Mystery Neighbors

At times I almost wish I knew my neighbors. If only just so I could understand what on earth they are doing in there.

At least once a week, usually on a weekend when we're trying to sleep in, we're woken up by a banging noise right above our heads, the kind of noise you would expect from someone hammering in a picture. Only people usually don't hang pictures for an hour straight. The hammering is the most common, but there's also noises that sound like sawing or scrapping. Once it sounded like they were spraying the wall with a high pressure hose.

Construction noises aren't that odd in a nice suburban neighborhood, but in studio apartments without so much as a balcony I just can't imagine anyone having enough space to live and make things.

At first I just assumed that they had just moved in and were getting settled. That theory lost viability after about a month, and the strange banging and sawing noises haven't let up.

It's not so much that the noise is inherently annoying (and oh, it is) but by now it's mostly just about the mystery of it all. I just want to know what they could possibly be doing!