Thursday

Ever since we moved into this apartment our downstairs neighbor has been complaining about us. She wrote a or more letters to the coop board complaining about the noise we were making. We eventually agreed to put some carpeting down and went as far as letting the super of the building to come up and inspect the apartment. Actually the coop rules say that the floor are a should be covered at least 85%.

I think we lived up to that requirement even though some carpets will have to be moved here and there to satisfy the 85% requirement. We have rugs and we also have carpets in the apartment. There is a difference between the two but I will not go into the explanation.

Anyway, we seemed to pacify the board and the building management because there was not a peep from anybody for a long time, until...

Today my wife and I ran into the woman who happened to live just below us and boy, she gave us a mouthful. It seems that we are very noisy people. We listen to the TV loud; we walk loud and stay up very late and then walk loud, we also vacuum the apartment loud and several times a day. She said that she was unable to sleep and her husband had to move into another bedroom because of us.

We really got pissed at all these accusations and gave it all back to her. This Russian bitch has nothing else to do but complain about us. We were standing on the street and arguing back and forth for quite a while.

But at the end we parted company smiling and promising that we will try to behave normal and I will learn to fly in order for my noisy feet not touching the ground.