Water Bill

5:40

A fake apartment manager calls David Mann about his mother's unpaid water bill and threatens to evict her.

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Speaker 1

Now, I'm the new general manager here, and I'm just getting this thing brought to me about uh your mother not paying her water bill or and we we gotta get this matter taken in.

Speaker 1

As of right now, I've been instructed to actually go in and get your mother and take her completely out of the apartment building.

Speaker 2

Okay, so well, tell me what the problem is.

Speaker 2

Get explain to me what the situation is, sir.

Speaker 1

The situation right now is no one has paid this water bill whatsoever.

Speaker 1

She thinks from my understanding that she only owes $106, and she owes far more than that.

Speaker 1

She has not paid a water bill at all.

Speaker 1

All right.

Speaker 1

And you're and your mother and I'll be the first one to tell you your mother was very rude to me and slammed the door in my face.

Speaker 2

Okay, sir.

Speaker 2

So let me yeah, let me.

Speaker 2

I'm just trying to understand the situation.

Speaker 2

So the water bill hasn't been paid in how long?

Speaker 1

From what I'm looking at, it it's at least four or five months from what it looks like here on the paper.

Okay.

Speaker 2

So it's four or five months behind.

Speaker 1

Yes, it is.

Okay.

Speaker 2

And so it ha how much is it?

Speaker 1

Uh I'm gonna have to tally all this up and get everything lined up as far as the numbers.

Speaker 1

As of right now, sir, if no one is paying this bill in the next thirty minutes, I am instructed to put your mother out and pack her things and put her out.

Speaker 1

And that's not what I want to do.

Speaker 1

But as rude as she was to me, you know, at this point, I'll I'll tell you what, David, I don't give a damn.

Speaker 2

Sure.

Speaker 2

So I I just need I'm I'm just here to try to help make the situation better.

Speaker 2

So I need you to take a deep breath for me and calm down because I'm I'm calm.

Speaker 2

So let's just let every you know I understand that all the time.

Speaker 1

I would be I would be calm too had your mother not have slammed the door in the face and said some things before she shut that door.

Speaker 1

Other than that, I'd be trying to work as calmly as you're working.

Speaker 2

That's right.

Speaker 2

So what do we need to do?

Speaker 2

I I won't be able to do it within 30 minutes, but I how much is it?

Speaker 2

Just find out how much it is.

Speaker 2

You know, from what my understanding was it was $109 or something, $106 for at least four months?

Speaker 2

Is that what the problem is?

Speaker 1

No, what is owed right now $106, sir, is one month.

Speaker 2

How is it how how is an I guess my question is, how does the water bill, $106 for a one bedroom apartment with one person, a hundred and six dollar water bill is kinda high, don't you think?

Speaker 1

I mean, I don't I don't have no idea what your mother's doing.

Speaker 1

I don't know if she runs a lot of water or I have no idea about that.

Speaker 2

Unless she's washing every day and running all the water every day, a hundred and six dollars for one for an apartment is a bit extreme.

Speaker 2

I mean, wouldn't you say so yourself?

Speaker 2

That's a bit high, sir.

Speaker 1

I understand that you have some issues about what the amount of the bill is.

Speaker 1

That does not get in the in the middle of the fact of how far far behind we are.

Speaker 2

Okay.

Speaker 2

How far behind, Ari?

Speaker 2

I'm just trying to I'm trying to resolve the issue.

Speaker 1

We are five months behind.

Speaker 2

Five months behind.

Speaker 2

So how how much is the bill for five months?

Speaker 1

I I'm getting I'm getting her to tally that up as of right now.

Speaker 1

But let's get back to the issue of someone not being able to get here in thirty minutes.

Speaker 1

Is there no one that can get here and take care of this bill in thirty minutes?

Speaker 2

Let's let's figure out how much it is and we'll I'll try to get that worked out.

Speaker 2

So if you can give me kind of a tally on on what it is.

Speaker 1

If I had to guesstimate, I mean let's let's look at the fact that here it is a hundred and six dollars on one month.

Speaker 1

You know, let's say it's roughly a hundred bucks each month.

Speaker 1

You know, you're looking at five hundred bucks at least.

Speaker 2

Yes, I I I I have to say a hundred and a hundred dollars for I I that that's that's extreme.

Speaker 1

You know the problem that bothers me that you people won't pay your bill.

Speaker 2

Sir, wait a minute now.

Speaker 2

I I need you to relax because I pay my bill.

Speaker 1

If you got a mother over here that's apparently you must be the caretaker of and you're not taking care of your mother from what it seems like.

Speaker 2

What I need you to do is relax and not not be accusatory.

Speaker 2

That's what I need you to do.

Speaker 1

I need you to Well and I what I need you to do is stand up, sir, and and take initiative of whatever your responsibility is.

Speaker 1

And if you're responsible for your mother, then you should then you should take care of your mother.

Speaker 2

You know what we you're upset right now, and you're not gonna get me upset with you because you don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1

And so do you not care about your mother?

Speaker 1

Because in that case, I can just be off the phone with you.

Speaker 1

Right now, my job is to get her out of the apartment and pack her things up because the bill's not paid and she's saying she's not paying it to take it up with her son.

Speaker 2

Um you what you're trying to do is get me to be where you are.

Speaker 1

I'm not gonna go there with you.

Speaker 1

I'm not trying to get you to be where I am.

Speaker 1

I'm trying to get you to take care of your mother if that's your responsibility.

Speaker 1

Now, if it's not, I'll leave it up to her.

Speaker 2

You and I going back and forth on the phone and you you having the attitude that you have, what's what good is that gonna do and what is it gonna solve?

Speaker 1

Are you somebody that sits at home and you need to get your up and get a job?

Speaker 1

What do you need to do to get your mom taken care of so I can get this paid and this is not on my debt?

Speaker 2

I'm not gonna be another angry black man with you, sir.

Speaker 2

I have a lot more sense than that.

Speaker 1

So what I what I ask you're not an angry black man, you're a lazy black man.

Speaker 1

That's the problem with you people.

Speaker 2

What with you people?

Speaker 2

What is you people?

Speaker 1

Those that don't want to work, want to sit around and get a welfare check every day when the rest of us are out here hustling and busting out.

Speaker 2

When the who who's out busting what?

Speaker 2

I don't know.

Speaker 2

You're the manager of the apartment.

Speaker 2

You wanna know who I am?

Yes.

Speaker 1

I am nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.

Speaker 1

And your mother and your son, David Man Jr.

Speaker 1

got me to prank your butt.

Speaker 1

What's up, David?

Speaker 1

You are the first celebrity that has kept his composure, man.

Speaker 2

I hate you, man.

Speaker 2

You got me.

Speaker 1

You got me.

Speaker 1

You gotta do this for me.

Speaker 1

Say the man, Mr.

Speaker 1

Brown.

Speaker 1

What is the baddest radio show in the lake?

Speaker 2

The Steve Harvey morning show.

Speaker 2

I got spranked by nephew Tommy.