My Neighbor Jude

Sadism

11.13.11

Monty #510,

Please, stop knowingly waking me up! You continue to walk into the bed nook with your hard healed boots on at 2:30am. My notes to you are in defense of my tenancy rights. Most cooperative tenants have carpeted the common areas, why not you? Here’s why:

sa dism       [sey-diz-uhm]   noun

1. Psychiatry. The condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others.

2. any enjoyment in being cruel.

3. extreme cruelty.

Walking into the bed nook area with your hard healed boots then sadistically jumping over my head for joy at 2am, is not anywhere near funny or entertaining on any level, and shows you to be cruel and unfeeling, by making me angry. You find waking me up funny, I don’t.

I just need you to get some carpeting to mitigate your hammering shoe noise. If you need me to buy you carpeting, I will, if that is what it will take for you to stop disturbing me.

Judith #410

cc: Jerry ###

You Are Disturbed Which You Turn Into Disturbing Me

10.24.11

Monty,

You continue to wake me up by disturbing me with your shoe noise in the bed nook area. You are annoying me by waking me up, which makes me angry when all you have to do is carpet the bed nook. Do you know what your behavior suggests about you? You are disturbed which you turn into disturbing me. Your victimization says a lot about you.

Get some carpeting, and stop bothering me.

Judith

CC: Jerry XXXX

What follows is an image of the postscript of this letter…

Interesting that she chose those two words to define, don’t you think?

Rug Depot Coupon!

5.27.11

Monty #510,

I am writing to you because I have been unable to sleep since you moved into apartment #510, because of your pounding in the be nook closet we both share.

I have tried to mitigate this situation by providing you with a mat to place in that area to try and get a good night’s sleep. Your have [sic] awakened me at night and in the morning continually.

Only you can solve the echoing noise problem you are causing by walking so hard on this old wood floor above me.

I ask you to honor my request to put something on the floor above me. I have always taken off my shoes when I am in my apartment so as not to disturb my neighbors below me. I realize you could care less, as you are not conscious of your disturbance, but it is my hope you will consider my request to buy a floor covering.

Please be kind enough to consider my request to buy something to drown out the sounds of your foot-steps.

I am providing a coupon to a carpet store, please use it.

Sincerely,

Judith #410

CC: Jerry XXXX, Laramar SF

You are right, Jude. I could care less.

And Partner

9.03.11

Monty and partner #510,

I am requesting, again, that you carpet your bednook and your front door.

I will never stop asking as long as you continue to disturb my sleep in the morning, as long as you continue to trample my peace and quiet, I will be relentless in this pursuit to stop you from disturbing me.

Please, carpet these areas.

Judith #410

cc: Jerry Deal Laramar SF

David gets a shoutout in this letter. In truth, the letters bother him more than they bother me. I think they are funny, she literally can’t do anything about it. If she were nice to me, I would consider her requests. But the fact that she has been nothing but rude to me makes this impossible. Furthermore, she complains about everything which does not help her case with the building’s management. Lastly, we live on Market Street, a place whose “peace and quiet” is interrupted 4-6 times an hour by the F train and at least twice a day by sirens of some sort.

Interesting Formatting

Thurs. 7.28.11

Monty #510,

Please do not put your alarm clock on the floor, the buzzer wakes ME up.

Thanks,

Jude #410

Please note that I don’t know what she’s talking about. And that if I do set an alarm, it’s at like 9 o clock, which is more than reasonable. And it’s never on the floor. Also, I lost the (many) letters left between this one and the last one, but I will continue to post them, if I find them somewhere in the apt.

We Both Share the Same Space

4/21/10

Hello Monty,

This is a reminder to please not throw your shoes or book bags or whatever into the bed nook, where we both sleep, when you get home. Please use the closet by the bathroom.

Also, my recomendation [sic] to carpet your front door and bed nook, still remains.

Monty, we both share the same space. It would be helpful for me if you would carpet those areas.

Thank you for not wearing shoes in our shared space, mostly, that has been a big help in mitigating the shoe noise. If you would like to discuss this issue further, I would be glad to meet with you instead of sending letters.

Thank you,

Judith #410

How sweet, she thinks we share the same space! I have no desire to meet with you regarding the “shoe noise” and say it with me everyone, “carpeting the bed nook”. My reaction may seem, harsh, but let’s please remember I have lived in this apartment for one month and she has sent me three letters.

The Alarm Clock

4/01/10

Dear Monte [sic],

Once again you have awakened me. This time dragging your alarm clock over a bare floor, then it’s going off at 6:30 AM, then again after it’s initial ringing.

Please take your clock off the floor and add a carpet in our bed nook. You have decided to place your bed above mine. You can hear people talking, etc. in there. Please remember that your floor is my ceiling, which means your noise is my headache.

Thank you for taking action to get these issues resolved. I look forward to peaceful enjoyment of my living space.

Thank you,

Judith #410

Please note that this note was slipped under my door 4 days after the first note, and 7 days after moving in. Two notes, one week. The alarm in question is my sister’s iPhone. She spent the night with me in my wonderful new apartment and found out exactly how wonderful it is. 

Welcome to the Building

3/27/10

Hello Monty,

I’m writing to ask you to please place a runner of carpeting by the front door as well as in the bed/closet to the left of the front door. This will help to quiet this area as you have awakened me this morning at 1:30 AM.

We don’t wear shoes in our apartment as this helps to mitigate the thunderous sound hard heeled shoes create below our apartments. Your floor is my ceiling!

If you would be so kind as to respect the noice ordinances (10pm to 7am) and be gentle on these old wooden floors. You are a heavy walker and hardwood floors are noisy like a drum, causing me to complain about the pounding sound.

Also, please be mindful of the subwoofer bass sound blowing down here, as this is another noise problem we all have to contend with.

Welcome to the building. And if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you,

Jude #410

415-XXX-XXXX

This first note was pretty innocuous, but let me state that I had moved in maybe 2 days before that. Additionally, I met her as I was moving in and she had an absolute look of horror on her face when she found out I was moving in above her. There was no smile and hello, just “Oh, I’m 410”

Introduction: Who is Jude?

I have lived in my apartment since March 2010 and my downstairs neighbor, Jude (sometimes Judith) has been writing me letters since the very first week. I have lost track of most of them but here is a running list of extant letters and all future letters and signs will be posted here. Enjoy and comment away! I’m giving her the URL, so your voice will be heard