Saturday, April 25, 2009
Do you love or hate your neighbors?
My hubs and I live in a basement apartment with only one apartment above us. Some days are quiet, others so noisy you just want to scream and bang on the ceiling. Most days are quiet until about 3 or 4 pm, then their brother in law and friends come over, the drinking starts and they turn up the same tunes, thump loudly on the floor in beat to the same old music, make corny jokes and laugh very loudly, yell, whoop and holler and generally are just very loud. Luckily, our neighbors are also kind enough to shut everything down at 10:30 or 11 pm, which is great. Some other pet peeves we have are: 1. We put out 1 bag every two weeks of garbage. They put in 4-6 bags of garbage every week so sometimes we have no room for our garbage in their can and we have to take out 2-3 bags sometimes to put ours in or we get charged for our garbage. (each household is only allowed 1 bag of garbage or 1 pail.) 2. If we are doing our laundry, then all of a sudden (even if they just did theirs the day before) they have to do laundry and take the machines up for 3 days to a week at a time. They pull our wet clothes from the washer and dump them either on top of our dirty clothes or place them on top of the dry clothes from the dryer in a basket. Same for the clothes in the dryer. Instead of taking the dryer and turning it back on to finish drying our clothes, they bag the half dry clothes up and leave them on the floor in front of the door. 3. Parking...Until we finally cracked on them one day because my...erm...shapely body couldn't squeeze through the tiny gap they left, they would always park so close together you had to do the limbo under the guys truck mirror. He'd also park diagonally in the drive too, now he has his truck in fairly straight most days. 4. Heat and Cold-they "own" the thermostat and it drives us crazy. We have to ask them to turn on the heat or turn it off. A couple days ago, we had a warm day and they had all the windows in their house open and the heat still blasting. I told them that they were roasting us out because the heat would go on for about 10 mins, then turn off for five, then come back on and we only have one tiny window in our living room right now that opens. Today is a cold day and the heat is off...ugggh So, pardon the lengthy discussion here, but I was just wondering how you feel about your neighbors?
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