Sometimes one has to resort to more drastic measures. If they didn't then the government wouldn't have had to keep running the silly courtesy campaigns for the past 30 years.gillypadi wrote:why fight fire with fire? These neighbours are not like your next door occupants in the hotel room when you travel. They will be there for a long time so best to nip it in the bud nicely or just ignore them.
If their laundry drops into your balcony, give them some clothes pegs.
Better yet, pick 'em up and throw them down the garbage chute. They will a) get better clothes pegs, or b) buy a dryer.
Singing badly and excessive bickering? How thin are your walls anyway? I can only hear my neighbours talking and screaming if I am standing out in the yard with the windows open (and want to know what went on during the day - almost as good as daytime soap opera!)
You obviously don't live in an HDB flat then.....
Bad piano playing? Be patient. One day, they will improve.
Normally, that one day will not be in your lifetime however.....I've been listening to the same bad musicians on piano, french horn, oboe and flute for almost 10 years now.
I suppose it all boils down to how tolerant a person is. I deal with noisy kids on my floor who play along the corridors. Or the neighbours who cook sambal and fry balachan every other day. Or the neighbour upstairs who don't believe in lifting their furniture but dragging it across the hall. Or the kid who insist on hitting and dropping things on the floor....
Do I get mad or even? Nope. Do I stomp upstairs and yell like a 5 year old? Nope. I just sit back, crank up the volume on the TV and enjoy my Simon Cowell on Idol.
Or like the over amplified Karaoke sessions held in the RC office below my flat. Couldn't seem to get anything resolved no matter how many times we called the police. Soooooo. I joined the grassroots organizations and worked from the inside out. Now there is no Karaoke full stop! End of Story.
There was a sign in an old watering hole I used to haunt in Houston which said, "The only reason some people are alive is because it is illegal to kill them."daytripper65 wrote:I’m thinking along the lines of telling her exactly how I think she mishandled the situation, what sort of reaction her behavior is likely to provoke (anger, vengeance), and what a rotten example she’s setting for her daughter.
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