It's only really annoying because they're so LOUD

I’m pretty sure my neighbor is allowing a bunch of random people to stay with her in her apartment. I was clued into this a few weeks ago when my doorbell rang at about 9:00 on a Wednesday evening. My first clue was the fact that technically I don’t have a doorbell. There are three doorbells outside my building (which definitely has more than three units) and none of them are labeled with my apartment number. Anyone who wants to hang out with me either comes in with me or calls me when they arrive.

Anyway, my doorbell started going off, which makes the cat pin her ears back and run around the apartment like her tail is on fire. Her favorite kind of running involves leaping up on my coffee table, knocking off everything laying there, and then leaping back off again. So, doorbell rings, cat flips out, and I’m instantly annoyed.

I’m also conscious of the fact that I’m pretty sure the door isn’t for me and I’m not going to just run downstairs and rip the door open. I went out in the hallway and peeked out the large window which faces the front of the building. Down below I could see two men wandering around who I had definitely never seen before. Yeah, I was most certainly not going to go answer that doorbell ring.

Too bad for me these guys were pretty determined. Instead of going away when no one answered the door they decided the next best technique was to hold their finger on the doorbell. I had about had it at that point and went downstairs. Below is the dialogue that followed:

Me (opening door): “Can you please stop ringing my doorbell?”
Dude #1: “Hey, is Polly Pocket* here?”
Me: “I don’t know. You’re ringing my doorbell and I need you to stop.”
Dude #1: “Polly Pocket? Apartment D2?”
Me: “I don’t know. I’ll check, but you need to stop ringing my doorbell.”
Dude #1: “We’ll just come inside.”
Me: “Uh, no, I can’t let you in. I’ll see if Polly’s here, but you have to wait outside.”

It was at this point that I went to check for Polly. She didn’t answer her door after repeated knocking, so I went back to the front door.

Me: “Polly’s not here, sorry.”
Dude #1: “We’ll come inside and wait.”
Me: “No, she’s not here and I can’t just let you in.”
Dude #1, gesturing to Dude #2 who has been silent through this whole exchange: “He’s come a long way.”
Me: “I’m sorry, but you’ll have to call Polly. I won’t let you in.”

*names changed to protect, well, who am I kidding, names changed to protect myself

Then I closed the door (tightly) and left. The dudes hung around outside for about 10 more minutes (probably waiting to see if someone else would come home and let them in) and then took off.

Since that point I’ve heard a vast amount of noise coming from Polly’s apartment every single time I walk by the place. In addition, our back door has been propped open for extended periods of time more than once where no one appears to be around.

Finally, this morning as I was opening my curtains, I heard something outside. When I looked out the window, low and behold, there are my dude friends from a few weeks ago with another guy, congregated in front of the building. Not sure exactly what’s going on, but I don’t like it. Did I mention that we have a clause in our lease which states we can’t have any one guest stay over for more than one night at a time? Maybe I need to move to a building with fewer crazy single ladies…