# My letter slipped under a neighbor's door **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120 "2010-03-03T14:36:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/181 "2010-03-06T04:12:23Z")
Maybe she was disappointed that I’m so young. Oh well. I guess if any of the female dopers found the OP letter charming and would like to “get with this,” feel free to PM me. Note: must be hot. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/182 "2010-03-06T07:31:41Z")
Well, that’s a disappointment. I was expecting it to be Cthulhu’s daughter who has finally left the family nest in R’lyeh to try to make a living in the wholesale fish business. Actually, I have it on good authority that she is quite hot if you can get past that tentacles growing out of the face thing. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/183 "2010-03-06T07:38:21Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Note: must be hot. Hmm. No exclamation point this time. Must be srs. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/184 "2010-03-06T09:27:16Z")
[stupid subscribe button doesn’t work] ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/185 "2010-03-06T09:53:24Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Alright, the 1602 storyline ends here, But a new one can begin, albeit started by someone else. We now need the Mystery Person you called first to be a Doper who hasn’t seen this story (_Sh!_ It could _totally_ happen!) who starts a new thread about living in a mostly quiet apartment block where there is a weird repetitive drumming sound (because that mystery is still unresolved), _and_ she just received a weird, mad call from someone claiming to be under her… and so on (as per **Attack From The Third Dimension’s** post). This could prove interesting. Especially if she happens to suspect the weird repetitive sound is coming 1502, so she decides to leave a hand-written note… Where are the NaNoWriMo people when you need them? ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/186 "2010-03-06T17:07:35Z")
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with a _Mrs. Robinson_ scenario, my **Wierd** friend. Don’t be so quick to dismiss… ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/187 "2010-03-08T04:31:05Z")
I saw[this in the news](http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100305/od_afp/germanypolicesexoffbeat)and immediately thought of you. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/188 "2010-03-08T04:47:59Z")
The damned thumping has been going on all bloody weekend. It’s driving me nuts. I think now it might be coming from below. I would leave a similar note, but everybody I’ve ever seen getting off on the 14th floor has been either weird looking or an… urban type. So I think I’ll just call the cops. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/189 "2010-03-08T05:11:07Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > weird looking or an… urban type. What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/190 "2010-03-08T05:12:15Z")
4 months of forced sensitivity classes ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/191 "2010-03-08T05:38:47Z")
Moot now, but I just wanted to say that I have huge difficulties with all matters romantic, and I still wouldn’t have been so timid about it. Best case scenario, you discover that you’re perfect soulmates, get married, grow old together, and have oodles of grandchildren. That’s a pretty good best case scenario. Worst case scenario, the two of you have completely incompatible personalities, and she’s unsuitable as a romantic partner anyway, in which case you spend about five minutes trying to figure out the noise, then give up and go back downstairs and never have to associate with her again. OK, five minutes spent with an unpleasant person, that’s not really all that bad at all. Intermediate case, you discover that you wouldn’t make good romantic partners for whatever reason, but you get to know a friendly neighbor a little better, and maybe have a bit of a chat in the lobby occasionally. That’s not as good as the soulmate scenario, of course, but it’s still good. And of course, in all of this, there’s still the possibility that you figure out the puzzling noise. All in all, those seem like pretty good odds, to me. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/192 "2010-03-08T08:24:28Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > ## Alright, here is my best attempt at a transcription of the reply I got this morning. It’s hand-written, so some of it is just guesses based on context. > > 1502– > > Thank you for your note, and I apologize in advance for any inconvenience, however I believe there is a miss-assumption of where the noise (drumming) is coming from, and would like to inquire further. Please call me at ### ###-#### (Marie). I found your note to be quite creative and appreciate you taking the time to write. > > About me, I’m a creature of habit. I work full time and also attend classes. So my schedule is pretty structure[d] and very limited to no enjoyment of video games and/or DVDs. I’m up early, and in bed by 9PM. I do live in my apartment, so I do use my dishwasher, washing machine/dryer, hairdryer, and some occasional TV watching. But I assure [you\*] it is all done within what I call my living hours 7AM-9PM. > > I’ve had similar concerns of noise with my above neighbor, but realized we are in a concrete block, so noise travels, and the noise is nowhere annoying as the ‘EL’. > > Anyhoot\*\*, let’s discuss and learn the exact times, and areas, and if my TV, or any other appliance. I will be mindful, but again I’m a 7-9PM person, and when I’m not working or studying I’m sleeping. > > [smiley face] Marie > > ### ### > > * * * > > - > - It doesn’t look anything like “you,” in fact it looks like “look” or “1002”, but “you” is the only thing that makes sense there. > > \*\* - I swear, it says “anyhoot” She’s lying. She’s home all day on the phone (I called ### ### #### and I keep getting a busy signal). My guess is that she’s one of those phone-sex workers and she wants your junk because she’s all wound up from a hard day’s work. On to the noise. If it’s continuous then think in terms of electrical items that run 24/7 in cycles such as a refrigerator. Mine makes all kinds of noise and it travels differently through the house. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/193 "2010-03-08T11:08:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Worst case scenario, the two of you have completely incompatible personalities, and she’s unsuitable as a romantic partner anyway, in which case you spend about five minutes trying to figure out the noise, then give up and go back downstairs and never have to associate with her again. Just to say, this doesn’t even come _close_ to scratching the surface of 1% of the shadow of the worst case scenario. The crazy, it knows no limits. But I agree with your general point that, the odds being what they are, initiating contact would probably be a good, low-risk idea. ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/194 "2010-03-18T14:09:41Z")
Thank-you, op, for an amusing diversion to my work today and yesterday. I hope that you find a woman your own age who will make wonderful and easily understood noises with you forever. But I’m afraid that the giant slobbering monster sleeping just outside the portal located in your ceiling will eat you tonight. Sweet dreams. (When you’re about to be decapitated by those razor sharp teeth you’ll wish you’d pounded the old lady, though. Oh, well, that’s life.) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/195 "2010-03-18T14:51:44Z")
Aaron, you should take your note and rewrite it to your naked neighbor next door. Then get funky with her. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/196 "2010-03-18T19:00:53Z")
Sorry for the banal suggestion, but: when you hear the noise, can’t you go up (or down) a flight and take a listen along the hallway or whatever, to see if you can find the source? That’s what I do in my apartment building. And **Dinsdale** , I’m only reading the thread now for the first time, so I wasn’t around when you originally posted this, but … I totally chuckled at (and agreed with) your mention of horses along the beach. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/197 "2010-03-18T19:19:08Z")
Congrats on the threadspotting! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/198 "2010-03-18T19:22:50Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Maybe she was disappointed that I’m so young. > > Oh well. I guess if any of the female dopers found the OP letter charming and would like to “get with this,” feel free to PM me. > > Note: must be hot. Eye of the beholder, and all that, but you’ve always struck me as the male counterpart of **Shot From Guns**. Perhaps you should ask her if she’d like to get with… er… that. ---
**Author:** ![TheLastChanceKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TheLastChanceKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLastChanceKid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/199 "2010-03-19T00:25:37Z")
The roof-knocking saga is over. Keeping in mind the lengths of time I’m sure you spent on wondering how to appropriately contact this person I hope you can train yourself to not overthink these things. As I’m sure you’ve concluded, the only thing left to do is to anonymously sign your naked-neighbour up to receive virtually any do-it-yourself yoga dvd’s that encourage practicing in the sun by a window. And maybe some hand lotion. ---
**Author:** ![kfraser34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@kfraser34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kfraser34)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-letter-slipped-under-a-neighbors-door/531120/200 "2010-03-22T12:01:47Z")
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