To the older woman who tried to slip a note under our door: I saw you as you scampered away like a coward. How dare you heap all your resentment from a year of living in a shitty apartment on Quinpool Road on us?
First of all, none of it’s true. Last Saturday we had our first get-together since we moved in September in honour of our new roommate. There were only ten of us, we had no music playing and we were gone by midnight. As a result, you’ve chosen to blame us for broken beer bottles in the alley, guys pissing by your window, the parties hosted by the gentlemen in the flat across from us and the “loud conversations” you’re constantly subjected to. Hello! You live directly on Quinpool Road next to a bar! We’re all girls and can hardly be accused of pissing on your window! Although it would quite a feat if we did.
Also, calling us “bimbos” and repeatedly swearing at us is hardly the way to approach the situation. It’s incredibly offensive and immediately discredits you. If you had an issue with the noise levels in the building you could have contacted us or spoken to the landlord like a normal person. We would have been completely receptive, as we’re all reasonable and understanding girls who realize we need to respect others in the building. Instead, you’ve chosen to be completely passive aggressive. We’re not interested in having your bitterness, loneliness and resentment build up and explode on us!
It’s disturbing that a grown woman could have composed a letter like that. Next time, sign your name so we can discuss this like adults. —Quinpool “Bimbos”
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
OP, do yourself a favour and type your bitch out and put it under her door. It sounds like you are neighbours.
I can’t believe the amount of bitches re: noise problems inurban areas; Hey idiots you’re downtown there’s gonna be noise that’s why people live downtown to make noise and have fun DUUH !
Hahaha… I like PNB’s suggestion. And her tone… 😛
girls pissing on windows, that i would even pay to see. but really girls, it’s the dudes that you hang around with, can’t hold a bit of booze and get all stupid. i have seen it happen before, so don’t say you are blameless. if you have people in, for any reason, you are responsible for their behavior, as per your lease. if they become annoying or a danger to other tenants, that can get you booted out in about 7 days or so. trust that this goes close to that section.have a good one, and if and when you try the window thing, pleas, let me know.
“to the older woman…”
yep, knew where it was going as soon as it started with that.
bitties need to keep busy ya know.
Im pretty sure this could be considered harrassment. Like, she is harrassing you by leaving a letter that upsets you. Contact the landlord about her?
Body slam her.
OP…Where’s the letter ?
You didn’t give us a look at the letter !
yes, technically you’re supposed to go through the landlord about any disputes.
most people find that impersonal and unnecessary and just confront.. but this biatch can’t even do that.
don’t let her drag you down…
I always found a letter worked better than going to the landlord… much more personal, it avoids conflict, and it’s the right amount of passive-aggressiveness that gets me off.
OP, if it really bothers you that much, let it go. The old bat’s probably not going to the landlord over it, and if you did nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear. If the bat goes to the landlord, produce the letter. She can evicted over it.
I never suggest the letter thing. I did that one accidentally to some upstairs neighbours whom I thought were the ones making noise, when I found out later that night it was actually the people living below me. I promptly wrote an apology letter, and when I went to deliver it to them, they had posted the night on their door. Haha. I tore it off and ran like hell.
Anyway, OP, doesn’t seem like you did anything wrong to me.
Photocopy her letter and paste it on her door and all over the building with “written by the old lady in apt# ____ who couldn’t just talk to us”.
ROFLZ halicowton.
It’s REALLY easy to mistake the origin of noise in shittily built apartment buildings — I used to think the old guy above me in my old building was the cause of the noise but it was the assholes below me. The same people who used to bang on their ceiling at random hours of the night because apparently I was up and jumping around (when I was actually sleeping).
Some people need to realize that when you live in an apartment building, especially older buildings you *are* going to have SOME amount of noise. My building is concrete and I still hear *some* things here and there from my upstairs neighbours (I don’t know wtf they’re doing up there but that’s a whole other bitch in itself).
Why don’t you go to the old bat’s door and confront her? Tell her you know it was her because you saw her (she knows you saw her) and tell her you’ll go to the landlord about it because it’s harassment and that her ass could get evicted. That should be enough to make her shit her drawers and leave you the eff alone.
ok martym, yup, I live downtown and expect some noise. Heck, I probably create some of it too myself. But what I don’t do, is come home from my job in one of those tour boats downtown at 2 in the morning, EVERY FRIGGIN DAY OF THE WEEK and sit outside getting drunk with my friends, and getting louder and louder when EVERY other neighbour around you has a job that they have to get up and go do the next morning. It’s called showing just a little bit of courtesy and respect for your fellow humans that you share the space with. And if they do it again this summer I’m going to stand on their sidewalk every morning when I’m up at 7 a.m. to go to work and play bagpipe music at full volume at their house. That’l learn them!