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.
So for the most part this week it was quiet. There were two different nights that we heard gunshots in the area and a few minutes later the police helicopter flew over my complex and the complex next door for a few minutes and then left.
One other night the police were at the opposite end of my alley because someone called to complain that the homeless people had set up their camp right next door to where their apartment balcony was. The police came and made them move. I didn't get a picture because it was night and the police were far away, about a block away and none of those pictures came out.
But on Wednesday while I was walking Falcor I saw the Fire Truck was in the Mariana's Mexican market parking lot. I got out there just as the ambulance and police were leaving but I have no idea what happened.
But my apartment complex and my courtyard was quiet this week.
While I was out walking Falcor I spotted something in the rocks by my bedroom window. If you can't spot it, look at the next picture.
Some kind of homemade drug pipe. Not sure if it's a meth pipe, crack pipe or marijuana pipe. Looks like a crack pipe stem inserted into a plastic something. Yep, having all these druggies around here I'm spotting things like this laying around now. I went back home, got a pair of plastic gloves and a bag and threw it in the trash. I didn't want some kid finding this and playing with it. There are a lot of kids around here.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Hooray for a quiet week.
ReplyDeleteAnd sigh on the people who just drop their paraphanalia anywhere and everywhere. Thank you for cleaning up their mess.
I wonder if they were coming back for it.
DeleteIt's nice that you had a quieter week but the drug stuff just lying around is dreadful. WHY is something not being done about the homeless and the drug addicts? It's unfair and must be worrying for all residents.
ReplyDeleteThey passed a law that the homeless can't be sleeping on the sidewalks but the police aren't enforcing it.
DeleteGood for you, disposing of the drug pipe. As you say, children could pick these things up and be contaminated.
ReplyDeleteAnd I wouldn't want to see that.
DeleteGreat for a quiet week. Good to dispose of the nasty pipe too so no kiddo played with it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to see a kid get ahold of it.
DeleteYou needed a quiet week. Getting that pipe (and using gloves) was a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I saw it before a kid did.
DeleteGross! And disturbing that it was right outside your window.
ReplyDeleteYep, right in the rocks.
DeleteSo for the most part this week it was quiet. There were two different nights that we heard gunshots in the area
ReplyDeleteI guess "quiet" is relative. Only once in my entire life have I ever heard gunshots in or near a building I was living in.
Good job getting rid of the drug pipe. It's very likely kids would otherwise have found it.
I hear gunshots frequently over here.
DeleteFinding drug or crack pipes in your neighborhood is never a good thing. I was able to recommend your blog to a writer who seems to like police observation and surveillance. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteOh thank you. I appreciate that.
DeleteA quiet week is still great
ReplyDeleteIt is.
DeleteUgh. And gross on the pipe.
ReplyDeleteMore quiet weeks would be nice.
I hope we have more of them.
DeleteQue locura... La irresponsabilidad no sólo de perjudicarse a sí mismo sino de no importar si los demás también lo hacen.
ReplyDeleteGracias por recogerlo.
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You said: "What madness ... The responsibility not only to harm himself but not to matter if others do it too. Thanks for picking it up."
DeleteThanks for stopping by.
I agree, a quiet week is a pretty good week!
ReplyDeleteIt was for the most part.
DeleteThey sure do get creative
ReplyDeleteThey sure did for this.
DeleteLMAO at the Apartment Hell! xD
ReplyDeleteThe quiet weeks are the best weeks.
I'm glad you like my title.
DeleteGlad that you removed that homemade pipe so no kid would find it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I am too.
DeleteQuiet is good
ReplyDeleteYes it is.
DeleteI think it is terrible that you have to deal with so many drugs in your neighborhood. You did the right thing in disposing of that pipe. I would be afraid to let my kids play unsupervised with all of that around. Have a nice, safe week!
ReplyDeleteThere are kids playing all up and down the street all the time. Now that school will be closed for the next 6 weeks because of the coronavirus, kids will be out even more.
DeleteA quiet week is a good week. Good for you for disposing that pipe! It's not something kids need to play with (or worse, use)
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Thanks. I agree.
DeleteWell done! I mean the disposal of the pipe.
ReplyDeleteKudos to you to be so considerate and think about the children's safety!
Thank you. I know I wouldn't want my own grandson finding something like that and would hope others would have done the same.
DeleteI guess you smoke what every want in them. Even lawn clippings
ReplyDeleteAnything and everything.
DeleteKind of ironic that things were calm there since everything's crazy in the world right now!
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I know!
DeleteThat's too bad about the pipe. Glad you found it and not a kid, like you said. And quiet is good!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe they just left it there.
DeletePeople are nasty but better you than some little kid finding that pipe!
ReplyDeleteyeah, I'm glad it's gone.
DeleteGlad you had a good week.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThat was really nice that you went back and got rid of that pipe! Thank goodness a kid didn't get it first!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to see some kid get a hold of it.
DeleteGood on you to remove that nasty crap before the kids could find it!
ReplyDeleteI definitely wouldn't want a kid to find it.
DeleteGun shots are always scary! I lived in an area with gunshots from 6th-8th grade, and there was such a sense of anxiousness. I didn't realize that was what I was feeling, until we moved, and it disappeared. That was nice of you to remove the drug pipe so that you can help keep the neighborhood kids safe. Take Care Mary.
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I'm always worried about gunshots around here.
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