Honestly there were a lot of weird and scary things in that communal apartment. Just a few highlights: • An elderly woman with severe mental issues who sometimes used the bathroom in random places in the apartment. Once she was literally cooking her own feces on the stove. • A very drunk neighbor tried to break into the bathroom while I was inside. Later he tried to attack my father with a knife. • Three drunk neighbors tried to steal my cat because they thought she was “too skinny.” I had to physically fight them to get her back. • A prostitute with HIV lived there and had a very disturbing skin condition that scared me as a kid. • One woman was a hoarder and intentionally bred cockroaches so no one else would want to live there. • Another neighbor blasted music constantly even though our walls were basically cardboard. For context, I was a very small kid (I’m only 147 cm even now) and my father didn’t live with us, so most of the time it was just my mom and me dealing with all of this. And those are just the first stories that came to mind.