So I live in an apartment complex that has the occasional drama breakouts. Boyfriends/girlfriends fighting, loud noise, etc. Unfortunately we have one particular former resident who causes problems consistently. This girl, is loud and rude and just as foul mouthed as you can get when she gets any type of alcohol in her system. You'll note I said former resident because her ability to renew her lease was taken away by the management there because of all the previous problems.

I'd say at least once a month she'd be arguing with someone and cops coming out. And between 2-4 months she's getting hauled off or chased off (note former resident, her only reason for being there, her mom, will be moving out soon, and that can't come quick enough). Normally she's had the miraculous ability to not try and push my buttons or come after me. I get she's screwed up, I don't call her on her crap and generally live her alone.

As I was coming home from getting my daughter's new school bag, I pulled into the parking lot and as I got out of my car there this girl was going off on the lesbian couple we have in our building. She followed them into the apartment courtyard through the office entry (the office is connected to our building) and continued her vile against them. I choose not to use the words but if these ladies wanted to, they would have no problem pushing for a hate crime to be tacked on to her general disorder and harassment.

So I come through the office and just shaking my head in disgust. One mostly because she continues to cause herself issues and because once again we're having to deal with her drunken rantings only made worse by the fact that she doesn't live there. She looks at me and says "What?!" all pissed off and cranky as hell. I advised her that there's no need for her behavior and she should go before there's more problems i.e. the cops coming to haul her away. She's starting ranting off on me and then walks off.

I head up the stairs to the second floor (we have an open courtyard where you can see all the different levels in the building) and talk to the lesbian couple, mostly you're "I can't believe that" "seriously, again with this bull crap". Then the cranky girl comes back and just starts up again. At that point something in me just has had enough and I raise my volume and this time yell at her to go and to leave and to not come back. She's told by someone who's come on to see the drama that they'll call the cops, and I told her I'd do it if she didn't stop. And then she made the mistake of pushing me to do it, practically begging for me to do so. I of course obliged.

Needless to say this sent her into a huff and then she went to her mother's apartment on the first floor. She left and then went to our maintenance man's apartment on the second floor (he and his wife have been nice to her and tried to help her out) but he kicks her out telling her he's not going to hide her. She takes off in a huff down the stairs and slips and smacks her back onto the concrete steps, taking about two extra stairs down, spilling whatever drink it was she had in this white cup she had been carrying around. She then winces and wounded animals her way back into her mother's apartment. There was a point at which I had considered helping her up off the stairs but at that point, I didn't care. Karma had caught up to her near as I could tell and I thought it better off to not assist because you never know what would happen.

Shortly after, police arrive, a few minutes later they're dragging her off in handcuffs. Her mother comes up and apologizes because she's had her own fair share of drama with her over the past (I got to be witness to the daughter losing it and smashing a kitchen window with her fist from the outside of the apartment). She talks about how she resisted the cops and one of them "kicked" her in the back (possibly the same spot that she fell on). Anyways, after much drama she was carted off in an ambulance to be checked out and probably detoxed at the hospital.

Here's the thing, this girl sober isn't all that bad. Not my choice to hang around but definitely nowhere near the screaming banshee from hell she becomes when pissed and drunk. It's unfortunate she has to leave this bile and yuck around and unfortunately it's the type of thing that doesn't just slide off your back quickly. As you can see, it's still bothering me and we're the next morning.

Moreover, it's not just her that doesn't get it. It's the judicial system that continues to allow her to propagate this behavior but not truly punishing her for continued bad behavior. She was ordered to rehab, sure good that 28 days did for her. Clearly that worked. There's something wrong when you have to arrest someone every X months because they get drunk and cause this level of drama.