How To Impress Your Neighbors (Subtitle: Whoops!)
Last week's post about pretending to be perfect (subtitle: whoops!) was so popular that I thought I'd make a second (subtitle: whoops!) edition. This one's all about impressing your neighbors. Yeah, I've got skills. ;)
1. The first time you meet your neighbors, make sure it's 1 a.m. and make sure you're shoving food in your mouth.
Here's the story...one night, Hudson & I spontaneously decided to have a fun midnight date. We went out for milkshakes, but apparently nothing's open at midnight...oh except for Wendy's. Of course just one milkshake isn't enough, so we each got a sandwich or two (so healthy, I know). You might remember this tweet...
Anyways, we come around the corner to our apartment and whatdoyaknow, we run into our next door neighbors FOR THE FIRST TIME at 1 a.m. Who knows what they were doing out so late, but they surely knew what we were doing with two bags of Wendy's in my hand. "Hey, my name's Emily and I get fast food at crazy hours of the night!" Whoops.
2. Shatter and spill a bottle of teriyaki sauce right in front of your neighbors.
For some reason I felt the urge to buy three bottles of teriyaki sauce for the week...who knows why. Oh wait, I actually figured out why. You see, I had a million bags in my hand and one bottle dropped, shattered and spilled the whole way across the sidewalk...right in front of the neighbors. One bottle down, two more to go. "Hey, my name's Emily and I promise I'm not clumsy!" Whoops.
3. Use loud power tools until past midnight.
Okay this one I'm a bit ashamed of BUT Hudson and I had this little goal that we had to have all of our furniture set up by a certain day. Of course all our furniture is Target/Walmart style where it takes 2 million hours to assemble one bookshelf, and of course that day came and we still had half the stuff to assemble. So needless to say, we were power tooling it up past midnight. "Hey, my name's Emily and I know I kept you up all night, but I promise we'll be best friends forever!" Whoops.
What were your "whoops" moments this week? I'd love to hear them!!
11 comments:
HAHAHA! I'm sure your neighbors will love you once they get to know you! That's one of the things I've been praying for you guys is that you meet some great friends in your new city!
PS I'm jealous that you aren't in a BLIZZARD!
Oh yes, we've done the power tools till 2 am thing, our neighbors love us!
I have been known to have issues with doing abnormal things (using power tools, hammering in the wall) at obscene hours of the night because I am a bit of a night owl. It only bothered my neighbors when I lived in NYC and I had like 183938 different neighbors haha.
No whoops this week, thankfully.
hahaha i love this! we're {hopefully} moving soon, and i'll keep these in mind when meeting new neighbors :)
Well atleast now your neighbors know you!!! I heard you moved to Columbia - I live in Catonsville!
Haha, thank you for making me smile today!
My husband is currently at a TDY and our new neighbors moved in while he is gone. We have a soldier that lives with us as well due to some problems at the barracks, so the neighbors have only seen him coming and going from the house for two weeks, so of course I'm assuming they think he's my husband. Well, he left for leave on Monday to go get married, and another one of my husbands friends got kicked out of the barracks and is trying to find a place off post to live, but until he does he's crashing in the man cave. My husband still hasn't come home yet, so what our neighbors have seen:
1. Guy the assume is my husband coming and going.
2. Guy they assume is my husband has left.
3. Random new guy is coming and going.
4. Random new guy is going to leave before the husband gets home (two weeks!)
5. FINALLY my husband is going to come home.
6. Both guys who AREN'T my husband are going to be gone the first week my husband is home.
I look like I have a rotating door! Talk about first impressions! I'm terrified to go next door and to introduce myself LOL.
Haha we've all been there! We "met" our across the hall neighbors at midnight when they were having a screaming match and one of them was storming in and out of their apartment and slamming the door. We had to go out and see if everything was okay and tell them they needed to keep it down!! At least we weren't on the other end of that one...
It happens... I'm sure your neighbors understand. I've had some strange ones in my day... None as weird as the old man who would play fetch with his Pomeranian down the hallway while you were walking to the elevator. No joke, you would have to dodge the ball and the dog!
Hahaha! Loved this post! We have all been there! A couple of years ago I "met" my apartment neighbors when I put the wrong soap in the washer and naively walked away. Needless to say 35 minutes later I came (clueless)down the hallway to encounter 5 of my neighbors who were hoping to get their wash done trying to avoid soapy bubbles all over the floor. Of course it was a Sunday so maintenance took FOREVER to get there and even after a year of living there would still get annoyed looks by some neighbors. *sigh* What can you do? I laugh about it now! :)
Seriously laughed-out-loud too funny :) And a midnight milkshake run sounds like a brilliant idea!
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