Inconsiderate Neighbors

As you know, we live in an apartment. That means that our "yard" is shared with lots of other people. Well, we recently got some new neighbors right next door. They have a dog. A big dog. There is a rule in our community that if you have a dog, you must pick up after it when it does it's business. Great rule! Excellent rule! I LOVE that rule! The new neighbors, however, don't seem to care about said rule.

I have seen the lady out walking around with her dog on several occasions. Did she have a plastic bag or a pooper-scooper with her? NOOOO! And, since they are right next door that means that a lot of this dog's "business" is pretty much right outside our back door. Right where our kids play! Can you guess what's next? Yep, my kids end up stepping in it!

The girls were out back on Saturday playing and some of their friends from down the street came down to play and between the 5 kids out there, there were at least 3 different times that one or another of them stepped in dog poo!!

I mean, SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, clean up after your freaking dogs!!!! It's one thing if you have your own yard and you don't clean up after your dog, but when you have to share a yard with other people and you know that lots of kids frequently play in the grass...that's a WHOLE other story! It's just plain rude and inconsiderate to not pick it up immediately!

On top of that, we had some more new neighbors move into the building behind us. They rent a garage that is in front of our building. They have Harley's. Loud Harley's. Sounds like huge trucks that have had their mufflers fall off Harley's! When do these neighbors like to ride their loud bikes? After 10:00 p.m. Every. Single. Night!!!

They don't just start 'em up and leave either. Oh, no! They turn them on, rev them up, and let them "warm up" for about 20 minutes before they leave. So we have to sit here and listen to them for that time every night. It's even worse now that we've turned off our air conditioner and opened the windows. Of course we close our son's windows at night, but even with them closed, the bikes are extremely loud (and practically right under his windows!)

Are you kidding me? Do you have absolutely NO consideration for other people? Are you so self obsorbed that you don't give a flying freak that people may be trying to sleep at that time. Have you not noticed all the children that live in this community that may, I don't know, have to get up for school in the morning and that you might just be interrupting their sleep?

COME ON PEOPLE! GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR REARS! OPEN YOUR EYES! YOU'RE DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!