C. He rolls his eyes.
The New Neighbors
by T. Herlinger
"Ugh, what's that noise?" Elsa Watson asked her dad when she got home from school. The apartment was fairly shaking with what sounded like World War III coming from the unit below them.
"It's our new neighbors." Mr. Watson said and rolled his eyes. "They evidently like to watch high-action movies all day on that giant flat-screen TV that I saw them unload. I should've known that thing would bring us grief."
Just then, Elsa's little brother Jimmy walked in, plugging his ears. "Jeez!" he yelled. "Do we have to listen to this?"
Mr. Watson set out a plate of cookies for his kids as he spoke. "I went down there earlier to say "howdy" and asked if they could keep the volume a bit lower. I guess this is their idea of 'lower.' It's a young couple, named Sid and Rita, and they said they work nights and hang out at home during the day."
"When do they sleep?" Elsa asked, her head pounding with the booming noise from below.
"They don't need sleep," Mr. Watson joked. "They're young."
"Why couldn't our old neighbors, the Bowers, have stayed here and not moved to Florida?" Jimmy whined.
By dinnertime, the noise had stopped. Elsa was relishing the quiet, but she knew it would only start up again the next day.
"Hey, where's Mom?" Elsa asked her dad as they were sitting down at the dining table.
But before he could answer, in she walked, carrying a brown paper bag and grinning.
"I think I have the answer to our little noise problem," Mrs. Watson said as she kissed her kids on top of their heads. And from the bag, she produced not one but two boxes from the local electronics store. "Headphones," she announced, "his and hers. Thought I'd bring them cookies tomorrow and these little housewarming gifts."
"You mean house-quieting gifts, don't you?" Mr. Watson said. "It's brilliant, my dear, just brilliant."
7
Which of Mr. Watson's actions shows that he is unhappy about the neighbors?
A.
He watches them move in.
B.
He sets out cookies.
C.
He rolls his eyes.
1 answer