neighbor problem
you would think that people had much better things to do other than sniffing their neighbor's door....
there's this man that lives in a unit across from mine that has this obsessive-compulsive problem with cigarette smoke... this is the fourth time he knocked on my door and accused me of smoking inside my room and triggering his allergies... i was in the middle of trying to practice ink drawing when he knocked, which would be really impossible to do, not to mention very messy, if i was smoking, too!
last time, he knocked when i was falling asleep watching tv... i was really annoyed and started yelling at him, because a few days before that, he left me a note complaining about cigarette smoke in the morning when i was at work... and another note before that, while i was spending the weekend in new york!!!
i asked him how he came up with the conclusion that the smoke came from my room, and he said he smelled it from my door... and i tried to explain to him that i wasn't even in my room when he left those notes, and he didn't even seem to hear anything i said, and kept saying nonsense stuff like, "i don't care if you got lung cancer at 45, but your smoking gives me allergies... all my clothes smelled of cigarette... my lawyer friend said it's prohibited by the massachussets law to smoke inside the building..."
and he just didn't wanna go away...
he used to harass #12 (my next-door neighbor) like every other day or so, and stayed there abusing the poor guy for half an hour straight sometimes... but #12 was so patient with him... he even once told him, out of sheer desperation, that he would leave his door open so that mr psycho could see for himself that #12 was not smoking in his room anymore, and would stop knocking on his door...
now that #12 has moved out, he started to knock on MY door.... x(
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desiree,
2 in the morning, and i imagine al pacino trying to reconstruct a fact from a homicide case that is totally intraceable. that's from Insomnia, the motion picture by a new but brilliant director. i attempt to do likewise, though in a different medium. i see inequalities and equations flying in the head. yet, they are disconnected. what is the law that bind them together? beats me. many times, i have to live contently with the state of unknowing. it's almost like a natural state of being.
enough with my own idleness. on the side, the site now looks nicer and mistifying. exactly, get rid of names. what is in the name, shakespeare questioned once. they are irrelevant. a good story has a niche where readers are more free to imagine. the power of imagination is boundless.
good, you got a date. that's the girl. best, till then.
Posted by: nael | June 8, 2002 02:35 AM