Feelin' Neighborly

[catness]

New upstairs neighbors. In the first 10 days, they have:

• left the front door unlocked multiple times
  
• done the typical new student arrival building furniture at 2am bullshit
  
• used our washer/dryer instead of their own, and left the machines full
  
• filled our garage with their moving stuff which I then had to move to their garage so I could get to

Comments

[c1]

a. Not much you can do about that. You *could* penny their door shut when they're out barhopping tonight, which might make them think twice. (Drunken college students will probably be utterly stymied by this.)
b. ibid.
c. You're justified in taking out their (presumably wet) laundry, and piling it "neatly" on the floor. Alternately, you can toss in a bit of bleach, and re-wash their laundry on hot for a nice long cycle. ("Yeah, you have to watch out for that machine. I've lost several garments myself due to that strange quirk. I mean, it's almost like it's possessed.")
d. If your garage is lockable, sucks being them. Alternately, freecycle their misplaced stuff.
e. "Hi, Joe's Towing? My car won't start. Can you tow it to the dealer? Yeah, they're in Poughkepsie."
f. "Craigslist: Free"
g. "Hi, police? There are some strangers smoking pot on our front steps."
h. Wow, freecycle is getting a lot of stuff all of a sudden.

I dunno

[drwex]

It doesn't seem old to me to want reasonable behavior from one's neighbors. Which is probably a sign that _I_ am getting old, too.