I mentioned about calling parking enforcement and having someone's car ticketed for parking where they didn't belong, in our tiny, 3 parking space lot (at my apartment building last weekend). Someone (I assume the neighbors) came knocking on my door twice that day, but I didn't answer. Well, I went out to my car today (it was parked on the street) and I had a flat tire. I had bought these tires new last October. The other 3 were perfectly good. I have no doubt how it got flat -- the Neighbors From Hell got their petty little revenge by vandalizing my car.

Part of me wants to write it off. Part of me wants to cry and curl up in a little ball (I spent my whole childhood being victimized and scapegoated - which gave me PTSD. This kind of thing is REALLY a trigger for me). And part of me wants to go out and get a baseball bat and start smashing skulls. I'm TIRED of being made the victim, the bad guy for just pointing out when someone's done something wrong.

In my last apartment building I had a psycho upstairs from me. She moved in and started vacuuming at 12AM, 1AM, etc., with a vacuum cleaner that sounded like a 747 taking off. I let it go on 3 or 4 times and then decided that it wasn't going to stop, so I complained to the (crooked) management company. They talked to her and she started retaliating. She - literally, now - would climb up on the kitchen counter and jump off , to make noise to harass me (when she could hear me in the kitchen). I have PTSD! My nerves couldn't take that!!!

Once I moved to this building, after two years, I had upstairs neighbors stomping loudly on the floor from 4:30AM to 7AM, to harass me. I complained and the management company told me they wouldn't do anything about those people, but I could move to another apartment in the building, if I wanted (two were vacant, at the time). I moved from downstairs front to upstairs back. Once I moved I found another problem -- the obnoxious people in the building next door (a whole building's worth of them) thought that it was appropriate to do their laundry at 12AM, 1AM 2AM, 3AM, 4AM...right under our bedroom windows. Slamming away. I lived with that for a year before I complained to the building owner. That started THEIR retaliation (slamming their front doors at 3AM every night, slam dunking their trash in the dumpster [my apartment is closest to where their dumpster is, so I heard the worst of the noise]). It went on for months. (They still slam dunk, from time to time)

I'm unemployed. I can't afford to move. And I'm SICK of being everyone's scapegoat. GAWWWDDDDD!!!!! I've lived in 4 apartment buildings in 35 years, and I've been driven out of all but one of them by hateful, obnoxious neighbors. Mind you, in all that time, no one in any building EVER had to complain about my noise, or behavior or destruction, etc. But if I say anything, it's open season on me. And these hateful psychos think it's perfectly all right to behave that way.

I really feel very close to another breakdown...