiting for the moving company to arrive to help her move, but they turned out to be 5 hrs late. I went down, fixed my friends some breakfast and waited with her to see if she needs my help or not. Then the lady came upstairs, and said "give me back my plate, Wei bought it last yr...(etc) my other bowls are missing too ...(etc, insert highpitch yells and dirty looks here and there)"
"those are my plates....I bought them in Toronto..."
I don't want to repeat every detail because they were so minimal. So I will jump to the point where I emptied out my containers filled with THEIR junk (known as food to them) and I was washing the containers. She continued on yelling beside me, accusing me of theft and insults me and my parents. Patients and good manners only go so far, so I looked her in the eye and called her a 'put fu' which roughly translates to mad gabbling middleage woman. She screamed even louder and yells back, insults and curses somemore, they roughly relates to I have no respect nor manners, my parents are bad for not teaching me manners and that I will never get married etc. (because of one plate, I was cursed/blessed with being eternally single)
Insulting me is one thing, but dragging my friends/parents into it pushed me over. I won't start shit up but when you oversteps the line, I will give you hell. I lost my cool and insulted her right back how if her logic works, then she is shittier than my parents because I turned out better than her son who was addicted to gambling, lost 10k at casinos and got kicked out of university. she countered by 'that's his problem' (great theory lady!) she went on to say how she cleaned those containers and she has the right to use them and that I never wash my dishes. Bull, we (my roomates and I) always wash our stuff and theirs if they are in the sink, even during exam times, they will be sitting in the sink for no more than 2 days. However they always leave our stuff and clean what they've used. So i told her that "1, I didn't ask you to wash them; 2, washing them doesn't give u the rights to use/own them; 3, Wei left his stuff in the sink for more than a week before I couldn't stand it and told him to wash them out."
Guess what that (sexist arrogant barbaric communist) lady said? "that's different, he's a guy and you're a girl."
It pains me to say that I'm ashamed of being Chinese, shares the same heritage as the mad babbling goon before me.
All the while, one of my girl friends were beside me, helping me to fend off insults after insults.
the lady yelled "shut up! you have no rights to speak. You are not worthy to talk to me."
"who the fuck you think you are??" I yelled. A middle aged, barbaric sexist uneducated woman said 'how dare you talk to me?' to a university student who is also an independent young woman.
"Jean why are you still washing the containers?? Let her do it, she made them dirty!"
"I don't care, I just want them back"
"I'll help." and she ringed a wet dirty table cloth into one of the bowls with junk (or otherwise known as food to them).
The lady jumped up and followed with louder (if possible) screams. I could no longer make out what she was saying as my mandarin is not good enough to decode mad gabbles.
My friend, not afraid of her, stood her ground and stared her right in the eye "if these are yours then you should put them away or clean them out yourself!"
"WHAM!" the lady slapped her across the face.
my roomate, her friend and I jumped on them to pull them a part after my friend yelled "How dare you hit me?!?!" and slapped her right back. The lady still wouldn't let go of her and tried to kick her.
"Get off of my friend or I will call the cops again!" I yelled.
"Go ahead, let them come! I don't give a crap!"
So I did, filed for an assault and battery after waiting for 5 minutes before someone picks up. Makes me feel so secured thinking what if I was in a more deadly situation.
The police came about 15 minutes later (= _ =). Wei came back before the police did and was rather stunned by what happened especially after I told him, in a dead serious voice that, I will take her to court if I have to. Also educating him on the Charters of Rights and Freedom after he tried to lure my roomates into talking one on one with him. "Everyone has the right to remain silent until receiving legal advice from lawful agents. Trying to influence the witness is also a criminal offence for your information."
He also tried to get me to drop the issue by saying how he's sorry and his mom is sorry (bull, since I can still hear her screaming "let them arrest me!" inthe background), and things need not to get so serious. I replied by "I've called the cops already, they are coming and we can settle things when they are here. I have no problem taking her to court. This is Canada and she must obey it or go back to China where no human rights exist and law exists only for the protection of those who are powerful and corrupted.
When the police came, they were annoyed. the cops came twice in a day for two frivolous claims.
The lady came out screaming at them in mandarin, along with that bowl and a dirty table cloth, imitating how my friend squeezed dirty water into it. Wei translated to them.
"Still, no matter what, she cannot hit someone else. Plus, looking at that, I would think it's garbage and I would've done the same thing at my home if I was washing dishes. It is not a reason to hit someone."
...etc (Don't remember much coz one of the cops was really hot, and I was busy crying and admiring him at the same time XD)
"We can lay a charge down now and take her away but then you girls will have to come back to london for court. That won't solve anything. So you guys just go to your farewell dinner and have fun, don't let this ruin your last day in London. Let us know if anything like this happens again or there are property damages. You (Wei) should let your mother know, make sure she fully understands, that she is at the brink of being in jail. Under normal circumstances, we would have taken her away but right now we are using our discretion to give her a break. However if we have to come back again, someone is going to jail."
They are so cool.
So, we did what they told us to do and followed our original plan to go to Wendy's house for swimming. I also borrowed her kitchen to cook dinner as I have packed most of my stuff already. It was really fun and relaxing to swim around and lay in the hot tube, eventhough it was my first time in a bikini (I forgot my bathing suit and had to borrow wendy's) Felt fat compared to Kitty and Wendy's model figures.
We came back to the house late evening while some of them napped on my bed as my roomate and I watched some anime before going to the club.
It was ok at the club, the same old tho...cold floor, grabbed a drink, danced on the floor as people started to pour in. I got bored half way and sat down to reflect. It's sad but I'm growing tired of clubbing, it no longer appeals to me O.o
Today, my dad came to pick me up and moved the stuff back home, a real home with no more screaming and elders can be reasoned with. (Much love and thanks go out to all my friends, yvonne, cha, coles, aaron, jean tian, wendy and kitty who helped to help me pack and haul stuff into the car. My dad said you guys saved half of his back. The other half is because he had to move the boxes into the garage back home.)
The curtain falls and hopes all the unhappy memories will go away in time. Although I never got my appology letter that i've asked for because Wei doesn't know how to write one (so much for university and college education), all I ask for is for them to leave me and my friends alone. I'm sick of drama but if they do step on my tail again, I won't be afraid to exercise my rights.
Kitty still has to go back tomorrow to movethe rest of her stuff, God bless her and hope that they won't take it out on her.