# Fuck You, Pothead neighbor. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778 "2014-09-28T14:54:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/181 "2014-10-03T00:51:46Z")
True. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/182 "2014-10-03T03:00:09Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > **D\_Odds** , there is no formal building management. This is not a condo or co-op situation. Therefore, at least in this state, the ability of one tenant to react to the behaviors of another tenant are greatly reduced. I assume someone is in charge of collecting rent, overseeing common areas, grounds maintenance, etc. If you are writing checks (or sending automatic transfers - it is the 21st century after all), the payee should be the property manager/landlord, and they’re the one to whom you should complain. No guarantee they’ll do anything, but it is part of the job of being a landlord in multi-family units. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/183 "2014-10-03T03:07:15Z")
Agreed. That is the landlady. However, this is a normal NYC apartment building. No common grounds past the indoor hallways and staircases. No grounds outside at all. ( the laws concerning who is liable for maintenance/ injury on the sidwalks of New York City are fascinating. ) She has not been spoken to as of yet. If the situation returns, she will come to the building for a good sniff herself. ( She is not living on premises ). ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/184 "2014-10-03T12:45:45Z")
As a lifelong NYer/LIer, I’m very familiar with NYC apartment buildings. Even the exterior and the indoor hallway of a two-family building need lighting, and sidewalks need shoveling in winter, and all too often you get two residents who wouldn’t lift a finger to change a lightbulb (and bitch and moan that it is not being changed rather than mention it to the landlord/landlady). Happy to own my own four walls in Queens, though there’s not much distance between my walls and either of my neighbors’ four walls. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/185 "2014-10-03T13:01:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Angrily denouncing and insulting everyone who disagrees with you is a great way to go through life, isn’t it? Plus people don’t try to borrow money from you. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/186 "2014-10-03T14:46:13Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Can you please pit the Beat Poets next? Lousy Fauvists, with their vivid colors and bold brush strokes! GRRR!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/187 "2014-10-03T15:05:36Z")
Assholes with their goddamn barbeque out on the patio all the time. I have every right not to smell that shit in my apartment! ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/188 "2014-10-03T19:12:24Z")
I gave up caffeine at the same time I gave up pot. Ever since, The Lord speaks through me. If you have any questions, here’s your chance. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/189 "2014-10-03T19:23:37Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I gave up caffeine at the same time I gave up pot. Ever since, The Lord speaks through me. If you have any questions, here’s your chance. I always suspected that trying something like that would make you crazy. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/190 "2014-10-03T19:47:48Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I gave up caffeine at the same time I gave up pot. Ever since, The Lord speaks through me. If you have any questions, here’s your chance. You’ll likely live longer; but why? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/191 "2014-10-03T19:57:12Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I gave up caffeine at the same time I gave up pot. Ever since, The Lord speaks through me. If you have any questions, here’s your chance. > [@kayaker](#): > > You’ll likely live longer; but why? > 😃 It will only seem longer. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/192 "2014-10-03T20:59:04Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Lousy Fauvists, with their vivid colors and bold brush strokes! GRRR!!! I have the right not to subject my valuable eyeballs to this perfervid onslaught by these charlatans and laudanum fiends of so-called artists ! I complained to the woman in the souvenir shop and she sighed elaborately and handed me a form titled “We Welcome Your Feedback”, so clearly I am not alone in denouncing this fraudulent imposition by deluded scribblers, opium-eating mountebanks, and Henri Bloody Matisse! Sir, I have the honour to remain, An Outraged Taxpayer ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/193 "2014-10-03T22:20:24Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Lousy Fauvists, with their vivid colors and bold brush strokes! GRRR!!! ☹ Completely derainged, you are. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778/194 "2014-10-05T04:15:46Z")
You’d better be careful what you wish for; he could switch from pot to booze! [WILLIE NELSON BECOMES MAUREEN DOWD’S ‘MARIJUANA MIYAGI’](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/willie-nelson-maureen-dowd-marijuana-miyagi-20140922) > [@](#): > > Elsewhere in the column, Nelson explained why he had started smoking weed in the first place. “I found out that pot is the best thing for me because I needed something to slow me down a little bit,” Nelson told Dowd. Referring to his past as a “mean drunk,” to use Dowd’s phrasing, he also said that if he had continued to drink heavily, “there’s no telling how many people I would have killed by now.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-pothead-neighbor/699778.md?page=9)