Hi all. Not that I'm Mr Perfect himself but there really are some pretty disturbing persons in this world, I tell you. Last night when I was well in bed some nut was making one h*ll of a racket downstairs, knocking on the windows from an apartment downstairs and calling to the person inside telling her he was hungry ... You have to believe me that normally I tend to not get involved in that sort of loud 'communications'. And I sort of know the person inside and don't think she was ever going to open that door, or even react. But I need my rest badly enough as it is and this guy was really getting on my nervous. Since no-one else seemed to go tell him to take a hike I decided it was time to take action. So I got dressed, went outside and asked the guy, who by the way kind of looked like a nurse (I'm not sure if you heard about that whole carnival thing, but picture Rio de Janeiro in your mind and add to that too much beer and a weak mind to begin with ... well basically that was what was under my window making noise ...) calmly what his problem was. He replied that it was none of my business and that I should simply go back to sleep. I replied that it was exactly what I had been trying to do for the past couple of hours but that for some reason there was a lot of noise outside which was keeping me from being able to sleep. Sigh ... he didn't get it. Even louder than before he then shouted at me to get lost and then started to boink the window again. Now I really hate it when that happens but what bothers me even more is to get ignored when trying to talk some reason into someone. So then I, once more pretty calm and kindly, asked the guy to stop doing that and keep it down a bit but he just looked up at me and kept on calling the person inside. So I went back inside, looked up the biggest bucket I could find, fill that to the edge with water and went outside again. The guy was still there, this time barking through the mailbox opening in the door. I called him and when he looked up again unloaded my bucket which must have been holding about twenty liters of water all over him. I tell you for a moment it was pretty silent and had things stayed that way I would have been able to go back to sleep again. The guy however reacted as if I had shot him (surprise eh? :-) and now started to yell at me. Well at least I had his full attention this time ;-) Trying to sound pretty determined I then told him that if he had any sense he would just go away and let us all sleep as I had plenty more water where that first bucket came from. A bit to my surprise he mumbled some stuff and then simply walked away. For a minute there I stayed outside because he might get the idea in his head to come up but when he stayed away I went to bed and finally got to my well deserved rest. Now I need to get to bed earlier tonight and tomorrow to try and make up for the damage done to my night rest. Buggers. This is one of the reasons I don't like the whole carnival business, people take in too much drinks, start to do crazy stuff and expect everyone to just let them be. Which is fine with me, but not in the middle of the night under my window. Not anymore.