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June 01, 2005
it's june.
(note: i wrote this in word and that's why it has proper punctuation. for the most part, that is.)
Last night Corey woke me up to tell me something he forgot to tell me earlier. Yesterday morning while he was waiting for the bus the dude above us was outside getting into his car and says to him "i need to talk to you" so Corey says "okay" and dude says "so we're having a party the morning of the solstice parade and we have it every year, and this year we wanted it to be really big because so and so is moving. So we were going to have it in the parking lot area so we were wondering if you could move your car."
Uh, excuse me? So i said to Corey "what? We’re not invited?!?! That is lame" Corey says "well then he said 'oh well we're going to have mimosas and it should be fun, so you can invite whoever you want. So we'll see you there?'"
Sometimes living in our apartment really pisses me off. First of all, it seems that everyone here is friends with each other. LAME! The other day i was in the laundry room and "long haired dude" who lives on the first floor with his wife was in there when i went to get clothes out of the dryer.
Longhaired Dude: oh, hey!
Me: hi.
lhd: how's it going?
me: good.
(long silence)
lhd: so i'm (name withheld, but it’s the same as my brothers) by-the-way.
me: oh, i'm alison
lhd: so are you new here?
me: no, we've lived here almost 2 years.
lhd: oh. that is really freakish that i haven't met you before.
me: eh. there are people in the building who I’ve never seen before either.
So then I left and I’m sure I came off as rude because I didn’t ask how he was when he asked me, and I didn’t want to stand around and chit-chat with him. I went upstairs and thought about the conversation i just had. Okay. First of all, WHAT THE FUCK? it was "freakish" that he hadn't met me before? I think I have run into him in the laundry room at least twice before. AND!!! I remembered last night when we were talking about the solstice thing that we met him last year at the party they had! it went like this: we came home from eating breakfast at hatties hat. It was early like 10 or something. There was already some kind of a party going on and we walked in the door and he was coming out of the other door and said "oh, are you guys going to 10?" and I was gonna say "no, 5" but didn’t. He thought we were there for the party (that we weren't invited to) or some shit.
Back to the laundry room: I don’t like the way he said “are you new here?” like he’s lived here long enough to know everyone and say it with authority. I don’t like people like that, who act like they own the place the minute they walk in the room. Jerks! Also: hasn't he noticed our names on the mailbox? It hasn’t changed for a long, long time. Like, BEFORE they moved in! Oh, I saw the wife yucking it up with dude upstairs the other day. Just like they were old friends from high school or something. Give me a break.
I wonder if they brought a welcome basket to the new girl who just moved in next to us….
Which brings me to another thing: way back in November, the night before thanksgiving, the wife of longhaired dude knocked on our door. I was making pumpkin cheesecake. So she says "oh, well we're having a thing tomorrow. In the morning, just like coffee and muffins and stuff, you know, just to meet some people in the building" and I said, "oh, okay" then I slammed the door in her face and said "fuck that shit! I already have a muffin in my cupboard to eat!" Okay, so I didn’t really do that. I’m rude but not that rude.
Anyway, I’m sure if we would have went to that thing we would have met them and it wouldn’t be such a big deal now. And maybe then I wouldn’t be bugged about the annoying things they do in the laundry room, like leaving their dirty clothes basket in there if someone is using the washing machine as a ‘place holder’ or putting their shit all over the drying racks and leaving it there for two weeks. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE STUFF TO DRY YOU KNOW!
I guess the bottom line is that everyone in the building probably hates us and now we have to move the car on the day of the solstice parade, the day that everyone comes to Fremont to see naked hippies ride bikes so there won’t be any other spots on the street, because if we don’t move our car everyone will continue to think we’re jerks. AND we have to avoid our OWN APARTMENT because there is no way that I’m going to mingle with dude upstairs and dude downstairs. No way. No thank you!!!
Posted by alison at June 1, 2005 12:02 PM