December 17, 2021:

She was so rude.

She moved next door without asking how I'd feel. She interrupted the vacation I'd longed for by standing outside my sliding glass doors demanding attention. She was shocked that I responded poorly.

Her husband was a baldhead with a fetish for Asians. He took advantage of his position as ESL tutor to exploit his female students with utter cynicism — or total lack of self-awareness, take your pick. She went back to him. As a unit they glowered at me as they loaded her king size mattress into a rented truck.

When she left it was a relief.