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I’ve Had Some Neighbors

But no one like this one.

Mala Justed
5 min readJun 21, 2024

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…for those who remember the issues I had with my duplex neighbor, whom I choose to refer to as tenant… she is still over there. I couldn’t discuss it because it was in court and I feared I would get called to testify.

B: The Back Story

When the police responded to my call at 2am on an early December Sunday morning in the worst rain storm in a while, I had a recording.

Here’s What Happened

I was awakened about 12:30am by my dog who suffers with storm anxiety. I finally got him medicated and settled down. Now it was really the wee hours of the morning and I saw no hope for more sleep. With my Good Boy snoring on the couch, I sat at the table in my living room and revved up the laptop. It is a sad situation. My Boy is scared of storms. I love them.

I was enjoying the pounding of rain against the door and surfing the net when I heard my duplex neighbor’s Shih Tzu started whining. She sleeps in a crate in the living room of my neighbor’s duplex. My neighbor sleeps upstairs. The dog wasn’t that loud. But I heard an angry voice coming from the direction of my neighbor’s bedroom upstairs. It was obviously not a comforting voice. I felt sorry for the poor dog if it had storm anxiety like my Good Boy. All this time the

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Mala Justed

A messed up person in a messed up world fighting to find which came first--the chicken or the egg? Thanks to @FloTography on Flickr.