"But last night… Fam, you tried it. You really, really did."
December 22, 2018 7:21 AM Subscribe
Author Candice Marie Benbow attempts a culinary solution to a noise problem: "I wanted the best way to tell my neighbor that he tried it with his late night party. So I wrote him a letter and baked him a cake." Twitter | Threadreader
That thread taught me a new word: wypipo
posted by NoMich at 7:35 AM on December 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by NoMich at 7:35 AM on December 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Tip: if you read the threadreader version, you’ll miss some of her later comments, including where she links to her blog post with the recipe.
posted by MexicanYenta at 7:43 AM on December 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by MexicanYenta at 7:43 AM on December 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
Lovely
posted by supermedusa at 7:47 AM on December 22, 2018
posted by supermedusa at 7:47 AM on December 22, 2018
Gonna start telling my neighbors I'm a music producer.
(excellent post Johnny Wallflower!)
posted by tofu_crouton at 7:54 AM on December 22, 2018
(excellent post Johnny Wallflower!)
posted by tofu_crouton at 7:54 AM on December 22, 2018
Very impressed with her solution to this problem. I would probably have just seethed and then left a note the next day, but she transformed the situation.
(Cringed at her using the n-word in reference to her neighbor, though.)
Excellent post, thank you!
posted by darkstar at 8:24 AM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
(Cringed at her using the n-word in reference to her neighbor, though.)
Excellent post, thank you!
posted by darkstar at 8:24 AM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
If this were a movie, they’d fall in love and serve pound cake at the wedding.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:29 AM on December 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:29 AM on December 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
I think we need to permalink this story to all the Askmes that start, "My neighbor..."
posted by agatha_magatha at 8:48 AM on December 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by agatha_magatha at 8:48 AM on December 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
Bears out my belief that being pleasant to others (even if they seemingly don't "deserve" it) ends up being less work in the long run.
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 8:54 AM on December 22, 2018 [10 favorites]
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 8:54 AM on December 22, 2018 [10 favorites]
Really though who doesn't want to be with Lena Waithe?
posted by bile and syntax at 9:05 AM on December 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by bile and syntax at 9:05 AM on December 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
I saw this on the Twitters this morning. Hope for humanity, y'all.
posted by Sophie1 at 10:29 AM on December 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Sophie1 at 10:29 AM on December 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I wish this kind of thing would work on the people I deal with. I'm happy this worked for her though!
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:32 AM on December 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:32 AM on December 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
"(Cringed at her using the n-word in reference to her neighbor, though.)"
Not a native speaker here, but I thought this was not considered offensive if the speaker is herself black? Which I think she is, considering the first-person pronoun in her later comment, "I ONLY call police for emergencies. They are killing us every other day and getting away with it...I don’t call the police on us if I can help it." Happy to be corrected on either point, though.
posted by meaty shoe puppet at 10:45 AM on December 22, 2018 [17 favorites]
Not a native speaker here, but I thought this was not considered offensive if the speaker is herself black? Which I think she is, considering the first-person pronoun in her later comment, "I ONLY call police for emergencies. They are killing us every other day and getting away with it...I don’t call the police on us if I can help it." Happy to be corrected on either point, though.
posted by meaty shoe puppet at 10:45 AM on December 22, 2018 [17 favorites]
for the non-twitter-pated: Grandma's Pound Cake recipe, as part of a book review at Benbow's own site
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:46 AM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:46 AM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Having received an anonymous complaint note from a neighbor the morning AFTER they called the cops with a noise complaint (it was 11pm on a Friday), I'd much rather get the note without the cops showing up at my door first, even without a pound cake.
posted by muddgirl at 11:34 AM on December 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by muddgirl at 11:34 AM on December 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
Cringed at her using the n-word in reference to her neighbor, though
That's really not the "n-word", I don't think. But, very important: do not use it if you are white, you don't have the right to participate in the semantic transformation that it represents.
posted by thelonius at 12:05 PM on December 22, 2018 [15 favorites]
That's really not the "n-word", I don't think. But, very important: do not use it if you are white, you don't have the right to participate in the semantic transformation that it represents.
posted by thelonius at 12:05 PM on December 22, 2018 [15 favorites]
"Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
posted by longdaysjourney at 6:37 PM on December 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by longdaysjourney at 6:37 PM on December 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
If you click on any of the links in the post, you can see a picture of the writer, a black woman.
posted by the agents of KAOS at 6:43 PM on December 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by the agents of KAOS at 6:43 PM on December 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
I have recently had difficulty beliving that loud neighbors are not just bastards who would just kick in your windows in retaliation and piss on your door. I am getting cynical.
posted by thefileclerk at 12:17 AM on December 25, 2018
posted by thefileclerk at 12:17 AM on December 25, 2018
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