The lady downstairs started banging on her ceiling.
It uses a scale from zero to five, where zero equals "totally in the black" and five equals "curtains fully open downstairs, walks starting one hour before dusk and lasting one hour after dawn".
My daughter, who was 8, picked up the extension downstairs and started punching the keys.
The design studio is in the mezzanine so it's just a case of walking downstairs to start work.
We emptied half of the shelves that we'd just filled, carried the books downstairs, and started over.
A common example is the idea of an intelligent home, where switching on your bedside lamp in the morning will inform the coffee maker downstairs to start percolating.
Is there twenty-four-hour access to the gym and the pool downstairs?" She started explaining the access code-activated panels, and the rat ghost took a decisive bite out of my shoe and my littlest toe.
Back downstairs, people started securing all the entrances and exits, screwing shut doors and hammering planks of wood across windows.
I pulled my pink "For Her" Bushmaster out from under my pillow, where it is safely out of reach of my children but conveniently located in case of a burglary, and then I ran downstairs and started shooting blindly at the rotund figure in the dark".
All the while the pimps keep calling me every ten minutes asking, "When your friend come?" Just when I think this whole thing can't get any worse, my downstairs neighbour starts sending me photos that show Kitti and the guys leaving the apartment in a hurry with a bunch of bags and suitcases.
If you think you'd like to tile your entire downstairs floor, start with one room, or learn how to do tile on a sample piece of wood or a tabletop mosaic.
