I hate our neighbors.
Our apartment complex is exceedingly crappy, so people tend to get out of here as soon as possible. None of the other three original tenants that have lived in this building are still here, with the last holdout having moved a couple months ago.

So, a few months ago, some people moved in across the hall from us (we're on the second floor). This was shortly followed by daily periods of loud rap music coming from their apartment, seemingly right up against the wall that connects to ours. It started out as just an annoying THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMP, but in the past couple weeks, they've decided to make it even louder, so that I can clearly make out the words, in some cases repeatedly involving "motherfucker" and the n-word. (Also, I swear it's the same few songs every time -- I think they only actually own one CD. And I'm not just making a "rap all sounds the same" generalization, I can hear it that clearly and recognize certain parts of the songs.) I tried banging on their door the other day while it was playing, and again today, but they apparently did not hear me. So I finally broke down and called in a noise complaint to the city.

About 15 minutes later, a cop comes up to the apartment, knocks on their door twice (first, they respond by turning down the music, and on the second knock then they actually answer it). I can hear them talk for about ten seconds in the hall (the cop just said to keep it down because there were complaints, nothing at all threatening), and the cop leaves. The couple that live there leave a few minutes later, and I can hear *them* talking as well, speculating on who called the cops. The male says "it was probably the white people", which pissed me off so much that I opened the door and identified myself as the person who did it. Thus followed an idiotic conversation in which I shouldn't have called the cops because the male neighbor "has a history with the police" and that apparently my complaint is irrelevant because nobody else has complained (setting aside the fact that the apartment below them was vacant up to about a week ago, and the guy under us is in the Navy, so he's not home half the time). I tell him that the cops wouldn't be involved if he would just be considerate of the other people in the building. I try to get him to understand that just because the apartment complex says that he can have his music loud until 9 doesn't mean he can have it so loud it disturbs us. I'm trying to be as polite as possible, but I was pretty irritated at this point.

And now they're back and it's actually at the lowest level it's ever been. Wonder how long that will last.

Maybe I'm being an asshole, but I hate it when people are this inconsiderate.