This is sort of a continuation of my previous thread which started out light hearted and funny, but it's starting to become sad and annoying.
Last night, at 3am she was unable to open the door again, and she was "locked out" as she says (Of course she wasn't really locked out, she's just so plastered she can't use a friggen key). She mashes her hand all over the doorbell buttons waiting for someone to let her in, and begins pounding on windows. The woman on the second floor got up, and begrudgingly let her in. This time she was not a happy drunk, and proceeded to yell at this neighbor about God-knows-what after she's let in, and 5 minutes later there is peace. She had since left a note on the neighbor's door apologizing for her drunk and bellicose behavior.
The neighbors on the first floor have been living here for two months now, and in that time I've sort of bumped into them 5 times, each at different times of day. In each of those times she was drunk. Not just "buzzed" drunk but full out stumbling, nearly collapsing, making inappropriate advances at a (now) engaged neighbor, and yelling at strangers drunk. It doesn't matter if it's 10pm, 10am, 3pm, or 3am... she's drunk. It's the same story for the other occupants; I don't think any of us have seen her completely sober. At any given time she's at best hungover. The guy is generally fine, though. I've bumped into him a few times here and there and it was really just that one time when we first met that he was tipsy.
It's gotten to the point where I'm almost entertaining the thought of organizing an intervention with the other neighbors, who have expressed their frustration over her as well. Not quite seriously there yet, of course, but the way things are continuing I see it happening sooner or later. This condo building has seen dozens of neighbors moving in and out over the years, and this is the first time I've really been frustrated to the point that I seriously want them gone. But, being condo owners it's virtually impossible to get a complaint that really "evicts" people. The HOA can fine them, they could exercise some kind of lein if they're really bad (but they'd have to do something like raise goats inside their condo in order for that to ever be a reality).
In the OP of that thread, they asked me if there was any gossip about the other neighbors, and I told them, honestly, no... we're all grownups here. This isn't some reality TV show or a frat house. It's a condo complex. The median age here is 35, and most of us are mature. Ironically, now they've become the gossip, as other neighbors have started talking about them behind their backs and wondering out loud wtf is wrong with these people. Normally I try to stay away from this kind of banter, but it's directly affecting us, as she starts knocking on doors asking random neighbors to "hang out" or to let her in when she's unable to let herself in.
If she keeps doing this, I don't know what to do. I seriously think she has a drinking problem, and if this becomes a bi-weekly thing like it is now, what do I do? I am so far underwater, I can't easily move out, I can't say anything because I know she's probably just going to flat out deny she has a problem, I can't easily ignore the problem, especially if it's 3am and I am trying to sleep.
Ugh.
Last night, at 3am she was unable to open the door again, and she was "locked out" as she says (Of course she wasn't really locked out, she's just so plastered she can't use a friggen key). She mashes her hand all over the doorbell buttons waiting for someone to let her in, and begins pounding on windows. The woman on the second floor got up, and begrudgingly let her in. This time she was not a happy drunk, and proceeded to yell at this neighbor about God-knows-what after she's let in, and 5 minutes later there is peace. She had since left a note on the neighbor's door apologizing for her drunk and bellicose behavior.
The neighbors on the first floor have been living here for two months now, and in that time I've sort of bumped into them 5 times, each at different times of day. In each of those times she was drunk. Not just "buzzed" drunk but full out stumbling, nearly collapsing, making inappropriate advances at a (now) engaged neighbor, and yelling at strangers drunk. It doesn't matter if it's 10pm, 10am, 3pm, or 3am... she's drunk. It's the same story for the other occupants; I don't think any of us have seen her completely sober. At any given time she's at best hungover. The guy is generally fine, though. I've bumped into him a few times here and there and it was really just that one time when we first met that he was tipsy.
It's gotten to the point where I'm almost entertaining the thought of organizing an intervention with the other neighbors, who have expressed their frustration over her as well. Not quite seriously there yet, of course, but the way things are continuing I see it happening sooner or later. This condo building has seen dozens of neighbors moving in and out over the years, and this is the first time I've really been frustrated to the point that I seriously want them gone. But, being condo owners it's virtually impossible to get a complaint that really "evicts" people. The HOA can fine them, they could exercise some kind of lein if they're really bad (but they'd have to do something like raise goats inside their condo in order for that to ever be a reality).
In the OP of that thread, they asked me if there was any gossip about the other neighbors, and I told them, honestly, no... we're all grownups here. This isn't some reality TV show or a frat house. It's a condo complex. The median age here is 35, and most of us are mature. Ironically, now they've become the gossip, as other neighbors have started talking about them behind their backs and wondering out loud wtf is wrong with these people. Normally I try to stay away from this kind of banter, but it's directly affecting us, as she starts knocking on doors asking random neighbors to "hang out" or to let her in when she's unable to let herself in.
If she keeps doing this, I don't know what to do. I seriously think she has a drinking problem, and if this becomes a bi-weekly thing like it is now, what do I do? I am so far underwater, I can't easily move out, I can't say anything because I know she's probably just going to flat out deny she has a problem, I can't easily ignore the problem, especially if it's 3am and I am trying to sleep.
Ugh.
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