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Anyone remember Sheriff, the neighborhood pest?
Things have been pretty quiet with him since the power outage a year ago. Little things here and there, like he still always knows when everyone is outside and still does his routine of being a pest, but nothing noteworthy.
Until this past Monday.
I was out for a smoke before work (I usually have two, one after I eat and the other right before I leave because I don't like to smoke in my car a lot).
There was some screaming, some neighborhood kids that don't live here had once again meandered into our parking lot and were playing around the fence that surrounds the pool. They'd hopped it and were playing on the pool cover.
Sheriff and his wife had came outside to leave somewhere, and Sheriff, in his trusty cowboy boots and hat, marched over by the pool and started whistling and screaming at the kids to leave.
Usually, if those brats come around, the caretaker is usually outside smoking and he has his own way of getting them to go, or my neighbor on the end is pretty good about telling them to scram if they start playing by our cars and in our stairways. Sheriff went about it the completely wrong way, his wife was telling him to leave it be, and he kept yelling back "They put ME in charge when Dick isn't here!" (Dick is the caretaker. By the way, if you guys remember this, Sheriff is mentally handicapped. No one ever put him in charge of anything. He designated himself as neighborhood cop).
Anyway, a few minutes later, I was back out again, and he and his wife got in the car to go, and backed up and started on their way out.
There is a very large white pedo van that parks on the end of their building, that has actually proven to be hard to see around, and there have been a few near-accidents.
A younger girl in a large silver car that lives in the same building as Sheriff was coming in, and going to go the same way he was, and they both stopped right by the van because they nearly collided.
What happened next just had me raging with anger. Sheriff thought the near accident was because the girl was speeding, even though I saw it and she wasn't.
Sheriff gets out of his car, loudly claims "OK, let's take care of this!" and stomps over to the girls' car and yells at her to roll her window down.
He then lays into her. "WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? WHY DO YOU THINK YOU NEED TO DRIVE THAT FAST AROUND HERE?!"
All I heard from the girl was a scared, timid, "But....I wasn't-"
"YES YOU WERE! YOU NEARLY CAUSED AN ACCIDENT! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, I'M IN CHARGE HERE WHEN DICK'S NOT AROUND, AND I'M GONNA GIVE HIM YOUR PLATES! I CAN MAKE SURE YOU NEVER GO SPEEDING AROUND HERE AGAIN! I KNOW EVERY COP IN TOWN AND I CAN CALL THEM RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM TO WATCH FOR PEOPLE SPEEDING AROUND HERE!"
(Oh, Lord. Sheriff and his "police connections" involve him calling the police constantly for the dumbest reasons. I'm sure the cops just loooove him)
Sheriff then stomps back into his car, yelling "GEEZ! NEARLY HAD AN ACCIDENT! EVERYONE THINKS THEY CAN SPEED AROUND HERE!" and slammed his door and then he and his wife left.
I marched back inside my apartment, even though it was after hours, I called up the property management company and left a message. I said that I was a witness to a near-accident that involved Sheriff and some younger girl in his building, and that he got out of his car and yelled at her and threatened her and name-dropped the caretaker, claiming he's been put in charge when he isn't there, which is not true. I apologized if it wasn't my business but I felt that as tenants, we have no right to scream at one another and threaten one another over something like that, and I felt the caretaker should know that this guy is going around playing neighborhood cop when he's not around.
The next morning, I got a call back, thanking me for letting them know. They hadn't received a complaint from the girl yet, but it's possible they won't anyway, and that they'd go over and talk with Sheriff. I got the usual "Every once in a while, we have to remind him of who is really in charge."
Yeah, pretty sad there's a routine that they have to constantly tell him not to bother people or not to act like a cop.
So yeah. This is one person I will NOT miss when I move out.
Things have been pretty quiet with him since the power outage a year ago. Little things here and there, like he still always knows when everyone is outside and still does his routine of being a pest, but nothing noteworthy.
Until this past Monday.
I was out for a smoke before work (I usually have two, one after I eat and the other right before I leave because I don't like to smoke in my car a lot).
There was some screaming, some neighborhood kids that don't live here had once again meandered into our parking lot and were playing around the fence that surrounds the pool. They'd hopped it and were playing on the pool cover.
Sheriff and his wife had came outside to leave somewhere, and Sheriff, in his trusty cowboy boots and hat, marched over by the pool and started whistling and screaming at the kids to leave.
Usually, if those brats come around, the caretaker is usually outside smoking and he has his own way of getting them to go, or my neighbor on the end is pretty good about telling them to scram if they start playing by our cars and in our stairways. Sheriff went about it the completely wrong way, his wife was telling him to leave it be, and he kept yelling back "They put ME in charge when Dick isn't here!" (Dick is the caretaker. By the way, if you guys remember this, Sheriff is mentally handicapped. No one ever put him in charge of anything. He designated himself as neighborhood cop).
Anyway, a few minutes later, I was back out again, and he and his wife got in the car to go, and backed up and started on their way out.
There is a very large white pedo van that parks on the end of their building, that has actually proven to be hard to see around, and there have been a few near-accidents.
A younger girl in a large silver car that lives in the same building as Sheriff was coming in, and going to go the same way he was, and they both stopped right by the van because they nearly collided.
What happened next just had me raging with anger. Sheriff thought the near accident was because the girl was speeding, even though I saw it and she wasn't.
Sheriff gets out of his car, loudly claims "OK, let's take care of this!" and stomps over to the girls' car and yells at her to roll her window down.
He then lays into her. "WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? WHY DO YOU THINK YOU NEED TO DRIVE THAT FAST AROUND HERE?!"
All I heard from the girl was a scared, timid, "But....I wasn't-"
"YES YOU WERE! YOU NEARLY CAUSED AN ACCIDENT! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, I'M IN CHARGE HERE WHEN DICK'S NOT AROUND, AND I'M GONNA GIVE HIM YOUR PLATES! I CAN MAKE SURE YOU NEVER GO SPEEDING AROUND HERE AGAIN! I KNOW EVERY COP IN TOWN AND I CAN CALL THEM RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM TO WATCH FOR PEOPLE SPEEDING AROUND HERE!"
(Oh, Lord. Sheriff and his "police connections" involve him calling the police constantly for the dumbest reasons. I'm sure the cops just loooove him)
Sheriff then stomps back into his car, yelling "GEEZ! NEARLY HAD AN ACCIDENT! EVERYONE THINKS THEY CAN SPEED AROUND HERE!" and slammed his door and then he and his wife left.
I marched back inside my apartment, even though it was after hours, I called up the property management company and left a message. I said that I was a witness to a near-accident that involved Sheriff and some younger girl in his building, and that he got out of his car and yelled at her and threatened her and name-dropped the caretaker, claiming he's been put in charge when he isn't there, which is not true. I apologized if it wasn't my business but I felt that as tenants, we have no right to scream at one another and threaten one another over something like that, and I felt the caretaker should know that this guy is going around playing neighborhood cop when he's not around.
The next morning, I got a call back, thanking me for letting them know. They hadn't received a complaint from the girl yet, but it's possible they won't anyway, and that they'd go over and talk with Sheriff. I got the usual "Every once in a while, we have to remind him of who is really in charge."
Yeah, pretty sad there's a routine that they have to constantly tell him not to bother people or not to act like a cop.
So yeah. This is one person I will NOT miss when I move out.
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