When Blane and I moved into our new apartment we noticed that the guy who lives in the apartment with a his front door opposite our front door had a sign up saying, "Under Surveillance".
I asked our landlord what this was about and he said, "That's Guy. He's a little bit odd. Don't worry about him. He won't give you any trouble. He doesn't have any surveillance equipment. He is not spying. Although, make sure you get some curtains up. Do you have curtains? I can lend you some sheets. Get curtains. But don't worry about him."
Our kitchen window is directly opposite Guy's kitchen window (it's looking into one of those narrow lightless air shafts you find in New York and Hong Kong and other busted cities). We took our landlord's advice and put curtains up very quickly.
We've been living here a month now and I DO get the feeling whenever I go out the front door that I'm being surveillanced.
On Monday there was a new sign in the hallway. Not on Guy's door, but on the wall between both our doors. It read:
Hot water turned off on Friday at 6.15pm without 24 hours notice.
I knew instantly it was a Guy sign and, because it wasn't on his front door but in a communal area, I tore it down. It was a stupid sign and it annoyed me. If he has a problem with the hot water then he should see the landlord (who has his office downstairs) and not leave anonymous signs posted on the top floor where the landlord will never see.
Creepy Guy was probably peeping out his peep hole and saw it was me who took the sign down.
On Tuesday Guy had a new sign on his door, this one written in big red capital letters, "RENT STRIKE!"
Oh dear.
This morning when I went to work there was NO sign on Guy's door. Good sign...
But when I came home from work tonight I noticed something strange above my own front door...
What is that?!?!?!
So, now WHACK Guy is mad about the heat not being turned on** and he's putting signs on the ceiling above my front door... WHY WHY WHY?
I instantly took photos of the sign and then knocked it down with a broom. I'm sure that Guy watched the whole thing stationed behind his front door watching through the peep hole. I don't care. I hope that seeing me take photos makes HIM paranoid.
Just like he is making ME paranoid.
Damn, it's a paranoid off!
May the most delusional person win...
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*Name not changed
** It was 14C today! What kind of idiot wants the heat on when it's sunny and 14C?
3 comments:
That Guy is seven different kinds of crazy, and none of them good. If he feels so empassioned about these issues he has to stick notes to the ceiling outside your door, why doesn't he just go downstairs and stick the note on the landlord's door instead? Or just...knock? Wow. What a nutbag.
You should invest in some surveillance equipment, or better yet something that just makes the guy think he is really under surveillance.
Maybe call the FBI and report suspicious activities from his apartment.
14C and no heat?
you've been away for too long!
start doing wierd shit in the hallway.
out-wierd him Dot, i know you can!
Jay, you're my weirdo neighbour, aren't you?!?!?!
Kiki, I know I could too! (And 14C is warm! You've been in Perth too long... um, is that where you still are?)
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