Harrassment through neighbor's friends
I tell ya...some people need to grow up. It's hard living with bums, people whose only highlight is fighting with other people. This usually starts with tit-for-tats, then when you start to get highly annoyed with the person you share the same building or neighborhood with, you become provoked to react to their silly, but harmful game. I, too, suffer - to some degree - harrassment from a family who lives upstairs. I live in a semi-slumb neighborhood, a mostly black community. The people living in this hood, I find, are quite trifeling or have a really hard time with being reasonable or having any real reason at all. They all just seem to want to start something with someone. That's pretty much where I now have the misfortune to live at now. For the block I live on, though, it's usually quiet. And since I first moved here I had no real problems so long as I don't chat with the natives. I had no problems till recently a family moved in on the second floor just above mine. What happened was some guy wanted to see his girlfriend, one of the family members upstairs, and decided to ring my door bell about 12pm at night when my kids, and wife was getting ready to sleep. I was, at that time, already sleeping but awoke a little while after she answered the door, she told me what happened, I flipped. I flipped because this has happened before from previous apartments we lived at before now. Everytime, someone just has to keep on knocking on our door over something so petty and meaningless, but intrusive. I'm pretty sick and tired of answering somebody elses call to the door. I'm no doorman and my family are no doormen neither. So, anyway, the next time, at around the evening, I happened to catch one of the family members who's the younger of her older sister. I told her in a calm reasonable tone that whoever this guy is, he needs to just ring only the bell that belongs to the person he's concerned with and to tell him not to ring mine. She yessed me to death and relayed that message to her mother. It all seemed quiet for awhile and then at around noon, the following week, I hear a loud knock on the window with the ringing of the doorbell. I went to see who it was. It was some mailman who had mail for, who else but, the mother living upstairs. I asked if he pressed for the second floor, upstairs, and he replied with " I figured you're all family." ("A stupid answer.") That's when she, the mother, came downstairs to get her mail. This means that she has gotten her doorbell rung and that this guy needlessly, and deliberately, rang mine, I realized, soon after, that the they know this guy. A second incident soon ensued with much of the same exact nonsense, but by, this time, a Fedex deliverer, who also knows the family. Same exact manner. Needless to say, I'm hot and bothered. It appears as if they were told by one of the family members to bother me and my wife for ever asking them to keep their visitors ringing their bell only.
I see that some people don't like reasoning, but instead choose to mock whoever they try to victimize. I'm a christian who believes and loves Jesus the Son of God. I try to co-exist peacefully with anyone with little interference on their daily activities. I basically leave people alone as I would like to be left alone as well. My wife and I are going through some tough times now and we're just trying to move on. Being harrassed by people for trying to reason with them is no help to us. I see that people are just plain condescending and feel the need to provoke others. I can't figure why anyone would bother with others in an intrusive way. Right now, I'm trying to keep my cool. I don't know what's going to happen from now on except to find another spot where we can have some quiet time and friendlier people around. For now, I'm, unwillingly, dealing with bummy people who has a very vengeful disposition over being asked for their cooperation. But, I guess that goes with the likes of the hood I'm in. But, it's sure is bothersome.