Annoying Neighbors from Hell?
So my lady friend and I have lived in our apartment for about a year. Thankfully, our lease is up and we’re nearly out of this place. I’ve lived in apartments nearly my whole adult life and one thing is for sure, up to this point I’ve been lucky with the neighbors I’ve had. This couple is crazy!
The guy – He seems to always try to be in everyone’s business. I swear when I’m not home he’s chatting up the other people in the building about me and whatever he can learn. I’m not sure what he does for a living but I’d swear he was a private eye in a past life the way he is compelled to know everything about everyone else. He also has a crazy thing for his car. He ALWAYS backs his car into the spot which is actually against his lease and he should be ticketed/etc according to our lease holder’s agreement but he probably has some dirt on the landlords or something. His front license plate says something to the effect of “I value this car more than I value your life, don’t touch it or else!” He also ALWAYS blares his music/sound system and the best part is… he will sit in his car, backed in of course, and listen to two or three more songs with his windows down (even in the winter) to make sure everyone can realize how ‘cool’ he is.
One day, I looked out of my door because I thought he was dragging a canoe up the stairs. I was wrong, it was a dented ladder he found on the side of the highway. I overheard him through our door as he told the story in the hallway to half our building. “Yeah, so I saw this on the side of the highway and a cop showed up as I was looking at it on the side of the road. He told me if no one came back and got it within 24 hours that I could take it. Today, I became the owner of this $100 ladder, FOR FREE!!!!” He started knocking on my door to tell me the story that I had just heard. I pretended not to be home…. all 4 times he knocked on my door.
The girl – She has two kids with this guy but they hate each other for the most part. She’s bitter at him because he wont let her have a Facebook account because he’s afraid she’ll cheat on him. He also breaks her cell phone once a month. Being nice neighbors before we knew better with these whack jobs, we let her use our phone once. She now stops by anytime she wants to chat up one of her friends… to talk on our cell phones… and use our minutes up. Around the same time we let her use our computer once. She now visits us once a week to use our computer. The fun part is, she uses it to check HIS email because she thinks HE is cheating on her.
They fight everyday and she has come over sobbing asking to use the phone because she is ‘over it, and has to move out.’ Now it’s gotten physical a few times and so we let her use the phone but she never does anything about it. There was one time where he followed her OVER to our apartment to ask us to let him in because she doesn’t need to use the phone. I told him that he should just cool it and let her make a call if she needs to. Again, this is all before we knew better.
Since then… we’ve pretty much been trying to avoid them. I’ve lately resorted to just making up ridiculous lies to get them to leave us alone but they don’t get the hint. Tonight when I opened the door (only because I had unfortunately been seen as I was taking out my trash moments earlier), I simply said “sup?!” and she goes “is your lady friend here?” (because she’s nicer than I’ve been to them lately.) “yep! what is this about?” She looked at me and tried to act cute and say “can I use her phone” I responded “we don’t have phones anymore, we’re moving.” she then with a puzzled look on her face and a crinkled brow said “oh.” I said, “sorry, *shrugs* see ya!” If she asks to use our computer again I’ve got the good old, “We’re both looking at pornography and can’t really stop because we had it scheduled for today…” excuse. If he comes over to tell me some stupid story I’ll probably say “WHAT?!” over and over again until he says he’ll come back later to which I’ll say “yeah haters gotta hate… ” and close the door.
Anyone else had any crazy neighbor stories? Again, I’m just glad i’m moving in less than a week.