So as many of you know, me and Delora have moved out of Hawaii and back to Ohio. Despite what people may think, this has little to do with fiscal matters and moreso to do with the insanity of other humans, namely the neighbors in our boarding house. I cannot make any official diagnosis, but I can speculate and detail the behaviors I have observed, some of which were so extreme that it made our stay there too unstable to remain living there.
I will go one by one through the list of neighbors and analyze what was up with them and in doing this will tell a bit of a story that ends with our return to Ohio.
Mario- Mario is an african american from the US mainland. I would classify him as one of the "good" neighbors and maybe one of the least problematic people in the house. He had a stroke at some point and it gave him kind of a grunting tick similar to Tourette's syndrome. Although mostly harmless, there was speculation that he may have been responsible for the LITERAL SHIT that repeatedly appeared in the bathtub of the house. Mario himself blamed "tub shitting vandals" for the occurrences. It is unknown to this day who actually did it. Despite being harmless, Mario endured a fair share of bullying in the home from his steaks being stolen and being compared to fat albert to literally being assaulted. Last I checked, he was staying away from the house.
Victoria- Victoria is a half Hawaiian with obsessive compulsive disorder. This manifests prominently in her spending entire days bagging up any menial piece of trash she sees. I am pretty sure that she is one of the good ones, though some people whom were definitely worse than her made her out to be a pathological thief. In the end she helped us by giving us the landlord's number in a time of need. She was a very strong christian and though her speech could be eccentric and defensive often, she ended every sentence with "god bless". Sure she was a bit crazy but like Mario, she was mostly harmless.
Ming- Ming is a mentally disabled Chinese young adult who cannot speak english. Her backstory is rather sad; she was sex trafficked until she jumped off a cargo ship on a Hawaiian harbor and would sleep on the steps of a church which later helped her find a home. I would consider her to be neutral due to her pervasive pattern of kleptomania and secrecy, though some people may have lied about her stealing for their own benefit. One funny incident was when Jasmine mistook her for the tub shitting vandal due to testimony from a neighbor (who was highly malignant) and made a "Ming poops in the tub" song to mock her, but upon learning of her disability she tried to use google translate to apologize and it came out in Chinese as "I apologize for the song of the dirty old man who does dirty in the tub as you and your child nod in approval." A smooth apology indeed.
"J", Alex, and a man whose name I forget- These 3 were basically single men who went to work and kept to themselves. Totally neutral, and they had the cleanest rooms in the home. Other than that I know little about these guys.
Deborah- Deborah is a part Hawaiian women whom is also part Caucasian. One would hardly suspect the latter, as she spent a lot of time going on drunken rants of how the Hawaiian people ate captain cook and the "white man", and how the Hawaiians are going to kick out said white man and make it a full on kingdom again. In essence, she was a racist bitch. She liked to put on a pity party of massive proportions for herself too. The times we spent speaking to her were basically a long narrative of her abusive parents, abusive husband, how her mind is "fucked", how she thinks she is autistic, how social security and the government are conspiring against her and are going to haul her to jail and take her kids for not reporting a job and being "fucked in the head", how she is poor and can't afford food for her kids, and how nobody's issues could possibly be as bad as hers nor their life as hard. Delora fell for every bit of this pity party, and in efforts to help this ungrateful, entitled, pitiful, and racist wretch, she bought her and her children 50 dollars worth of food out of OUR POCKET and even got her daughter a birthday cake when she could not afford it, as well as try to get her a counselor and babysitting her kids for free. Oh, did I mention she is also abusive? She beats her kids with a flashlight for yelling too loud like kids do, and sometimes when they do something productive such as work on machines as her boy (whom she insists is "retarded" and "dumb") likes to do she will smack them for "acting like they are smarter than her". On top of it, she treats them like total garbage when she talks to them. When Jasmine tried to show them an anti drug PSA she mocked it. One particularly nasty incident was when Deborah got very drunk and tried to tell us that the house was demon possessed (prompting Delora to cover the frames of doors with holy oil and pray for the demon to leave). She took it really far, going as far as to pretend to try to choke herself to death in front of her terrified sobbing children and acting possessed including threatening body language towards us and her children and sadistic cackling. She then tried to claim that it was a "joke". Fucking nutcase.
Brooklyn- This bitch along with her boyfriend is the true main antagonist of the house and the reason we had to leave. She claimed to be bipolar, but I'd say she was more borderline than anything with a hint of maligant narcissism. Her background is that her mother sex trafficked her and got her on meth, go figure... only for her knight in shining armor to come along and they both lived happily ever after in their life of crime, or did they? Turns out he was quite abusive, but I'll get to that in a bit. So Brooklyn in many ways appealed to Delora's desire to have a female friend, and at first she filled that role quite well. They kind of bonded over their issues as she omitted just how sick she actually was. She even held Delora's guinea pig and talked about how much she loved it; a sickening foreshadowing in hindsight. And her antics? How about beating up Ming (the autistic non english speaking formerly trafficked lady) for stealing when in fact, THEY were the ones stealing, not her? What about using knives to pick peoples' locks and rob them blind? What about putting on a nice act just to totally fuck us over and for what? Because we started to avoid her and her man when they showed themselves to be horrible people and she did not like the thought of us disliking her or, in her own words- "you guys seem to have a problem, and the more people give us problems, the more we will act crazy".
Fletcher- If his girlfriend Brooklyn is the borderline, then Fletcher is the sociopath. He never displayed much beyond the guise of a "chill" guy where he spoke in a very neutral but seemingly friendly way. He would speak very casually of his various crimes: shooting at somebody's house for "talking shit", killing somebody's dog for "having a problem", his various "hustles", and active desire to blackmail somebody. He was very exploitive of others around him. For instance, he had a friend named Joe. Joe was a rich homosexual and grandiose narcissist that he met in prison. He made Joe think they were cool and openly joked about how he would flatter Joe just so Joe would spend money on him. Behind the scenes he spoke of Joe like he was nothing like a cash hustle and joke. Narcissist or not, this treatment was fucked up. He also took advantage of an old man molesting Deborah's daughter to justify robbing the man blind for his own profit, yet gave none of the money to Deborah and even got mad that she called the cops on the man because he has an active warrant. On top of all this, Fletcher is abusive to Brooklyn, not that cares. And when he gets mad, he never looks mad. He just looks at you with these snakelike, murderous eyes and all you see is an empty wasteland of a man.
To tie all this together: Jasmine helped Deborah in the ways I detailed. Due to the tub shitting incidents we tried to leave the house and live on a boat we found on craigslist but it was a scam so we moved back. Before this scamming Brooke and Fletcher largely ignored us, but they must have taken note of our gullibility and resolved.... and succeeded, to befriend us; putting on the masks that I described to seem like good people. And slowly that mask slipped. Brooklyn darkened into bipolar depression after awhile and after we caught Fletcher in the act of abusing her and got threatening to us. After this we resolved to avoid them and learned about how all of their deeds came together to paint an evil picture. They sensed this disillusionment and came to our door pounding and flashing a tazer to threaten us. Then we eavesdropped on them conspiring to kick our ass (Mario saw this whole thing and quietly gestured for us to get out of there), and we fled in the dead of night with only monster energy drinks to keep awake, and we had to sleep outside a police station in the grass until my family arranged to ticket back to Ohio. And when we took an officer back to the house to get our things, Brooklyn walked up to Jasmine, smiled, and said "your guinea pig is waiting for you" in a sweet sing song tone. We quickly learned, they had decapitated her guinea pig and robbed us. And devious Deborah, whom we had helped so much, had taken pictures of the dead animal and tried to tell the cop that WE did that. But the observant officer, who we had brought to protect us gave this enlightening inquiry: "how did you get through the locked door to take that photograph?". It gives me chills to think of what would have happened had we not brought the officer....
Needless to say, we were on the plane to Ohio the next night.
