Random Sucky Neighbor Thoughts

[Pixelated]

I left my apartment today to run some errands and noticed a small piece of paper taped to my door.

It read "STINKS."



Mentioned it to somebody else who was taking the elevator at the same time, and he laughed when I said I have two cats but scoop their litterboxes twice daily.

Neighbour: "It's her ... the woman across from you. She hates cats." Apparently she has complained about or to every person on this floor who owns a cat. She did light into me once when one of my cats got out and was running in the hallway.

Yeah, it's possible it's somebody else, but ...

In any case, I taped a note to the original note: "IF YOU ARE TOO MUCH OF A COWARD TO SIGN YOUR NAME, DON'T EXPECT ME TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY."



So this weekend I will spend my time making sure my little place is pin-neat, just in case she actually goes to management to make a formal complaint and they want to come in and look around.

Minor update: I did spend the weekend doing some cleaning and straightening, and later in the evening I asked another resident if she'd come up with me and tell me if SHE could smell anything unpleasant. She smelled nothing in the hallway and nothing offensive when she stepped INTO the apartment (the apartment does have smells, of course, because somebody lives here ... cooking, soap, and today, cleaning fluids ...)

I mentioned that somebody else had said it was the woman across from me and the resident said "Oh HER. She complains about everybody." And apparently my belief that she never leaves her apartment is totally wrong; other resident said she is downstairs all the time, trying to pick up on gossip. (Personally, I think Other Resident has my neighbour confused with somebody else who is also rather unpleasant ... but then again it's possible I am wrong.)

Anyway, I'm going to go into the office tomorrow and ask if somebody there has a few minutes to come upstairs and check. If they say they don't notice anything objectionable, then whoever wrote the note can take a long walk off a short pier.

[Ceir]

Guys, it's great you have a dog again. I'm sure you missed having one since your last passed a couple of years ago. But could you possibly train 'em to not flip their shit every time something moves outside "their" fence?

[Valentinian]

I guess I can't call it sucky but I hate that you don't run your AC, even when it's near 90 outside. All your heat comes up here in summer.

...y'know, that's probably why they don't run their AC. All the heat goes up so they don't need to.

[ladyjaneinmd]

I bought a condo 3 years ago. Lovely place, in an over-50 neighborhood. All of the 'condos' look like small one-story homes, in rows. Nobody upstairs banging around, and nobody downstairs at all (except for worms under the concrete slab). Some of my neighbors are retired, some are extremely elderly, and very few are noisy.
HOWEVER (you knew there was a however, didn't you?), my home is at the back of the complex, and behind my house is a tall fence. Behind that fence is another bunch of houses, don't know if it's a development or not, but they're young, and NOISY. One house in particular plays music so loudly that the windows rattle in our houses. You know it's loud when the mostly-deaf neighbor complains.
So I have the local police on speed-dial. I'm not afraid to complain. (Let me tell you sometime about the apartment dwellers I had evicted. Never underestimate the appeal of being the quiet tenant who pays her rent on time). Anywho......I called and called and called the police, until one time I called, and said, 'I looked up the noise ordinances for this area, and apparently the violators are supposed to be fined $350 for each complaint. I'm guessing by the frequency of these calls, that that is NOT happening.' The cop on the phone got a little snippy with me, and hung up.
It's been blessed quiet ever since. MONTHS of it.
I'm a reasonable person. I live in a highly-populated area. I do not expect it to be as quiet as a tomb, but if I can't sit in my living room, with my very-expensive noise-blocking windows shut, and hear my TV (that's a whole 10 feet away), I WILL CALL. And continue to call.
I still hear music, at a reasonable level. It's actually nice music. And my windows don't rattle.

[telecom_goddess]

Two nights ago my upstairs neighbors were talking at normal volume until 2:00 in the fucking morning....

Damn and you could hear them? That's insanely thin. I hear all kinds of banging and noise from upstairs but not talking. Now I end up talking with my partners in the middle of the night at a loud volume quite often, I don't know if they hear that or not but if they do too damn bad, makes up for the constant noise all hours of the day and night with their damn kids running and jumping in the house like it's a playground.

[Food Lady]

I guess I can't call it sucky but I hate that you don't run your AC, even when it's near 90 outside. All your heat comes up here in summer.

[Monterey Jack]

Two nights ago my upstairs neighbors were talking at normal volume until 2:00 in the fucking morning...and I had to get up at 6:20 AM. I think I got less than three hours' of broken, unsatisfying sleep and had to stumble through a six-hour workshift. Hey, I don't care if it's the weekend, SOME of us have to get up early and need to be properly rested.

[greek_jester]

My son calls them +5 Trucks of Penile Compensation (He's 17)

Sounds like you're raising him right!

[YamiNoHime]

... Tiny Dick Syndrome ... Common in people who drive gihugeous loud trucks and spurts cars that are prick parked so nobody gets near them.

My son calls them +5 Trucks of Penile Compensation (He's 17)

[LadyofArc]

You've spent every summer for the last 3 years picking lice out of her hair outside. If you haven't got rid of it by now you need stronger measures. I hate to think of anyone renting after you. I'm currently shopping for a privacy screen for the porch so I don't have to look at that.

If they've got younger siblings, chances are they may have picked it up from them (yeah...I went through this quite a bit growing up with my sister). The only thing that killed the fuckers for good was the both of us dying our hair of all things.

[Pixelated]

You've spent every summer for the last 3 years picking lice out of her hair outside. If you haven't got rid of it by now you need stronger measures. I hate to think of anyone renting after you. I'm currently shopping for a privacy screen for the porch so I don't have to look at that.

Holy crap, that is DISGUSTING.

Had a minor annoyance earlier today. I live in an apartment building but don't yet have a parking space in its parking lot (there is an above-ground lot and an underground lot, but even with those two they don't have one spot per unit. Not surprising as it's a building full of seniors and many no longer drive, but it does create a waiting list).

So I bought a tag and I park on the street. No big deal, really.

Today I pulled into a spot and suddenly there's a car behind me.

Driver: "Excuse me? Could you pull ahead a bit so I can get in there?"

Now, there was a spot RIGHT BEHIND ME where she could have parked. I was annoyed enough to pull out of the spot I was in and pull into that spot instead.

The spot I took was between two driveways, and I don't know why she didn't want that ... the nice thing about that type of parking spot is nobody can box you in, at least not without blocking somebody's driveway and getting them REALLY riled.

The spot she wanted was pretty much in front of her house. Heaven forbid she have to walk a few extra steps. I spent some time hoping somebody parks behind me and renders her immobile for the next 24 hours.

And yep, the spot I took was further away from my building. But at my age I can use the exercise ...

[Food Lady]

You've spent every summer for the last 3 years picking lice out of her hair outside. If you haven't got rid of it by now you need stronger measures. I hate to think of anyone renting after you. I'm currently shopping for a privacy screen for the porch so I don't have to look at that.

[Racket_Man]

To the dickbag who complained about my garbage cans being outside--seriously? They've been either side of the driveway since I moved in, 13 years ago. What was the sudden problem that arose from them being there? Also, was it really necessary to have the borough send me (and the guy next door--who had been keeping his garbage cans in his driveway for the past 30 years) letters about them? I think the borough has bigger problems, like the crumbling main roads, the damaged signs near the cloverleaf (and the graffiti on the overpass there), than where we choose to put things.

Yeah I understand. About 6 years ago my city gave all the homeowners nice new 90 gallon trash and recycle plastic bins for easy curb side pickup with a machine truck BUT made some really unusual "rules" about where you could store them. Several people on the Neighborhood website started to complain they were getting warning notices about their bins. Even an Alderman complained that "we spent all that money on these nice and pretty bin and now my constiuants are threatened with fines because they are still partially visible from the street???"

There was one year I kept them next to my porch for easy access when it snowed so I did not have to drag them from mostly in my back yard thru piles of snow drifts. Yup got a notice and ignored it. No action taken.

[protege]

To the dickbag who complained about my garbage cans being outside--seriously? They've been either side of the driveway since I moved in, 13 years ago. What was the sudden problem that arose from them being there? Also, was it really necessary to have the borough send me (and the guy next door--who had been keeping his garbage cans in his driveway for the past 30 years) letters about them? I think the borough has bigger problems, like the crumbling main roads, the damaged signs near the cloverleaf (and the graffiti on the overpass there), than where we choose to put things.

[morgana]

My upstairs neighbors are bowling again . . .