#but they would have been fine if an adult man hadn't tried to scale them

[flowersforvax]

Btw yesterday I looked out of the window and got a little spooked when I saw a shirtless man in basketball shorts on our balcony since I a) did not know the gentleman, it is b) on the third floor (counting the german way), c) the only entry or exist I know of goes into our apartment and d) I repeat, I do not know the man.

Turns out he's our new-ish neighbor looking for their cat and he somehow scaled the wall from their ground level backyard (I assume a ladder was involved but I didn't stay to check)

Additional information: we have these big wooden planters with integrated lattice in the back and one of them had kind of caved in recently which I thought was strange. The grass growing in there also had a weird flattened spot. With the knowledge I now possess I have to assume this isn't the first time he's come up here and he's the one who broke it, right? I even asked! I said "Wait is that what happened to the broken lattice??" And the disembodied voice of his girlfriend just apologized again without admitting or denying anything.

Like. What the fuck, right? I keep swinging back and forth between: "maybe I overreacted, they were just looking for their cat" and "wtf actually I did not react enough, they literally broke our shit and pretended it didn't happen, like children trying to get away with breaking the good china!"

We are the house next door! There's only one last name on the doorbells! It is not a mystery who to ask "Hey, I think our cat jumped onto your balcony, can you check?" before resorting to entering and breaking (...in that order lmao)

Rant over. Jesus christ