Random Sucky Neighbor Thoughts

[telecom_goddess]

Telecom_goddess, that happened to one of my co-workers...more than 10 times!

After the second time I would have a freak attack. I can barely handle once let alone 10 times. Sorry but old lady or not she has to learn to manage her damn plumbing better! No one else would be able to get away with that.

As for laundry I'm so thankful I have my own washer and dryer. Even if they are overtaken by cords to the fans and dehumidifiers right now. I'll be glad when these are gone.

[notalwaysright]

When I lived in the triplex I had neighbors who also did laundry every. single. day. It was just two of them, a husband and wife! (later the husband moved out, but he was not innocent I saw him in the laundry room) My other neighbor and I joked that they must run washes with like one towel and one shirt and maybe they changed their sheets every day and only had one set? That neighbor and I got along just fine. He and I were both quiet. Basically that's all it takes to get along. (no overflowing toilets either I suppose)

The other neighbors were the reason that shortly after I moved in I contacted the landlords because there was NO WAY I was putting up with them doing laundry at 6 AM on a Saturday. If they had been normal humans I would not have even noticed. My bathroom and hallway were in between the bedroom and laundry room like a buffer. But nope, they stomped around slamming things so loudly it woke me up. Thankfully the landlords put up laundry room hours after that. And seriously, they also used some industrial fabric softener nonsense that stunk up the place terribly. The vent went into the little courtyard we shared and was so bad I would hold my breath until I got inside.

[MoonCat]

Telecom_goddess, that happened to one of my co-workers...more than 10 times! Her upstairs neighbor was this old lady, I think she was 98 or 99 when she finally passed. This woman somehow managed to cause her toilet to overflow into my CW's kitchen! Right onto the sideboard of her sink, on her clean dishes! The apt management fixed the problem several times, and had to redo my CW's ceiling and drywall more than once. I kept telling her she should demand a better solution from them, but she didn't think they'd listen because the old lady was one of the first renters they ever had and apparently was considered untouchable.


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Aaaand here we go with the friggin' washer and dryer again, with that stinking fabric softener stench coming in through my windows! Why in the name of all that's holy does this idiot have to do laundry literally EVERY DAY? Two adults and two kids generate THAT MUCH dirty laundry? The people who bring in multiple bags of shit from Target and elsewhere every week don't have enough clothing to last a week without washing everything they own??

[telecom_goddess]

Well I have a fun story now. Tuesday night I woke up to a weird sound in the bathroom I couldn't identify. As I stepped over to the bathroom I felt my feet sink in wet soggy carpet, and found the master bathroom flooded, and a lake in my carpet down the hallway. It was dripping from the ceiling fan, which means the upstairs neighbor was flooding me out. I went up to the door, pounded on it several times, with no response. I go back downstairs panicking now, can't reach the damn 24 hour emergency management company number (what the hell good is THAT) so I call 911 and the fireman finally get them up. Turns out their toilet was clogged and running over. Obviously for hours. Who the hell just leaves their clogged toilet running? If it's clogged you know it and a normal human would try to fix it then. And not even an "I'm sorry" from these idiots. They caused anxiety, stress, possible structural damage, and cost money to suck up the water and dry everything out. And they might have caused damage to my stuff, they don't know what could have been hit. Fucking assholes. At least say you're sorry about flooding ME out, an innocent bystander in this whole mess.

I've been living with dehumidifiers and huge fans blowing UNDER my carpet. Thankfully it seems pretty dry now.

These are the same people who bang on their floor ALL THE TIME. I'm gonna beat the hell out of my ceiling/their floor at midnight some night soon I swear.

[Mikkel]

The lice (here in Denmark, at least) has gotten resistant to the shampoos with insecticide. Shampoos exist with oils that smother the beasties. Combined with combing the nits as soon as they hatch, it should work, I am told. Then the kids come home, having tried each others hats, with a new breeding population.

[Mental_Mouse]

Well, picking nits (or lice) out by hand really doesn't work very well! Shampoos are usual, but it's probably good to use the comb to physically remove them as well. (This is a special fine-toothed comb, meant to pass hair but not nits or lice.)

[notalwaysright]

There you are out in the courtyard, picking the nits out of her hair again. It's been two years! Haven't you got rid of the lice yet?

I've never had lice, or even known anyone who had it. I remember a couple times in early elementary school when the nurse would come and run a comb through everyone's hair, but that's as close as I've come to it. Do you need to pick them out? I thought there was a shampoo or something. This sounds like serious trailer park behavior. :/

A couple times in the past week or so someone has their bass up in their car like WHOA. I'm talking, so loud I'm not even sure they're in the complex or on the main street. I can feel it in my chest! It's only for maybe 15 second before it's gone so there's no point in trying to complain about it, and again it might not be a resident. Sheesh, who really likes that? Maybe in a club, but driving in a quiet neighborhood?

[MoonCat]

Dude, can you at least get some GOOD weed instead of smoking crap that smells like a combo of skunk and dirty socks? I can't stand the smell of ANY weed but at least if it was better quality, I might not gag.

[jedimaster91]

Ugh. Will you please stop sending your kids over here to ask us for stuff. If you want to borrow a shovel/eggs/cup of sugar for dear old granny's birthday cake, it's totally fine. Just come over and ask yourself.

And no, your son is not allowed over in my backyard. Frankly, I don't want him around my kid since the last time I let my kid play with your kid (and a couple others), someone threw a bucket at his head. Not to mention your kid is destructive and swears worse than a sailor. Not habits I want my kid learning. He does just fine driving me nuts on his own.

[Food Lady]

Even if it isn't late he's still disturbing the peace.

My sucky neighbor is the teenage guy with his crappy music, not too late but loud and soooo stupid.

[Food Lady]

There you are out in the courtyard, picking the nits out of her hair again. It's been two years! Haven't you got rid of the lice yet?

[Deserted]

The comic also doesn't show the bowling alley that every upstairs neighbor of mine has apparently owned.

[notalwaysright]

Comic is inaccurate. Needs to show constant moving of furniture and dropping of heavy objects. My upstairs neighbor at my old place played super loud music literally from the instant she slammed in the door. When she moved the next guy was very quiet for 99.9% of the time. The other .1% was when he would randomly drop something and make me jump.

[Food Lady]

Not really sucky, but it hit 91° today and the ladies across the way are outside at a table in the middle of the courtyard.* Meanwhile, I'm sweating in an air conditioned apartment.

*Actually, that is kind of sucky. They have a porch.