Life is hard, but some people make it harder on themselves due to their own incompetence, just like one particular landlord in New York. Apparently, several of the doors within the property he’s renting out are antiques, which he claims were recently repaired. So, he wants his tenants to avoid damaging the wooden doors at all costs, warning them to avoid hooks, nails, tape, or even hanging items on the doorknobs or overhead frame. Such a rule makes sense, until one of the tenants realized he stapled the warning signs onto the antique doors.
As to what he meant by “recently repaired,” one of the tenants clarified: “He just means ‘applied some varnish and called it a day’.” But then to damage his own doors with staples and demand that all renters protect the doors from any damage is irrational behavior. “Dude put the moron in oxymoron,” one tenant laughed, posting the situation to r/mildlyinfuriating.
Many people strongly recommended that the tenant save this photo; otherwise, this rather incompetent landlord might attempt to charge the renters for the holes in his antique doors out of their deposit. If he’s silly enough to make this mistake, there’s no telling what other sort of nonsense he might try to pull. “Who the hell even considers using a stapler on a door. It wouldn’t even cross my mind,” exclaims one commenter. “This is so ridiculous,” agreed another.
Besides the New York landlord making a blundering mistake or scheming some deposit scam, some people believe it was one of management’s employees who stapled the repaired antique doors, on purpose. “This screams malicious compliance. Or incredible stupidity,” remarks one individual. “The person tasked with posting them up despises the person who made the signs,” added a second user. However, the majority of people believe that this was not a malicious worker but just management, aka the landlord, and his behavior “adequately explained by stupidity.”
