Last Wednesday I was out on my balcony hanging some laundry when my neighbour starts shouting at me that I’m noisy. Since this already happened once before on Sunday and it pretty much sounded like a paranoid, crazy woman, I decided to just ignore here. I was hardly making any sound hanging my laundry after all. Not 10 seconds later she starts banging the laundry pole, that is pretty much standard in every Japanese apartment, against the divide between my balcony and hers. Again I decide to just let her be and ignore her. Then she starts shouting again, and all of a sudden I see her fist coming right through the divide. She punched a nice big hole in the divide.

Besides scaring the crap out of me with her wacky behaviour she also made me very mad. Fortunately my apartment is rented by my company, so I only had to call them and they handled everything for me.

Then at 11.30pm a neat guy in a suit rings my bell. He says he is the tenant next door and that he would like to apoligise for his girlfriends behaviour with a large cake… Well, he has been warned that if it happens again he will be requested to move out by the landlord, so hopefully no more cake from him.