Let's start on a happy note...

I just saw my upstairs neighbor's mother and pimply friend moving a bunch of stuff from the house. This after a whole year of:

-Movies in surroundsound (Registered trademark) with lots of explosions, screaming and booming.
-Videogames in surroundsound: WOW, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero, and others involving lots of explosions.
- screaming girlfriend who wants the world to know she's having sex.
- jam sessions
-piano playing of the same half dozen songs including The Charlie Brown Theme, and selections from the Beatles songbook.

And all of this right over my head, with very low ceilings.

Do I sound like a bitch? try living in what sounds like a Cineplex or a giant Stomach...

Actually, last year at this time I was surrounded by 20somethings, mostly men it seemed. On the top floor lived an endless stream of changing tenants. The last group were nice enough, but made a dreadful mess. On the top floor next door was another group of 20something guys...also nice and friendly but, like a lot of young men their age, completely disgusting. Cigarette butts, beer caps and junk littered the driveway. Then they got two dogs- pitbulls of course. One was a puppy and very sweet; the other rescued from a fire. After they left, the landlord saw that they had disposed of the dog crap by putting it in plastic bags and tossing it out the window. Where it snagged in the trees. I had wondered what that stuff was.

In the basement apartment opposite mine lived another 20something guy named Matthew who looked a bit like Silent Bob but was very nice- even he couldn't stand the noise, dog crap and cigarette butts and moved out in May. A man in his 30s lives there now but I haven't seen much of him.

The Pitbull guys followed shortly after. The Perpetually Stoned tenants upstairs have been replaced by three young women. The driveway was cleaned up and all the junk disposed of. My landlady has sworn off 20something men as tenants.