Post #1/31- Good Juju needed next door
Currently listening to “Cage the Elephant”. A new band we are getting into. I highly recommend checking these guys out. Also, I just realized it is 30 days until Burning Man which is extremely exciting. This year I am bookending my Burning Man voyage with some good, old fashioned Los Angeles and San Francisco business meetings. I am loving the consistent West Coast Travel. Looking forward to the day when I am officially bi-coastal.
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So, today was an incredibly bad day for our next door neighbors. At least I think it was bad–but who really knows. The screaming has reached cataclysmic levels. As I have mentioned before, our neighbors are a middle class couple in their 50’s. Who knows how long they have been married (however long it is its been too long)? These people scream at each other for seven hours a day on average. And by screaming, I mean a ear piecing, violent, screeching, slinging of hate. I can only hope that bad ju ju is not creeping through the walls. Actually, I do not think it is, we’re having the time of our lives over here.
But, it is hard to listen to the constant hate being thrown back and forth just a few feet from us. So today, as they were reaching the climax of hatefest 2009, I authoritative banged on the wall. As if to say, “Shut the **** up you ignorant buffoons!” The screaming came to a halt–for about a 5th of a second. Then, 5 minutes later the doorbell rang.
I found myself face to face with the the female buffoon. The exchange was polite and I agreed not to bang on the walls. She mentioned how late we are up on the weekends–and something about how she hasn’t called security “yet”. At least it was subliminal blackmail–and non threatening.
I really want these people to stop screaming at each other! I need to figure out a way to transmit some of our good juju over there. The problem is that if we were to do anything, they will know it was us. We can’t exactly do anything anonymous after today. Does anyone know a good divorce lawyer?
If anybody has any brilliant ideas, I’d love to hear them? Leave a comment below~
- July 31st
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If you have a few extra bucks, you could start leaving books in front of their door…
Maybe they would read them?
Books like:
How to Win Friends And Influence People
His Needs, Her Needs
The Power And Purpose of Man
The Power And Purpose of Woman
Heck, you could even leave a copy of Think And Grow Rich.
Who knows, it could help. Might be an interesting experiment.
Sorry about your neighbors, but it’s great you want to help them.
How about illustrating a book yourself… call it “Being Nice” or something… make it like a kid’s book… and put it in front of their door… This could be funny to post here on daveforddoesearth too.
If you put one in front of their door every Monday for 5-6 weeks in a row, they’d be hard pressed not to read at least one of them.
Treat them like a marketing project… an audience that is difficult, but not impossible, to reach.
Oh, and attach a sticky to the front of each book, with their apartment #, so that they know it’s for them.
Might be worth a shot…
Jonathan
hmmm… I have thought about doing something like this, but I feel like it needs to be more subtle. Whatever we do, they know its going to be coming from us… I feel like I should try to get Oprah involved…haha
Oprah, Dr. Phil, the NYPD… all pretty much the same, yah?
Good luck! But remember that fortune favors the bold!
Warmest,
Jonathan
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Do you want to help them or do you just want them to shut up?
I’d start with recording an hour or more of the hullabaloo. If you could find someone who knows them, such as family or rector, you could ask those persons to drop in and offer to help. Or you could send both their names to different divorce lawyers. Is there any kind of public health nurse or family help organization you can call?
Do they have any children at home? If so, someone should see about getting them out of that environment.
Don’t they go to work or anything?
If you just want them to shut up, you can be nonaggressive: take it over to their door, knock on the door, and play it for them and tell them that’s what you hear from them seven hours a day. They should be embarrassed and shut up. Was there any diminution after you banged on the wall.
Or put your recording on LOUD and go out for an hour. When they complain, tell them that that’s what you’re receiving every day. If they don’t want to receive it every night, they’d better find somewhere else to argue.
Or simply call security and tell them that there’s a domestic dispute next door and you’re afraid someone is going to get violent.
Or invite the landlord’s representative over to your place to discuss minor repairs you’d like done or whether they’ll give you rent credit if you paint the place.