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The Wrong Squid: Stupid peer pressure
OK, we'll start with the people in my building, who are all middle-aged women.
Above me: Spoonman. Is absolutely insane. Stomps, puts all her shit in other people's trash cans and yell at you if you ask her not to. It took her 3 months to figure out she lived on the third floor, not the second. I live on the second floor, and had to constantly tell her to take it upstairs when I would hear her messing with my lock.
Below me: The Rasta Busdriver. Is usually o.k., but can be a pain in the ass. Told me that a lot of the buses in Boston have fleas from homeless people sleeping in them all day.
Next to me: Dawn. She's nice, except she thought my name was Matt for a long time, because I have a doormat that says "Hi, I'm Mat."
Under Dawn: Old Lady Drunko. Her recycle bin is always full of giant bottles of booze. Good booze, but booze nonetheless. When one person moved out of the building, she filled their storage area with booze. Seriously. If she was a hobbit, her name would be Booze Baggins.
New person: Too new to say. Seems nice. Wants a cat. I can get behind that.
People around the area:
Cracker Family Across the Street: 3 floors of redneck goodness. No matter what time I get home, they will always come out onto their porches 5 minutes later and make a shitload of noise. I once came home at 2 am in a snowstorm. One cracker was 3 houses down, brushing his car off, and cracker grandpa was on the porch yelling, "Yer brushin' off yer car!" The men in the house don't seem to work. They stay home all day and neglect the 6 year old daughter, loudly calling her "the brat" when she wants them to pay attention to her. There is also a teen slut daughter who has a boyfriend with a Poison bumper sticker on his car. Cracker Dad has a bumper sticker of Mickey Mouse giving the finger that says "Hey Bin Laden!"
The only other neighbor of interest is the lady next door with two dogs, Mr. Dog and Stinky. When I first moved in, it took me a while to get used to hearing someone yell, "Hey Stinky! Hey Stinky! every morning."
