BUT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER

Low income doesn’t necessarily mean low class. And I’ve known some low class wealthy people in my time. They just have servants to pick up after them.

..and you don’t think you’re a writer???

Income and “class” have little relation when it comes to trash and trashy behaviour - it really is about how much a person respects themselves and others.

I live in a condo complex and it wasn’t cheap to buy a place and the rents are pretty high and I’ve seen people put their trash out in the hall so they can get to it later (assuming that’s the reason) and I’ll see cups and bottles tucked into corners. We do have a janitorial service but come on! The trash chute is what, a 2 minute walk if you walk slowly and for the cups and bottles - what about putting them in your own garbage?

I’ve also seen people who just leave their trash in the little trash chute room (it has the chute and a recycling bin) and don’t bother to put the trash bag down the chute. Wow. As it taking the extra effort to open the chute is just too much.

So..just like invisiblewoman wrote! Our HOA pays for janitorial services and we put money into the HOA but unless someone is handing a dollar or something for every step or bend to the cleaning person, I don’t think people think about the costs or the time.

That recycling bin? I cut up cardboard boxes so they fit in it. You’re supposed to break those boxes down and then everyone can fit more stuff into it.

Nope. That’s Someone Else’s Problem.

I am glad I don’t have friends like that! I would wonder if I saw them doing that - like, what kind of person are you..really? Kinda like if you were on a date and saw your date be rude to the waitstaff.

The things I saw (mind you, I was the only Negro, and the only one who wasn’t “wealthy”): mail just dumped out of the mailbox and onto the floor of the lobby, people that had partied too hard vomiting in the elevator and on the stairs, garbage just tossed into the trash room and not put in the chute (what is 2 more f**king steps?), towels, cups and lord knows what else thrown in the jacuzzi.

Yes, they had people cleaning 24 hours a day, but seeing that sh*t would aggravate me to no end–just selfish, lazy, and ignorant as f*ck, rich or poor.

Rant over

Of course, this isn’t always true. I know people we nice cars and great clothes and no furniture apartments that smell and look horribly. And they don’t even live in the PJ’s.

Danielle: If you want stereotypes then these folk will fit many of them. I feel you on many of your points and agree. Too bad we can’t ship these folks to some sorta training school.

Sue: Yeah… you forgot inconsiderate and dirty.

Ricardo: I’ve always thought your area of residence to be quite expensive. I guess I don’t know the economics of the area. But you would be correct. But I’m happy that I don’t pay as much as some people that I know who live in closets that they call apartments/studios.

This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this. It is just a first for my level of the building. Time to put up signs.

Fitness Diva: “200 different brands of piss…” ROTFL… I feel you. Do you deal with snobs where you are though?

Natural: The cops are funny when they come to the area. They don’t really care unless someone gets stabbed. As for housing, they’ve been in the building and it has still been there. Try going down to the office and those people are just as ghetto as the neighbors. Time to get like the other folk and write a letter.

Yes. That is the Ms. Jones. She is actually getting bumped for Big Boi from LA. I used to listen to Wendy way back before I started my current job. Haven’t tuned into BLS (the radio station she is on) in years.

sHaE-sHaE: I didn’t even think to send the pics. Sounds like a good idea. Thanks.

Meleah: I don’t. I don’t care for it. They are only concerned with entertaining themselves.

Bad Neighbors. Very Bad.

I’d send my pics to management.

im’ low income. they are just straight ignorant.

is ms. jones the person wendy’s husband allegedly tried to kill? you listen to wendy urban? i tried to get tickets to her show….for some reason

All of that is what I experienced when I did live in lower income neighborhoods, and also what I deal with when I visit my brother in the Bronx.
One day when I visited the elevator in his building broke, and we had to take the stairs. I thought I would choke from the stench of about 200 different brands of piss mingled together from where guys just piss in the stairwell all year long. I routinely see garbage in the hallways there too, and the incinerator is just steps away. Too many people there are loud, ignorant and aggressive. The majority of males are lewd, harassing, nasty, aimless and disrespectful of all females, and anyone else, for that matter. I have to really put my mean face on when I go visit the fam up there, just to keep the knuckleheads a few steps back.

I, on the other hand, live in yuppieville, upper middle claas, hard working people with fancy titled jobs pulling down enough $$$ to eat out whenever you feel like it, do what you want when you want, vacation a few times a year, pay this expensive damn rent/maintenance, and keep a time share somewhere. I bust my ass and make sure that I will always make enough money to not to have to live anywhere less.

Unfortunately, my brother and his family are used to living in those poor conditions, and aren’t in the position to change it, like most people there.
I feel for them, and hope they will get out of that shit hole someday. If I ever get a big enough house in a quiet neighborhood, we’ll all be in it together!

Low income doesn’t have to mean low intelligence, but unfortunately, some of the members of that group have decided otherwise and demonstrate that daily.

That being said, there is still NO excuse for this. It’s dumb and I’m guessing they did this while drunk. If not then it’s even more pathetic. I have actually seen a bag of trash in the halls of my complex also. Usually it’s right after an all night party.

I wish I could be a morning person but I am not.

There’s no excuse for this kind of laziness and then people complain about being “stereotyped.”