Love thy neighbour…not

Christmas came early for me this year. On the 18th Dec. I was just on my way out to work when I noticed a piece of paper had been slipped under my door - what’s this I thought? Well as it turns out it wasn’t a nice neighbourly Christmas card but a letter of complaint. I have enclosed it for your pleasure below. To pick up the story from the start…A little while ago an oldish couple of guys moved in the flat below mine. Out of the two, one seemed communicative and replied politely to a hello greeting whereas the other would just darkly look at you without offering so much as a nod - I’ll call him Adolf. Fast forward to the 18th Dec. and I got that letter from Adolph that he cowardly dropped under my door whilst I was in the shower. If I’m loud, I don’t mind being told that, but that letter came out of nowhere (especially since I did ask the previous neighbour if we were too noisy - they assured me we were not). I would have readily accepted all his comments had he had the courage to come and tell me that I was making too much noise, but no he wrote that piece of crap (you also have to bear in mind that I live in a building where noise insulation was not a priority at the time). I get the very same noises from my upstairs neighbour - but I accept it - it’s a block of old flats. That very same evening (around 6pm!) , true to his word, it seems we were making too much noise once again so he found nothing better to do than put techno music full blast on his stereo. Why do I write this today? Well because I’m ashamed to have subjected some overseas friends of ours to this Australian friendliness. Last night (10pm this time) once again he put his techno music full blast again - it seems we were talking too loudly. I think that his behaviour is very rich considering that he drills holes at 10:30pm, that he fires incense sticks morning and night that engulf the whole property with that cancerous smoke, puts his techno full blast and bothers the neighbours more than me (I loooove techno music you see!). So dear neighbour, if you happen to read this, I have two words for you and they are not happy birthday!

Posted in Of mention | Published on January 20th, 2007