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.
On Tuesday at 6am when I took Falcor out for his first walk I spotted this cart and wheelchair by the apartment that has a lot of traffic. I suspect they deal drugs because of all the traffic they have all day and all night. Plus, people come and leave things like this, other items in front of their door to exchange for drugs. I know this for a fact because one of the guys who used to live next door to me, Jose said that he was able to get a small amount of crack for the old vacuum he left by their door. So I know it's true. People are crazy open about how they score their drugs or where they get them. I think if they bring more clients to them they might get some drugs for free but I'm just guessing about that.
So people will leave items or bring items for them to check out when they open their door. Sometimes people will stand there and bang on the door for a while and they won't open it for whatever reason. So they just leave the junk by the door until later.
Whatever the people in that apartment don't want, they just move away from their door and leave it on the sidewalk. This is the cart and the blankets that had been in the wheelchair. They kept the wheelchair. They make a huge mess a lot of times because there's so much stuff left by their door by people all the time.
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On Thursday the fire truck and ambulance showed up for the older guy in my building. His homeless brother who he let's camp out in front of his door at night in a chair got mad again because he wouldn't let him inside his apartment so he punched him in the face and gave him a black eye.
I took the pictures from my bedroom window so they aren't great but you can see the fire truck and ambulance behind it. The guy that lives in the apartment won't let his brother in his apartment because he's on drugs and has stolen things from him and even smashed his living room window a few months ago.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Life is never dull - but rarely peaceful in your complex.
ReplyDeleteThat's very true.
DeleteI can't get my head around all the things that happen around you. I wish the authorities would do something about it for you so you can get a bit of peace and quiet!
ReplyDeleteOh I know. That's why I started this weekly post. Before this I had just been sharing it all on FB. My friends told me to make a weekly blog post because so much happens.
DeleteSo many things happen at that apartment. Where are the authorities?
ReplyDeleteOh they're here all the time but it doesn't do any good.
DeleteThis is why drugs need to be decriminalized. Look at all the violence and bullshit that went on around alcohol dealing during Prohibition, for the same reasons. When the only way to get something is to do it illegally, the resulting violence and sleaze spill over into the lives of innocent bystanders. If these people had someplace they could go to buy the stuff legally, the same way you can buy beer at a grocery store, this stuff wouldn't be happening.
ReplyDeleteMarijuana is legal here but that doesn't stop the dealers from buying it legally and then reselling it.
DeleteAlways something on there. And its all so scary.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's never quiet here.
DeleteLegalizing drugs won't make it better.
ReplyDeleteAre your apartments called Drug City or something to attract that many druggies?
I don't mind marijuana being legal here but I wouldn't want to see the hard drugs be legal. There are drug dealers all up and down my street. That's what brings all the druggies.
DeleteLike they have some invisible neon sign on their door that only the druggies can see.
ReplyDeleteOh everyone that's lived here a while know where the drug dealing apartments are. And they are all up and down my street.
DeleteSo the drug dealers must make more money selling the crap people bring to them than they buy the drugs for? It's mind boggling!
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that they do.
DeleteWow, it's interesting what people will exchange for drugs. I knew of group homes owners that would clients obtain wheelchairs and other adaptive equipment on their insurance and then the owners would sell the equipment which was medical fraud.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's crazy but I totally believe it would happen. It's crazy the wheeling and dealing that goes on.
DeleteMy goodness, what a mess, I don't know how you get any rest.
ReplyDeleteI'm just watching it happen. Nothing really happens to me so I don't let it bother me.
DeleteI remember waking up in the middle of the night and there was a busload of tourists or people of some kind on the lawn of my apartment building. Apartment living is indeed fodder for a book or blog.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's kinda crazy.
Deleteoh, man! Why don't the police or the apartment owners do something?! Stay safe, Mary!
ReplyDeleteBecause they don't care.
DeleteWell, there's no shortage of drama around your apartment! That guy's brother sounds like bad news - harassment and violence he could do without.
ReplyDeletehe is bad news but the brother keeps letting him come back.
DeleteI find all this very disturbing. The authorities doing practically nothing to protect law abiding citizens - and that's terrible!
ReplyDeleteThey should do more but don't.
DeleteThe drugs/drug dealing would freak me out. Drug users are so unpredictable...
ReplyDeleteThey really are.
DeleteLooks like junk city.
ReplyDeleteI know. It's terrible.
DeleteSo much junk laying around. It would drive me crazy.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to see it all over the place but at least this place has a porter to keep things clean on grounds.
DeleteRegular week :/
ReplyDeletelol Yeah, pretty much.
DeleteLovely. I work right next to a cheap hotel that people live in. We have shopping carts left all over the place. It is crazy and such an eye sore. I hope you have a calm week!
ReplyDeleteI hope so too but somehow I doubt it.
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