Any weird neighbor stories?

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55. Most of 'em are dead now, but

back in the early to mid 1980s I lived in a 6 family tenement, on the first floor, and there was a very strange family that lived on the other side.

An older man, his daughter, and a kid around 12 or so. Their alcoholic family would come over almost every night with their spouses and kids and they would all sit around at the picnic table in the back yard and drink themselves blind.

This invariably led to fights between the old man and whoever pissed him off, but usually his daughter (late 20s I would say). Since we shared a wall, we could hear everything. People being slammed against the wall, furniture flying, doors slamming, yelling and cursing, etc.

Sometimes I would swear they were about to kill each other or come crashing through the shared wall.

At some point the bedlam would die down

And in the morning, they would be talking to each other as if nothing at all had happened the night before. I mean, they could have made June and Ward Cleaver look like a couple of crazy people, that's how calm and normal things were.

I've lived near lots of weird neighbors. Not on purpose...Faulty radar, I guess.