Archive for March, 2008

Here’s a quick follow up to the recent post I made about my neighbour and his complaint about my noise.

I went to see him a couple of days later to clear up the situation. It was odd to say the least. ‘R’ invited me into his flat and I ended up there for over half an hour. He turned out to be a pleasant enough guy but wetter than a haddock in a bathing suit. By the end of the conversation, he’d all but retracted his complaint, agreed that he’d handled it badly, told me I was the bigger man and finally said that in fact, the noise wasn’t that bad at all! It was awakward and embarrasing, for him. And at one point, I thought he was going to hug me.

I told him that I wouldn’t change my behaviour regarding my girlfriend but that if the noisy pump was a problem, I’d be more mindful in future. I left, went shopping, and when I returned home another note had been put through my door. It was a thank-you, an apology and a retraction all in one. We’d just done all that, why did he need to confirm it with another note?

People are strange. I feel a song coming on.

You’ve gotta hand it to the spammers.

In an effort to bypass spam filters, their “Enlarge your penis” emails now have even sillier subject lines. Just today I received these: “Bomb her womb from your huge cannon!”, “Elongation of your baby-maker size is not a dream! (Your banana is too small)”, “Most popular way to increase your dummy length (Your Big Daddy is too small)” and “Stop being a sniper, be RAMBO”.

I’m actually looking at my spam folder regularly now, just for new laughs. I guess their plan worked!