Why some people should be kept in cages.

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I have a psycho neighbor. She is friends with the other girl next door and me until she gets in a crappy mood. She usually goes off on the other girl first as I've been trying to keep her at arm's length as I know how she treats her friends and people she becomes "comfortable" with. Anyway, I smoke. I know it's icky, but I'm reasonable about it and know that some other people don't want to breathe it so I try to take into account where the smoke/smell is going. I try to keep it to my own little area outside. Anyhow. a few days ago I woke up to being yelled at on MSN by this person "STOP SLAMMING DOORS AT THE EARLY HOURS! I HAVE TO STUDY! AND DON'T TALK TO ME. YOU WILL GET YOUR HEAD SNAPPED OFF!" First of all, I have had a few times where the wind catches my door when I'm going outside (Very rarely), but I am careful with it. Second of all when I talked to her a while later she informed me I was doing it at times I was asleep. Now, I sleep at strange times, but last I checked I'm not a sleepwalker or sleep-smoker. I apologized anyway and just figured since her stepdad was sick she was having a bad day. (She used that as an excuse for yelling at me in the same conversation she yelled at me.) Ok... I have never had this issue brought up to me before. I have actually asked the girl across from me, who is much closer to my apartment if she heard me at night and she said no. She did say that the girl had bragged about telling me off and was trying to get her to say bad things about me but she wouldn't. (Same thing happens when she gets angry with the closer neighbor.) So I tried to sleep at a slightly less wild time that night and get myself closer to these "normal" people's schedules even though there seemed no grounds for her to be mad at me since she was saying i came out at times I was asleep. I only went out a couple of times between 3 am and 8 am because I didn't want to make her mad. So... I come out about 9:30 or 10 am. I figure I'm okay since I've heard most people get up and (loudly) go to work as well as the girl's music blaring loud enough to wake up my roommate who had worked a night shift. So I go out to light one up. The music turns down as I'm walking outside... Before I can even get the cigarette fully lit (in the wind that's blowing towards the bricks of where I live,at a slant, not down her way) "GO F****** SMOKE SOMEWHERE ELSE!"*door slams**things inside her house start being thrown/slammed around* I get back on MSN and notify her that she doesn't have to yell at me and that I don't mind going somewhere else if she just tells me she needs me to. She continues to yell at me, tell me ALL Americans are inconsiderate and that I'm putting her health at risk and that she hates me and that she hopes i go back to New South Wales soon (I'd spoken about moving back) and once again, brings up her Stepfather and tells me not to speak to her. I was actually nice to her and told her I hoped her stepdad felt better soon and that she felt better. I can take a lot of crap, but I actually cried after I talked to her that time. I've decided by now that I am not even going to attempt to be friends with her. She is still slamming her door and slamming other things around in her house. During this time I realized that she had one of my good shirts that I'd loaned her for work. Ok... one more BIG slam 45 minutes after i'd even been outside last. FINALLY I get mad. I get some of the foul language out of my system and tell my roomie "I'm NOT F****** taking it anymore" Take a deep breath and walk down to her flat, knocked on her door, "Can I at least have my shirt back?" She opened the door and threw it in my face. The way she did that, plus the look she gave me made me angry, but I tried one more time. "Chill out. I slept differently, I started going around the corner to smoke and everything and you're still giving me s***" And after that it was all crap. She started yelling and biznatching about everything she's ever saw me do. First she repeated the inconsiderate American thing, Then she said I was lying about having agoraphobia (I've been trying to get over it. I need someone to go with me places instead of not going out at all. I thought that was a big step.) and that HER friends with "what I have" can go around to the corner store alone fine and that I'm just sitting in my apartment wingeing all the time. She ends up calling me stupid and telling me how she can't wait for me to leave over and over again and yelling at me and I'm standing, arms crossed, telling her "But I will do anything I can to keep you from getting angry at me" (By now I've already made a decision) "You don't have to be mad at me. These problems are fixable if you just tell me about them before you get angry. I don't mind!" Finally she slammed the door in my face and I BELIEVE called me the naughtiest c word. It kind of came out like "CUFFNTNHRHHRHRHRT" Finally the fire is inside me and I defend myself. "DIE IN A FIRE! B****" That's probably the meanest thing I've ever said to someone and I'm not proud of it, but it sure made me feel better after a few days of that crap. Sunday I am moving back to New South Wales where I originally lived when I came to Australia. Some people there are really rude, but at least they're not like her. The other neighbor says she's not telling her I'm leaving and that she's going to close doors late at night and see if she hassles me on MSN from 9 hours away. I hope the girl is gone when I put my stuff in the car. I deserve a little comedy after this crap. The moral of the story is There are just not enough beds in the local loony bin here. The REAL moral of the story I suppose is that some people just aren't worth it. You guys know any people that should be kept in cages?