Does Felix Live Here?

[Yea! The "Felix" sign in the Fitness Center isn't there now (Thursday afternoon, 16 July 2009)! I hope it stays gone. I view the disappearance of that sign as good riddance! I'll leave this post up for now in case the sign comes back, and for general amusement. Sincerely, Paul Rasmussen, unit 305]

Why do I ask if Felix lives here? I ask because there is a sign in the Fitness Center that looks like it might have been written by Felix.

Felix, you may recall, was a character in the Neil Simon play “The Odd Couple.” Felix wanted to live in an extremely ordered and tidy living space. Felix was like the college housemate who put a sign over the kitchen sink admonishing the rest of us to wash our dirty dishes.

I have a little of Felix in me. When I use the Fitness Center, I use my time resting between sets to put all the equipment in its rightful place. I adjust all the blinds the same, to let in maximum indirect sunlight and look orderly. I not only put all the weights in their proper place, but I position them all the same, so it is easy to read the weight labels and so that they look neat and orderly as well. When I have finished using the weight machines, I leave them in a commonly-used configuration and wipe what I have touched with the disinfectant paper towels.

BUT I WOULD NOT DREAM OF PUTTING UP SIGNS OR TAKING ANY ACTION TO TRY TO IMPOSE MY PARTICULAR SENSE OF ORDERLINESS ON OTHER RESIDENTS WHO USE THE FITNESS CENTER. “Felix” apparently doesn’t have this reservation, seemingly trying to impose his sense of orderliness and tidiness on the rest of us who use the Fitness Center.

“Felix’s” sign in the Fitness Center reads as follows:

“MARKET STREET RESDIENTS

PLEASE PUT AWAY ALL EQUIPMENT AFTER EACH USE (WEIGHTS/MACHINES)

AND PLEASE DO NOT DROP WEIGHTS ON THE FLOOR THE VIBRATION GOES UP THE WALL AND DISTURBS RESIDENTS ABOVE THE FITNESS ROOM.

THANK YOU”

Just as depicted here, the actual sign contains the non-word "RESDIENTS" near the beginning, is in all upper case letters, and includes the run-together sentences.

I request that our Market Street at Town Center Condominium Unit Owners Association Board of Directors direct management to take down “Felix’s” sign. Then, if our Board believes “Felix’s” admonitions might be useful, our Board should put the item on the agenda for a future meeting, giving all interested unit owners a chance to comment regarding whether our Board should add “Felix’s” admonitions to the official Fitness Center rules a previous Board enacted.

For more information related to “Felix’s” sign in the Fitness Center, please see my post at http://mstc-uoa.blogspot.com/2009/06/creeping-de-facto-rules-and-regulations.html

If you own a unit in our Market Street at Town Center Condominium and wish to comment on this or any Unit Owner Association issue, I strongly urge you to do so in my forum at http://mstcuoa.proboards.com/. I really would like to see some comments from other unit owners posted there. Also, I encourage you to email me at rasmussen305@gmail.com