People I don’t know where I got it from, but be it my house or anyone else’s, I just can’t make a whole lot of noise when people are sleeping.

My floors are all tiled and the last thing I would do before I leave home is put on my shoes because I don’t want to walk about with all that tapping and disturbing people. I open my door quietly and I close it quietly. I close the bathroom door when I am brushing my teeth as not to allow the sound of running water to come through too loud. I don’t talk loud to anyone when I know others are still sleeping - I whisper. I try at all cost to not turn on any unnecessary lights and try my best to have all my things prepared from the night before so I dress in my garage where any sound will not be heard and lights not be seen. You won’t hear me reaching for the glass all the way in the back of the cabinet or fumbling through frying pans at 7 in the morning or 14 o’clock at night.

Now people have come to my house and did the opposite of all the above and I have gone to people’s homes who do the same thing. You’re sleeping and they’re carrying on like it’s a soup kitchen, lights on all over the place, in and out the doors opening hard and pulling it in so it could slam, up and down with hard shoes on and rumbling around in the pots and pans cabinet and calling one another from one area of the house all the way across to another. Maybe it’s because I have kids and at that nosey point in their lives, any little sound caused them to pop their heads up because they felt they were missing something important and had to get up and terrorize my ass after that.