SATURDAY'S NEIGHBAD

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Yo Todd,

Crackhead one and crackhead two along with about twelve other crackheads live in one unit in the section eight building adjacent to my building here in the beautiful city of Chicago, Illinois.  Two weeks ago while I was at work crackhead one scaled the twelve foot security fence that is meant to keep crackheads out of our courtyard, broke my kitchen window and bent the security grating in the window frame enough to get his crackhead skinny arm in far enough to unlock my backdoor.  For his own crackhead reasons he bypassed the $1200 classical guitar, the $500 iPod and the $2500 MacBook.  In fact, after I realized that I had been burgled it took me a few minutes to figure out what he took.  Ultimately I determined that he took my first generation Playstation 2 and the four games I owned.  How do I know crackhead one was the culprit?  The following day crackhead two approached me as I was returning home from work.  Crackhead two is always trying to sell copied DVDs or hustle up a dollar or two for the "baby's pampers", bus fare to "get to work" etc.  I generally ignore him, but today he was selling PS2 games for five bucks a piece, my PS2 games.  The situation was so stupid I still don't entirely believe it.  For some reason I bought my own games back from him.  Then, I walked home and cops got called, people got arrested - I got my shit back.

Max

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Hi Todd!  I had a pretty awful roommate my second year in college.  She moved into the room that I'd had the year before and within a week I knew she was nuts.  She had ADD which she blamed on EVERYTHING.  OK I know you have a hard time focusing but come on!  Our room started to smell really bad and I had no idea what it was...when I asked her about it she said, 'Oh yeah I spilled some milk on the carpet last week and didn't have anything to clean it up with.'  Hello? There's a bathroom with paper towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and water ten feet from our door!  Rotting milk, no big deal.  She claimed that she was super-religious and wanted to be a minister when she grew up but was dating a bouncer who was 15 years older than her and a married man who was at least 10 years older at the same time.  She would do it w/ them and go down to the girls floor below us wearing only a t-shirt and flash a roomful of girls telling them she'd just had sex.  She blamed this on her poor impulse control (ADD related).  It just goes on and on.  Eventually everyone in the dorm thought she was nuts and couldn't believe that I could stand to live with her.
Her mom actually came to our dorm cafeteria at lunch on her 19th birthday dressed as a clown and was doing a little act in front of everyone in the whole room.  College kids don't really think that's neat.  It was totally bizarre in every way.  Also, her mom had driven an hour dressed as a clown to get to our dorm.  Imagine seeing that on the freeway.
Her mom also went to our hall director and told him that I was prejudiced against people with ADD b/c I told her kid that I thought she was nuts.  I finally got to switch rooms and she dropped out of college at the end of the year.  Not sure if she ever got to be a minister or not...maybe she's a clown now. 
Rock on Todd!
 
P. in C-bus

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