This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I'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 27 years here in a weekly blog post.
Instead of Uber, I've been seeing this new car service called, Vay. You download the app, order a car and it comes to you driverless and then you can drive it yourself wherever you need to go.
I looked at their website and the price is above. Kinda crazy.
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I heard the police helicopter up and got a picture of it.
Then looked outside and there were 2 cop cars parked in front of my building. They went into the building next to mine but I have no idea for what.
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I noticed that someone (probably a homeless person) set fire to a box spring part of a bed. Good thing it didn't catch anything else on fire.
The fire stayed right here thankfully. This was close to my building though and I'm getting pretty tired of them setting fire to things around my apartment complex.
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The high this week was 110F/43C
The low this week was 75F/23C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Some other homeless person goes to all the effort to find a mattress and drag it clear into the complex. And then another homeless person decides to go to sleep on it probably with a lit cigarette maybe!
ReplyDeleteThat could be. They probably found it in the trash and just set it on fire for the drama.
DeleteAfter watching several YouTube videos about homeless people in Western countries, I found myself wondering about something. Many of the homeless individuals shown were wearing good-quality sneakers, jackets, fashionable clothes, and even carrying smartphones. I am not judging or profiling anyone I do not know; this is simply an observation that made me curious. In Indonesia, homelessness often looks very different. Many homeless people appear to be wearing worn-out or dirty clothes and seem to have far fewer possessions. I wonder whether this difference reflects variations in social support, charitable assistance, housing costs, or other cultural and economic factors.
ReplyDeleteThey steal clothes, shoes, food, whatever they need, they steal it from stores. People who are low income can get free smartphones here. They also get money by selling the stolen goods to people in the neighbor for a much less price than you would pay in the stores.
DeleteThe driving cost doesn't surprise me. Bet a lot of people speed in those vehicles to get there faster.
ReplyDeleteAs to Asep's comment - in places like California, the homeless are given freebies which is why they are walking around with cell phones. Why work when the government gives you stuff?
Oh I bet they do speed in the cars.
DeleteThe car comes to you driverless? I've never heard of that before! I'm still very wary of driverless cars myself.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's remotely driven. It's a new kind of service. The driverless cars are very strange to me also.
DeleteI too am wary of the driverless cars ~ they’ve had a lot of accidents. Re the other comments: most of the homeless people I see wear layers of dirty old clothes…
ReplyDeleteYes, there was just a bad accident when a driverless car sped through a ladys house.
DeleteYour helicopter pic reminds me that we saw a hang glider way up in the sky last evening on our walk. I guess it’s not a glider but powered, but it looked like that. Way up there. Seems chancy to me but also kind of exhilerating.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I would ever go hang gliding but I'm sure it would be exhilarating.
DeleteI heard it was super hot in your area, but that is crazy. And I haven't heard of Vay. These driverless cars kind of scare me. And I don't get why someone sets fire to anything other than maybe a campfire to cook s'mores on or else a fire in the winter to stay warm. But you don't need warm with those temperatures.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely hot here. They get drunk or are on drugs and set fires to things all the time just for the hell of it.
DeleteRenting a car by the minute sounds costly but, based on some things I've read about male drivers harming female passengers, it's probably worth the cost and safer for lone females.
ReplyDeleteI can see that and probably is safer.
DeleteNever heard of Vay. I wonder how safe it is. Being able to keep a car while you spent, say twenty minutes shopping might be useful. I don't think you can do that with Uber.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is useful if you want to pay that much for it.
DeleteThat car unnerves me a bit LOL.
ReplyDeleteSo...another fire...I can't understand why the homeless people would do that. I mean, maybe in winter, but right now?
I hope you and your daughter are feeling well. I missed the whole month due to my hiatus.
The driverless cars are weird. But I think they're here to stay.
DeleteThey start fires for the hell of it.
First I've heard of them but I have heard of Waymo, which I think might be short for waymo accidents.
ReplyDeletelmao Yes, I've heard of that too.
DeleteAs hot as it is, why would someone want to set something on fire and make it even hotter?
ReplyDeleteThey get drunk or are on drugs and set fires to things all the time just for the hell of it.
DeleteThat looks a bit iffy to me!
ReplyDeleteDriverless... yikes
Me too.
DeleteAlways something going on near your place it seems. That car service is strange!
ReplyDeleteI won't be using a driverless car anytime soon.
DeleteHope you don't get any more fires! We had a house fire, so I should know!
ReplyDeleteI hope so too. Dang, that's terrible, sorry to hear that.
DeleteWhat's the point of setting something alight if fire is not needed for heating or cooking?
ReplyDeleteThey get drunk or are on drugs and set fires to things all the time just for the hell of it.
DeleteAnother fire. Why? Do the homeless use these as cooking fuel (not sure for heating in the summer) or to cook drugs needing cooking?. Just wondering. First I have heard of that car service. So I see they are headquartered in Germany and they are starting out in the U.S. in Las Vegas. The cars are electric and are "remotely driven" to where you pick them up . Then you drive them like a regular car so they aren't driverlesss. Then, when you are done they take the car from you, driven remotely again. If it works right I can see where it would be less expensive than Uber. It will be interesting to see if they succeed. The one issue I would have is that these are electric cars. What if the battery is running low? Do you have to pay for the time spent in you charging it up? Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThey get drunk or are on drugs and set fires to things all the time just for the hell of it.
DeleteI have no idea if you have to pay for the charging of the car.
Fire is the last thing you need at those ungodly temps. We have the same temps here as well, does not even go below30 at night. Hell on Earth.
ReplyDeleteIt really is. Summer here is awful.
DeleteBesides the danger, isn't it kind of hot for setting fires now? I'd understand this in the winter, but it's June. But what do I know?
ReplyDeleteMary, I don’t know how you keep your cool with all this chaos around you.
ReplyDeleteBetween the fires, helicopters, and now driverless cars showing up, it sounds exhausting.
I’m glad the box spring fire didn’t spread--those temperatures are brutal enough without extra danger.
Sounds interesting the driverless car as a taxi so to speak. Your weather is hot over 40 deg C, a bit like many areas in the northern area of Australia in summer. Why people have to light fires is beyond me, and it is good it didn't come your way or any other way for that matter.
ReplyDeletesetting a bed on fire isn't environmentally friendly or safe, what a crazy thing to do!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a crazy car service. We don't have any car services in our area. Maybe up in Rapid City though.
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