To be smiling but still feeling sorry for the student whose papers are blowing out of the window?

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Nothing I can do about it, their flat is opposite mine. In common with every else in the block, their windows are wide open and a storm is raging.
Every couple of minutes I see another batch of handwritten papers blowing about.

Oh dear. Why on earth are all the windows open? When I was a student I was perpetually cold.

It's because we are in Malaysia. Not a chance to get remotely cold.
Still flying, less now though. Poor bugger.

You are smiling?

It's pretty and, my washing is drying very quickly. And, it could be one of the bleeders that plays, what sounds like, chinese thrash metal.

Picking all the papers up you can find and returning them would be something to smile about, why not do something kind rather trying to convince yourself you feel sorry for someone's misfortune you are laughing at?

oh the poor thing. They'll have worked so hard!

They live in a block of flats about 30 metros away, surrounded by a high wall.

You sound a bit odd. Grinning away at someone's misfortune.

I think it says a lot about you that you are smiling about someone else's hard work being ruined.

Sorry. I am probably a bit odd as well as being a bit tired. Their bloody music kept me awake till around 3 this morning.

How're you doing there, Rips? Funny place, KL. Much to smile about.

I return there next week. Looking forward to the sunshine.

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It is what it is Marjorie. We are finally getting a car tomorrow. Where we live there just aren't enough taxi's to go round. We have a set of six blocks of flats, mainly students in the other four. I think I could make a mint out of running them to Giant and back.

Good, a car will make a huge difference. DH usually has the car in KL - he needs it to get to work - but for a couple of months earlier in the summer I hired a car myself because the DCs had a lot going on. I was surprised how much I loved it, because I thought I was getting by OK with taxis and the LRT.

We don't live anywhere near the LRT, we're out in the sticks. Apparently one is coming in two years time. I imagine we'll be long gone.

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What a mean thing to do, taking pleasure in someone elses misfortune is rather cruel.