Noisey, Rude Neighbors

I'm relatively easy to get along with, I'm relatively easy to live with or near, but I don't know what has gotten into the water in my apartment building because I've never seen a group or more loud or more rude neighbors in my almost two years in this building. And its the same people, and it just recently that their behavior has changed. We have a family that lives on the bottom floor, back corner, and it just so happens that their garage is on the side of the building, right next to ours. Our driveways are combined, and next to their garage is a set of parking spots, followed by a wooded area. Great place to let your kids play in the afternoon, weekends, out of the beaten path, only really accessed by our two apartments.



Great place to let your kids play, (you're 4 and 6 year olds) if you're supervising them. If you're paying attention to what they're doing, and where they're running around to, and paying attention to who else may be trying to go about their daily activities. Lets take last Saturday for example, I had several errands to run so i get ready for the day and proceed down to my car. The kids are out playing, the parents are sitting in lawn chairs in the garage and all of the kids toys are behind my car. SO, I start moving them so that I can leave. The four year old asks what I'm doing, and the rest of them just stare at me. I get in my car, hoping that the parents will tell their child to go in the garage or just stay put, as to not run behind my car, but since they just stare at me, I tell him to stay where he is until I leave. RUDE.



So, this week, the neighbors have decided that since we very rarely use our garage spot, they will instead. Excuse me, do you pay for that spot? Do you not have ample parking spots on the other side of your garage. I may not always park behind my garage, but when I come home past 10pm its usually the only spot open, unless its, oh say filled with your car! RUDE.



The final straw, and don't even get me started on their ST Bernard Puppy, who is not a puppy at all weighing in at 50 lbs, soon to be 250 when full grown. News Flash: You live in an apartment with four people, another dog and at least one cat. Anyhow, the final straw, I'm on my way to work Saturday night, and said neighbors are on their way home from the pool. Children are on one side of the parking lot, adults on the other. Child hears my car and about one car length in front of it, runs across to his parents, but stops about midway across. I slam on brakes, mom throws her hands up in the air at me, (please!) and then proceeds to yell at child and give me a dirty look and I drive by. RUDE.

Last night, our other neighbors, for the fourth night in a row have decided at 2 am, 3 am, 10pm or whenever, its slow jam time. And by slow jam i mean really old slow rap songs like boys to men ballads and whatnot, at ridiculous volumes that shake my floor and make me feel like I'm live in the front row. One time, two times this happens, occasionally, I'll ignore it, get annoyed, but ignore it. It happens every day, totally different story. When I knocked on their door last night to ask them to keep it down, they did not answer, probably couldn't hear me. We'll see what they have to say about the note I left them today.