November 14, 2007
This is so fun! I love giving stuff away! We should do this more often.
The winner is Misty! Congratulations!
Misty had this to say from the Love Thy Neighbor Giveaway Post:
Hmmm…
I have a few, but here is my WORST… (It could be a sitcom)We lived in an apartment building. there were 12 units in our building. We lived on the third floor. There were relatively normal people in two of those apartments, but in the one directly across from us, the woman (in her early 50’s) would wait until my husband was using our shared laundry room (shared for the entire building) and run around the building in her bra…
On the next floor we had a man named Chris, who seemed nice enough. Across from him a very kind lesbian couple. Their side of the building seemed fine, but the two apartments on the other side were another story. In one apartment we had the 400 pound African American man who bred pitbulls (in his little 600 sq ft. apartment) and dealt meth for additional income. He was nice enough to us, despite his shady visitors. The real problem was his girlfriend, white and of equal weight. She was mean, and would scream and yell all of the time. She would randomly key cars of the people who walked passed their doorway “unkindly.” (we never knew what that was.) They both kicked and beat the PB puppies and, to top it off, she was pregnant.
Across the hall from them was this woman who, you can google yourself, is the coffin lady. (Her name is MORDAUNT, I THINK.) She drove a hearse, furnished her home in coffins and made a living selling coffin shaped gems. She was utterly creepy and, although nice enough to my husband, VERY hateful towards me all of the time.
Along with her coffin shaped gems, she also dealt in these dolls called Living Dead Dolls, where a demon was apparently attached to each hideously ugly doll… She had just as much visiting traffic as the meth dealer, only her “guests” were WAY Scarier…
On the bottom we had various retired couples and then this girl named Michelle. Michelle was GREAT. Loved her. Got to know her and her kids. Found out she was dating Chris (from the second floor.) The more we got to know them, the more we loved them…
Until she got pregnant, and he beat her, and she started running to us at all hours of the night, and involving the police. And taking him back. EVERY NIGHT this occurred. He busted down her door one night. She crawled through a window when he thought she was locked in her room, and ran up to us. (her kids in their beds…) When he figured it out, He busted down OUR door and proceeded to rip our phone out of the wall when we went to call 911, threaten all three of our lives (daughter included) and dragged her out by her hair and pushed her down the stairs. She survived but was badly wounded and lost the baby.
No one could force her to to press charges, but we obviously did file them… and they were so mad at us, (how dare we!!!) that they moved out and bought a house together. Somehow we became their bad neighbor story.So, we consider the entire building (where we lived for two years) to be a our bad neighbor…
All of your stories were incredible and your “street survivor” scenarios hilarious. I am still laughing from all the awesome comments. I just have immense Battle Station love for you all right now, thanks for playing.
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November 14th, 2007 at 1:36 pm, Chandra Says:
yeah for Misty! She had a good response.
lol. That was a fun one
November 14th, 2007 at 2:07 pm, Misty Says:
Oh wow! Should I prepare a speech or something? I mean, seriously, I NEVER win anything. NOTHING…
This is an early holiday miracle for sure…
November 14th, 2007 at 3:00 pm, Julie Says:
Oh yeah, Misty totally deserves it for having to live through that experience.
Was that apartment in Los Angeles? (kinda sounds like it)
November 14th, 2007 at 4:18 pm, Emma Says:
Woah. Is that for REAL?! Ha, poor Misty. You should throw in some free counseling with the prize.
November 14th, 2007 at 6:50 pm, Stephanie Says:
Congratulations Misty!
November 14th, 2007 at 7:21 pm, misty Says:
definatly for real, and not even close to as funny as it is now… We lived in South Lyon Michigan, in a seedy apartment complex known as the Brookdale Apartments. (though we didn’t know they were seedy until we lived there…)
November 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pm, melissa Says:
Yes! She totally won that one! Congratulations, I’m sorry you had to go through that to win a contest!!!
November 17th, 2007 at 11:10 pm, Anna Says:
This made me crack up. I thought I had some funny stories living in Hyde Park in Boston, but this is insane! Did they end up moving? What did she win?
November 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pm, Fraulein Says:
Hi there — found you through Misty’s site. What a terrible story. I hope they didn’t live there too long!