Stopping The Slammers

I’m not one for making New Year’s Resolutions, but something has reached a point where we need to take action. I’m talking about the Slammers who live across the hall from us. I’ve mentioned them before, and in the past eight months, things have only gotten worse. They slam at 7:00 am, they slam at 1:00 am, they even slam at 4:00 am. They’re students, and we think one of their boyfriends lives in another apartment in the building, so they’re always going in and out. The problem is, how do we deal with it? We’ve never really developed any sort of civil relationship with them, as they’re just generally unfriendly people.

If we confront them, I’m afraid that I won’t be able to ask them to stop without sounding annoyed or angry (which I am). And I don’t want them to get their backs up, or else they’ll just keep doing it. Brooke’s mentioned it to our superintendent and asked if he would speak to them about it, but he’s older and we’re not sure he remembered. I thought of asking the other tenants on our floor (there are only about 5 or 6 other apartments, so everyone hears it) to sign a letter asking them to be more considerate. That way they can’t single us out as the complainers. It’s really starting to drive us crazy. What do you think we should do?

Catching Up…

Wow. Nothing posted here for a week. What have I been doing?:

Hopefully, real life won’t intrude so rudely on my weblog in the next few days… 😉

An Apology of Sorts

I think I’ve been too hard on the American contingent at World Youth Day. Since my last entry, I’ve paid particular attention to the groups of participants, and I’ve seen flags for Chile, Germany, Poland, Mexico, and Sweden. I suppose the environment is a bit like the Olympics and people are representing their countries. I overreacted. Being next door to the U.S. has given us Canadians a certain sensitivity to American patriotism at its worst, but I do feel that the Americans have as much right as anyone else in Toronto this week to show us where they’re from.