MySpace-May 17, 2010-Crazy Neighbor!

I don’t care much about my neighbors. With the exception of my friends from vet school that live in my apartment complex and occasionally Miss Kitty’s dad, I don’t really talk much to the people that live near me. I do my thing; they do theirs.

Occasionally, my path may have to cross with that of my neighbor. An occasional note about parking or about a rat found in the parking lot. Sometimes, these crossings aren’t nearly as pleasant.

Next door to us, in A, there once lived two girls-Katie and Megan-as previously mentioned in Before He Food Cheats. One day, Megan just disappeared with little fuss. Whatever. Its not my place to ask. Joe may have known why. (He did. Just a personality conflict.) Then just as rapidly, this older woman-early 40sish shows up. Her name is Dodie.

Joe unfortunately was sucked into conversation with her more often than I was. I also tried to avoid her as much as possible. Joe one day finally got to the bottom of why she was here-she was Katie’s aunt-well sort of-she had raised Katie essentially. I had hypothesized that she was either Katie’s mother or sister prior to that so I sort of right.

Some other random people showed up and seemed to be gone after a weekend. Luckily.

Then some other shady things started happening such as Dodie always showing up to bum a lighter or a cigarette often at 10:30 in the morning while holding a tall boy of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Classy.

One night, Dodie frantically knocked on the door. She had just woken up and couldn’t find her phone but was certain that the apartment had been broken into because some flowers in the front window had been moved. Katie wasn’t home. Joe went over there and eventually figured out that most likely, Dodie had blacked out and had woken up not knowing what was going on.  

We’d find empty bottles of vodka outside the back door.  Dodie continued her mooching ways and always appeared to be drunk. This is in addition to all of these horrible things happening-someone was always in the hospital, someone’s girlfriend of 10 years was leaving them, someone had broken something.

One day, Dodie comes out in the morning and needs to be taken to get Katie’s car because Katie was at the boyfriend’s  (who turns out to be sort of a jerk) and Dodie had an appointment.  Joe took her to get the car. That evening, Dodie comes by and asks if we can let the dog out because she has to stay with her dad at the hospital and Katie is at the boyfriend’s. Sure. We do that and in the morning, its clear that no one has come home so we go to check if the dog needs to be let out again but Katie is home. Katie now tells us the whole story. Dodie totaled the car the night before by crashing it into a tree while she was plastered. Dodie broke her ankle and collarbone and once out of the hospital will be charged with grand theft auto and a DWI. Also, Katie didn’t know Dodie her whole life. Katie had freaked out about school earlier in the year and had checked herself into a psychiatric hospital and meet Dodie there. Apparently, Dodie just showed up with a sob story one day and begged Katie to take her in. Katie did and now unfortunately has paid the price. Also Dodie was suspected of stealing and selling anything she could as well as raiding Katie’s medicine cabinet. Crazy bitch.

[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on May 31, 2011]