not quite a poll

[darthfox]

Let's say, hypothetically, that you had recently left a note for your upstairs neighbors finally begging them for the love of god to quit stomping around on your ceiling. And that they had said nothing about it, but there had been less stomping since then - only then the next time you saw them happened to be when they were on their way out and you were on your way in, and somehow circumstances ordered themselves so that you were in the building before they went out, but your companion held the door for them, and you heard them both thank him pointedly, such that while it might mean nothing it might also mean that they think you in particular are kind of a spoiled little such-and-such. Put another way, let's say you snapped at your upstairs neighbors politely but entirely justifiedly and are now having occasional bouts of guilt.

This being the season both of forgiveness and of home baking, it has occurred to you to make some delicious cookies and leave them for your upstairs neighbors in a tra-la Christmas/New Year's/etc. peace and joy sort of way. Then it occurs to you to leave cookies for all your neighbors (there are only six apartments in the building, so this is a matter of dividing a batch of something five ways - no problem). How neighborly!

Then it occurs to you to wonder if homemade things are the way to go. In my occasional new practice of bringing bribes treats/tokens for airplane crews, for example, of course I wouldn't dream of offering them anything that wasn't commercially sealed. But neighbors can trust another neighbor's safety, right?

I know I'm overthinking this.