January 9th, 2008

Fashion Girls

Frying Pan, Meet Fire (Neighbor Edition)

Some of you might recall my grousing about Horn Man, our French-horn-playing neighbor.  (I live in a townhouse; the walls have never seemed as thin before...)  My relationship with Horn Man came to a head about three weeks ago, when he decided to serenade us at 12:30 in the morning.  I left a furious note on his door the following morning, threatening to contact his landlady and the police if he ever repeated such a concert.

As luck would have it, that was a parting salvo - Horn Man's lease was up on 12/31.  The landlady is back, visiting from her retirement residence, several states away.  She's deep-cleaning (apparently Horn Man did not clean once for the year that he lived there), replacing the carpet, painting, etc.  Today, I hear the carpet crew in there, banging away with their knee-kick tools to complete the installation.

So.  The place goes on the market on 1/18.  I only hope that our perma-neighbors are good ones.

Mindy, typing with crossed fingers