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Anonymous
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Holy crap! Have you considered replying to her email that you're not surprised she can hear your clock when it sounds like her noisy dogs are in the next room? But oh well, because, god willing, you'll be gone some day too.
I feel your pain, OP. We live on the ground floor of a row house and the family upstairs stomps around so much that our pot rack shakes and the baby sometimes gets woken up from his nap! |
Anonymous
| Think of it this way, OP. You're shoveling the sidewalk for the people walking by, not her. I just found out that it's extremely unlikely that you will ever get a ticket in DC for not shoveling your sidewalk (something about the city having to actually sue you to make you pay a $25 fine) -- so it's not like you're saving her from a ticket. But you are making it easier for your other neighbors who walk by. Thank you! |
Anonymous
| What an ungrateful, passive, aggressive BITCH!!! No more shoveling for her as far as I'm concerned. |
Anonymous
PP, I really admire your outlook. While I was all ready to pile on and say that the neighbor was psycho, I read your post and had to pause to think. Was the email at all apprpriate? Not at all. But we should try to understand people before we judge them. |
Anonymous
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OP, you are a better person than me. I don't think I would be shoveling her out. |
Anonymous
| OP - It's easy to be nice to people who are nice back. It's harder to do good when it doesn't seem to be appreciated. Kudos to you for reaching out. I'm sure it will come back to you some day when you need a helping hand. |
Anonymous
This |
Anonymous
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OP, how about sending an email in response?
Dear [neighbor], We're always happy to help with the shoveling. I saw the email you sent afterwards. I felt it must have been exhausting, as it obviously took great effort for you to thank us for our work...........oh well, I guess they call that living next to an ingrate. Think I can appreciate your advanced age more and more. Some days, I think about what it would be like to have neighbors with manners.........oh well........God willing you'll be gone one day. Best, [your name] |
Anonymous
| funny. |
Anonymous
| OP, sorry to be the one to break it to you, but she is kindly letting you know that she can hear not only the ticking clock but EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN YOUR LIVING ROOM. You might want to keep that in mind the next time you have an argument or an intimate conversation with you DH. How the heck else is she supposed to let you know? |
Anonymous
| She does make a good point: she will probably be dead soon. |
Anonymous
| 16:10: Ooh. Hope OP and her husband haven't been making passionate, unrestrained, moany love in the living room too often. |
Anonymous
You might think this is funny but I was in the old lady's shoes once and could not for the life of me figure out how to let my neighbors know I could hear them making love. It was really embarrassing. Sounds like they had it right in the olden days when they simply hinted at things like ticking clocks heard through the walls. |
Anonymous
| OP this is FUNNY. You can't even get annoyed with someone like this, you just have to be entertained. |
Anonymous
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If she can afford a row house in Georgetown, she can afford to hire someone to shovel the walk and rake the leaves. And she can but never will because you OP are a sucker and do it for her.
Just stop doing it and never mention it again. Problem solved. |