Sunday, October 6, 2013

Saturday 132 am.. wait-Sunday 132am

unbelievable. door opens. neighbor comes out.  neighbor smoking. it's barely been 15 maybe 20 minutes since the last cigarette. Seriously?! Over 10 times in 2 hrs?!

I'm still awake!  neighbor still smoking!  who smokes all night?

this has got to be the worst place I have ever lived only because my neighbor smokes all night.

Saturday 115 am

misery. my neighbor has gone outside four times in the last 30 minutes to smoke. good grief! Go to sleep already! stop opening the door over and over and over and over again! why why why do you have to smoke all night long? I don't understand why my neighbor won't just go to sleep! Every time he goes outside to smoke he wakes me up. I can't even fall asleep! Because he won't go to sleep!

I just don't understand how a person can smoke all night long.

I would love to be passive aggressive and put the fan out there and let it blow back on him. but the truth is, I am just not as rude as he is. passive aggressive behavior in the middle of the night is not doable. not to mention it won't stop him from smoking.

ugh

I'm tired! but he keeps opening the door waking me up and then smoking! and where does the smoke come? Right into my bedroom.  its hot! I have to keep my balcony door open. its hot!

my neighbor smokes all night.

he's turning me into Pavlov's dog. when his door opens I automatically wake up! because I know the smoke will soon come after. forget it I'll just get the fan and blow it in my room.

he can kill himself, but I'm not going to let him kill me. this sucks!

dear neighbor, you have smoked 10 times in the last 2 hours. Stop already and go to sleep so I can.

it sucks having a neighbor that smokes all night.  it sucks that it's my neighbor... my sucky neighbor smokes all night.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Wednesday - 11:10 pm

Chain smokers.  Don't the commercials scare them enough to stop smoking?  This dude smokes like clockwork.  Like links on a chain. One after the other. 11:10pm, I'm trying to enjoy season premier week with my TIVO and there goes the screen door.  Open, close, smoke smoke smoke, cigarette fumes wafting in from my balcony and down the stairs.  I want to stab myself in the eye with a pencil right now.  I think that would feel better than the disgusting smell of cigarettes in my house after 11pm at night.  What happened to quiet, relaxing time at home?

This is insane.  Some of my Facebook friends gave me great advice today to stop the torture.  It's so much work though! Ugh.  More work than this blog which has become very therapeutic for me!  BUT EGADS!  My neighbor is smoking and with only ONE window open, he may as well be smoking in my house.  Unbelievable.  The smoke not only comes in through my bedroom, it is coming downstairs into my living room where I'm trying to watch the awesome season premiere of CSI.  I'm going to miss who the murderer is because I have to go upstairs and close the door to stop the smoke from coming in so I can breathe again.  What a nightmare.  A wide awake nightmare thanks to my neighbor smoking all night.

Why does my neighbor have to smoke ALL NIGHT?!  I've lived in too many apartments than I want to confess here.  Let's just say.. I'm not mad at the gypsies! ;)  Of all my house & apartment residences, this is the 1st time I am tortured by a smoker.  Yes, I said tortured.  It may not be a physical torture, but if he continues every single day and night and I have to breathe it, this will become physical torture.  Physical torture to my precious lungs that ache for clean air.  (At least the sweet smoggy SoCal air.)

I must take action.. its so quick & easy (and quite therapeutic!) to write this blog about my neighbor who smokes all night... but now I must spend time writing to the management company, the city, the state and all the other anti-smoking agencies I've heard about to finally end my misery of the smoking neighbor.

I pray he stops smoking.. and I feel guilty admitting I do have bad thoughts for the smoking neighbors.  My neighbor already coughs up a storm, yes while smoking, so I'm leery to believe a request to 'please stop smoking on your balcony' will actually work.  Yet as the eternal optimist, I will try everything to end this so I am not forced to move.. again.  Another move after 12 short months all because my neighbor smokes all night.

Tuesday - 1 am

It's 1:00am. Neighbor's Balcony door opens. Out comes the smoker. Yup. Sure enough … the cigarette smoke comes wafting in to my bedroom minutes later.

Why am I even awake?!

Forget why I am awake! Why is he smoking at 1am?! Whyyyyyy? 

Come on Jojo … let's be real here, he's smoking because he's your neighbor … and your neighbor smokes all night.

Monday - 1130 pm

Unbelievable.

Same night 30 minutes later. And he's smoking again!

My neighbor smokes all night.

I'm barely settling down from the cigarette smoke wafting into my bedroom while I'm trying to go to sleep.... Just 30 short minutes ago.

I had to get up shut the balcony door. And then I had to get up and open the balcony door because it became too hot in here. And now before I will drift away to dreamland... the smoke drifts into my bedroom.  Again.

This is a wide awake nightmare!

My neighbor smokes all night.

Monday - 11 pm

It's 11:00pm. I'm exhausted. My neighbor is smoking. Every day I come home he is smoking. Does he not know that smoking causes cancer. Cancer! He can die! I can die! Breathing in the second hand smoke.

This guy smokes non-stop! It's 11:00 at night. He will be smoking again at 11:30pm. And then again at 1:30am. And again at 4:00am. And yet again at 6:30 in the morning.

When does he sleep? When can I sleep?! All I ever do is smell his cigarette smoke.

I thought this was a cute townhouse. A cute little balcony off of the master bedroom. How quaint. How sweet. How relaxing. Not! Not! Not!

I hear the neighbor opening his screen door and going outside every 30 minutes to one hour! Outside to smoke! Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!

You don't understand …
I live in Culver City California. A beautiful suburb of Los Angeles. Coulver city is considered the " westside ". Which just means that it is the west side of la so it's always cool here because of the wonderful ocean breezes.

Always cool means no air-conditioning. Which is totally fine. Because you can open up your window or your balcony door off of your master bedroom and catch the most refreshing ocean breezes any time of day. Unfortunately I don't get the refreshing ocean breezes!

I get cigarette smoke. All. The. Time.

Why you ask? Because my neighbor smokes all night.