Okay.  I live in Texas.  I live with lots of Mexicans.  I have no issue with that.  In fact, I think it should be mandatory that all people who live in Texas be bilingual in English and Spanish; white, black, asian, purple, green and mexican alike.

For the most part, I like Mexicans.  I am usually the only person that goes to bat for them in this state.  But they do have their quirks.

White people are guilty of the below too, but I haven’t seen it displayed with such stupidity before.  So this isn’t necessarily about the “fucking mexicans on my street”.  Just FYI.

My neighbor’s daughter is having a birthday party.  She has a DJ.  Apparently, she has a permit.  That’s better than any other party I have witnessed.  Her mother is home.  No drinking.  Good for them.  Good for the mom.  The kids are all very nice and very polite.  Good.  I hate calling the cops.

Now, I didn’t know all of this when I went down the street to the “hood” (seriously) hanging out in front of my neighbor’s house (sorry, but in my neighborhood, if you see a bunch of black and mexican kids hanging out in a giant group together, well, that’s just odd and you need to worry a great deal).  All I heard from god-awful rap, loud as hell, a bunch of black and mexican kids hanging out in front of my neighbor’s house, and of course, right as I walked out my door, one of those fricken’ maroon old style caddies with black-tinted windows and seven guys in it spouting rap while the car windows shake driving around in my cul-de-sac.

So you can imagine how pissed off I was when I walked out the door and saw this mess on my street.

So I go down, talk to the kids; find out how polite they are.  Explain to them that I was a teen once, and have done exactly what they have done.  Gave them pointers on how to not get busted, then asked them to turn it down.

Then, the guy tells me there is a DJ inside.  Okay, that was not what I wanted to hear.  You see, I have a MAJOR issue with the city giving permits out for DJs in neighborhoods.  I mean, duh, it’s going to be incredibly loud.  And I don’t care how many times you tell me in advance that you are going to have a party, you are going to piss me off with the music.  Period.  So don’t have a goddamned DJ at your house.

So, this very nice girl asks me if I want to talk to her mother.  Now, because I am pissed off at the DJ issue, I tell her yes.  So her mother comes out with her.  Both are extremely nice people.  But the mother can’t speak a word of fucking English.  Practically.  So here I am, living on a street with a passive, non-english speaking mother, a daughter having her (I guess) 16th birthday, and a city that granted a permit to have a DJ on the premisis on my street.

So I ask her, do you hear how loud it is?   And the mother looks at me like she has no idea what I am talking about.  So the daughter answers.  I ask the daughter (because I can’t even talk to the mother) if she bothered to let the neighbors know she was going to have a party.  She says, “Well, I went to that house and tried to tell them, but no one was home.”

So, as nice as I can, in my bitchy 35-year-old I can’t stand kids anymore voice, “Okay.  Next time you have a party, you need to distribute fliers on your neighbor’s doors.  You have until midnight.  If the party continues after midnight, I am calling the cops.”

I try to be nice when kids are partying.  These kids weren’t even drinking.  And had there been no DJ, I wouldn’t have even talked to the parent.  But damnit, I am SICK AND TIRED of cities providing permits for DJs in neighborhoods.  They should not be there.  They should only be allowed to play in public places, like parks and shit. 

So, poor girl, I probably hurt her feelings and made her feel really badly.  But I obviously live next to a person that just doesn’t give two rats’ asses about their neighbors, because anyone who does care, wouldn’t ever apply for a permit for a DJ for a party in their neighbhorhood to begin with.

People have no fucking respect for anyone else anymore.  Even if it’s just due to plain ignorance and stupidity.  Fuckers.