I live in a building where the apartments are flush against each other. I could hear just about everything. My neighbor has a friend who comes to visit him now and then. But she's not really a friend. She's an alcoholic. While she's here, she spends hours shouting obscenities at him, throwing things, slamming doors, banging on the walls.
It's intermittent; it happens a few times an hour, day or night. Just when I'm about the call the police, it stops. A few days ago she raged for twenty straight minutes, most of it banging on the front door. Apparently, he locked her out. Unfortunately, he eventually let her back in. I'm going to ask him when she's gone why he ever lets her stay.
I don't hear him shout back, but he's had throat cancer, so he couldn't shout if he wanted to. He's not a large guy, and he's feeble. I can't see him initiating abuse.
The last time she was in town, she squatted in the basement. That was neither safe nor sanitary, but at least it was a little more peaceful.
She's stayed with him four times, usually for a week to a month, and always it's like this. To describe her, she wears her hair bleach-blond and short, and she has tattoos, most prominently, on her face. Not artistic ones, either. She's in her forties or fifties.
So, the police came, and now it's quiet, until she gets back from the station.
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