Yeccchhh!!!
Published by Toni September 11th, 2005 in Uncategorized.Because it gets really hot at night, my boyfriend and I tend to leave our bedroom windows open. The downside is that of course, we hear the sounds of the street next to us: cars driving by; people talking; the thud of the metal garbage bin when someone tosses the trash.
But one of the most irritating and gross sounds that come through our open window isn’t from the street but from our own building. One of our neighbors has a really disgusting habit of hawking up a lot of phlegm and spitting while using the bathroom. Since his bathroom window is obviously open, we can hear him doing this. Without fail, every other night (and sometimes during the day) we’d hear this idiot go, “HAAAWWKKGGHH!!!” several times while the water is running.
At first I thought it was some old sick woman who perhaps lives in the building next to us. However, my bf has convinced me that, no, it’s not an old sick woman and no, he doesn’t live in another building. Most likely, the culprit lives on the floor and right above us.
We try to ignore this fool but sometimes it gets to be too much. A few months ago, when we heard the familiar “HAAAWWKKGGHH!!!” my boyfriend replied, “HAAAWWKKGGHH!!!” just as loudly. And another night, out of sheer exasperation, my boyfriend walked to the window and yelled, “EVERYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CAN HEAR YOU DO THAT!!!!” But of course that didn’t stop our lovely musician.
Our ears are not the only victims. When a woman moved in next door two months ago, my boyfriend and I introduced ourselves, welcoming her to the building. We started talking about our fellow tenants when my boyfriend mentioned the hawker. We asked her if she has heard this person’s antics in the bathroom. She replied that she hadn’t heard anything; but then again- she had just moved in. About a week or so we visited her again. This time she excitedly told us that she had indeed, heard the infamous hawking man. She said that she was surprised when she first heard it, but her surprise quickly turned to disgust when she heard him hawk several times in a row. Several nights a week.
I wish there was some way to get him to shut the hell up, or at least close the damn bathroom window…
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yech! in my building i’m *sure* the apartment below mine was leaving their bathroom fan on allll night and making my apartment rumble. it really made me want to knock on their door and tell them to quit it. before we could address it, a notice was sent to all tenants that it’s disruptive to leave your fan on, and to turn it off between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., if you like running it otherwise.
wouldn’t it be funny to send a notice to all your tenants to “close your bathroom window” if you intend to make disruptive hawking sounds! =P
I feel your pain. There’s a guy at my gym who does the same thing on the STAIR STEPPER! And it echos big time.
Jeez dude. See a doctor!
When I was “homestaying” in the apt. of an old couple in Beijing, both of them would regularly do this when getting ready for bed. It was a health thing, apparently; I never got the details, but it preventative rather than a symptom. Anyhow, they didn’t seem to think it would bother anybody, but I’ll bet if they were living in another country and someone told them that it wasn’t OK to do that in public they might close the window at least. Dunno if anything cultural’s going on here, but do you think this guy knows that he’s being gross? might he respond to a note?