neighbor trouble
 

I have a these neighbors in my apartment building, let's call them C and P, who are really chapping my ass.

C is a Vietnam Vet with two types of cancer and ten kinds of crazy. His wife, P has frontal lobe dementia - it's similar to Alzheimer's but with the added plus of making her walk like Karloff's Mummy and causing incontinence.

I'm always around (I work at home) so I help them carry groceries up the stairs and such, no big. But lately their health has turned south and I'm their go-to guy for first aid. P recently fell down and broke her foot, so I'm always getting the call to help her up and down the stairs.

She weighs at least 180 and has no mobility at all, so I'm literally hauling her around...and I can smell her diaper.

I like to be the good guy, and C keeps me in good supply of great weed (from his Hell's Angels buddies) but I'm tired of it already.

They simply have no one else and are flat broke, so they can't afford hospice care. It's tough enough being a stay-at-home dad with a full-time writing job, but this added burden is breaking me down.

I kind of wish that thier diseases would just do them in.

Now...am I terrible for thinking that?

Not really I guess.

I sympathise with anybody who has to suffer troublesome neighbours, since it is the worst kind of stress to be uncomfortable in your own home because of someone else's habits or problems.

Kill them both.

I agree.
Kill them

Not really an option. Although C doesn't get around too well, he is ex-special forces and is heavily armed.

Last year I got roped into changing the dressing on his busted (and gooey) toe after he kicked a hole in the wall...in his sleep. He's dangerous, but sweet.

Tough one. They also see me as some kind of saint. Kills me to harbor such malevolence toward people who hold me in such high regard.

:mad:

Use your writing royalties and pay someone else to kill them both.

better plan

If had enough cash for that, I'd have enough to move away.

Tell them you've got AIDS, and find a subtle way to start bleeding anytime they're around.

I'll second that.

It's not a bad thing that you don't want the burden, and you would deffinetly be better off if it did them in.

Don't feel bad for wanting that.

Problem is, they're nice people whom I've known for 8 years. Their quality of life makes me believe they would actually be better off dead, but they are friends.

The question is...is it wrong to wish that someone - someone you know and like - would die for their own good.

I won't deny that I have selfish reasons, but still...

:confused:

i had a very similar situation - indeed if you live in new york we might be neighbors. . . eventually when i had helped the woman with her groceries she said something about 'your so helpful i dont know what we'd do without you' i plucked up the courage to just say 'well you'd better figure it out because i'm done." i proceeded to explain in fairly clear details that i was not going to continue helping them everytime they had a problem.

it was awkward for a while - really it still is - but eventually they just started ignoring me like a stranger.

harsh? yes - necessary for my sanity - absolutely!