Sex as background noise or "Will someone please shut that couple up!"

My first couple nights in my new apartment I heard this extremely loud, amorous couple having sex (or maybe I should be more specific-I really only heard her). I thought it was the neighbors upstairs (still haven't met them) but then I thought it was the people downstairs from me (still haven't met them either but I know they were away for awhile so it couldn't have been them. I also think they're smoking-it's a non-smoking building). But I'm now pretty sure it's coming from the building across the way. My bedroom is in the back of my apartment, away from the 24-hour party that is 168th street @ Amsterdam. My bedroom window faces out to, probably, the bedrooms of the building across the way. Sound travels. Sometimes I think this couple is right above me, sometimes to the left, to the right, underneath, sideways-you get the picture.

I've decided it's not the couple above me because they're Asian and you know Asians are so quiet in everything they do-it can't be them. This woman (the one having sex) is loud-screaming loud-literally! So I've decided that the couple is African American or at least she is! And I don't think they're Dominican because she speaks English (or should I say, screams English). Have I made enough racial generalizations for one posting? I can't help but think of the Rolling Stones' song "Some Girls" and if you know the song you know what I'm talking about.

The first time I heard her I thought, "Wow, she's lucky!". The next night (because it's every night between 9:30pm-12:30am (not for that long-just between those times) and on Saturday mornings around 9am. The next few times were just kind of amusing, annoying. If I'm lucky I usually get home after they're done. Now five weeks later it's all part of the background noise, along with the music, the preacher, the basketball players, the sirens, the domino players, etc.

**I could have been much more graphic for this post but I chose not to (probably to the relief of most of you-well,all 2 or 3 of you that read my blog).