The neighbor that lives directly below me has been playing this particular sappy song over and over for days, no weeks... or has it been months? I kid you not. I don't even know the song, but I can definitely hum the now-nauseatingly-familiar chorus for you. It gets worse in the evenings.

I wonder if he or she is tormented by infatuation of some sort. It may be getting worse because Cupid's Day is nearly upon us. I suppose that warrants some of my sympathy... but really, after being cooped up in my apartment for a couple days with no relief from it, all I want to do is to strangle that person.

I'm tempted to just jump up and down really hard, but I'm not sure if that'll get the message across. Or, I have these air pipes (with openings near the floor) that run vertically through the building.... and sometimes if there are a lot of people downstairs, their voices carry through the pipes. I've thought about yelling down the pipe, "Stop playing that song!!!!" Or, I guess I could just go downstairs and knock on the door.

If it doesn't stop, I just may have to resort to that kind of confrontation. Then again, sometimes I hear that song playing ("oh no!" I groan)... and then I wonder, is it really playing or has it implanted itself in my mind and I keep imagining it's playing over and over?

(Grace - this makes me think of you when we lived together and you'd play one CD over and over and over again. It's a wonder I didn't strangle you then. Haha. Naah, I'd just ask you nicely and you'd willingly oblige.)

Whew. I think it's stopped for now.