cup of sugar

So tonight I tried to be a good neighbor but I failed (or chickened out, you choose)
Anyways I had a craving for something sweet and having nothing in the house to fill the craving I decided to bake. Nothing fancy, just some rainbow chip cupcakes from the box. But being only one person a whole box of cupcakes is a lot!
So I thought I would share.
I iced my cupcakes, arranged them on a plate, and stepped out into the hallway to take some over to the people who live across from me.
(I would also like to add that prior to doing this I looked out my back window to make sure their were vehicles parked, and their were.)
Anyways I am standing outside the door. I knock and wait. I hear the TV and maybe someone talking on the phone. But no footsteps.
I feel bad at this point in time for potentially interrupting the possible phone conversation and awkward because I have been standing in the hallway for a little while now.
So I went back to my apartment because I felt too silly now to knock again.
This seems very strange to me, that I feel silly for trying to be nice.
Admittedly me and my neighbors don't actually have a relationship. We have passing "hello's" and sometimes when they burn things in the oven they open their door real wide to try and air it out as quickly as possible. So then I see snippets of their life. Mostly I notice that they are neater than I am, but really that doesn't take much. They also let me borrow a swiss army knife at one point in time. So I guess I tried to repay the favour. But I failed. Or maybe I will try again. Or maybe I will just take some cupcakes into work tomorrow.