Bring Back The Old Rent Receipts

Well if this doesn’t beat all!  First Stanley Bard raises our rent here at the Hotel Chelsea, and we could almost accept that, but now take a look at what he’s done to our rent receipt.  He’s replaced this beautiful old-fashioned one that made us proud of our place of residence, with a soul-less computer printout.  (Well, I guess the old ones a computer print out too, but still.)  The old one lovingly itemized each overpriced phone call, and even thanks us for choosing this lovely landmarked building – one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.   The new one may as well say: Pay or Die! (Could this be a harbinger of a new corporate order? Are we to be ground beneath the wheel of “progress” on our way to yuppie-condohood!!!)  Bring back the old receipts! (Click on the images to enlarge.)