So my neighbor just got home around 9 pm and has been frantically been pounding the walls, hammering things, and in general seems like he's in a lot of emotional distress. Normally I would go next door and knock to see if he's ok, but considering I think he may have burglarized me, I locked my window and hunkered down.
I hate living in fear. I know some of it is in my head, because when I come home I still feel compelled to check to see if the fire escape is clear before I open the window even knowing that it's been locked all day and odds are strongly against someone being out there. But there is that knowledge that I could be living next to the person who for whatever reasons decided that I was a perfect target. The same one I heard having a loud conversation with their mother (through the wall, and apparently his parents pay the rent) last night around 10:30 which makes me wonder if he was cut off, and perhaps desperate enough to steal.
What do I do? I can't choose my neighbors, I can't prove that he was involved, hell, I don't even know for sure if he was involved because there's no sure way to tell if he's just young and insane or if he really is the perpetrator. All I know is that he unnerved me when I first had to knock on his door to ask him to keep it down back in August, and since then he's progressing to scaring me.
His lease isn't up until July (I think), but do I risk knocking on his door again in between if he continues being a horrible noise nuisance? His horrible singing? His banging and knocking and dropping weights? All of this not being sure if he was the one who broke in and obviously has no moral compass in terms of these things? I might make myself a target, but in the meantime he's making my life hell. I just want some peace, and peace of mind.
I hate living in fear. I know some of it is in my head, because when I come home I still feel compelled to check to see if the fire escape is clear before I open the window even knowing that it's been locked all day and odds are strongly against someone being out there. But there is that knowledge that I could be living next to the person who for whatever reasons decided that I was a perfect target. The same one I heard having a loud conversation with their mother (through the wall, and apparently his parents pay the rent) last night around 10:30 which makes me wonder if he was cut off, and perhaps desperate enough to steal.
What do I do? I can't choose my neighbors, I can't prove that he was involved, hell, I don't even know for sure if he was involved because there's no sure way to tell if he's just young and insane or if he really is the perpetrator. All I know is that he unnerved me when I first had to knock on his door to ask him to keep it down back in August, and since then he's progressing to scaring me.
His lease isn't up until July (I think), but do I risk knocking on his door again in between if he continues being a horrible noise nuisance? His horrible singing? His banging and knocking and dropping weights? All of this not being sure if he was the one who broke in and obviously has no moral compass in terms of these things? I might make myself a target, but in the meantime he's making my life hell. I just want some peace, and peace of mind.
posted by AnonymousX at 9:54 PM
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