Our ¨friendly¨¨ neighbor

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Apparently, while I was at the workshop, Susan met our upstairs neighbors. It was not the best of meetings. Our landlord went out of his way to tell us to use the roof of our building to dry our clothes. Well, we have done this numerous times without any problem. The other day, as Susan was taking some clothes off the line, our neighbor came up and told her that the lines were his and that she should buy her own and stop using his. He was upset because his wife had no place to hang their clothes. Susan replied to him by saying, ¨hello I´m Susan - nice to meet you - I am sorry but I didn´t realize these were yours.¨ He apparently was not very nice. This is all interesting because his lines take up over half of the space on the roof and we were using a very small part of it - in fact, half of the clothes were on a smile line that I put up under a small section of roof. Anyhow, Susan asked me not to stew over it, she already did that and decided it was not worth getting mad over. I agree and in fact am going to be downright neighborly. I am going to buy enough clothesline to divide the roof into nine equal sections - seeing as how there are nine apartments. I am then going to go to each of our neighbors and tell them that I took the liberty of putting up clothesline for them - they need not thank me or pay me and that I hope it will help them when they do laundry. So the jerk above me, because of his rudeness, will now have 1/9 of the roof instead of over ½.

We also noticed that our lightbulb outside of our door was stolen. I can´t specifically blame anyone, but we were the only ones with a bulb outside our door and now our neighbor above us has one and we don´t - interesting. You know, some things cross cultural barriers and some do not. Being friendly to your neighbors is something that knows no barriers - I am not going to start a war with this guy - I´m just going to shower him with kindness - like being nice to all my neighbors by putting up clotheslines for all.

I´ll keep you all posted!!!

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Comments

[Dorota]

Stolen Lightbulb
Jeremey, Maybe in an act of neighborly kindness you could buy your upstairs neighbor a lightbulb and give it to him as a gift so he won't steal yours. Just a suggestion. -Dorota

[Allison]

Hilarious
Lmao! Rock On Jeremy! Peace!

[anonymous]

You know who
Jer, I can make this cat disappear. For 12 meters of clothesline, I'll make it look like a suicide. Thomas Edison didn't bust his ass making lightbulbs, just to have some dude steal yours.