I have been waiting for my neighbors to come home. The ones that wake me at 3 in the morning having very loud sex. The sex isn’t loud, she is. I don’t mind, in fact I kind of get off on hearing others screw, but not if it wakes me up on a day when I need to go to work. So I keep checking to see if their light is on. I don’t think tonight is going to be the night for our chat. Our building is notorious for leaving notes. Passive aggressive notes that come from our neighbors acting like children. Garbage isn’t put out, recycling bins are left to flow around the street and so on. What I don’t want is to be another one of those notes. I am going to go so against the British code of ethics. I am going to talk about sex. Well, to be honest, I am not sure how I am going to bring it up but I expect it will be something like:
What I am about to say is going to initially be really awkward. I have been woken up at 4 in the morning quite a few times in the past week from the sounds of your voice. (Insert smile here). I was wondering if you would mind closing your window so we don’t hear it in the corridor. I just want to clarify it is the timing of the noise and not the noise itself that offends. If you keep it down I will bring you a lube sample from work.
2 comments:
Well my comment needed a rewrite...
Not an easy thing to broach is it?
You could try the ultra nice approach too (your's is nice). My experience working in customer service has led me to believe that if you approach someone nicely you're more likely to get them to listen.
You could joke around about how you know they have a very active lovelife due to the thin walls. Strike up the commonality that connects you and I would imagine just letting them know you can hear will be enough.
We once had a neighbour bang on the wall to tell us to keep quiet and we were sensitive to our own sounds ever after.
Post a Comment