Random Sucky Neighbor Thoughts

[Jay 2K Winger]

Dear neighbors,
We know it was you that accidentally broke some mirror by the curb where we all put our trash cans. One roommate already cut her foot on the broken glass out there. It had been a week now, and the broken glass is still there.
Clean your mess up, gorrammit.
(signed)
Annoyed Winger, who is tempted to sweep up the glass and leave it on your doorstep.

Dear neighbors,

It's been almost a month now. The broken glass is still there.

There are kids who play in this neighborhood. Including your kids.

My roommate has now cut her foot a second time.

The HOA sent around that email recently about various things we need to take care of. I'm now seriously tempted to contact them about you.

Also, while we're talking, stop putting your trash in our bins. Especially when you put trash in the recycling bins!

--Aggravated Winger

[telecom_goddess]

So I have no idea what's going on with the apartment next door to me. The guy that lived there moved out a couple months ago, and they had a lock box on stair railing with the key to the place, did the usual carpet cleaning and whatnot. And random people were parking in the parking space assigned to it. Now all of a sudden the lock box is gone, the spot remains empty, and random packages outside the door, two different ones with two different names which have now disappeared. With NO sign of the actual neighbor, if there is one. It's like a phantom. Oh and for hours now keys have been stuck in the lock outside. Just hanging there.

I've seen no sign of anyone moving in. I'm starting to get freaked out.

[Monterey Jack]

My roommate has now cut her foot a second time.

Maybe your roommate should put on some SHOES when taking out the trash.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Maybe your roommate should put on some SHOES when taking out the trash.

I agree. Or at least, not open-toed shoes or sandals.

[Food Lady]

That grass your kids are tearing up out there is not yours. The property belongs to the management company. On top of it, they are blocking the sidewalk in front of the stairs. I remember when I used to come home with my rolling cart because I didn't have a car. I am sooooo glad I don't live in that building. It's a good thing the lady with the mobility issue lives on the opposite end, close to the parking lot. She's got a mental disability, too. I don't know what would happen in this situation.

ETA: nice large branch they left in the walkway. I should take a picture of that.

[protege]

Please don't be standing in your front yard or the middle of the cul-de-sac staring at everyone like a creeper when we're showing our house, k?

We have one of those where I live. This guy will slowly walk around the circle, and will stare at certain houses, especially if he knows they have children While he hasn't done anything, he's creepy. There's no reason to do that, and yes, the children in the area will go the other way if they see him out walking. We've had him checked out by the cops, but so far, because he hasn't done anything, he's left alone.

[MoonCat]

Ew. Yeah, there's a guy who lives two houses away from me who's on the sex offender list for my area. His crime was a couple of decades or more ago, and in another state, but still. The house between his and mine has two kids in it (the Warts - and while I can't stand these people, kids are kids!)

Best part? The guy who owns the house Mr. S.O. lives in....is a cop.

[notalwaysright]

Omg, we have a "watcher" in my complex, too! I've nicknamed him both Rubber Neck and Crazy Eyes because when he walks through the parking lot he's always craning his head back and forth looking all around him.

I don't really get a creeper vibe from him, more like an awkwardness? And if he sees me he just nods and moves on, which is normal.

[Food Lady]

Maybe the watchers and creepers should move here so they can teach the "parents" that 6-year-olds shouldn't be running around at almost 10:00 pm.

[Pixelated]

I keep seeing these handwritten scrawls posted on the building's bulletin boards: "BRING BACK MY CHAIRS NOW!" with an apartment number on it.

I finally asked somebody WTF happened, here's what she told me: tenant (who is on my floor, not that it matters) apparently put two chairs from her apartment out in the hallway while she was cleaning her house. (No idea why she would need to do that.) When she went to get them -- and she swears it was no more than five minutes -- they were gone.

Moral of the story: do NOT leave stuff out in the hallway and expect it to stay there.

People have put furniture into the atriums at the end of each hallway as a free giveaway. This was most likely outside her apartment door rather than in the atrium, so yeah, it would've been nice if the person had knocked and ASKED ... but they didn't. And unless she really lucks out, she'll never get them back.

[Dreamstalker]

Our place has a few "watchers"...the same family that we suspect has 10 people in a two-bedroom. One of them will just lay down (seriously) on his building's front entrance smoking...and occasionally looking intently up at my bedroom window. If I happen to catch him doing this he immediately goes back inside. What the everloving hell...?

[Food Lady]

I don't know why it bothers me--maybe I'm the sucky one--but I'm sick of looking outside and wanting to see trees and grass and instead seeing...you...again. Why are you always out there? I'm not opposed to people sitting outside to be on their phones or whatever. But that's why you have a porch. Instead, you are on the stairs every day, right smack dab in the middle of my view. It' sounds mean, but I'm just sick of looking at you.

[jedimaster91]

A family down the street got two husky puppies. They suck at keeping them in their own yard. The first time the pups got loose, we didn't know who they belonged to as there was no address on their tags. Thankfully, there was a phone number, but the phone was turned off. So it took a few hours before the owners came home to get their dogs.

Now the dogs get out regularly and typically end up in our immediate neighbor's yard (same house with the creeper husband). Which is making my dogs go nuts. Mine are digging under the fence--which they haven't done in years--trying to play with their new friends. And the huskies are digging from the other side. I can't leave my dogs out in the backyard to play like I have been because I don't know if they'll be there later. One's already gotten out a couple times and ended up in the next subdivision over.

So, TL;DR, if the people down the street don't find a way to keep their dogs contained, I'm gonna lose my ever lovin' mind.

We're moving soon, so there's that at least.

[greek_jester]

Now the dogs get out regularly and typically end up in our immediate neighbor's yard (same house with the creeper husband). Which is making my dogs go nuts. Mine are digging under the fence--which they haven't done in years--trying to play with their new friends. And the huskies are digging from the other side. I can't leave my dogs out in the backyard to play like I have been because I don't know if they'll be there later. One's already gotten out a couple times and ended up in the next subdivision over.

Is there anyone you can report them to? Sooner or later one of the pups is going to run into the street and get run over or cause an accident. They might also end up tangling with some other dog that isn't well socialised and get attacked.

Huskies are big dogs when they're grown; if they run up to the wrong person (however innocently they mean it) they could end up getting put down for "attacking" that person. If this family aren't giving them the attention and exercise they need (and huskies need a lot!) then perhaps it would be better if they were re-homed.

[telecom_goddess]

Sooooooooooo recently a new neighbor moved in next door I guess, I posted about that. Still haven't laid eyes on her/them/whatever. BUT get this.... a couple weeks ago when I was at work my partners said that there were two women outside, cleaning the shared front stoop area. Their side and our side, like scrubbing down with bleach, on the walls and cement floor. Ok that's cool. I thought it was something the apartment management was doing for some reason. Up to now I have been the only one to even bother sweeping up out there! So I come home, and my doormat is gone. I can't find it anywhere, and then I think....could it be in the dumpster? Sure enough it had been thrown away. Well I took it out, shook off the dirt and put it right back where it belongs. I thought the apartment management people had thrown it out, so I was complaining to them, and the manager had no idea what I was talking about. It seems it was the bitch next door who was cleaning that area, including in front of my door, on her own, and she was the one who threw out my doormat. I don't take kindly to people throwing out my property. So I haven't seen her, haven't met her, and I hate the bitch. Touch my shit again and there will be consequences. Meanwhile I'm slowly putting out halloween/witch oriented decorations out there, bit by bit. I plan to make it as obnoxious to her as I can.