The front door to my building has been damaged again. This was one of the things Management was supposed to fix, and to their credit they did, sort of, but it was more of a patch job than anything else. Last Sunday someone broke his key in the lock and it wasn't taken care of until early Tuesday. The mechanism should have been replaced but after the broken key was removed they simply put the old lock back in the door. It didn't work as well as before but at least it was serviceable. Now it doesn't much matter; yesterday one of the idiots who lives here did some serious damage to the door itself, prying back the metal plate at the bottom so that it won't shut at all. I went out for a snack about an hour ago and discovered that now it's even worse; when it tries to swing shut, the door stops about 8-9 inches from the frame, leaving a gap large enough for a cat to waltz through easily. The entire structure - door, frame, and lock - should have been replaced ages ago; as it stands right now it's easy to damage and leave the building accessible to anyone whether they live here or not. Patch jobs won't cut it anymore. One woman who lives here thinks drug dealers are responsible. She may be right but honestly, I think it's because some of the people who live here are stupid and irresponsible morons who don't have either the wit or the sobriety to carry their keys with them, and manage to lose them when they do.
