Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Crazy Neighbors Yet Again!

So we have been living in this apartment in Spanish Harlem together over the last two years and the apartment across the hall from us was vacant until late last year. It was vacant because the person that was living there was an elderly woman, who unfortunately passed away in the apartment without anyone knowing... and the apartment was cleaned, gutted and refurbished for new tenants. Last year our first set of neighbors was this couple. Chubby white man, and chubby black woman, they seemed normal waved at us the first couple of encounters, asked about access to the roof of the building. They even started working out together... but after some time the weird noises started; at first we thought it was funny him oinking like a farm animal and her mewing like a cat. Then there were dogs and cows... after some time it was just plain ridiculous!
The couple eventually started to fight. Their fights became louder and louder, then we started noticing that the woman would leave and go to work and the man would stay at home and hang out with their dog. Eventually one moved out then the other and the apartment was vacant again. It was empty for a while and we started to believe that the apartment was somehow cursed... no one would move in.
Then the fateful day came, when our new neighbor moved in. Both of us were at work when it happened, but we knew someone was there because of the noise and moving around. One night on my way out of the apartment to meet my husband I bumped into our new neighbor. He seemed pleasant enough; paused at the door and said "hey I guess we're new neighbors" we exchanged names and basic pleasantries then went our separate ways.
I told my husband, when I met up with him, that we may finally have a "normal neighbor" but he seemed skeptical. Low and behold, while we were out, we bumped into our new neighbor again and I was able to introduce them to one another, he tells us that he has a roommate that will be moving in with him shortly and we would meet him very soon. Again we pleasantly parted and continued living our lives. This all happened around two-three months ago... we never realized when the roommate moved in, never heard anything strange or questionable until around 2AM last night!
We're asleep in bed when suddenly there is LOUD shouting coming from the apartment across the hall... I'm AWAKE but the husband is still sleeping through all of the yelling and crazy conversation that I was getting bits and pieces of.
The ass kicker was when one of our "gentle neighbors" throws the other against a wall that is directly connected to our wall... and the slam is so loud that my husband gets up in a jolt and asks me "What the fuck was that?" I tell him "that would be our neighbors fighting" then the shouting gets even louder... my husband is fortunate enough to be able to get back to sleep... however, unfortunately for me, I was able to listen to most of their argument... it turns out that the neighbor and his roommate are actually lovers and their argument/blow out fight was insane and went a little something like this: (Neighbors 1 and 2 will be written in as N1 and N2 also please excuse some of the language below as it was verbatim and not vocabulary that I use on a regular basis).

N1: I did not fuck no Phillip! How dare you come in here and say that I fucked Phillip!
N2: mumble mumble
N1: That's right you pay my fucking bills, you don't do shit else!! you should be paying my
fucking bills!!! I DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!
N2: mumble mumble CRASH!!!!!
N1: How dare you! How dare you! How dare you! I'm a good nygga! I'm a good nygga!! I AM A
GOOD NYGGA!!!!!!!!
N2: walks out of apartment and leaves the building... comes back in and slams the apartment
door again
N1: How dare you! I don't have any friends! NO FRIENDS because of YOU!

at this point it gets redundant... I guess when people get going in an argument they don't realize that they are repeating themselves over and over again... and eventually I started falling asleep again which was great!

After all of this I just have one question for my neighbor... the one I met anyway... Why didn't you just tell us that your boyfriend was moving in, instead of saying he was your roommate? HUH then at least I could have been more prepared for the CRAZY that now lives next door to us! SIGH!!!

xoxo
LuLu ;)