Jim (Squirtman) and I were in some downtown location at night, and looking for a new apartment. The first one we found was above some old factory building. We climbed a set of stairs to get to the roof of the building, where we walked across the tar-paper to get to the big brick apartments built on top.
As soon as we arrived we saw a family that appeared to be moving out of one of the units. We were handed the keys to apartment 272 and headed up several flights of stairs. When we got to that apartment, the family was out in the hallway - getting the rest of their stuff out. One woman grabbed me by the arm and told me to wait, but I went in to check the place out anyway.
Inside, the apartment was huge... the whole place had vaulted ceilings, with the first room being at least 30 or 40 feet wide/long. Everything was old looking and dark, almost like an old school building. The second room was almost as big, and then there was a third room towards the rear of the apartment that had a window that looked out over the city. An interesting feature about this apartment was the bathroom, which had three urinals and two stalls.
As we turned to head back out of the apartment, some sort of sports team came in through the front and headed towards us in the back. They started grabbing their coats and hockey gear, which was when Jim and I decided that this wouldn't be the best place to rent - and we left.
While walking back out to the truck, I mentioned how kewl it would be that my apartment would only be a few blocks from his house. At some point, Jim (Squirtman) turned into Jim, my cousin.
We didn't want to give up on this apartment building, so we went in again and went all the way to the top of the building to apartment 208. Upon getting to the top floor, we entered an area which was as big as a typical basketball arena. It was divided into apartment units by walls, that while very tall, did not reach all the way to the high ceiling. We walked down the long corridor to the end, where we found unit 208.
Upon opening the door we saw that 208 was the biggest of all the units on the top floor. It actually spanned the whole width of the building, and took up probably the last third of the basketball area sized area. Me and Jim knew this would be a good place for us... if we each set our sleeping areas at far sides of the building we wouldn't even see each other unless we wanted to. But the best thing about this "apartment" was the huge open area right as you walk in. We immediately thought of how we could have big parties or have people rollerskating or whatever. There was even a balcony in the rear of the area that overlooked all of the space of the unit.
My only concern was the walls. I was thinking that people might find some way to scale the walls between the units, since they didn't reach the ceiling - but then I figured that if I set my webcams up as a security system, we'd be fine.
