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Scream
Okay. So, I've got this neighbor.
He screams. Periodically... at odd times of the night... just starts screaming.

It's not like a Turret's-Syndrome scream. It's not a boy-girl fight. It's not a frightened scream, or an enthusiastic scream. It's not quite an angry scream, but it does have a flavor of violence to it. It isn't even words at all, just some vocalization.
It's a pained scream, like a scream that one might make if one had just stubbed their toe on a spinning lawnmower blade.

It's not just one scream either, but a short series of cries in diminishing volume. Almost nightly he screams, somewhere in the 1AM to 3AM area.



In a way, I kinda get excited when I hear him. I think, "Hey! It's my screaming neighbor!" and then I lament the fact that nobody else is there to enjoy it with me.

I guess I'm excited by the mystery of it. Why would this guy scream like he just hammered a nail through his thumb at odd hours of the night? Maybe he's got a bunch of eye-level anvils on ropes swinging in his apartment. Maybe his dog bites him while he sleeps. Maybe he's got a bunch of bear-traps set on his floor. Maybe he DOES hammer a nail through his thumb.

For a short time, I started a log. I kept a record in a Word Document that I labeled, "Screams from my neighbor" and starting noting the date and times that I heard him.


I don't know... I thought it was funny, but when I told people about it, nobody really shared my enthusiasm.