So, there was this little thing that happened earlier this week. A minor incident, really......
I heard a knock at my door while I was online, and I answered it. I normally have a pretty bad habit of ignoring the door, but my neighbor had borrowed some cooking utensils from me last week and I thought it might be her returning it, so I flew down the stairs and peered out the peep hole. It wasn't my neighbor, but I thought I recognized one of her friends. I was kind of annoyed, as she was standing with the screen door open, one of my pet peeves. (I have animals that will escape if both inside and screen doors are open, and if the screen is already opened by the person at the door then I am either obliged to have the person come in--AARRGGHH!!--or ask them to stand back while I close the screen in their face.)
I opened the door, which was a big mistake. She was kind of in a panic, asking me if I'd seen my neighbor that day. I didn't think so, but wasn't sure, as I'd been hovering on the edge of a migraine for the last day and a half, and things were kind of fuzzy. She said that the neighbor had told her she was in trouble, she was about to be evicted for having too many people living with her as her parents and brother, sis-in-law and kids had moved in with her well over a month ago and she hadn't made arrangements with housing. The friend had come over to check on her and see if she was okay, but she wasn't answering the door. So she asked me if she could use my phone to try calling her. I said okay.
gullible adj. Easily deceived or duped. My picture should have been listed with this definition Monday.
First you have to understand that when I met this girl, it was through my neighbor, being introduced as her friend. I'd seen her over many times and the two of them together on numerous occasions, as recently as a couple of weeks ago. I had no reason to believe that there was anything going on beyond surface appearances, except of course that there always is.
There was no answer when she called, so she went back outside. I decided to do some cleaning and started picking stuff up in the kitchen and living room, but left the inside door open so she could keep me posted as I was concerned about the neighbor as well. Yes, she's annoyed the hell out of me throughout the time we've shared a wall, but I wouldn't wish her ill. She tried knocking again, but there was still no answer. It did become obvious that someone was home, though, because music started playing rather loudly about that time. I wasn't having any of it, not with my migraine, so I banged on the wall like I normally do when that happens(the noise is a regular problem), and it was turned down. The visitor heard this and decided to knock again, but on the window at the front of the house. No immediate answer, so she came back over to my place and was standing just inside the door when the door next to us is wrenched open and the neighbor's mother starts cussing at the girl, calling her a crazy psycho b, telling her the neighbor wasn't there and she needed to get off HER property! Hmmm.....gov't property.......she's not legally living there.......hmmm......
The girl asked if I had the number to the MP station so she could call and file a complaint against the mother. I didn't have the number, but I had phone books. The number wasn't easily findable, so it was easy to put her off while I tried to talk her out of calling the MPs about the situation. By all means, complain about the family living there, but that's more of a housing issue than the MPs, you know? While we were "searching" for the number, there was a knock at my door. I went, and there was the little 17 yr old girl from across the street that I'd met at my neighbor's place last week (another friend). She wanted to know if the girl was there and if that was her vehicle in front of the neighbor's place. She informed us that she was an MP, that the girl needed to stop harrassing my neighbor, move her vehicle from in front of her home, and get away from her property. All while she was standing as a guest in my home. It pissed me off. First off with the parking, half the time I can't park in front of my home because my neighbor's father who isn't supposed to be living here is parked there, but I haven't complained. Then her little friend has the balls to try to tell me she's a freakin MP standing at my door in cut off jeans, tank top and flip-flops, when I know damn well that she's 17, not in the military, and pregnant with twins to boot?
I saw red and started searching for the number to the real MPs in earnest. I did, however, try knocking next door, and telling them who it was and that I just wanted to get my cooking stuff back. No response, but when I turned around, there was the 17 yr old again, so I approached her and told her she needed to inform her friend that I wanted my stuff back that I'd asked for several times already. She relayed the message into the cell phone, as she was talking to my neighbor, and walked past me into her apartment. I went back to my place, and we finally found the number. Just as we started to call, they pulled up across the street, already notified by the 17 yr old.
We saw several MPs and a civilian officer coming over, so I turned the light on and went to the door. My visitor freaked out. I asked "Can I help you gentlemen?" and was told only that we needed to come outside. I asked what it was about, and the same rude jackass of an MP repeated that we just needed to come outside and talk to them NOW. I informed him that if he wanted me to talk to them, then he could tell me what it was about and ASK me, because I did not tolerate rudeness at my door. He managed to say it was about a complaint and asked if we would come outside. When we did, he sent me down by the curb to talk to the civilian officer and kept the other girl by the door as if she was the one who lived there. I asked the officer what was going on, saw my neighbor outside as well and asked her what was going on. She informed the MPs that it had nothing to do with me, just the other girl. Yeah, thanks alot for clarifying that now! About that time the 17 yr old, who was out there shielding the neighbor, made a comment about seeing all the drama not being sure if she really wanted to go through training to be an MP after all. A HA!
Evidently my neighbor and her "friend" who showed up at my door had a falling out a few weeks ago and the girl had been harrassing her since then. Some of it I'm pretty sure was legitimate, as my neighbor had borrowed couches and other items from her and would not return them because her family were using them to sleep on while living with her. I can understand the girl being pissed about some of the stuff going on, and I know damn well that my neighbor was flat out lying to the MPs about some things, but she was going to extremes that I didn't want anything to do with. I didn't know about knocking on the window while she was at my place until after, nor did I know that she had been knocking on the door, ringing the doorbell and yelling for my neighbor to answer for several minutes before she knocked on my door, as well as going around and trying the back yard. I didn't find all of that out until after she had been issued a citation and escorted from the installation, after she had spent several hours in my home, most of it with the MPs there while they sorted everything out and took statements. I was not happy about any of it. I did include the rudeness of the MP at my door and the 17 yr old misrepresenting herself in my statement, and considered filing a complaint against the MP. The officer and the other MPs, when they came into my home, knocked each time, and made sure the door was latched as I asked them, to prevent my cats from escaping. The rude MP from earlier entered multiple times without knocking or asking permission once and never did latch the door, even when reminded.
I was not alone until after 11:30pm. Half an hour later, my phone rang, my neighbor calling, having gotten my number from the MPs. She wanted to return my cooking utensils, so I agreed to meet her downstairs. She apologized profusely for having gotten me involved in the situation. I told her that if she had a situation with someone harassing and stalking her, it was probably a good idea to warn her neighbors about it. I mentioned her friend from across the street and she said she was an MP, so I let her have it. I called her on the bullshit and told her that neither one needed to be trying to pull that on me again, because I knew damn well what she was. I told her about everything she's done in the time we've been neighbors that's annoyed or offended me, not pulling punches, hoping she'd get the picture that although I will be polite to her I have no desire to be her friend and this is why. It didn't work, because she just apologized again and then asked me to go to the Army Ball with her!
My hubby's response to all of this? Avoid contact. Stupid people get you in trouble.
