Slamming your apartment door is important, I need to know you’re coming and going at all times
Rude and clueless people annoy me
During my last two years in Minneapolis. I stayed in what’s called Transitional Housing. It was a room with no running water and the most uncomfortable bed I ever tried to sleep on.
For reasons I never understood, no one except me shut the door to their room. My neighbors slammed their doors. There were smokers on the floor, but smoking was banned in the building.
The sounds of slamming doors echoing down the hallway
The smokers would be in and out of their rooms all night. Heading downstairs and outside to pollute their lungs. I’m a former smoker. So I understand, but I don’t understand why they had to slam their doors so hard that it would scare me out of a dead sleep.
It was hard sleeping there at the best of times. The guy in the room above me woke up around the time I was going to bed. He would have his TV loud enough to be heard in St. Paul.
He would be on his cellphone, using the speakerphone at full volume. He would talk for hours. I was so happy when he moved out.
A lack of empathy, among other things
Homeless people don’t have a monopoly on rudeness. The apartment complex where I live is as bad. My wife and I will be asleep, when “BAM,” first one door, then another one.
The door slamming and people banging on our door and running off keeps my wife on edge and me pissed off. We dream about the day we can get out of here.
It’s not hard to think of your neighbors, it’s really not
I dream of the day when people have consideration for their neighbors. I have heard that the way it used to be, but I have no memory of that.
It seems to me that people are losing civility at a rapid rate. Thinking about it, maybe it’s not that people are uncivil, maybe they are just thoughtless.
People need to escape their self-absorbed bubble and think about their neighbors.
