Random Sucky Neighbor Thoughts

[Android Kaeli]

Dear neighbor to the right, part 2:

You got a rude wake-up call from the local PD this morning because when I woke up at the crack of dawn, I noticed that your daughter's car was in my driveway again. I let the officers know that I did not give you, or your daughter, permission [verbal, written, or otherwise] to dump her car in my driveway and that I would like someone to have it moved and/or towed. You both were damn lucky that the cop didn't arrest your daughter for trespassing and now this little stunt has gotten the attention of our HOA, and I'm damn lucky I'm not the one they're pissed at.

Oh, BTW, the reason why the HOA isn't coming after me is because I don't give them trouble and that my lawn guy is their eyes and ears and knows how quiet I usually am. So it might mean a little bit of trouble for me for the rest of the summer, you on the other hand -- there's a reason why you're the sixth person in the last ten years that hasn't lived there for very long.

[Food Lady]

Seriously, SHUT UP! First, you're on the stairs again which is rude to your neighbors. Second, it's midnight. I may be up but some of the neighbors aren't. People do sleep at night, you know--even on a Friday.

[notalwaysright]

Since I'm not renewing my lease there was an open house at my apartment. I was coming back when it was over and hear voices. I assume it's just a latecomer talking with the property manager lady, but I was wrong. It's my nosy neighbor. In my apartment. ARG.

I still don't know where I'm moving, which is terrifying, but I can't bring myself to regret my decision to get out of here. Plus I miss having a bathtub.

[Food Lady]

^I'm so happy for you that you're moving because that neighbor is ridiculous. Of course my mind pictured Blondie in my apartment when the scenario came up.

[Ghel]

I waited to post this until I got my laundry basket back. It went missing Sunday. I got it back yesterday (Thursday).

You see, it's not unusual for the downstairs neighbor to leave laundry in the dryer. For a week or more at a time. No big, though, I just dump it in my laundry basket temporarily and then throw it back in the dryer when I'm done with my laundry.

This weekend was different. When I went downstairs to get my laundry, not only was the neighbor's laundry gone, so was my laundry basket. I decided not to make a big deal, at first, figuring that they would bring my basket back after they put their laundry away.

When my boyfriend went to do his laundry Thursday, it still wasn't back, so he knocked on the neighbor's door and asked for it. The neighbor blamed it on his girlfriend's kid, not that I care. I'm just glad to have my basket back.

This is why I don't leave anything I want to keep in the shared portions of the building. Even my laundry soap comes back upstairs with me when I finish my laundry.

[Dreamstalker]

To the banshee in the corner apartment:

Thanks so much for that 7AM wakeup call ...I really feel sorry for your boyfriend. The poor guy gets you screaming at him almost every night.

[wolfie]

Even my laundry soap comes back upstairs with me when I finish my laundry.

I once left my (quarter full) detergent bottle in the laundry room, and it disappeared. Of course, the cap had cracked nearly all the way around the threads, so not only was it not sealed but it was VERY close to the cap coming off completely (which is why I left it). I would have loved to see the look on the face of someone who saw it, thought "Free detergent", and tossed the bottle on top of their clean laundry.

[notalwaysright]

Arg, we have one washer and one dryer for six units. It used to be totally fine, but this group of renters consistently leaves their laundry in not only the drier, but also the washer. Which is gross. But whatever, I just take it out and dump it on the top of the machine.

I never ever leave my detergent in the basement, but other do... There is a little army of empty containers that nobody bothers to throw away. I might add that a person has to walk directly past the garbage cans to get in or out of the basement laundry room. But it doesn't really affect me, so I don't care. I really don't like touching other people's clothes, but I have compunction about doing it if I have to. There's one guy, I don't know what he looks like other than he's male, that never leaves his clothes. If I see his clothes basket (which is just a big storage tub) I know it will be gone within a few minutes of the machine finishing. If I see the small wicker basket, I will be prepared to move clothes. Though, whoever is attached to that basket doesn't even do a full load of laundry, it's like one towel and a shirt. Bizarre, I'm not going to pay to wash that few of items.

[Food Lady]

Is there any laundromat close by that you can go to, just to eliminate the headaches? There is one close to my job and I think of loading my laundry in the car the night before and just zipping on over right after work. I haven't done it yet but I should. On weeknights a wash is only 75 cents.

[Food Lady]

It's 10:30. Why are you outside yelling?? And why are kids under 10 outside yelling?!? I don't care if there's no school tomorrow. People have to work tomorrow morning! I'm actually glad it's the solstice because it's going to start getting dark earlier now.

[Aria]

My neighbors aren't they cause of this - we are all suffering - but I think I'll put it here anyway.

Yesterday, the city said they would be turning off our water from 9-5. It is now officially 24 hours later and we have only a tiny trickle of water. When I reported this, the lady was like, "Oh, you have water pressure? How much has it been reduced by? 20 percent, 30 percent?" Me: "90 percent." We can't properly flush the toilets let alone do the laundry and the dishes. My kitchen is more of a disaster than usual and I went to Wal-Mart for... uh... morning things. (sorry Wal-Mart) And I was putting off laundry so I'm almost out of underwear!

They better fix this soon. (I might just go buy more underwear though)

[Aria]

YAY WATER! *does the happy dance and washes her clothes*

[notalwaysright]

Wow, I thought turning off an essential service was kind of a no-no? One time the hot water heater* in my current building died in the middle of the night, and even though it was fixed by early morning, there was an official (looking) note on all our doors about it.


*all six units share a water heater, it's included in rent

[Racket_Man]

Wow, I thought turning off an essential service was kind of a no-no?

They can do it for maintenance or flushing or servicing.

My city has been recently doing this. They will send notices out that a certain neighborhood's water will be off for a period of say an hour. This is to perform a water line flush via the fire hydrants. They open the several hydrants in the area full blast for say 15 minutes for flush larger particles out of the pipes. This flushing causes all the houses to not have water for a short period.

They can also turn off the water IF say something BIG breaks or they have to say set up a temp water pipe system while they dig up a couple of blocks to work on water and gas and whatever other pipes are underground in those blocks

[Aria]

Yeah, it's because the city did it, not the condo board or landlord... I bet a landlord turning off water really is a no-no.

I saw water trucks and blocked roads in a nearby community as well, the same day they started this in my building. So I suspect something was really wrong with the city's pipes. Still, over 24 hours without proper water is rough. :P They gave us these little emergency water trucks for drinking water but that doesn't help for washing or flushing, haha... thank goodness it's over.