What is going on in the room next door to you?

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I am in an office, but next door I can clearly hear someone giving some kind of presentation, only to burst into a chorus of "Loving You" on an acoustic guitar. APPLAUSE!!! (WTF??)

― adaml (adaml), Monday, 29 September 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Housemate sleeps. Next door neighbours sleep.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 29 September 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

someone clearing their throat and taking a dump, probably. my desk is next to the toilets

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 29 September 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Room right next to me: Mom's bedroom. Mom is downstairs. Ergo, nothing.

Right outside my window: a view of next door and our street. Loads of cars and the occasional bus racing past. Next-door neighbors probably eating dinner at the moment. Elderly couple. Lovely, sweet people. Husband's disabled. Wife went to Dad's visitation.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Guy at next desk is listening to that fucking "Stuck in the UK" song on his headphones just loud enough that I can hear it, in a tikky-tinny way. AGAIN.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone is taking out the trash.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

my housemate is having sex with my other housemate. probably.

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

In a massive library, so next door to that is pure sky. Though I'm sure a plane is streaking through the sky, this very minute.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

An Asian girl,whose name we still haven't worked out, is sleeping. We think her name is either Na or Nat.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

A cat (or two) is flaked out on a bed.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

God knows. My neighbors are all pretty quiet folks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the books editor files books according to release and/or author-reading date

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

there is an argument about resource allocation, specifically whether some people are wasting their time pulling weeds when they could be building tracks. People with raucous voices should work in sound proofed offices.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

dad is watching the news, mum is cooking dinner.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

the books editor files books according to release and/or author-reading date

Wow, Matos. That is quite fantastically mundane. I'm pleased I started this thread.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

A pair of fellow late night workers are playing ping-pong on the table in the next room.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear! if you worked here you would see that there is no next door, as this is the most open plan office in the world. There are 350 or so ppl in this big huge space. I suppose I could count the glass offices (some glass all the way round, how avant garde) and meeting rooms 10ft away from me as next door, but that would be pushing it slightly. The one nearest to me is our director's office, he isn't in at the moment which is just as well as he always has his phone on speaker with the door open, so we can hear all the details of his next round of golf or meal at a restaurant being booked.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

colleagues are talking about this morning's dead mouse incident

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm in an open plan office, but in one of the adjoining rooms is a kettle. I'm afraid it doesn't work.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell us about the dead mouse incident, Fabrice!

I'm working from home this morning until I have to go in for a meeting at midday. I'm currently all alone in the house, so there's nothing much happening - the room to the left of me is the dining room and that's empty (completely empty - I'm just about to start redecorating in there so all the furniture has been taken out), and the room to the right is the kitchen, where the only noise is the sound of the washing machine on a fast spin cycle. I've just made a cup of tea and a plate of hot buttered toast. Working from home days are the best!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

on one side a japanese man is laughing at the inane tv this fine nation produces; on the other a japanese housewife is preparing a delicious smelling dinner for her husband and three, slightly overweight, children.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you an au pair?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I haven't got a thing about au pairs or anything.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

EERILY QUIET as I am closed to students this week bwahahahaha. But I can hear coworker Steve typing in the computer lab.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Either the hallway, where people are regularly coming or going. Or the men's toilet euw!! It's not as bad as it sounds, as you have to walk a long way to get to the loos, but it does back on to our room. Old statelt home, you see!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead mouse incident happened just before I came to work (I'm always pretty late). Apparently, a girl found a dead mouse in that hollow metal tube that holds desks together (difficult to explain, but maybe you know what I mean). We all wondered how it ever got there.. Fascinating stuff

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

On the back porch: Savannah (my yellow lab) is busily chewing on some toy that she salvaged from the back yard, while Black Dog (my black lab/chow mix) is curled in his kennel, snoring so loudly that I can hear each rattle through the sliding glass doors and over the radio. In my livingroom my rat is busily re-arranging her habitat, which involves hauling bedding and other 'nesting' material up and down the three levels, and which sounds like, well, rats moving around papers. And my hampster is busily running in his wheel, which is squeaking, so I need to go and oil it for him (he sits in the wheel as I haul it out and into the kitchen where I place it on the countertop, and resumes running while I am rummaging for the vegetable oil in the pantry, and then licks my fingers as a rub on the oil ... he doesn't seem to register that he's been moved from one place to another. Or he doesn't care). And, finally, my tortoise is just waking-up and is in the process of moving around the boxes and rocks in her habitat, occasionally knocking one over with a loud 'clunk', in faint hopes that the lettuce fairy has delivered her morning munchies.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds wonderful at your place!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you an au pair?

no, i work for the japanese government, teaching and writing reports on its teachers. the laughing neighbour, a young teacher who spends his weekdays away from his wife, is going to get a bad report cause he keeps me awake singing japanese love songs on the balcony. this kind of thing counts here and my boss, who i've mentioned it to, says 'he lacks common sense', which is a worry for his future, regardless of what i think or report. i'm glad winter is on its way; he should stay inside and shut his door. my friends think i should give him a good report cause he's obviously got a 'soul' and maybe misses his wife. he freaked out the other day when i went over at 11.45pm to ask him to pipe down a bit - a gaijin on the doorstep! he looked like he was going to pack himself. i'm not sure japanese have au pairs - the wives generally do that kinda thing here. i hope you were referring to me above, or i'll feel silly writing this much.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

My mum (I am currently working for my folx) is putting together writer ideas for a British Eight Mile featuring So Solid Crew. There's something faintly ridiculous about my mum doing this.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the fund accountants are all listening to phil collins and masturbating on todays new spreadsheets.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What, the room I rented out to some Russian guy? He's setting up some tripod device. Probably for a telescope or something. Oh wait, a bunch of car tires just backfired. Or at least that's what it sounded like.

― dave q, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The rooms are empty. What goes on inside an empty room? I dunno.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing, as nobody is there. Just me and that Metallica live box set making the noise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Construction workers are renovating the office next door and have those fun looking stilts for working on ceilings.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The lady in the next room is trying desperately to communicate with a Mexican customer who apparently isn't all too skilled in the English language, and every time he doesn't understand something she says, she says it again LOUDER. I'm torn between going in there and trying to help her out and laughing my fucking face off.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Laughing and raking in the lolly? Some have all the luck...

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

someone is writing a bad editorial about microsoft and 'the walrus'

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Pink, it really is *smiling*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

We're in a house right now, and since the house has central air, anything that goes on in our house spreads from one apartment to the other. I'm sure that we've unleashed our share of mystery smells into the apartment below, but I can't get over the fact that it seems like the person in the other apartment right now is boiling a vat of PEE. Thank god we're moving to a new place without central air.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

oxana is eating noodles

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ally is doing something.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG is doing something else. It's a mutual suspicion. I'm not used to having him so close.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a naked woman stood on a pedestal and people are drawing her!

This happens EVERY DAY!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

There was ass-slappin' and moanin' noises coming from the next door neighbor's place last night (the lithe dancer neighbor's place!) - it was hott.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

draw ( P ) Pronunciation Key (drô)
v. drew, (dr) drawn, (drôn) draw·ing, draws
v. tr.

To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing. Empty office.

― mike a, Friday, 26 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Two students are working on PCs, or more likely checking their emails. It is unusually quiet.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Well whaddayaknow, it was quiet last time I hit this thread as well. Anyone would think I have a cushy job or something...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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