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Dear Mr You-Ann,

I am having some difficulties with my neighbour, Miss Mer Ley-Shir. She seems to be a difficult person to get along with, though she recently claimed in her correspondence that she has tried all methods to deal with me, including “being friendly”.

I shudder to think about the other methods she might have used. Vodoo? Hopefully she didn’t cast any death curse on me, just because I refused to tear up the tiles on my side of the corridor to replace it with one that matches her pretty pink pattern.

It all started when I first moved in. We used to have a stable friendship, though she likes to take jibes at me, and make crude jokes of turning off the pipe to my water supply if I ever let her down. To make matters worse, some of her family members suggested poisoning the pipe if I ever did anything wrong!

I shuddered under the sabre-rattling, but held calm. After all, if I didn’t do anything wrong, I should not be afraid of her, right?

Then one day, she put up a sign near my door on her side of the corridor: “Prior permission required to trespass”. I went to knock on her door, but she refused to open the door. Instead, she called the police to have me forcibly removed from her corridor! I had only wanted to request her permission to cross the corridor to get to the lifts!

Thus, I had to resort to taking the stairs every day for the past 6 years.

Well, till this day she continuous to bug me about tearing up my side of the corridor, but these days a contractor has come to take some measurements. It turned out that she was going to go ahead with the pink floor tiles anyway, even though it doesn’t match the rest of the floor’s tilings! I tried to compromise with her, pleading her to give me access to her corridor so that I may get to the lifts – in return of ripping up my own tiles to match her pink ones!

Guess what? She shot back a note that essentially labelled me an “insolent neighbour”, and that I “always wanted more than she was willing to give in return”.

“You want to go through my corridor, and also to put a shoe-rack outside your house just to agree to build the pink tiles.. But what do you give me in return… nothing.”

Please, Mr You-Ann! What should I do now!

Yours sincerely,

Ter Mark Sek

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