The Pool Party From Hell

Here's a con about apartment living: noises travel (and no I'm not going to get all weird and talk about hearing people through the walls, although that did happen in my last place). For the most part my complex is awesome; the building is a 4 story square and in the middle is a pretty courtyard with a pool and covered cabana. Very nice I like!

The scene of the crime...

This is where my tale gets dark and I get cranky. Problems arise when people (*cough*lawstudents*cough*) decide they are going to booze it up on the regular and start yelling and talking really loud out by the pool.

I like to think that I'm not a total party pooper. I like to have fun too, just not at 3:30 in the morning. Yes, early this morning I was woken up but yelling/talking/laughing as the future lawyers of America decided to have themselves a little party out by the pool. I'm sorry but wtf. And this went on for a while, a bona fide waking nightmare. I was really hoping that someone (preferably a big brawny muscle man) would go outside and tell them to be quiet. No, but I did hear a girl start yelling from her room.

Our resident enforcer started off well enough, using the convincing argument of please be quiet, it's 3:30 in the morning and some of us are sleeping. But things quickly escalated when douchy law students started to yell back. Obviously her pleas for quiet didn't work so she turned to cursing. Not helpful. I think I saw one of these fine fellows moon in her general direction (which was not also my direction thank god).

So there it is, the beauty of apartment living in all its glory. This is a problem that I really don't know how to address, seeing as how I don't know any of the party people. I find it so funny, as just the other day we met this female law student in the elevator. The conversation (stick with me) went something like this: "Oh are you all public health students?" I cheerily say "Ya, how did you guess?" Her response was "I heard you guys talking about volunteering. I've seen a bunch of you in your purple shirts. One girl was even dripping on me [it had been raining hard all day and some people still had to volunteer outside] while I was taking the bus home. I hate public health students... you all were making a lot of noise down out by the pool last week."

The deuce girl?! I didn't even know how to respond to that. The only time we've been out drinking by the pool was the one time the law students who were already out there invited us to come sit by them... there's a common denominator here and that's not public health. I think this can only end in some sort of battle royale with these law students. It's on...!