I confronted the neighbors.
I finally confronted the neighbors about their insane, screaming kid. Actually, she’s probably just bratty rather than insane. She’s like 12, but throws tantrums like a two-year-old. She screams, knocks things over, etc. I’ve never run into this type of behavior before. The problem is that she is so loud I can hear it all over my entire apartment. Once before I got mad and hammered on their door so I could have it out with them, but they didn’t open up (maybe they couldn’t hear my knocking over her yelling). Anyway, this time I banged on the door and the mother opened. She seemed to think the whole screaming thing was funny. Anyhow, I talked to her, told her I could hear her daughter all over my apartment, it was really annoying, that even people outside playing cards could hear everything she was saying, and she was too old to behave like that. Some of that is not too diplomatic, but the mom didn’t seem too offended. I didn’t shout or anything like that. I’m glad I talked to them before getting too annoyed.