I must admit. I'm not a good cohabitator. If I were an animal, I'd be a hermit crab. I don't suffer fools--at all.
I've been living in my NYC matchbox apartment (paying luxury rent) going on four years now. At the start of year two, my upstairs neighbors moved in. Needless to say, the relative tranquility that made my husband and I forget about the cost of our rent left us at the moment of their arrival.
Loud from the start, these people behave as though they are living in their own world, separate from all other beings with the ability to hear. The thumping, the bass, the video games, the TV shows, the stereo! I don't want to harm those people but I'd like to murder their electronics! I want to take a hammer to it all!
Building management doesn't care 'cause they get the rent once a month. 311 is a joke, and my husband tells me 911 is for gunshot wounds or something.
At one point, Tylenol and ear plugs became my best friends! I was a prisoner of these people! If they were awake, I was awake. Since they never seemed to sleep, I was ALWAYS awake!
The guy whose name is on the lease told management it was just him and his girlfriend living up there, and I was out of my mind. Yes, I was out of my mind! I was out of my mind because I never had one moment of quiet, I had an unending headache, and couldn't sleep!
Then, God sent me some justice! I pipe broke in their apartment! It wasn't the broken pipe, but what it led to that cleared everything up. Both the super and idiot apartment manager went up there. What did they discover? There were 13 people living up there!!! 13 people in a one bedroom apartment!
I knew some foolishness was going on up there! "Take that," I thought! "Finally! These people are gonna be gone! Oh, sweet tranquility will come back to me!" The guy on the lease had to get all those people out of there.
I felt so vindicated...but not for long.
The stupid apartment manager renewed his lease! I should add that manager to my list, 'cause I hate him too!
Living next to these people continues to be an irritating misadventure.
New York City has a noise ordinance. I wish they'd enforce it.
1 comment:
13 people and he still renewed that lease? The economy must be truly bad, because the manager is risking the lives of those people for some chomp change. I an emergency can you imagine the chaos. Hopefully they are not keeping Ashley awake.
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