Renting a home close to downtown in Iowa City means that all your neighbors are college kids - and that's a hit or miss proposition. Some of these kids are cool and interesting. Many, however, have binge-drinking and a general lack of conscientiousness to offer the world. Anyway, on the fifth night of every week, things get especially loopy. The college kids call it "thirsty Thursday," i.e. time to get collectively wasted. Last night was hell: The alarm of a car parked right outside of our house kept getting triggered every five minutes or so. It was a malfunction of some kind. And every time it got triggered, the car's horn would blow long bursts for about two full minutes. This went on from about 2 a.m. until 7 a.m. I called the cops three times and was pissier every time I called. "We're working on it, sir." Whatever. Finally I just gave up.
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