One of my neighbors, a man by the name of Rinus (don't worry, no one else who knows him will ever read this) , is a bit weird... He hears sounds at night that to him resemble someone continuously opening and closing curtains. And... He has come to blame me for it. As if I have nothing better to do when I'm asleep. Last Thursday he even left a letter at my front door in which he accused me of doing it, and he said he had checked four times that night, whether my lights were on. And on one occasion they were.
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I have this habit, that when I wake up in the middle of the night, and don't feel tired I turn on my light for 30 minutes or so, to read or to write down good ideas that I come up with. Some of my best ideas come to me like that. One thing I don't do is opening and closing curtains. In fact I never hear that sound myself, and earlier on (he's been bothering the neighborhood about this for the past four years) he admitted he doesn't know from which direction the sound's coming. Now that he's seen my light on in the middle of the night, he just knows it's me doing it, and he does not stand to reason about it.
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I wonder what he might do now. We have an olive tree growing very closely to his fence, and I'm sure that when it gets too high for his liking, he'll get a court order for us to axe it. I also sometimes leave some old bread in the backyard for the sparrows, and he's indicated before he doesn't like birds, so he might try and do something about that. If he decides to make some noise himself, I could care less, frankly, but his other neighbors might think differently.
You just can't beat a good crazy neighbor story for drama. I don't suppose he'd go for the suggestion of running something that creates 'white noise' to drown out the sound? He needs a hobby. I wish I could be more helpful. I'll give it more thought.
I was sitting here in the wee hours of the morning reading this post and it really tickled my fancy. But I was too tired to post a comment so here I am like a bad penny back to comment. This bloke...Fair dinkum! Has to many Roo's in the top paddock! Or all his lights are on and no one's at home! Too much dry hay in the loft! And a shingle short of a roof. You get my drift. What to do about him, perhaps you could complain about him being up all night with his lights on and opening and shutting his curtains to look see, if it's actually you doing what he's obviously doing. Perhaps when, putting your inspirational thoughts down on paper in the wee hours of the morning you could use a torch or a candle and move back in time 50 to 100 years.But seriously he definately has a problem or he is suffering with the disease TINNITUS, which is either ringing or a rushing gushing sound in the ears...Which very likely could be why he's hearing the wooshing of curtains opening and closing. If it's not this then we have to go back to the top of the page and settle for one of those explanations. Goodluck with sorting out the problem and I hope you keep your olive tree. Years ago My Mum was bringing the cows, home for milking and at the gate was the neighbours adjoining property and hanging over the fence was a big fruit tree laden with apricots, so she picked a couple and the crazy old coot who owned the tree saw her and so got his axe and chopped the tree down and burnt it, so no one could have any not even his own family. They walk among us every where, so we just have to smile and try to be compassionate if they let us that is?
Take care and stay safe. Love and ((((HUGS)))) From Dawnie.
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