Today, I realized how nice it was that, after moving into my ground-floor apartment, I no longer have to worry about being too loud walking on the floor at night. Today, I found out that my upstairs neighbors do not have any qualms about shouting or stomping their feet loudly at night, either. 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, 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, 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 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, 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, after my old downstairs neighbor, who would come upstairs to bang on my door and yell at me every time she heard a sound from me at all times of the day, had finally moved out, it became clear that my new downstairs neighbor gets drunk and yells at the TV in the early hours of the morning. FML
Today, after having to call in a noise complaint about my downstairs neighbors talking loud past midnight, the managers fixed the problem. Now all I can hear is two little girls who like to throw a basketball at the building for hours. 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, my new neighbours moved in. I had always thought my bedroom wall was soundproof, because my old neighbours never complained about my loud night terrors. Turns out they were just stone deaf. The new ones can hear everything. FML
Today, sick of the unfiltered noise we hear from our neighbours in our upstairs apartment, as we're above their fence line, we signed the lease on an apartment downstairs. While I was downstairs, my partner clomped upstairs, opened the bathroom door, and took a piss. I heard EVERYTHING. FML
Today, my fiancé and I moved into a new home a few houses away from our previous one. We were excited about not hearing our roommate's dog howling non-stop anymore. We can hear him from the new house. Very clearly. FML
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nyrangersfan9 13
On the bright side, if you throw a party they can't complain about the noise!
RedPillSucks 33
Perhaps a nice civil discussion with them will solve this issue
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nyrangersfan9 13
On the bright side, if you throw a party they can't complain about the noise!
coried91 28
I disagree. We live on the third floor with two kids. My oldest is almost two and runs around a lot. Our neighbors below us blast their music and bang on their ceiling with a broom all the time. We've explained to them that we have kids and that it's pretty much impossible to keep them from running around. Our kids don't understand why they shouldn't run. Don't just assume because people are stomping or yelling it gives you the right to throw parties and be loud. Just ask them to keep it down and I they're assholes about it report it to management. If that doesn't work then I would say be assholes back.
M3DIC4T3 29
Well this is a pretty out-of-this-world idea but how about you drop the entitlement complex just because you popped out a few kids, and be a ******* parent and teach them not to run in the apartment, and that they can run and be as obnoxious as you are at the park or something instead. You're the parent, just because your kids don't understand something doesn't magically make it okay for them to do. Damn.
sezual 15
You obviously don't have children. My son is around the same age and you can't just tell him not to run because he's too young to understand what you're saying. If you just stop him in his tracks, as soon as you put him down again he's off. It's not logical to carry a toddler around all day just for your neighbours. You just have to hope they'd be understanding. But I'd like to see you teach my 18 month old not to run, you'd have NO hope! Some things you just have to be patient with. With gentle persistence a child will eventually learn.
Arrow44 10
Shit, I'll just starve my children till they listen, and if they don't listen well natural selection comes into play.
M3DIC4T3 29
Exactly. PARENT YOUR DAMN KIDS. Kids can't run if you tie them down. Or beat them. I don't really care which. In my opinion a lot of the children today could use a good beating, maybe get some sense knocked into them.
lotusenta 14
#48, you are the reason I believe that humans should be spayed and neutered.
RedPillSucks 33
Perhaps a nice civil discussion with them will solve this issue
Awahso 25
Ha; hahaha. You've never lived in an apartment. Most of the time you'll get a slammed door
knoxxx 22
Seriously though. What is with all these people suggesting retaliation?? I had neighbors last year who used to blast their music while I was studying. I went and politely asked them to turn their music down a bit, and gee, what do you know, they hadn't realized they were being so loud it was disturbing us, and we stopped having problems with their loud music.
emirie 21
Not always. I had loud obnoxious neighbors for a while but they quieted down after a civil conversation.
ThatFancyPenn 18
Nah. BROOMSTICK PARTY!
_GoodGuy 11
Have you bothered asking for them to stop?
BntyHntrSeattle 30
Ya! Sassy smartass is at it again with his logical advice! Everyone thanks you with a look of haughty derision.
golden_warrior 23
3 - I know it's the Internet but there is still a limit to crazy ideas and yours just surpassed it.
TheJester12 15
Bose quiet comfort headphones . Get them.
1dvs_bstd 41
yeah because it'd be comfortable to sleep with them...
love_me_electric 20
I sleep with headphones in all the time, if you use the in-ear headphones you hardly realize they're there.
Branflakes78 13
#37 Not to sure that's safe =/
perdix 31
Crank up the Lionel Ritchie and start "Dancing on the Ceiling." Hope you're into tap or Irish clog dancing.
ajh557 22
Hit the ceiling that always seems to work
WompWompWomp123 7
The woes of apartment living. Some people can be so inconsiderate.
GBPH12 5
In commercials people hit the ceiling with brooms, try that??
BntyHntrSeattle 30
This is when "oops my broom just kept hitting your ceiling 'til you shut up it's outta control sorry" works wonders.
Punkyxoxo 14
Always get revenge music is your defence.