Thin walls do not good neighbors make.

[rug]

[In_The_Wind]

1. Indeed

[snooper2]

2. Why is the doorknob on the wrong side?

[rug]

3. For what?

[snooper2]

4. to open the door, it should be on the right

[rug]

5. Leave it be. They're no geting along as it is.

[RC]

23. It is, if you are in the inside.

I've seen apartment doors open both ways. Both ways worked equally well for ingress and egress. There is no problem here.
My daughter lives in an apartment where the latch and lock are on the left, looking from the outside.

[MADem]

27. I don't think there's a rule.

My door opened that way in my very first apartment. It opens that way in my hundred year old home--it also opens that way in my vacation shack.

[Niceguy1]

6. I had a neighbor that would go wild every time her man

would get out of prison. Kinda sucks to have to listen to it all the time.

[rug]

7. Lol. Sorry, I just had an image of him getting antsy at his parole hearing.

[Niceguy1]

8. oh my god I can just see that.

they sure worked at making up for lost time though lol

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. Most overused phrase in the lexicon: "slut shaming"

No one called you a slut. They did ask you to SHADDUP.

[Niceguy1]

11. basic respect for her neighbors

No ine should have to listen to her enjoyment

[MADem]

28. Yes, I think that's the real issue. It doesn't matter what the deal is--if she's

happy, sad, annoyed or whatever; when you live in a community with thin walls, you need to be considerate of people who don't necessarily share your schedule!

[1000words]

16. +1

[MadrasT]

35. Yep.

You don't get a pass to be a jackass neighbor because "Sex is healthy" blah blah whatever.

[JHB]

36. The "post it for all to see" part is a factor here

Could've slipped a discrete request under the door or into the mail slot. Instead, things are more likely to get louder.

[daleanime]

10. ........

[Spirochete]

12. Would be easier

for the complaining neighbor to put on a record, so as not to have to hear the "trust and moans". Sounds like they live in a piece of shit crackerbox apartment complex, like many of them are.

[rug]

13. I think it's in Chicago. (Taboo Tabou).

[Spirochete]

14. Doesn't look too new

so it seems like it should have better walls. Or bigger doors to fit more nasty notes on. hehe

Doesn't sound like blood feud material - they'll probably work it out, hopefully.

[NBachers]

31. When I first read it, I thought it said Taco Taco

[MADem]

29. Or, better still, record it...and PLAY IT BACK against the wall at three in the morning. nt

[gopiscrap]

15. omg that's histerical

[freshwest]

17. Maybe they should meet.

[seveneyes]

42. Agree. Maybe they could work out their excess frustration together /nt

[Skittles]

18. misspelling "thrust"

*EGREGIOUS*

[rug]

19. At least she wrote moan with wiggly lines.

[Skittles]

21. yes INDEED

[rug]

22. x 100

[nyquil_man]

20. I like the use of shaky lettering for MOAN.

Makes it look terrifying.

[IrishAyes]

24. groannnnn....

You have no idea how much I love living alone in a big old house, even a 'fixer', with plenty of room between the neighbors. And it's not just for love of gardening either. Maybe I'm one of those cranks who loves humanity but can't stand people - at least not living elbow to elbow. I whine and complain about what I had to give up for this and what I have to endure for it - but it was a conscious, deliberate choice, not some weird fluke of circumstance. Maybe it's partly my current stage of life; when I was young, I lived in NY and LA and other megacities and loved it. Now I thrive on silence. The only reason I live in any kind of town at all is because the world's too dangerous a place now for me to be alone out in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes I get a wild urge to visit a real city again, but I go and lie down until it passes.

[MadrasT]

34. Heh

We are on the same page there. I live alone in a 4 bedroom, 3 bath house on an acre next to a horse
farm (and I still feel crowded).

I need my space.

This made me LOL:

Sometimes I get a wild urge to visit a real city again, but I go and lie down until it passes.

Every so often I go to a big city and pretty soon I am all "WHAT was I THINKING?! Should've stayed home."

[winter is coming]

25. When I was a starving student, I lived in a tiny apartment with paper-thin walls.

One year, the place next door was rented by a guy who'd have his friends over and they would complain to each other about how they weren't getting any. Their tales of woe were usually related late at night, just as I was trying to go to sleep. I got into the habit of using the "sleep" function on my clock radio because it's too hard to fall asleep while trying to laugh silently into your pillow.

[nomorenomore08]

26. Not taking sides here. But this is fucking hilarious.

[BayouBengal07]

30. I have a singing neighbor

And it pisses me off to no end. I don't want to hear your Whitney Houston impersonation. I'm trying to read.

[SummerSnow]

32. Damn, this can be a sitcom...

The moans in apt 517


lol

[politicat]

33. There's a brand new invention that should help...

Headphones.

Oh, wait. Not so new.

Headphones are the sole reason I survived two dorms and three crappy apartments without leaving passive-aggressive notes on my neighbors' doors.

(Not that I could look at some without giggling, because some of that pillow talk really only works in the moment, but no notes.)

[Silent3]

38. If what you need is quiet, especially when you're trying to sleep, headphones aren't likely to help.

Maybe there are some people who can sleep with headphones on, and aren't going to mind being woken up and having to reach for their headphones before trying to go back to sleep -- but I just don't see that as a generally viable solution.

[BlueJazz]

37. Don't know about anybody else but I kinda' got turned on by the whole thing.

[rug]

43. !

[B Calm]

39. Is this real?

[Silent3]

40. My last apartment neighbor problem would have needed an especially thick ceiling to fix.

At totally unpredictable times, around the clock, the kids in the apartment above ours would run back and forth and hop up and down and drag furniture around. They couldn't even walk quietly. They seemed totally incapable of any sort of locomotion, taking even a single step, that didn't involve slamming their heels down into the floor.

Complaints to the landlord didn't help. An eventual direct request didn't help. Thankfully we only had to be there for three and a half months -- this was a temporary arrangement after selling our old house, before our current house was finished being built.

Houses are better.

[LWolf]

41. That's what the classroom below me says

everyday when we stop for a dance break, lol.

Although we do try to dance with softer feet than we would in the gym, it doesn't always work out that way.

Apartments are fine if we are going to allow the global population to continue exploding; let's just build them better.

Says me, who lives on 6 acres at the dead end of a private dirt road next to miles and miles of public land, and STILL thinks the only neighbor is too close.