I heart Milwaukee!

So I haven't written in awhile, and I have soooooooo much to talk about, but something so outstanding has trumped everything. And not outstanding in the good way, but more just... shocking and appalling.

A few weeks ago it snowed like a bitch. It had to have been five inches or so overnight so by the time I got outside to go to work, I had my work cut out for me.

I live in a four unit building. We live in the upper left, with no one beneath us. There is this "family" of sorts in the upper right unit (I have never seen actual adults, just some older looking teenagers, a few kids and a fat toddler with a penchant for pudding) and some new people just moved into the left lower.

As they were moving in, they had some very... tough... looking characters helping them. Now, I am a chunky white girl with a booty and big boobs and these characters found me quite attractive and one day when I was walking to my car I got several of them bidding me good day and asking how I was. Nothing inappropriate, but I most definitely got the impression that I was being undressed in their minds.

So flash forward to the day it snowed and I was going to my car. I started the Lark up and proceeded to start cleaning it off. This was a lengthy process and took over 10 minutes until I was at the passenger side window.

I hear "Miss? Do you need any help? Can I do that for you?" and the guy who recently moved in leaned out the window and smiled charmingly at me. "Oh no! Thank you! I am almost done!" I smiled prettily and scurried back into the car, not wanting to continue the chat with the Cheshire Cat in the window. (Where were you 15 minutes ago, I thought to myself)

A week later, Eric and I were in the attic getting some stuff and moving it downstairs and we heard this BANG!!! and after looking around, just thought that this painting in the hallway had fallen down as it was on the floor and we werent sure that it was there or not.

This was also about the same time that we had the whole snafu with the exploding toilet and the maitenance guy said to Eric "Oh so were you here when the cops came?" Eric was like "What?" Turns out, the fucking SWAT team had staked out the lower left apartment and had BROKEN DOWN THE FUCKING DOOR to the apartment to bust them out.

So yeah, turns out the painting had been on the floor when we went up there.

Now, as I write this, I am sitting in the dark, surrounded by my roommates because our electricity is out and we are waiting for the maitnenance guy to come out here again to figure out why, this is the same guy who was here Saturday, Sunday and MONDAY because our pipes froze and we have once again been without running water. Well, now, that's not necessarily true, we had scalding hot water and had to hand fill the toilet so we could flush it, but now we are seriously S.O.L because the pipe burst in the street and that's the city's problem so they will be here on Weds.

Eric told me that when he was talking to the maitenance guy this afternoon about the pipe problem and he said that they are evicting the people in the lower left apartment. Eric asked why and he was infomed that not only were they dealing massive amounts of contraband (which is really no surprise to anyone, as you could get a contact high just walking by the place on the sidewalk) and they had already destroyed the place after a month but ALSO the male resident has a warrant for MURDER.

That's the nice guy that wanted to help me brush off the car. The guy wanted on murder one.