Mmm chocolate! I do love chocolate! *runs off to the fridge to get a little easter egg, just because*. I hope your throat is getting better! 

I know! but well... they were cheap... 

I hope you're stocking up on vitamin C, lots of camomille tea and I always make sure to give my face a steam bath with mint tea leaves... it works wonders for me! 

Neighbours!! Please stop complaining!! I can not keep my kids from making some noises during the day, and I´m getting tired of being over-considerate if all that comes from you are rants every single time we meet. Our kids are too noisy, my husband´s voice is too loud, our washing machine interfers with your watching TV peacefully and the cleaning lady is obviously throwing furniture around when no one is watching.. you yelled at my visiting friend and her kids and threatened to call the police if we 'ever dare to wake up the kids at 5.30 again.. yes, we heard you were doing this!' 

Honestly, wtf??

Yes, I did, but apart from those two people I really feel at home here and it´s not so easy to find anything similar in this area - apart from the fact it would cost around 8000 EUR with all costs included. So I´m afraid I´m a bit stuck here at the moment.. 

It´s not that I didn´t understand they are annoyed at times - even I am! But there´s just no help to it, if they can´t handle the sounds of normal family life why did they choose a flat below a family with two toddlers in the first place? I miss our old neighbour very much, she was such a sweet person..

Last edited by Zatoichi (February 26, 2014 10:23 pm)

Children will be children and they make a noise when they play. Your neighbours moved in after you were already there. Next time they shout at anyone I suggest you try and record it and keep it for evidence. The police will laugh at them I think. If they don't like where they live then they have a choice don't they. They can move! Don't apologise to them as that is weakening your ground and suggests that you are to blame. Maybe you can invite them around for a meal or tea and cake. 

Such neighbours are a plague, zatoichi. Feel hugged from me.

Examination week. I'm so exhausted I could sit in a corner and cry.

 Sneaky Swanpride.. but I agree, you describe my current tactics. I just referred to Davina´s proposal, which I think is great in less negative situations.. overrun them with utter friendliness . Maybe some day, if everything lightens up, I´ll actually do it and invite them over. Hope dies last!

Fortunately we are on good terms with the owners (who I suspect are also annoyed, because they keep ringing them about the entrance door and the heating, which is - you guessed it - too loud) and all other neighbours in the street. There is nothing they can do to us except annoy me with her rants.. which is bad enough. It really got to me when she made us responsible for her early death in the beginning.. but I toughened myself and just cut her off now (as polite as possible).

And now I´ll distract myself with some Sherlock/Benedict pictures.... she shouldn´t be the last thing I think about before going to bed!

Last edited by Zatoichi (February 27, 2014 9:52 pm)

I confess I'm one of those...
Since I was 14, I've been telling people I'm going to die young...

I turned down a cream cake yesterday, cos of a clash with my antibiotics...but I made up for it with 2 cakes today!

I don't know this is a rant as such...

But it really amazes me how differently people treat you based on what you wear, especially in shops! If I wear punk clothes they don't give me the service I should as a costumer... if I wear 'normal' clothes they are nice enough... but when I go shopping in my (faux) fur coat they nearly bend over backwards and give me the highest form of service.

I'm still the same person; Ugh!