Taps

I live in a cheap apartment. It's very inexpensive, utilities included, on a bus route, so I let a bunch of things slide. Like the fact that it's in the scariest neighbourhood in the city, or that the whole place is shoddily built. The biggest current concern, however is our leaky tap. It's the one in the kitchen and it's been leaking since day one. We complained to the landlord when we first moved in but nothing was done about it so we've just been trying to deal with it. The leak now has gotten so bad that it's a constant stream of scalding hot water that we have to place 'just so' so the stream of water hits the side of the sink which minimizes the sound of it. But that is nothing compared to its worst feature.

Every so often, it will be nice and quiet in the apartment and then all of a sudden, I'll hear a sound...

I don't know what exactly it's all about, but the tap makes a super high pitched 'ee' sound that is similar in quality to an old TV. Sometimes merely moving the faucet slightly makes it stop. Sometimes you have to turn it on and then off again. But it always happens when the people in the apartment next to us use their tap.

This is just one of many reasons why I've been cultivating a strong hatred of the neighbours. But I'll save that list for another post.