Today, I live in the basement and as far as I can tell, my parents spend every day rearranging the furniture upstairs and slamming every door in the house, all day long. If I complain or even mention the noise, they threaten to kick me out onto the streets. I’m not even old enough to move out. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my downstairs neighbours screamed at me for making so much noise that I woke their children up and made them cry. The noise was the sound of a loose floorboard shifting as I crept to my bathroom, and again on my way back to bed. They've sworn to get me evicted. FML
Today, I found out my upstairs neighbors filed a noise complaint against me for banging on the ceiling every night. They conveniently left out the part where they constantly stomp, shout, and do stuff that sounds like they're dropping bricks to the floor every night. FML
Today, I moved out of my parents' house and started living alone. All of a sudden, my parents started requiring me to text or call them every 5 minutes to tell them where I am and what I'm doing, from 6am to 12am every day. If I don't, they will go looking for me, and force me to move back in with them. FML
Today, after months of peace and quiet since January, a new family moved into the apartment below me ten minutes before I was about to go to sleep. They've been here for 30 minutes and already they're stomping and banging doors all over the place. FML
Today, I'm spending $1,400 on rent each month to hear my upstairs neighbor walk from one end of their apartment to the other, and then back again. This occurs pretty much all day and all night. Yesterday I woke up at 3:30 a.m. from the banging of steps. My other neighbor played his music so loud, I felt it through the wall. FML
Today, my parents decided to finally kick me out of the house because they've gotten tired of seeing me "sleep around all day and being so lazy" whenever I'm home. I'm currently triple-shifting for 6 days a week. FML
Today, I found out that there's a very loud and frisky couple living above my bedroom, and a family with a crying baby living above my living room. At this rate, I'll end up sleeping in the bathtub in my own home. FML
Today, I got a noise complaint about "loud stomping" in my apartment disturbing the tenant below. I guess I'm supposed to tell my sweet children that they are no longer allowed to play in their own home. FML
Today, like every evening, our place is literally shaking with banging noises from the apartment below. Are they raising ponies down there? Wrecking the furniture? Taking out some walls? No, it's just my landlord's six-year-old. Playing. FML
Today, I overheard my parents planning on how to get me to move out of the house. It's my house. They only came to visit and forgot to leave. FML
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RichardPencil 32
Noise-cancelling headphones? Or earplugs?
Hangryko 32
Sounds like they're hoping you'll leave on your own initiative with their passive aggressive tactics. If you're a minor, call CPS.
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RichardPencil 32
Noise-cancelling headphones? Or earplugs?
Hangryko 32
Sounds like they're hoping you'll leave on your own initiative with their passive aggressive tactics. If you're a minor, call CPS.
slkeithh 14
LMFAO what???
Chazzster 32
Two possibilities: (1) Like most homes with basements there is minimal sound insulation between the main floor and basement. I once had an older home and when it was quiet I could hear our cat walk across the floor when I was in the basement. Wooden floors especially carry and sometimes amplify sounds. So it could be that the sounds are of normal volume upstairs but in the basement sounds louder than you would expect. Or (2) Your parents want you to get a job and move out. I should think that if this is the case you should be hearing other hints about this when they talk to you. By the way, it’s your parents home. It doesn’t belong to you - You just live there. Unless you are paying rent or performing significant work in the place of “rent” you have no right to tell your parents how to live in their own home. The more you complain, the more likely it is that your parents will just increase the noise level to “prove” that point. I suspect that if you complained less the noise levels might go down - Unless it’s the case of noisy floors.
Hangryko 32
This needs an update. How are you doing, OP?