It was really nice outside today. I spent over an hour walking and taking in some fresh air and sunshine.
On my way out, I met up with the wife tenant of mine. We chatted about a variety of things, but what really struck me as funny was when she paused and said,
"uhh...you can't...
...hear us can you?"
And inside I laughed, remembering all the comments I received on a previous post.
I reply, "Hear you?"
"Yeah, you know...
...like hear us...
...talking?"
I'm sure I smirked. I must have.
"Oh! Nah, not at all. On occassion...we'll hear the TV...
...or.your.music."
And she had nothing to say in return.
Subject changed.
I chuckled for quite awhile about that on my walk.
My heart also went out to the husband tenant. They are a very nice couple and quite often the wife tenant makes us cookies and leaves them on our back doorstep. Apparently husband tenant asked wife tenant to stop making the cookies because he was putting on a few extra pounds around the mid section. I really adore the cookies she makes and we all know my food addiction issues, so I had to put the heavy on my husband, "Oh my husband just CANT BELIEVE your husband asked you to stop making those DELICIOUS cookies!"
She smiles and replies happily, "Oh well I'll be making them again soon! After all, the cookies are healthy for you (healthy yes, calorie free no) and even after I stopped making them he was still getting that extra cushy around his waist! And do you know what it was from? Not the cookies! The beer he was drinking. So he's not drinking beer now."
Poor guy. It's a dark day when your wife takes away beer priviledges for the sake of a school girl figure.
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Oh could you have had fun with that...
~L.
Well I hate to say this but... when I was living in an apartment, my rule of thumb with what people can hear was - if I can hear them, they can most certainly hear us. Although I'm sure it's a little different acoustic-wise since their noise is coming through your floor and yours would be coming through their ceiling. The landlord in my old building, despite being like 150 years old, insisted upon living on the uppermost floor and trudging up those stairs every day just so that he didn't have to put up with as much noise from his tenants. Wonder if it really made a difference?
Having lived both above people and below people in my lifetime, I would agree that there's less noise when you live above someone. But I think it probably depends on the individuals involved in the living situations.
Our setup is really pretty nice. Maybe it's because our house is historic and built differently from houses nowadays, but we honestly can't hear the tenants at all unless they have their tv or music up loud. They say the same about us so I guess it works out.
We lived in a 75 year old building but it wasn't as nice as where you live. Even though we live in a new townhouse currently , we never, ever hear the neighbors due to the fact that recent firecodes and whatnot require a whole ton of fireproofing in between dwellings, that way if the neighbor has a fire, there is less likelihood of it spreading to neighboring houses. Otherwise there is no way I'd live here. I went through all those years of having to be quiet because you could hear literally whole entire conversations through the floor/ceiling where we used to live. But like I said, your place is obviously way nicer than the dump we used to live in.
You totally should have had more fun with that one. Maybe I'm just evil, but I would have had a field day on that question with responses like "hear you? No but the neighbors said if you're trying to conceive you should try some Marvin Gay instead. Just a thought." I would have also mentioned that straight liquor has less calories so you could go that route without gaining as much weight.
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