Evidently, the manager lied to us about the way this building conducts sound

[vvvexation]

Do we have humans living upstairs from us, or elephants? I swear, it was an order of magnitude less noisy around here when the place was being extensively remodeled before they moved in. Or maybe it's just that random thumping noises are more irritating than methodical tool-using noises because they stop more often and every time they stop you think they're done, only to be disappointed.

This is not helping my attempt to not develop into a world-class curmudgeon by the time I'm forty. Nor, of course, is it helping my paper-writing effort, but a lot of things aren't helping that.

Comments

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Play to your strengths! If you think you really have it in you to be a world class curmudgeon, go for it!

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I don't wanna do it prematurely, though. Curmudgeons tend to be lonely a lot, and I'm lonely enough as it is. Better to play sweet and innocent until I've snared an unsuspecting lifepartner, and then allow my natural grumpiness to take over.

Er...if anyone I'm dating is reading this, you didn't see that.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

But think of all the curmudgeon groupies you'd be missing out on.

(only half sarcastic, actually - there is something very sexy about people who are rough & grumpy to everyone else, but unbend to you.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Really? I've never thought so, actually.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Definitely time to hook up V and Andy. ;)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

*whimper*

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

RUN VEE RUN!!!!!!! <:O

[caesia.livejournal.com]

If it is the same noises as last week, then honestly, I think it is a herd of elephants. We should get a long stick and bang on the ceiling, or perhaps drill a small hole and release garter snakes or helium balloons. I would say nitrous oxide but I think it is heavier than air so perhaps that would backfire.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Last time I got a long stick & banged on my ceiling it went through my ceiling.

[caesia.livejournal.com]

Perhaps "tap gently?"

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

We'd have to make a pretty big hole to get helium balloons through it, ne? Snakes would be fun, though.

[caesia.livejournal.com]

Well, I was thinking about putting through the balloons and *then* inflating them with helium. Probably impractical.

I'd rather prefer to keep the snakes, though. They're neat.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

If we're lucky, we can persuade the snakes to slither back through the hole after their work is done.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking.

Imagine watching a balloon inflate on the floor.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

*realizes belatedly that the proper response should have been "whose long stick are you thinking of and how are we gonna attach ourselves to the ceiling for that long?"*

[caesia.livejournal.com]

*cough*

That actually gave me another idea, involving microphones, amplifiers, your bedroom, the ceiling as a sound conductor, you, one of your sweeties, and the right timing. Popcorn optional.

It's your fault, my mind wasn't in the gutter before you said that.

[saizai.livejournal.com]

We need amplifiers?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Sure it wasn't.

[aleeceh.livejournal.com]

I love how you've got different versions of those drawings of you expressing different emotions. I need a set of those!

Take heart. My status as a journeyman curmudgeon has so far not inhibited my love live in any noticeable way. Could just be that the supreme power of boobies overrides any and all personality flaws. ;-)

Curmudgeons and procrastinators unite!

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml is nifty like that.

[marmaladious.livejournal.com]

That sucks. The sounds that get to me are those damned squeaky box-spring sounds. Geez, people, get a room!

Err... a different room.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

The thing about those noises, though, is that they're confined to one room--whereas the folks over our heads seem to be stampeding back and forth across the entire apartment.

Also, with sex noises you get to pop popcorn and cheer loudly out the window when they're done.

[marmaladious.livejournal.com]

Haha! I think the people in the other units would be confused at this periodic cheering that they kept hearing outside.