Mean Paying Guest/Hostel Owner

I have never seen such a person in my 22 years of life. How can somebody be so mean? How can somebody even get a sound sleep at night after doing something really bad to someone? Such people can never stay happy in their life..

This is about my landlady/ Paying Guest owner, who is shamelessly mean and cheap. There is a gal, who stayed in a room opposite to mine. This gal, (I know her personally) she is a happy go lucky kinda friendly and cheerful person & a Yoga trainer by profession.

We have this rule to give an intimation around a month before you leave the PG. The gal did the same. She told her(landlady) that she will vacate at the end of the month(July) but at the same time she told landlady that she may need an extension, if she does not find a proper place to stay. The owner agreed happily. This gal could find a good place to move, but the only problem was that she could shift only after 5th of August. She went on around 22nd of July to the owner and asked her if it is ok if she continues till 5th August as her new place will be available only on the eve of 5th August. So she can move by 6th August. The owner agreed because until then she could not find a replacement for her room. But she asked her to pay the rent for 10 days, the gal agreed.

Suddenly the owner came on 29th July and asked the gal to vacate by 31st July morning. The gal was surprised, rather shocked. She could not understand how can she(the owner) ask her just like that to vacate when she had agreed to accomodate her till 5th August and moreover she had already paid rent for an extension of 10 days till 10th August. She put this question forward. The landlady started shouting and told she knows how to throw people out of her place. The gal got angry and said that you can’t just throw somebody out like this. This is not done. They had an argument for around an hour with no conclusion, the owner went back blabbering that she knows how to run the business and she will make sure that she vacates by 31st.

Later we came to know that the owner gave confirmation to a new tenant to stay from 1st August. This is really disgusting. How can she let a new gal come and stay when she has given a commitment till 10th August to someone else. Money makes some people even loose their dignity, now I have seen an example.

The gal was very tensed as she did not want any controversy but she had no other option, as her new place would be available only after 5th. The gal went for a picnic on Saturday 30th July and came back on 1st of August. When she was not there the landlady tried to break into her room but she did not have the key. She tried to use all the other keys she had with her, around 100s but she did not succeed. Finally she went back.

The gal came back on Sunday at around 11:30 pm at night. Next morning, as it was a weekday, we all went to office except one gal who has quit her job and preparing for some examination and this gal who is supposed to vacate and then happened which I have heard of before only in movies..

At around 12 pm, the landlady came and locked her inside the room silently so that she could not know. At around 1 pm she got up and tried to come outside the room. She was amazed, she was trying hard, but she could not open the door. She(victim) knocked the door from inside but since there was no one else in the nearby rooms, nobody came to her rescue. The she called up the gal in one far away room and asked her to open the room. The gal from the other room came and found that it was just latched and no lock was put, luckily. She opened the door. The victim took a sigh of relief and thanked her for opening the door. The other gal went back inside her room. The victim was about to cross the main gate and go downsairs, as our PG is on 2nd floor, it was then when she realized that 5 tall, dark and obese men are standing on her way. She got thunderstruck, she could not understand what’s going on.

These 5 men included 3 relatives of the landlady along with her husband and son, who were no less than Gundas in appearance. As soon as she could realize what’s happening, they started abusing her. She felt a little helpless as she there was no one else along with her but she also shouted and tried to give them back with great courage, locked her room and managed to come out somehow.

When she reached the ground floor, what she found was..her scooty was tied with a strong chain and a lock was put on it. She tried to unchain the scooty and even after a continuos 15 minutes effort she did not succeed. Then the landlady’s son came and started fighting with her and asked her to get out of his PG.

The gal told that she had full right to stay as she had paid the rent for these 10 days and the owner had agreed for this too. There was a serious argument and she continued trying to unchain the vehicle, and luckily she could. The victim, I will say is a strong strong gal, She went to the nearby Police Station and lodged a complaint agianst the landlady. She told them she had a threat of her life there in the PG. So one lady constable was sent with her so that she could take out her stuff from the room.

She came back with the constable and found that these people were standing on the main gate so that she could not enter and take her lugguage. When they saw the constable, they atleast let her in. The victim felt a little broken but she managed to pack all her things. While she was doing that she found out from the lady constable that the owner had given some bribe to the Policemen in that police station as the PG is not a registered PG and hence illegal.

The constable asked her to take the complaint back saying that you only will be troubled if you don’t do so. How disgusting and convenient it was for her.!!. We are staying in a country where the people who are supposed to safeguard us and the country, sell themseleves for a little bribe with no shame. Since she was alone in the city, she was forced to take the complaint back.

But still I would say that this gal has really set an example for others. We should always fight against what is wrong and that’s what she did. I am happy that today I have a friend like her..  :)