u/Scared_Hippo_7628

First things first, I want you to understand that my apartment complex is set up so that each common hall only accesses 10 apartments, and each common hall is only accessible through a physical key entry door. The idea is that not only is your personal apartment secure with a standard deadbolt, but each of the common hallways are only accessible through a similar level of security. With that out of the way, I HATE when these common hallway doors get propped open. I understand for cases like when you may be moving in or out, or potentially if you are having guests over, it may make sense to prop the door open. After all, the only way to get through into the common hall is to have a copy of the common hall key, and you must insert it every time you want to get in. I see how this can be annoying; however, this (like many other apartment complexes) is not necessarily the safest neighborhood. It’s not inherently a super dangerous or crime ridden place, but people have been robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot within the last year, and cars are broken into on a somewhat regular basis. My new neighbor LOVES rocks. They have taken some rocks from the yard area just feet away from the door, and they leave them right next to the door so they can easily prop the door open when they want to. My neighbor will prop the door open with these fuckin rocks any time they get the chance. They will prop the door open to go run to their car, to go run to the store, to go on vacation, to go to work, to go play pickleball, to steal shit from hot topic, to buy another drug rug. I actually don’t know what they are doing when they prop the door open, but I imagine it’s one of those things. Anyway, like I said before I hate the rocks. I don’t want my common hall door to be propped open and accessible to anyone and everyone who walks through the area. I still have a deadbolt on my door, and I always lock the deadbolt, even if I’m just taking the trash out. I NEVER leave my door unlocked. I have taken it upon myself from time to time to just kick the rocks back into the yard area and away from the door. Partially because I’m a little petty, and partially because the security of the building is pretty much always reduced, and that is concerning to me. If the neighbor has propped the door open and leaves it, I kick the rocks out. If the door isn’t propped open but there is a rock next to the door, I kick the rock out. It’s gotten to the point that it feels like a small ground war, us not knowing one another, but battling it out like trench warfare trying gain an advantage over the other. It was annoying but now it just makes me laugh, the efforts we both go through to fight this battle. It’s not much, but it takes a few extra seconds every day, and that’s funny to me. I’ve taken a few of the rocks hostage and am holding them as prisoners of war, but now that I’ve done this, the neighbor just replaced the hostage soldiers with new troops from the yard. It’s annoying, but it’s also funny. AND, they smoke a ton of weed. They smoke from sun up to sun down. It always stinks in the area. That is genuinely annoying. I don’t want to smell your weed all the time, and I certainly don’t want to hear you coughing constantly when you smoke. Anyway, rant over thanks for reading