We lived next to a(n unofficial) Frat House from the time I was pregnant with Casper until she was nearly 5 and Dillo was 2, so my standards for offensively noisy necessarily became somewhat relaxed.

I was very worried when my house flooded last year because the interior and exterior fans and dehumidifiers (some of these were over 5 feet tall, and there were 56 pieces of machinery in and outside of my house) were extremely noisy and were on 24/7 for exactly a week. But thankfully the neighbors on every side were extremely sympathetic and didn't complain. I went around to 8 neighboring houses when I moved back in, and left a bottle of wine and a "thank you for being so patient with the noise" card on their porches.

I actually LOVE to hear the sounds of children screaming and laughing and otherwise just happy neighborhood noise. Maybe not at 3 if I am trying to sleep, but it's part of being alive.

I had an upstairs neighbor who clogged. I actually had him stand in my apartment while I fake clogged in his. He didn't do it anymore - he was a nice guy and truly didn't realize.

In one of my college apartments, my upstairs neighbor was this wee slip of a girl who WALKED LIKE AN ELEPHANT. I could not figure out how that little mass could make so much noise. And it wasn't the building construction, I could barely hear the other roommates, and one was a giant.

Cashed in some gift cards and now have 3 new skirts for work.

smonster, how funny! Sometimes people are just in their own little oblivious vacuums, aren't they?

Cashed in some gift cards and now have 3 new skirts for work.

Cool! Pics?

One of our across-the-hall neighbors used to wear her clogs and walk up and down the wooden floors.

People Who Wear Clogs: Please take them off at home if you're not walking on carpet.

In one of my college apartments, my upstairs neighbor was this wee slip of a girl who WALKED LIKE AN ELEPHANT. I could not figure out how that little mass could make so much noise. And it wasn't the building construction, I could barely hear the other roommates, and one was a giant.

She must have been a fembot. That's how the Six Million Dollar Man knew that Oscar had been replaced by a fembot--the fembot was much heavier, so the helicopter that fembot!Oscar was in had a hard time taking off.

Oscar Goldman was replaced by a robot. Oscar Goldman's secretary was replaced by a fembot. The Bionic Woman could detect fembots with her bionic ear.

What do fembots sounds like?

So is it just that fembots are girl robots? Or is there a certain... je ne sais quoi that fembots have?