Sunday, March 24, 2019

Apartment Life #73

You may have noticed the new picture for these posts. In case you were wondering, Ken painted the skull for me, and the playing card in his hat is a good symbol for Las Vegas with all the gambling here. 
This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 20 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 20 years here in a weekly blog post.

Back in August of 2017 my mailbox got bent and almost broken. 


My neighbor's son messed up the mailbox. Ken and I were so pissed off that day so we both went outside to take pictures of the mailbox and confront the neighbor about it. The woman next door who had 'customers' knocking on my window at 3 am looking to buy drugs had 3 kids. The oldest I believe was about 12. We have one of those centralized panel mailboxes that apartment complexes have.  (My mail box is #11 and her's was 12) Her mail box had been broken since she moved in and the post office is slow to fix anything.

 So Ken confronted her and asked her if she or someone else tried to pull, push or pry their mailbox. Her oldest son speaks up and says he was pulling on it and prying it trying to fix his mom's mailbox. Ken told him that in doing so he messed up our box which is right on top of theirs and she starts going on about how other boxes have been broken into that we should go look and see that other boxes are broken too that someone else probably did it even though her son just admitted that he did it. So we went and looked, took pictures. Nope, it's just hers and mine that are bent and messed up. We actually looked when taking the pictures and all the other boxes are flat against the face of the panel like mine used to be. Only mine and hers are sticking out crooked now. Thankfully she moved out soon after this happened that year.


You can see the little piece that's bent and about to come off under my mailbox.


My mailbox actually sticks out more than it should now. I can open and close it but I need both hands to push it in and hold it there while I turn the key in order to get it open or closed.

We made a complaint with the manager in the office and she told us there was nothing she could do because the mailboxes are property of the USPS so they have to fix it. 

It took days for me to get a confirmation from the post office and finally from my postal carrier that there was a work order put in and it would be fixed at some point. The bottom of the box has been pried out and it's really hard to open and close. Even though I've called so many times I've lost count to find out when it will be fixed and they tell me soon, but I won't hold my breath. It's now been over a year and it's still not fixed. The last time I called the post office they told me they'll get to it when they get to it because there's only one maintenance crew for all of Las Vegas and they are busy. I won't hold my breath. It's a good thing that I can open and close it at all because I doubt that the USPS maintenance crew will ever come out and look at it. The mailbox above mine won't even lock now so they don't use it, the person that lives next door to me has to have all of his mail delivered to the office now and pick it up with the manager. The maintenance crew hasn't come out to fix that mailbox either.

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And this week the neighbor across from me that moved in about 2 weeks ago was fighting with her boyfriend. I look out the door and she is standing on her doorway...naked. She was putting her clothes on in the door way while she yelled at him and called him names and told him he was a stupid drunk that she's not marrying. I could not get my camera in time to catch any of it before they shut the door. 

A few minutes later I had to call 911 because they started fighting and she was yelling for someone to call 911 for her. But right before the police got here she took off, he went back inside and locked the door and then refused to answer it when they knocked. So the police left. She came back that night.


So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

36 comments:

  1. That is frustrating to me just reading your trouble with the mailbox issue.
    Oh man! People do the craziest stuff when they're mad.
    Ken's skull art is so cool. I love the card in the hat. This reminds me of a book I just read for review this week that is set in Vegas and involves a playing card symbol for the serial killer. :)

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    1. At least I can use my mailbox still.
      Ken is happy that I used his picture. People do crazy things when they are mad, that's so true.

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  2. Wow, Ken is great! What a pic

    And ugh those people

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  3. That's the mail for you.

    No need for porn when you have your apt tenants lol

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    1. LOL If my knee's hadn't been hurting so much I could have gotten my camera faster.

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  4. I'd just give up and get a PO Box - probably safer for your mail.
    I'd say she's a shameless nudist.

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    1. Oh she had no problem showing off to everyone.

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  5. I just couldn't put up with all of that chaos!

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  6. Well shoot, I was hoping for some porn this morning! LOL! You are usually very quick with the camera, Mary!

    And yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath for the USPS to do anything!

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    1. lol Apartment Porn. There's a new series for ya. lol My knee's were hurting a lot that day and I couldn't move very fast to get my camera.

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  7. It's good you called 9-1-1 when the woman asked if if she took off. I remember seeing a woman being beat down in public and no one stopping to help.
    Sometimes, it's a tough call.

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    1. I don't usually call 911 but when someone is yelling for help, I kinda have to.

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  8. The logo for the series is very cool but the wacky neighbors sure aren’t!

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  9. Our mail is delivered into boxes fixed on the exterior wall of the postal agency in our neighborhood. It saves them money for employing postmen, but it's on our time and legs.
    Entrances of the buildings have mailboxes; they're not in use for daily, personal mail but for general written stuff delivered to citizens.

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    1. I don't mind the outside mailboxes but wish they would come fix them when they are damaged.

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  10. I'm not sure how you deal with all this.

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    1. It's not happening to me just around me so it's easier to deal with.

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  11. Many of the people you write about are registered voters!! I can't be the only person who finds that horrifying. :-D

    If you really want your mailbox fixed, you need to go over people's heads. Scream real loud, as PeeWee Herman used to say.

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    1. I don't know who I would contact. PostMaster general maybe? I'm sure the manager could have had the maintenance man fix it but yeah, not gonna happen. Oh yeah, I'm sure they vote.

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  12. That is a shame about the mailbox. Never a dull moment Mary!

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    1. I don't think I'll run out of things to post as long as I live here.

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  13. There's no shortage of events happening around your area.

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  14. Ken is a good artist! Sorry about your mailbox.

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  15. Ken is quite the artist! Sorry to hear about the damage to your mailbox. I am glad that you are still able to use it at least. It sounds like your new neighbor is going to be interesting.

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    1. Thanks. Oh yeah, she's gonna be on the blog more I have a feeling.

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  16. What shitty kind of people are those? Good Grief.

    I like your new graphic. :)

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    1. Thank you. Oh just another weirdo.

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  17. I would hate that kind of mail system

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  18. Standing in the doorway naked! Wow!!!! It takes all kinds... :)

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    1. She didn't even care. I have a feeling she'll make more appearances on my blog in the future.

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