We have these neighbors who live directly above our heads. They are nice people, and are actually children of our landlords, but sometimes, they really get under my skin. I will share 3 examples:
1) We have two regular sized garbage cans outside, one with our house number on it, for us, and another for them. For some reason, they don't seem to be able to make the distinction between the two. Granted, this problem is a lot better now than it used to be, but I will still mention it. They regularly fill their own garbage can within days of it being emptied, and promptly move to ours, rendering us unable to take our garbage out. It is so frustrating having a chuck-full garbage can just because someone else has a lot of junk, every week, and they think they should be able to use your can too. So I am stuck with stinky garbage inside until the garbage man comes. I have absolutely no problem with people topping off other's garbages, say, the morning of garbage day. This way, you don't inconvenience the people whose garbage can it actually is!
2) My second pet peeve is their use of the shared washer and dryer. Not only do they wash their clothes way too frequently, but they leave them in the washer for days, or even weeks, rendering us unable to wash our own clothes without pulling theirs out. I don't like touching other people's underwear too much, call me weird. Most of the time I just wait it out until they remember that they forgot to finish their laundry that they started last week, but sometimes, I run out of clothes! So I can't wait any longer! Also, sometimes my waiting approach doesn't work out the way I'd hoped because the only reason they remember about the old clothes is because they brought down new clothes, which doesn't quite free up the utilities for us.
3) Ok, last one. This is actually the real reason I'm even writing about this today, because it happened today and I've been putting up with the other stuff for a long time. At 6:30 this morning, yes, AM! I woke up startled because the sound I woke up to was the Office Theme song BLARING from their TV. I have never heard their TV that loud before, EVER. It sounded like it was in our apartment. You've GOT to be KIDDING ME! And not only that, they left it on for two hours, watching the ENTIRE third season at this ridiculously loud level of noise. So much for sleeping in on Sunday morning.
Other than that, I am a happy person and have a good sunday afternoon!
1) We have two regular sized garbage cans outside, one with our house number on it, for us, and another for them. For some reason, they don't seem to be able to make the distinction between the two. Granted, this problem is a lot better now than it used to be, but I will still mention it. They regularly fill their own garbage can within days of it being emptied, and promptly move to ours, rendering us unable to take our garbage out. It is so frustrating having a chuck-full garbage can just because someone else has a lot of junk, every week, and they think they should be able to use your can too. So I am stuck with stinky garbage inside until the garbage man comes. I have absolutely no problem with people topping off other's garbages, say, the morning of garbage day. This way, you don't inconvenience the people whose garbage can it actually is!
2) My second pet peeve is their use of the shared washer and dryer. Not only do they wash their clothes way too frequently, but they leave them in the washer for days, or even weeks, rendering us unable to wash our own clothes without pulling theirs out. I don't like touching other people's underwear too much, call me weird. Most of the time I just wait it out until they remember that they forgot to finish their laundry that they started last week, but sometimes, I run out of clothes! So I can't wait any longer! Also, sometimes my waiting approach doesn't work out the way I'd hoped because the only reason they remember about the old clothes is because they brought down new clothes, which doesn't quite free up the utilities for us.
3) Ok, last one. This is actually the real reason I'm even writing about this today, because it happened today and I've been putting up with the other stuff for a long time. At 6:30 this morning, yes, AM! I woke up startled because the sound I woke up to was the Office Theme song BLARING from their TV. I have never heard their TV that loud before, EVER. It sounded like it was in our apartment. You've GOT to be KIDDING ME! And not only that, they left it on for two hours, watching the ENTIRE third season at this ridiculously loud level of noise. So much for sleeping in on Sunday morning.
Other than that, I am a happy person and have a good sunday afternoon!
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