Sunday, July 6, 2008

Ghetto Drama: Two for One Special

As you well know, we've had lots of trouble with our upstairs neighbor, Nancy, and her boyfriend, Richard, who fought incessantly for about six months. Finally, they stopped fighting, procured employment (as shady as it seems, at least they're out of the house), bought a nice car (drugs, anyone?), and have been model tenants except for the cigarette butts that continue to fall from their balcony onto our porch. It's actually been bearable to live beneath them for about a month.
We noticed that Nancy and Richard had a girl and guy hanging around this weekend, and last night the guests were alone in the apartment. They started fighting, rolling around, calling each other every foul name in the book, and he slapped her a few times, eliciting a few "Please stop!" screams. We called the police once, they came to the apartment, and of course, like every battered woman in the neighborhood, she told them she was fine and that nothing was happening. Ten minutes passed before they were at it again, so Adam ran outside to knock on the door while calling 911. He noticed a police car further down the lot, so he thought the officer may be able to stop at apartment #5 on his way out.
Moments before Adam went out to check out the domestic violence in #5, we heard a series of six loud, rhythmic cracks that could have been fireworks, but sounded like gunshots (we still don't know what they were). While Adam stood outside trying to get someone to stop the insanity above our apartment, at least ten police cars screeched into the parking lot with sirens and lights blaring, zooming past Adam toward our clubhouse. In the land of perpetual porchsitting, events of this nature are always a spectacle and everyone in the complex seemed to swarm the area to see what happened. Police cars lined the parking lot, blocking off the clubhouse, and lined the two streets that lead into our complex. We only know that there was "a big fight" in the clubhouse.
The guy upstairs must have called Nancy, because about 20 minutes later she stood at our door, yelling in an annoyed/panicky voice that she heard we called the cops regarding her guests. She continued to spew information that they were only 15 and 16 years old, had dropped out of school and were trying to get pregnant (the Apocalypse should begin any moment) and that they promised to behave themselves while Nancy and Richard went to a birthday party. Ahhh....Heaven help the future of this nation!
Adam explained the situation which made Nancy even more irate because her guests were sabotaging her recently polished reputation. Adam calmly told her we called the police twice because the girl was yelling for help. Nancy marched up to her apartment, dragged the girl down to our door, and asked Adam to verify that she was the girl in the apartment. After verification, Nancy marched the girl back upstairs, demanded that she and the boyfriend leave immediately, and Richard's wrath was let loose upon the pair of them until they made the walk of shame from our building to the bus stop. Talk about entertainment; we are so excited to get out of here!

7 comments:

Liz said...

Oh my heavens Nat!! I can't believe your stories. You gotta get out of there! At least you will have some fun stories to reminisce about later on in life. :) Hey I was checking our email for the blog, trying to keep up on the blog stuff and Kelli Steiner sent you a message and updated her blog post. I told her I would tell you about the message. When are you moving back??

Becky said...

What an insane asylum you live in! I'm glad you're moving too, not just to get out of that dive of a neighborhood, but to be in the same state that we'll be in.
Crazy, crazy, crazy! I'll see you Tuesday for the girls night out!

Jordan and Elaine's Family said...

Are you sure you don't want to stay? :) What are you going to do without all the excitement!!

Brynn said...

Ya know, those apartments sure do trick ya. At first glance, it looks like a nice place to live, but, sheesh!!! But they have a point...seriously, you should both have stayed in school and waited a little while to have kids. This teenage parenthood thing has gotten out of control.

Melisa said...

Wow. As much as I hate to see you go, I'm very happy you will be leaving that insanity!

Leslie said...

Who needs cops on TV, your complex is cops every night! I'll just send my husband over there so I don't have to watch the TV show.

Amy said...

I can't wait until you guys are back in Utah! 1 1/2 weeks left for you and the girls...I'd hate to be Adam alone in that apartment! Good luck!!!