A little bit of "hey we share a wall" etiquette - posted at 12:09

A brief note on style and being a good neighbor:

If you know that you are, say, a moaner or a screamer, please please please don't have sex with the windows open. It's really not as much fun as you would think for your neighbors on either side to be in the middle of a conversation outside and to all of a sudden have to try to talk over your screaming orgasm. I can accept the fact that our bedroom walls are shared and that sometimes you wake me up out of a dead sleep while you and your husband are, ah, amusing each other. But I really really don't think that I should have to deal with the proof that you are indeed have a rollicking good time while I am in my back yard.

Marissa commented:

I had a neighbor who did that once.... I started moaning and screaming back, and it shut her right up.

Think the diner scene from "When Harry Met Sally"

Allen commented:

You should have taken pictures through said open window and pasted them all over the Internet. That'd teach them a lesson!

Jitterbean Girl commented:

Marissa, that is nothing short of brilliant! It's right up there with my husband's suggestion that I put some speakers up against the wall and starting playing Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On...

Allen, that might be slightly more effective if, say, more than like three people read my blog :) But I suppose I could always print out copies and post them all over their garage door or something... hmmm... drat on the second floor windows, foiling my plans....

Jared commented:

I just noticed it still says "newlywed" on the sidebar. How long are you "new"?

Jitterbean Girl commented:

I hadn't really thought about that... to be honest, I kinda forgot that was up there. Anyway, I think that a couple needs to have at least one fight about toothpaste before they can consider themselves not-so-newlywed. Since Cory and I still don't live together, we haven't had that ever-important toothpaste fight. So by the time we actually to get to share a house, we'll be going through the whole growing pains phase that seems to characterize much of that whole newlywed phase thing. What do you think?

Robin Sanders Borim commented:

Hey Staceyfish,
I just read your post about the noisy neighbors. After I stopped laughing I had an idea. You should tape record them in "action" and then blast it back at odd hours.
Should be an interesting encounter.
LOL
gohillary