Co-Op Board Wars: Blood on the Carpet
Allison | Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 8:09AM 
Deep, deep in my heart (I can't even know the depths of it), I hate my co-op board.
Hate.
HATE!
I haven't felt so passionately hateful since adolescence.
Why, you ask? It's simple: Paint and pendants.
Why would redoing the lobby and halls prompt such emotion? Who the fuck knows? I certainly don't. All I know is: I can now easily see how wars happen.
I have longed for the day, lo these many, many years (13!) when our co-op would at last decide to repair and paint our crumbling, squalid walls.
The bones were there. A beautiful lobby waiting to be relieved of the inexplicable and ubiquitous BLACK trim and bleak beige walls; old flickery fluorescents be gone. Even the columns were black, for god's sake. Things
that should be light were dark and things that should be dark were light. And so I planned. I swatched. I tested. I studied. At long last, the day arrived (expedited by Donna's leaky waste pipe on the stairway wall).
And, somehow inexplicably, it was decided that we should keep what we had
colorwise (!?), except the black would now be replaced with paint that was the approximate color of shit (oops, I mean chocolate brown!). This would be punctuated by beige spindles on the stair railings, and beige doors.
Uhm, blech. Please, god, I said, let us consult with professionals who actually know what the fuck they're doing! Please, I entreated, let democracy reign and give residents a few choices to vote on!
But nooooooo...that didn't happen. And now it's like a knife in the heart to see poop brown columns staring me in the face every time I enter my building.
Oh, and the lights? Oy.
When I told my former board members that they and their Jericho Turnpike wedding/bar mitzvah palace lights stink, one actually called me a racist. This, despite the fact that I am both a Heeb and a white-shoed
Italian, and have been to at least 20 weddings in Massapequa.
Things are continuing on a downward spiral. A particularly paranoid member of the board has taken to accusing me of stealing the blue painter's tape she uses to mark up "problem spots" in the lobby for our painter, who I regret having recommended, so abused has he been. She keeps
demanding the key back to her side of the co-op, as if I'm going to break in and egg her door like that crazy person at the Novo (actually, that's not a bad idea). I told her I'd spend a day searching for her fucking key if she gave me back mine, and promised that she'd never darken my side's doorstep again.
So, it's war.
Now, of course, I am always right and completely grown-up and rational at all times (as my family could attest). I've lived here a long time and get along well with people (ok, that first part is true).
So I ask: how can my co-op board completely circumnavigate democracy and good taste? And is mine the only one? Comfort me in my sorrow and pain. Tell me your residential war stories.
co-op wars, ongoing beefs 
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