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Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

So last night, the wife was asleep. The cat was on the couch. I was sit­ting at the com­puter going through my email, read­ing a few news web­sites. Since the wife had left the bed­room door open, I closed the door into the com­puter room to keep the lights from both­er­ing her.

Then about 10:00, 10:30 at night when I noticed a pound­ing sound. I was a bit puz­zled because it sounded like some­body was at our door. I peeked out the win­dow, but didn’t see any of our friends cars. So I headed up to the door and I could hear voices like the peo­ple were talk­ing to one of the neigh­bors. I looked through the peep­hole, but couldn’t make out what was going on. Then they knocked again. I opened the door and found two cops on my doorstep.

They said one of the down­stairs ten­ants had called in a com­plaint that we were mak­ing too much noise. They said they’d been told the noise sounded like some­body was stomp­ing or bowl­ing down the hall­way. I told them I didn’t know what the noise was because we weren’t doing any­thing. I also men­tioned that sound bounces around in the build­ing quite a bit¹.

They replied they’d been out there knock­ing for a while and hadn’t heard any­thing, but when they get a com­paint they are required to check it out.

¹ I recounted the story of the time when we thought the peo­ple above us were play­ing their music too loud, but it turned out the music was actu­ally com­ing from one of the down­stairs apartments.

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