Ice Fountain

Sean and I have decided that we really don't care for the management at the apartment complex we live in. They aren't very nice and they're kinda dumb. So you may be thinking to yourself, "Well then, why have you lived there for the last three years?" I must say that this has not always been the case. We really loved the management when we moved in. The people were friendly and helpful and nice. We've gone through a few managers since then and we really haven't been impressed with the last couple. There are too many things to rant about and they're kinda petty but they all add up for us. The latest is the subject of this post. We have this large fountain in the front of our complex. It's very nice and noisy if you live in the building right next to it (we don't, thankfully). They usually turn it off when the weather gets cold enough to become freezing but someone dropped the ball this year because it started freezing. It was kinda funny so we took a picture. We figured once someone noticed they'd turn the fountain off. Silly us. They just kept it on all winter. And it kept growing. We took some pictures in the beginning probably sometime in November and then right before I had Jillian we took the third picture which was in January. The fountain continued to grow after this although we stopped obtaining photographic evidence of it. In February, I saw a couple taking a picture in front of it with a professional photographer. Engagement photos maybe? I'm not sure. I also saw a man climb the frozen fountain with an ice pick. This is no small ice chunk. It probably was 15 feet tall with water gushing out of the top another 5 feet or so. Eventually, (read last week) the complex turned off the fountain after we had a really warm week and all the ice melted. So now we just have a gurgle in the pond where the gigantic fountain used to be. I'm surprised no one got hurt when it came crashing down once it started melting. There were huge ice chunks on the ground about two weeks ago. Why didn't the complex just save themselves some trouble and turn off the water before it got cold enough to make a huge ice sculpture? We're not sure. Maybe it was too much trouble to winterized the fountain. Maybe the cost would've been too great and they didn't want to pass the cost on to their tenants (unlikely, as they love to raise the rent, but that's a rant for another day). I must say, as it's been warming up I miss the tower of ice. Every time we would go somewhere we would look to see if it had grown since we saw it last. Now we just have a pond to look at and we have to turn our annoyance of our complex to other, less funny things.