Yesterday a friend told me about a problematic neighbor at her condominium complex. This is in a very nice neighborhood in an extremely expensive city. The neighbor is an unemployed 30-year-old man with serious mental health issues he medicates by smoking crack (sharing via the ventilation system). The police are regular visitors. Neighbors feel unsafe.

The man’s father pays the rent on the condo. I’m sure he has an attorney on retainer who deals with what will probably be an escalating series of legal issues. As long as the guy isn’t living in the father’s home, I guess he thinks it’s worth it.

The story reminded me that a reader had sent me this advertisement from a college newspaper dated November 3, 1978:

H. Lee Busch bought his problem child a restaurant in Alma, Michigan. The farther from Bloomfield Village, the better. This advertisement appeared some three weeks before a Busch family problem was eradicated once and for all in Chris Busch’s bedroom at his parents home at 3310 Morningview Terrace in Bloomfield Village.

Good food always!