To Zeke,
I’m glad I found your site. Here’s what I’d like your opinion about: I live in a townhouse and share a wall with a loud neighbor. He watches football games on TV every weekend and yells at the game—in other words at the TV. He yells loud—really loud—which is bad enough, but he also curses really loud. I have a three year-old daughter who has to listen to the neighbor yelling “fuck” and other things at the top of his lungs. I can put up with the noise, but I don’t want my daughter hearing words like that. What should I do about this? How do I get my neighbor to quiet down?
From Zeke:
I’ll tell you what–you’re gonna win and he’s gonna lose. The first thing you do is you walk next door and ask your neighbor to keep it down. He’ll get mad at you and turn up the TV and then scrape up the finish on your car with a key. And that’s when you really got him, ’cause you’ll be hiding behind the shrubs the whole time taking photos. And then you pop out from behind the shrubs and show him the photos and you give him a wicked look and say, “Keep it down from now on, okay,” and then have your daughter say to him, “Yeah, fuck you!”