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How well do you know your next-door neighbors?

There is a crazy cat lady that lives next door. Her name is Wanda and she runs a business out of her apartment, Red Diaper Productions. She's an odd one. I think at one point she had kids and a husband maybe, but I'm not sure. She once gave me a key to her apartment to feed her cat(s?) and pass on the key to some people she was letting stay there for the weekend. So of course I checked out the size of her apartment and the layout and her crazy knickknacks all over the place, including her pictures. I don't feel bad about snooping because she did give me a key and I didn't open anything up or anything like that. She is considerably more nosy than I am as she has invited herself into my apartment on more than one occasion. Once when I first moved in and we were painting the apartment. The painter had popped the lock and I didn't know the trick to opening the door, so I knocked on her door for help. She opened the door then walked right in. I didn't quite know what to do about it, so I thanked her for her help and kept the door open so she could leave. Then she walked deeper into the apartment, commenting on how much of a pain it must be to get the place painted and how her apartment is laid out differently. I thought about following her, but I thought it might encourage her, so I stayed at the door, holding it open. When she left, I thanked her again and closed the door immediately. Now, I'd say that's a lot more nosy than me. At least I was invited to come in.

Also, she uses big rubber gloves to shove her oversized trashbags down the trash chute. From this I know she is not very bright. I passed her trying to shove a full-size Glad bag down the teeny chute and she commented on how people must have had less trash when the building was made. I told her it's easier to get trash down when you use smaller bags and take them out more often, to which she replied "I have too much trash to use little bags." Um...you are stupid. I left her with her arm still shoving garbage down the trash chute. A few times, you can tell she'd given up and just left the giant trash bag in the hallway next to the chute.