when it is you that becomes the dreadful neighbour...

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Dear Mark,
One of your pots has fallen from its window sill onto the terrace below.
We wondered if you might secure the pots with a bit of rope or something to
make sure they can't fall. We are especially worried about the pots on the
window sill nearest next door, since they might fall directly onto us when
we are coming out of the house through the back door!
Probably never happen but one does feel a little worried every time we go in
and out.
Thanks

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Set fire to the pots and push them off the ledge.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

In 13 years living here I have had floods which affected my downstairs neighbour four times.

i. Bath overflow while I worked on some piece. The water ran down the flex and filled his glass lampshade like a fishbowl. The light was still on, and shone out dimly orange through the dirty water (water dirty cz I guess it picked up dust beneath my floorboards — I don't run baths using dirty water).
ii. Horizontal rainstorm when I left my kitchen window open. The puddle on the floor seeped down and stained her kitchen.
iii. Bath overflow while I worked on some piece. The water fused her electrics. I realised and left a note for her — but as it was absolutely dark on her landing I had to indicate the "DANGER POSSIBLY LIVE ELECTRICS AND WATER" message with a little nightlight candle left on her doorstep.
iv. Not very long after iii, and only a day after I'd been in a car accident, I was going to casuality for an x-ray and left the basin tap dripping. The runaway was obviously clogged: while I was away — three hours wait for my x-ray — the basin filled and overflowed, and brought down her entire bathroom ceiling.

She has always been VERY nice about all this and insurance took care of it.

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you Nick: they were terribly sweet about it. They have a month old baby, is I think why they are a bit fractious.

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(oh btw i. says "his" bcz it was b4 "she" moved in — he wz nice abt it also, possibly bcz the fishbowl thing wz kinda amazing to see)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Were you aiming the plant pot at anyone in particular?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i was aiming it at everyone in general but i missed

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

alas...

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The fishbowl thing happened to me once last year during a ferocious rainstorm. It was pretty amazing (& scary)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The man downstairs puts on a big show of worrying that he will be hit by falling pots all the time, but they are well-secured as I have shown him twice now. If you're reading this, Franco, you're really being a drama queen about the pots.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was Kogan that pushed the pot over.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 26 July 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm always the neighbor who comes in ultra late, has the loud friends, floods the place etc.

i am also the neighbor who always watches the place for you, walks for your dogs, is generally friendly, and for those qualities (+ sexual favors) tends to be forgiven for all my sins

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like a good balance, H. I am always the neighbour who is actually in when my parents have told the neighbours I will be out when they're away so can they come and feed the cat, please?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, that sentence gave me a headache.

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I once got a note under the door for keeping those next door up half the night because I was making too much noise while uh... vaccuuming... yeah.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 26 July 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I try my best, H.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I got in trouble with the woman upstairs for flushing the loo at night.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

are you filling her lampshade?

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, bad joke, referring to mark s.'s post above

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

best euphemism ever

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what I was thinking, oops.

She was upstairs H.!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

best plumbing evah!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

now that's a euphemism!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 26 July 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Best plumbing it is it is!!!!!

(mark s: you need to better schedule your "working" on those your "pieces")

(That said, water i/s of houses may be big mistake of Western Man etc)

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i went next door 2 years ago and a bunch of people shouted "its robbie williams". this freaked me out, i took a dr dre cd and left quickly

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I am the neighboor who nervously collects the mail form the box before skittering back up stairs, and never seems to emit odors or rays of any kind.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 27 July 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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