Posting here for traffic:
Hoping someone can provide a bit of perspective as I'm feeling a bit shaken.
We live in an apartment block. In the 10 years we've been here, we've only had a run in with the lady who lives above us who'd always wait until we'd opened our balcony doors/were on our balcony before she'd decided to water her plants/wash the balcony 'floor' (these are metal floors with holes in them). We raised this being an issue with her directly many times and and also reported her to the building management. She carried on for over a number of months and I then called out the police and she stopped.
This morning, my children were in our corridor with their bikes while I was collecting last minute things to head out. Out comes another neighbour and starts shouting and threatening me that she’d break my DC bikes if we didn’t move asap. (This is someone who I was previously polite to and would say hi/bye to but she stopped talking to me a few years ago when I told her her Ds was weeing on the neighbour below hers washing). I told her to stop being ridiculous and she swore some more and told me she’d break me in half too! I told her any more threats and I’d report her to the police. My children started crying so I told my husband to take them out as I locked up but as I was leaving she blocked my way and told me she thought I was an arrogant bitch who thought I was better than anyone else in the building and that she knew how to bring people like me in line! I told her to move out of my way but she wouldn’t move- not even when her husband came out and tried to move her out of the way. She told me the lady I’d had an issue with previously had told her that I’d said she (this morning’s neighbour) was a troublemaker with a criminal record!!! At this point her children came out and started crying when they saw her livid and shouting at me. Anyway, lots more abuse and she finally moved when my husband came to check why I was taking so long.
What shall I do next? We’re moving out on Friday but I’m left deeply upset by this whole episode. She told me she was going to make my life hell and she’d be ‘watching’ my children too. I’m really worried she’ll try to hurt or sabotage us in some way. She was unhinged this morning and I don’t want anymore repeat episodes like this. To make matters worse, I went to the car and my husband had an almighty row with me telling me I was in the wrong and should’ve gone back into our flat. He told me I was at fault and liked an argument (we’re having a few issues where he is the one that has followed me around rooms to create an arguments when I’ve been silent not to make matters worse).
Throughout the argument she referred to me by my professional title (i know it doesn’t sound like I have one by the way this is written but I’m in shock and my fingers can’t catch up with my brain) and said she knew where I worked and what I’d been writing about online (academic research) and that she’d contact my workplace to them I’m a fraud!!!