The New Neighbor

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I love my building and my apartment, so please don't get me wrong. The space is small but laid out well. The building is clean and comfortable. Most of my neighbors are older, so there are no loud parties, no fights and no little kids. (Unless someone gets the grandkids overnight - and then, when their running, shouting and yelling gets on my nerves I simply remind myself that thank goodness the kids will be going home eventually and I'm sure happy of that.) However, one little hope of mine was that a younger person might move in. I don't have anything against older peoples - in fact most of my friends are about 20 years older than I, but sometimes I feel a bit out of place and this new neighbor might be someone to hang out with. Well, I got my wish. One unit down the hall and on the opposite side, a new neighbor moved in, younger. However my jubilation lasted only a few minutes of meeting her. She nervously paced back and forth , muttering under her breathe. She ran up to me. "Who are you?" -- so I introduced myself. And then she launched into a diatribe something like this - "I told that blankety blank that I didn't want anything and I didn't steal that car. Johnny can go bleep off, bleep this bleeping bleeper." (That isn't actually what she said, but pretty close, referencing people and situations that I know nothing about.) I asked for clarification and didn't receive any. Pretty clear that she's fairly troubled. Another time she came, knocked on my door at about 11 PM at night. She was bent on getting in. I didn't allow it. She also ignored that I was going to bed as I told her, insisting that she "needed to talk". (More ranting) *sigh* Oh well. I have nothing against people who have issues, but I don't want to have her come in my place and I don't want any trouble or to get sucked into any drama. Do you have interesting neighbors? Photo: Pixabay