Want us to like you?

Or at least not curse you silently under our breath as we walk past your door or shake our fists at you through our bathroom wall or get aggravated whenever we look out (or get near to) our bedroom window? Then read this carefully...please.

Dear Next Door Neighbours,

We chose our new apartment carefully and had some general criteria, most of which are not relevant to you, but one of which was a non-smoking building. STOP SMOKING OUT YOUR WINDOW! Your window is at a 90 degree angle to ours and the smoke blows right into our bedroom...all day and night. I was not impressed to be woken up last week at 4:30 in the morning because of the smoke wafting in our window.

We don't like mice. They're dirty, disease carrying vermin. They will not go away while you keep your apartment the way it is. Move your rice and noodles from the cupboard under the sink. Get some traps. They won't go away since they know they have a nice source of food and shelter and those ultrasonic rodent repellers will NOT work on mice who have established a hold on their space. We have a clean kitchen and no food out for them to nibble on, but they won't stop visiting us, just to see if there's maybe something there, until you clean up your act.

I get that you keep strange hours. Not a problem. Alex does too. But you don't need to use your playground voices to talk to each other at 3:00 in the morning. Your apartment is only about 500 square feet. There isn't another wing. It's not windy. You're standing in the SAME ROOM!

Thanks Next Door Neighbours,
The people who live next to you and are the unwilling recipients of your smoke, rodents and noise