i was hesitant to bring this up before, but was this weekend some big holiday for judaism? can avyone answer?
because basically the houses (dual flat houses-big uns) on either side of dis one are homes to orthodox jewish folk, and i think the house on the right hates us, because one of the straggling 3 year olds informed one of my burly roommates that they weren't allowed to play or walk in front of our steps anymore.
so this weekend, the hateful house was PACKED with young orthodoxy kids (12-14 year olds?), and they were certainly loud and wild, all of them, which was made a little worse by the proximity of these houses and my particular living space to the adjoining background and driveway (we have a shared driveway w/ them)
but the BAD part was when they kept having functions until late night. granted, it was the weekend, but on saturday in particular, i got home @ around 1 am and due to the fact that my front door key doesn't work, i have to traipse around in the darkness and slug in the back door. except this time around i didn't have to grope because there was a big whompin BBQ going on, with screaming, amish-clad kids at that hour!!
my strategy for large crowds is this: walk and look like you have something to do; don't make eye contact. i'm hermetic. i don't even want or like to hear my voice in public. so i'm kind of inching by this large crowd of sweating humans, who have fire and meat roasting, and are yelling, loudly, hoping to make it to the door w/o incident, and thinking that they must be thinking "oh now THIS looks sketchy", and i hear one of the young men proclaim (above the din): HEY, DO YOU WANT TO MEET YOUR MAKER?
nothing happened and i got in without incident. i was telling myself that it was just one of the kids horsing around w/ another kid. and not a death threat.
so maybe this was just a retreat or something?
because basically the houses (dual flat houses-big uns) on either side of dis one are homes to orthodox jewish folk, and i think the house on the right hates us, because one of the straggling 3 year olds informed one of my burly roommates that they weren't allowed to play or walk in front of our steps anymore.
so this weekend, the hateful house was PACKED with young orthodoxy kids (12-14 year olds?), and they were certainly loud and wild, all of them, which was made a little worse by the proximity of these houses and my particular living space to the adjoining background and driveway (we have a shared driveway w/ them)
but the BAD part was when they kept having functions until late night. granted, it was the weekend, but on saturday in particular, i got home @ around 1 am and due to the fact that my front door key doesn't work, i have to traipse around in the darkness and slug in the back door. except this time around i didn't have to grope because there was a big whompin BBQ going on, with screaming, amish-clad kids at that hour!!
my strategy for large crowds is this: walk and look like you have something to do; don't make eye contact. i'm hermetic. i don't even want or like to hear my voice in public. so i'm kind of inching by this large crowd of sweating humans, who have fire and meat roasting, and are yelling, loudly, hoping to make it to the door w/o incident, and thinking that they must be thinking "oh now THIS looks sketchy", and i hear one of the young men proclaim (above the din): HEY, DO YOU WANT TO MEET YOUR MAKER?
nothing happened and i got in without incident. i was telling myself that it was just one of the kids horsing around w/ another kid. and not a death threat.
so maybe this was just a retreat or something?
