Conundrum

Talker called yesterday, asking if I could make a copy of a legal document for her.

No problem, said I. So, she trotted on over, ended up spending two hours catching me up on the tea and complaining about our neighbor, known on the blog as MAGA.

A few days prior to her visit, I was surprised to see a facebook post where five or six of the ladies had ventured out of the complex, had a group lunch at Blaze Pizza.

It’s not unusual for a group to head out for an adventure, but what was usual about this group was MAGA was included.

Talker and MAGA in the same group outing??? That won’t end well, thought I.

Sure enough, after I made a copy of the document for Talker, she began venting about MAGA.

It seems that MAGA has been bending over backwards to connect with Talker, make amends for the dustup they had, which Talker now tells me went beyond shouting at each other, nearly ended in the laying of hands, a physical assault when MAGA got all up in Talker's face.

WOW! That would have probably gotten both evicted.

So, anyway, now MAGA has pulled a 180, approaches Talker like they’re besties, seems to always be around whenever Talker steps out of her unit, yells her name, rushes up to get Talker’s attention; and that it "happens often, like her radar is on overdrive".

Talker said MAGA is "kinda weird" (but didn't she already know that before she went to lunch with her) and now Talker has gotten to the point where she tries to go out at different times to avoid MAGA but "That don’t matter! There she is".

I teased Talker with, "That’s what you get for going to lunch with her. You've opened a door, are now trapped", and suggested I lend her one of my self-defense tools …… a tool I can’t name here on the blog or I’ll get a violation, but the tool that sprays.

I remember that when I was working at the agency I retired from — the agency where the KKK agency head, KKK directors, KKK secretaries tried to run me off, that coworkers who refused to go along with that KKK philosophy and I would go to lunch, sometimes movies/dinner.

One time when we were heading out to lunch, Venus — not exactly KKK, but giving me a hard time because the KKK agency head had so ordered it/she went along with the program, asked to join us and the girls said sure.

I made an excuse to disengage, cause this homey don't play that. I don't socialize with people I don't like and who don't like or are cruel to me. Going so far as to year after year take vacation during Secretary's Week, to avoid having to go to lunch with the three witches when I worked at the Law Firm.

So, though I was making light of Talker's conundrum by saying it's what she gets for going to lunch with MAGA, she really did bring this current situation upon herself.

After thinking about Talker’s conundrum for a bit, I suggested perhaps it was MAGA employing that old adage … "Keep your friends close, enemies closer" or MAGA trying to literally "Kill her with Kindness".

It wasn’t but seconds after Talker left my unit that I get a text from her, "When I came down your stairs, guess who practically ran to greet me?"

Damn! MAGA must really be using radar or deliberately lurking the area in hopes of running into Talker.

Whatever MAGA’s motives, Talker has had enough. Her plan is to find a "nice way" to tell MAGA she’s doing too much, making her feel uncomfortable and, if that doesn’t work, "I’ll have to take it to the next level".

Hmmmm? I don’t know if the next level is a harassment complaint to management or another yelling/screaming match.

Other than that, the latest tea is Next-Door Neighbor is moving this weekend. She’s hated living here for the entire 10 years, has been trying for 5 of the 10 to get a unit in Loma Linda.

I don’t know if she’d been on a waiting list all this time, but she’s finally gotten her wish.

She’ll have a downstairs apartment, which is what she wanted, and the Loma Linda complex has walking trails, a gym and, unlike here, actual activities. It's also a classier neighborhood, which is important to my bougie Next-Door Neighbor.

I’m happy for her, but now have to hope my new neighbor isn’t a single guy — which will create problems for me, or a married couple — also a problem because I then have to worry about the wife thinking I’m trying to seduce her man. Hopefully, I’ll get another single lady — neat, clean, independent/doesn't bother me, a non-hoarder.