Night before last my wife and I went to our first coop meeting. This is an annual happening where the owners of the apartments in our building meet with the elected board of directors. Last year we had opera tickets for the same night and we kind of selfishly chose to to the Opera instead the coop meeting.
This time we had no tickets and went to the meeting. What an assembly of losers! After the reading of the financial statement and the board president's report there were general questions from the attendees.
And this is when the fun started. Old ladies boring the assembly about lack of lights, why the doors are so heavy to open, why the doors don't close and a myriad of similar questions. I basically enjoyed listening to these because this way we kind go got to know our fellow residents.
One young lady walked up to us when she heard us speaking in Hungarian and it turned out that she was Hungarian too. We talked but I don't think we will become lifelong buddies. This just proves our old adage that there are Hungarians to be found everywhere.
There is a Jewish Temple in our neighborhood that rents out their hall to similar meetings. I think they make pretty good many since there are several large coop or condominium apartment buildings in this area.
The meeting lasted two hours and I think next year we will go to the Opera instead.
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