Landlords are absolute scum!
Angel
This exact theory was coming to my mind, not gonna lie!
Oh, I didn't even respond to those further texts yet. All I've done so far is text her my issues with her framing of this matter, and I specifically made sure to be very polite yet firm in doing so. That flurry of 6 texts she just sent me? I didn't say a word to it, especially since she concluded that this is something we're just gonna wait a few months on before we revisit. I don't have it in me to bite too hard (I've always been a very soft person), but I am certainly not just going to take it without me sticking up for myself at least a little.
The manager for the job referral finally got back to me and wants to schedule an interview!
Through a text, I called my landlord out on this bullshit and emphasized that she has no legal evidence to charge me for this. I'm not expecting her to push back because I believe that me having willingness to refute this shit just immediately foils her plan because her ability to go through with this manipulation is contingent on me being totally compliant. I'm not—hell no! I also know that her assumptions are rooted in anti-Blackness and her not expecting a Black person to have awareness of their own damn rights.
Oh, I will. I'm being petty because I know she's being infantilizing and racist, and I refuse to entertain the logic she's arriving at with that mindset.
I also feel like this is a major "correlation does not equal causation" moment. It seems like her mindset is, "The sink was clogged recently, so therefore water must've overflowed and damaged the wood," but she has zero evidence that this has happened. I myself have actually never consciously noticed this until she started making a fuss about it, so I don't know when it exactly happened.
The sink is totally functioning as it should. The issue is with the cabinet door.
Thanks for the tips!
Alas, mine won't stop frustrating me.
Feels good to be assertive for once, though!