The crazy old lady across the hall.

[Sannum]

There is a crazy old lady across the hall who I try to avoid at all costs. She is kind of nuts and brought over a jello mold when I moved in. The jello mold was half consumed. There is more to my crazy theory, but now is not the time. I came back from an afternoon of shopping, turned the corner to get back into my apartment, and I smelled....evidence of severe intestinal difficulties coming from her door. It was an incredibly strong and terrible odor. Now keep in mind my home is filled with about 100 scented candles, various scent burners and smells like apples and roses 24/7. I spend more on candles than I do on groceries. The hallway usually has a lingering scent of my oilburners and candles, which is nice. It smells like an english garden. Now...er...it doesn't. Now the hallway smells just awful. I lit about 10 more scented candles to make sure the odor from her apartment does not pass beyond my front door. I am also wanting to stay in my apartment so any opening of the door does not bring...that smell into my apartment. When I was moving, she invited me to her place for a few moments...I saw it and quickly and politely excused myself, but I noticed that she has a half-bath off of her entry way. The apartments in my building are huge and my apartment was renovated and the halfbath was changed into a closet. Now...do I call maintainance and politely ask them to inquire about the odor, or do I just get some of my air freshner cans and empty them out in her alcove? I already did the air freshener thing. It didn't work very well.

I can't believe I am typing this...:crazy:

[IdaBriggs]

1. Are you sure she is still alive? nt

[Sannum]

2. Do I really want to be the one to look?

x(

[timber84]

4. ohh noo but that is a pretty distinctive smell isn't it not

quite like sewage.

[RebelOne]

6. The smell of a dead body is hard to describe.

It doesn't smell like sewage. I found my next door neighbor's body after she had been dead for 5 days. The smell hit me the minute I opened the front door. You should definitely call maintenance and let them check it out.

[miss_american_pie]

3. Call

:scared:

[Blue Belle]

5. Call the Apartment Manager...

and have them check on her. If you haven't seen her in a few days and there is a funky smell coming from her apartment, then that's all you need to have them check - it's their job. If it turns out she's okay, then I'm sure the management staff won't be happy about the smell situation and will do something about it.

[Sannum]

7. I just saw her walk out the door through my peephole

She is alive, but she doesn't smell it....x(

I am so going to hell...

[timber84]

9. Maybe it was her ghost?

[Sannum]

11. trying to get away from the smell?

:P

The building is about 80 years old, so the locks take about 30 seconds to lock. I heard the noise from the lock, and ran to my entry way and looked through the peephole. There she was...or her ghost:scared:

[LaurenG]

8. Oo

edited as I posted after your post stating you had seen her.

[timber84]

10. Maybe she's made you another jello mold

[Fox Mulder]

13. I wonder if it'll have cat food in it...

just like in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation?

:rofl:

[timber84]

14. Better yet she made you some sandwiches that her dog

added a special ingredient to, remember that one?

[Sannum]

15. Oh god no...

My friend was there when the Jello Mold incident happened, and she could not stop laughing. She said "this is you in 50 years":P

Her comments about "the blacks living so close" about 2 minutes after we met pretty much sealed my opinion of her.

God, I hope she isn't going to get a big mexican lunch x(

[johnnie]

12. I would check it out

My mother's cousin's (by marriage) brother died and no one knew. This was two weeks ago when they found him. When all was said and done, they found he didn't pay any of his Feb. bills. They found him in mid March. That means he was rotting in his bed for over a month... yikes!

I would call the manager.

[leftofthedial]

16. well, it saves you the trouble of filling a bag, lighting it on fire,

ringing her bell and running.

Call maintenance and report a "sewer problem."

[mikeytherat]

17. In college, we had the crazy old man who lived below us.

On the second day in our apartment, we were watching football with a few buds. There are six of us, the game is on, and we get a knock at the door...

The crazy old man marches right into our apartment, uninvited, and starts into a well-rehearsed speech about the "rules" he has for people who live above him (he had lived in the building for 20+ years, but was not in any way connected to the apartment complex, like a rental manager or maintenance guy - he just lived there). He takes out a 3x5 card and states, "My records (HIS records?) show that three people are renting this apartment; why are there six people here?" Now, remember, the TV is about two feet away from him, and the game is on, so I volunteer, "Uh, we're watching a football game with some friends." He seemed to accept this answer, gave a Raising Arizona worthy, "OK, then," and left immediately.

In the two years we rented that apartment, this was probably the LEAST strange encounter we had with him!

mikey_the_rat