I understand that some people are lost without institutions such as the military, prisons, or church. Like me, my roommate is in recovery, but he doesn't do NA (Narcotics Anonymous) he does church. When COVID hit, there was no more NA for me and no more church for him. I most certainly feel the loss of NA, but I haven't gone off the deep end. This guy is a hardcore fundamentalist Christian and while that is certainly not my preference, it works for him. On the 11th of May, this guy had his bedroom window open and he was blaring his minister's church sermon so loud that when I walked outside, I could hear it all the way down the street. It was also 3:15 am. It really pissed me off not because it woke me up, as I work the graveyard shift and this was on a night off for me. Still it was like the 4th time he did this, although it had never been quite as loud as it was that night. When Mom is asleep she is dead to the world, but that night it woke even her up. She was a bit freaked out and knocked on his door and yelling his name. He either didn't hear her or he was willfully ignoring her which made me very angry. I was also angry because as I said it was the 4th time. I hadn't said anything before because he and I were not on the best of terms. My main problem with him was that number one he is home all of the time, even before COVID. Before he went to work for 3 hrs a day and then was home the rest of the time using a ton of water with excess loads of laundry and taking 2 showers a day. Where I live you get fined a penalty if you use a lot of water and it's expensive as hell. We got another rate increase and I had asked him no fewer than 10 times and Mom asked him a few times not to take 2 showers a day and to limit them to 5 minutes. He simply did what he wanted anyway. Then this thing with blaring the preacher louder than a heavy metal party started and on the 11th, I totally lost my cool after I saw that he ignored my Mom. I banged very loud and hard on his wall yelling, "Dude are you fucking kidding me?" Instead of turning it down he banged right back on the wall. I felt blood rushing to my face and my cheeks got hot. "You know what I"m calling the cops!" I called the cops and it took a few minutes for them to get there. All the while I heard this screaming sermon loud enough to wake the dead. The sermon got turned off 5 minutes before the cops got there. To be honest I was disappointed because I wanted the cops to hear how loud it was. The cops told him that he couldn't be disturbing the peace like that, especially at that hour and they told me that I would have to evict him. "Great," I said. "There's not even any court during COVID. Everything is shut down." They said there is court, but it's all different now. I kind of tuned out because I was thinking how much of a pain in the ass it was going to be to get this guy to leave. He stuck to his "I'm not leaving," story for 2 days. My Mom got so upset she started crying and hyperventilating. I had to tell her to calm down and that this guy was not worth getting this upset over. I knew one thing. If he wouldn't leave, then I was going to make it very uncomfortable for him. I would shut off his cable and internet. All he does is stay in his room watching TV and blaring sermons. He told me that he thought I was disrespectful to bang on his door and call the cops on him. "Really dude? What exactly were you expecting candy and flowers?" By the end of the 2nd night he quietly told me that he and his friends would try to find another place for him to live. I thanked him and said, "Cool." It's been nice not having him in the house. He comes home everyday to get something and then leave. I haven't been able to pin him down as to when he plans on leaving. The end of the month? He's paid up until then. Is he leaving June 15th? That would be more than 30 days notice, but we would need $500 for half the month since rent there is $1000. I don't wish this dude any ill will. I want him to get well and leave. It makes me angry that Cali won't let people have church service. Just put people in every other pew and stay home if you're sick.
