It’s not like they knocked and when a black guy answered the door, asked if he was the janitor. Officers Queerbaiter and Clownpaint erred in assuming two women who (as the OP admits) “look gay,” and in fact are gay, were gay.
Who knows, maybe they’re the second coming of Jesse Helms and told carpet-muncher jokes all the way back to the station. Just going on the info she provided, it sounds more like a problem of perception. I doubt they’re the first non-straight people these cops have met in the line of duty, and I’d be surprised if they gave a shit beyond making sure nobody was dead.
And we don’t know that. About things we cannot know, I think it’s a pretty good idea to take the OP’s word. I’ve never understood why so many people on this board seem to think it’s horrible if it turned out you were misinformed and got upset over nothing.
No, they didn’t assume the OP and her friend were gay. The OP assumed they assumed that, based on pretty much nothing, and assumed that they were homophones, based on even less. And given that the general judgment displayed by the OP is abysmal, I don’t see any reason to believe any part of the OP’s assumptions at all.
No, it means there are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Check an online dictionary, instead, if you want some. eBay doesn’t sell them.
Why wait? Granted, these folks have been bad neighbors, but being a *good neighbor means being willing to have a frank but polite direct conversation about any incipient problems before involving the landlord and/or cops.
So do that. Just go downstairs and, in a genuinely good-natured fashion, explain to your neighbors that whatever noises they’re hearing aren’t coming from your apartment, and that you’d really appreciate it if they came and talked to before calling the cops next time. Assuming the neighbors aren’t psychopaths, then either you’ll be on decent terms with them going forward, or they’ll henceforth be too mortified to even look you in the eye and you’ll never hear from them again. And, even if it doesn’t fix anything, it still costs you nothing to talk to them.
Actually, homophones only need to sound the same. When they are also spelled the same, they can more precisely be referred to as homonyms (or homographic homophones). But the only requirement with homophones is, as their name implies, that they sound the same.
