Dear Queenie,
I don’t have an air conditioner so I keep my windows open for the breeze to cool my house.
The problem is my neighbors who sit outside and chat until all hours, while I go to bed early because I have to get up to go to work and they talk so loud they keep me awake. Not only that, but they smoke and they even toss their cigarette butts over the fence into my yard.
Queenie, how can I get them to shut up and stop littering my property?—Fed up
Dear Fed up,
You have every right to ask them – pleasantly, please! – not to throw anything into your yard. And while you are talking to them, you might mention that you could not help overhearing something they were talking about and give them your thoughts on the subject. Hopefully, that will encourage them to lower the volume of their conversations and keep their butts to themselves.
