Writes Chelsa in Canada: “My first night moving in, I couldn’t find the bolts to put my bed frame back together, so I had to unpack some boxes and it was about 10 p.m. before I found them and could set up my bed. Moving sucks, right? Apparently at 10 p.m. on Saturday night, screwing in 8 bolts is THE WORST thing a person can do. This note was on my door in the morning.”
related: The Neighborhood Warning Wagon
167 responses so far ↓
#1
Mark
Not wearing shoes in the apartment? Ha ha ha. This is why I always live on the top floor.
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:34 pm rating: 51
#2
fuzzbutt
WOW, In that case, I would make a point of noisy shoes, dragging a couch around and purposefully running the vacuum every night from 10pm to 11pm. After all, that is when most people go to sleep.
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:36 pm rating: 34
#3
rush
Uhh, team Chelsa. Obviously, she isn’t planning on moving furniture every night for the duration of her lease.
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:37 pm rating: 157
#4
Tom
She knows that Chelsea just moved in, yet somehow believes that she plans to continue making moving-in type noises daily? Didn’t even give a person a few days leeway to get set up house and become quiet, no ma’am!
I won’t haggle the 10pm saturday on any other day, that’s between you and quiet hours rules. I’m just annoyed at her presumption. After all, 5 minutes of drill noise so a person can sleep in their own bed after a hard day’s moving isn’t too much to ask. It’s not going to happen every night forever.
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm rating: 151
#5
sicsemper
Sincerely,
The Gestapo Welcoming Committee
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm rating: 71
#6
Dantebenuto
hey, you’re moving in? Congratulations and welcome to the building! Please don’t do things normally associated with moving in to a new place, it bothers us.
Thanks,
Those who have already moved in.
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:39 pm rating: 198
#7
Steve
Nobody said it was “THE WORST” thing to do. I side with the writer of this note – you’ve got to nip this stuff in the bud, or else it’ll continue – and then when it comes to a head, the offending person will ask, “Why didn’t you let me know I was bothering you sooner?!”
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:39 pm rating: 23
#8
Lisa
Geez, welcome to the f-ing building, eh?
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:41 pm rating: 35
#9
Bibi
After they pointed out that Chelsa is “handy with power tools”, I thought the next bullet point would be, “Go ahead and remove the hardwood floors, as they cause us much distress.”
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:46 pm rating: 15
#10
Nope
Team neighbors. How about after listening to you clump around all day/night moving in, instead of being selfish, you give them a break and sleep on your mattress on the floor and put the bed together the next day?
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:48 pm rating: 46
#11
Reese
That note writer is an idiot. She couldn’t handle 10 minutes of inconvenience? It’s not like the girl is going to be assembling a bed every single night.
When I bought my new condo, I got new kitchen cabinets installed and we threw the old ones away in the dumpster. Someone in the building put a note under my door telling me that I shouldn’t put things like that in the dumpster and it filled up their dumpster and if I did it again I’d have to pay to have the company come and do a second pick up of the trash. I sure wish I had a picture of that note. It was before the days of this website. It was like, “uhh, don’t worry, I don’t plan on installing a new set of cabinets every week…”
If people recognize that it’s something that the new person will obviously not be doing every day, the neighbor should keep their mouth shut.
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:51 pm rating: 51
#12
kermit
Looks like Chelsa needs some trombone lessons!
Mar 4, 2013 at 2:59 pm rating: 19
#13
Frederick Jordan
How about the neighbours mention it to her face the next day if it’s that much of a concern instead of writing a fucking note? If it’s such a big deal, surely it warrants some face-to-face contact. Pussies.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:00 pm rating: 26
#14
libraryman
Little did they know the new neighbor was a tap dancer.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:02 pm rating: 22
#15
scott hall
I also like how they threw in “we too may be loud from time to time”. Are they aliens trying to sympathize with noisy humans or is it a preemptive excuse for when they aren’t nursing a hangover next weekend?
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:02 pm rating: 15
#16
Roto13
I have loud neighbours, both upstairs and next door, and I wish they would all die. But really? A few minutes of noise as soon as they move in is reason to write a bitchy note? Lighten up.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:21 pm rating: 38
#17
Les
If you’ve ever moved, full stop, you should be team Chelsea. Moving does suck. A lot.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 pm rating: 30
#18
Terri
This is a declaration of war.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:43 pm rating: 12
#19
kmb
This note writer must be related to my former downstairs neighbor. On my first day moving in, 1pm on a Tuesday, I was putting boxes into the closet so I’d have room to sit down. My downstairs neighbor let himself into my apartment and bitched me out to keep “the f’ing noise down” or he was going to call the cops. That was the moment I should have known the next five years were going to suck. Team Chelsea, definitely. Having to put up with people moving in and out is part of apartment life. Suck it up and deal with it.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:44 pm rating: 61
#20
ramentastic
I’m really looking forward to Chelsea’s future contributions to this site. If they write a note the day she moves in to complain I’m positive we will see more gems like this!
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:48 pm rating: 37
#21
Bee Good
Dear noise police,
I pissed on your door nobs and the shoes outside the door. I did it quietly. Happy Cleaning.
Mar 4, 2013 at 3:57 pm rating: 18
#22
jb
Having lived under some VERY inconsiderate neighbors who made crazy noise at all hours of the day and night, did step aerobics at 5:00 am and came home noisily drunk EVERY Friday and Saturday night, I can sympathize.
Also, the shoes in the apartment? Unless you have lived in an OLD apartment with hardwood floors, you have NO IDEA how loud that sounds to the person living below you. Sneakers, not bad. Dress shoes or shoes with hard soles- like a herd of water buffalo tap dancing across the ceiling.
But the worst was when the neighbor left his pager on the floor of his bedroom, (also above MY bedroom) then went out of town for the weekend. he got a page immediately after he left, and it vibrated every 3-4 minutes until the battery died- 2 days later. I had to sleep in the living room because at night it was incredibly loud and just infrequent enough to wake you up once you started to fall asleep.
Mar 4, 2013 at 4:54 pm rating: 15
#23
pooham
We need to go back to living in caves where the sound doesn’t transfer as easily from upstairs to downstairs.
Mar 4, 2013 at 5:21 pm rating: 21
#24
Girlonthefirstfloor
If you’ve never lived in the downstairs apartment you don’t get to comment. The note is a little over the top but I still feel for them….being the downstairs neighbor can suck.
Mar 4, 2013 at 5:22 pm rating: 10
#25
Amber
I’ve lived both upstairs and downstairs, in buildings with carpet and wood flooring. I’m familiar with sound transfer. That said, my last apartment had a spider problem, and if anyone suggested I not wear shoes I would have beat them down with one of my shoes. I had to be ready to stomp at a moment’s notice.
Although it was fun when one of my neighbors thought I wrote a note about him to a local newspaper’s real estate advice column, and he was so sure it was him (the writer id’ed herself as a youngish woman renting a condo, with a middle aged gentleman who owned his condo next door, in an older building, in our neighborhood; and she didn’t know how to talk to him about the very loud sex noises when he was entertaining). And my neighbor was so concerned that he stopped by to let me know that he had rearranged his bedroom and installed some soundproofing panels along our common wall. And I was all “Oh? I don’t read that particular newspaper. But okay. I mean, I didn’t think you were loud, but thanks!”
Mar 4, 2013 at 5:43 pm rating: 52
#26
Sir Puke
People walk on the floors with shoes, that is life. If it bothers you, you need to move.
I have heard people move in and it is noisy, but I didn’t care as I know it is a tiring and taxing process. Now things would be different if the moving noises continued on for each and every day after.
Mar 4, 2013 at 5:44 pm rating: 20
#27
Kelsey
When she wrote “shoes”, she obviously means any kind of shoe with a hard heel, like dress shoes for men or high heels for women. “Shoes” here does not mean “all foot coverings”.
Also, if you wrote about trumpets or tap dancing, you have no imagination.
Mar 4, 2013 at 5:50 pm rating: 4
#28
Thneed
What I like is how the note writer knew EXACTLY what was making the noise and passed judgement on that.
“Dragging furniture across the hardwood floor” — yeah, that’s how I always treat my hardwood floors because I just love the scrape marks.
Mar 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm rating: 11
#29
Deb
I work midnights,any of you sleep-at-night people have suggestions? Nevermind, I will do what I please and be cognizant of my neighbors, do you think they will show the same courtesy during the day? Right you are because night sleepers are neanderthals!
Mar 4, 2013 at 6:30 pm rating: 11
#30
Smokey
I live next to a crying baby! The family put the baby’s crib on my bedroom wall! I wake up at 2 A.M and 5:00 A.M. every day to crying. Can I send a note?
Mar 4, 2013 at 6:41 pm rating: 16
#31
sockpuppet
I would tell her to move her ass right back out again—she just got a note announcing that she has total douchebags for neighbors. I predict drama from here on out.
Mar 4, 2013 at 6:45 pm rating: 17
#32
AMoparGirl
She JUST moved in! I think she’s done w/the power tools on the bed. Or maybe too many of these notes has caused too many tenants to move in upstairs.
To each his own, but do NOT tell me what to do in my own home. Never took our shoes off when I was a kid. The shedding dogs died & mom got light colored carpet & now sometimes the shoes come off.
Gross?? WTH do you people live that you have that much dirt & moldy shoes from the outside? Never saw that much in my 45 years of living…combined.
And if you have cats or dogs, you’re house isn’t as clean as you think it is, ESPECIALLY with cats using their litter box inside then walking on your floors, furniture & your counter tops when you’re not looking.
Mar 4, 2013 at 9:50 pm rating: 7
#33
Iwill FindU
I’m going to make a few assumption here.
But as a Canadian I’ve never seen people take their shoes on and off well moving for lots of reason 1: takes up so much freaking time if you took your shoes off every time you took a box out to the truck you would take forever. 2 “oh Carl just hold the heavy sofa/bed/whatever all by yourself well I slip on my shoes.” “F you Phil I’m never helping you move again.” 3 Drop that heavy box on your bare foot= broken foot.
Just because people were wearing shoes inside on moving day doesn’t mean this person is never ever going take their shoes off inside the house. In one freaking day get over note writer.
Also it’ll take the person moving in what maybe a week to get all their furniture put together if they take their time give them a little grace time for the power tools before you start bitching about that. Also it’s not like people rearrange furniture all the time all the time either. Most people are lazy they find a setup they like and they leave the stuff there forever. They may or may-not move to vacuum under said furniture, but that’s about it.
So I can’t help with think the note writer is an uppity control freak who can’t take a little expected noise.
Team Chelsa
Mar 4, 2013 at 11:38 pm rating: 23
#34
Canthz_B
All this drama, and even before her tap-dancing instructor arrives.
Mar 5, 2013 at 12:37 am rating: 13
#35
Canthz_B
Power tools? Wait until she comes home hammered and spends half the night getting nailed up there!
“Bring me easy, Daddy…I think I’m ARRIVING!!!”
Mar 5, 2013 at 12:45 am rating: 5
#36
Carolina
It seems the mover is a bit of an amateur when it comes to moving your belonging from point A to point B. If you can’t find what you need to put something together during normal hours you wait until the next day. Unless of course you really want to piss of your neighbors who might then make your life a living hell. Your choice really.
I’ve learned that you disassembled all that needs to be and then take all the screws, put them into a ziploc baggy and put that in my purse. Therefore is no hunting for screws at 10pm.
Now the demanding she takes her shoes off is just douchebaggery at its finest. I do take my shoes off first thing when I get inside my house but I would never order someone else to do the same in their house.
Mar 5, 2013 at 1:25 am rating: 8
#37
Kris
10pm on a saturday and they are complaining about a little noise? Either douchbags with no lives or just nitpicky.
Its way too early to be complaining about a noisy neighbor. It was moving day FFS.
Shoes indoors? Not your place not your call. As for everyone complaining about how filthy it is – Its called wipe your damn feet, vacuum more than once a week and invest in a decent carpet cleaner. Never did it as a kid, had carpet and trust me the DOGS made left more dirt on the carpet than 3 pairs of shoes did.
As long as your shoes aren’t wed, covered in mud/snow/shit – I really don’t care. Its not like they are going on the furniture.
Mar 5, 2013 at 2:16 am rating: 11
#38
Roxanne
Team Chelsea totally reasonable, the first thing you want to do in a new home is make it feel like a home as fast as possible so it doesn’t disrupt your life!
As for noisy neighbors my landlady clomping into her office wakes me every morning, I just deal with it. I don’t understand how everyone is so sensitive about noise, get earplugs. At night where I live is deadly quiet (unless the lads across the back are band practicing but that sounds really calming) and I find that worse, it’s creepy to have complete quiet. I live in a street empty of residents except one family above the pub (that shuts at 9pm) all noise stops about 9 it’s awful, so you’re all welcome to swap with me
Mar 5, 2013 at 6:40 am rating: 3
#39
tarn
Team Neither. Or Both, I suppose.
The note is douchey, they should have waited to see if it happened again. But 10pm is pretty late to start using power tools. Put the mattress on the floor, put the bed together in the morning. Simples!
I’m a downstairs apartment, and I allowed about a month after moving in for the new(ish) tenants to finish all the hammering & drilling. But it’s been three, and it still happens, usually just as I’m sitting down to supper & tv. Dunno what they’re building, but I wish they’d stop!
I never heard this much ‘incidental’ noise with previous tenants, and I know the floor is well carpeted. Also it’s concrete, not floorboards. Beats me how this lot can make that much noise on it, when none of the others did.
Also they are waaaaay heavy-footed. It sounds like they move everywhere at a run. Starting with a jump off the nearest furniture. In outdoor shoes..
Oh yes, and one of them farts like a trumpet. Often. The kind that’s so loud you just know they really enjoy doing it!
I keep meaning to ask them to keep the noise down, because they’re probably unaware. But I’ve put it off because I just KNOW I’d mention the farting too. And I just could not keep a straight face…..
Mar 5, 2013 at 8:48 am rating: 16
#40
Brian
I’m required by Doctor’s instructions to wear shoes at all times that my feet are touching the floor. (Shoes, not slippers, there must be a sturdy sole) Unless I’m in bed, the shower, or occasionally with my feet up on the couch, I am to have shoes on my feet.
Having said that, the note writer seems less douche than really bad at being polite. I read it as “I don’t want to make a big deal of this, but would rather nip it in the bud…”.
Maybe I’m weird though. In my apartment days, I’d help the new tenants move in to get to know them. It would let me ‘feel them out’ and slip in the kind of stuff that ended up in the note before there was a problem. “Hey, just so you know the soundproofing sucks in the building, let me know if I get too loud.”
Then, if there was a problem, I could go talk to them. “Hey, I hate to complain, but do you think you could practice your Irish Step Dancing later in the day, it makes my apartment sound like a base drum.” (Yes, this actually happened, back when Riverdance was a thing, and I had a weird work schedule.)
Most importantly, you can’t expect them not to live their life for your convenience. If they need to practice their step dancing, then they will. You can however seek compromise to minimize the impact. (Or in the case of the Riverdancing Neighbor it worked out well, I worked second shift, and he could step away at 10 at night without me noticing.)
About the only “OK, this stops now” thing I ever experienced was a neighbor who liked his porn, and he liked it loud, at all hours of the day. (Seriously who wakes up and pops in the porn?)
Mar 5, 2013 at 9:16 am rating: 12
#41
KittenPlaysTheViolin
The notewriter should have given the perp a grace period, but I do understand where the frustration comes in. They probably had an obnoxiously loud neighbor previously and wanted to bring attention to the issue immediately. I have lived under a family with small children and big dogs. The hardwood floors were paper thin. Sometimes you just can’t take it anymore. I suggest for anyone with noise issues to always live on the top floor.
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:04 am rating: 3
#42
yolanda
In Canada and many European countries, as well as Japan and I know not where else, shoes are for outdoor use. They remain with your coat, scarf, and other outwear. If for some reason your tender tootsies can’t face the flooring alone, get slippers. I had a friend who hated to remove her shoes, insisting they weren’t dirty (funny, she takes them off at home to protect her own floors) but I finally demonstrated on her “clean” shoes with a damp tissue.
I just don’t see why I should have to clean floors like they’re a public venue just because someone came by to eat my cookies and drink my coffee.
As to this note, oh my, those neighbors aren’t likely to be friends unless they learn to apologize first. Anyone with sense should know you have to just put up with moving day noises because it’s a rough time for the new tenant! likely the letter writer was some self-important young adult who thinks her six months of independence gives her the right to boss strangers around.
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:20 am rating: 9
#43
AP
If the neighbors don’t want to hear evidence of anyone else living nearby, move to a farm. You can’t live in close quarters and demand to have complete silence and no evidence of other humans. It’s absurd.
I’ve been living in thin-walled apartments for years. People get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. They get respiratory infections and cough their lungs out. They work early shifts and wake up at 4 am. They work late shifts and get home at midnight. They have sex, vacuum, and move furniture around.
If you’re incapable of getting along with others, BUY A HOUSE.
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:29 am rating: 39
#44
Madrias
As someone who’s lived in a middle apartment all my life (got both upstairs and downstairs neighbors), I’m siding with the one moving in, not the notewriter.
Why? Because I know there’s a certain amount of noise to be expected when moving in, or when walking around your house.
The only neighbors who peeve me off are the ones who throw loud obnoxious parties and rattle our windows with booming rap music. I had the satisfaction of waking them up from a hangover with a few war movies.
Upstairs has 2 children, so I expect noise. So when I hear plastic-wheeled cars rattling along the floor, or stompy-feet, I expect it, tolerate it, and deal with it.
Don’t like noise? Move out of the apartment, but be courteous to your new neighbors and do it silently.
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:38 am rating: 14
#45
nikki
Ah, the joy of moving someplace with neighbors eager to write complaint notes. My boyfriend and I moved into an small row of apartments last year and we knew it was going to be trouble when we got cranky notes from two different neighbors within the first week of being there. One because I parked in an unmarked spot in the parking lot, and while none of the spots were officially assigned, the neighbors had all worked out a system of who parks where. A weird old man living next to the parking lot diligently enforced this agreement by staying home all day with his door open to keep an eye on the lot. The second was the dreaded sex noises note after my boyfriend and I celebrated our first night in the apartment. We didn’t realize the walls were thin until our neighbor, who had to work early the next morning, left a really angry note about how disgusting we were. We moved out of there pretty quickly and have nice neighbors now.
Mar 5, 2013 at 1:02 pm rating: 6
#46
Newbie
Life sucks get a fucking helmet. Or in this case life is loud get some damned ear plugs.
On another note, I would just like to gush that I LOVE this site and love your comments.
Mar 5, 2013 at 2:54 pm rating: 2
#47
cowsaysmeow
There is no reason to put together a bed that requires assembly with power tools at 10pm, weekend or not – you put the mattress on the floor and deal with it in the morning, especially if you’ve been making moving-noises all day and the only reason it wasn’t assembled sooner was because you didn’t think ahead to have the parts readily available. To do otherwise is pretty damned inconsiderate of your new neighbors.
Having said that? TEAM CHELSEA!!! Any sympathy I had for the neighbor went out the window when the note delved into what to wear in one’s own apartment, not to mention the expectation of total quiet after dark. I live on the 4th floor of a 6-story building, and all of the apartments have hardwood floors. Yeah, it can suck, but I knew what I was getting into, and while I’d be pissed if someone decided to break out the power tools late at night after moving furniture all day, it’s not like it’s going to happen daily and I’d never expect them not to make *any* noise after the sun goes down, that’s just stupid.
Mar 5, 2013 at 3:45 pm rating: 13
#48
MrsD
My one and only noise complaint, which was delivered by the resident sheriff, was received while home completely alone (no pets at the time) with the tv off, no stereo, no computer. I was sitting in my apartment, with one little lamp on, reading. I will never understand that. When I told the cop it couldn’t be me he said he had been in the neighbor’s apartment and the noise was definitely coming from our shared wall.
Oh and it was early evening, maybe around 6:00. So even if I did have a tv a little too loud it is ridiculous to call the cops!
Mar 5, 2013 at 4:33 pm rating: 3
#49
Tim
I have lived in a couple of different apartments on my own, and I know that moving can take several hours. If you are moving into a place by yourself, and you have enough help, you can knock out most of the important stuff pretty quickly with enough helping hands, such as getting all the furniture in place somewhere, getting your tv set up, your computer, etc.
If I was in a position some reason wasn’t able to find the bolts for my bed by a certain point, I too would probably set up the box spring and mattress on the floor for one night. Then again if you have some family members and/or friends to help you, someone is going to find those nuts and bolts because people want to get the job done and over with.
It may not seem like much to one person to use power tools at 10pm on a Saturday night, but to the person living below you, whenever they hear the noise, they may be a bit irked, and don’t know when you will stop.
While living in apartments there are times where I had to be to work at 5am or 6am, you can bet I was likely winding down if not in bed by 10pm even if it was a Saturday night. It’s easy to assume that Saturday night is OK to make a little extra noise, BUT you cannot assume that everyone follows a 9-5 kind of work schedule and what “little” noise you might be making by still moving and assembling things after 10pm even on a Saturday Night won’t bother your new neighbors, you don’t know them. To them making “just a little noise” at 10pm on a weekend night may be the equivalent of someone else making “just a little noise” above or below you at 1am.
THAT being said, if you live in an apartment buidling, you live in close quarters with other people. You have to expect some noise, there is just no way around it sometimes. People talk in the hallways, they have friends or family members in their place. People live life, and they don’t live it silently, even after dark. Living in apartment means having a certain degree of reasonability with your neighbors.
Mar 6, 2013 at 2:00 am rating: 9
#50
Raichu
1. People are moving. You act like they’re going to make a habit of working with tools and dragging around furniture…but they’re MOVING. Doesn’t it occur to you that this will probably stop?
2. Asking people not to clomp around on hardwood floors is totally reasonable – but why can’t you ask them to your face, like a real friendly neighbor? (Also probably best wait until after the moving is done for this too.) Doing it in a note that is covered in false cheeriness just makes you seem like a jerk.
Mar 6, 2013 at 12:02 pm rating: 3
#51
kaetra
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Complete silence from your fellow man isn’t included. If you don’t like apartment noise don’t live there. If you can’t afford anything else then plug your ears because everyone else is going to go right ahead and live their life despite your intolerance and whinging.
Mar 6, 2013 at 12:39 pm rating: 7
#52
Amy In Toronto
In my third year of undergrad studies, my 2 housemates and I rented the ground floor of a family home near the university we attended. Our landlady and her husband lived above us on the second floor.
On the Sunday night before classes began, there was a lot of noise that began well into the wee hours of the night, after we had all gone to sleep. Lots of people started coming into the house and clomping upstairs. They walked around, chatted, laughed and it sounded like they were having a very odd party at a really weird time.
My housemates and I were woken up by the noise and we debated among us, who would go to the landlady to request that the noise level be brought down a notch or ten. Turns out, I got the short straw, so I went upstairs and knocked on their door, only to find out that the landlady’s husband had died, and she invited friends and family to come by and bid him farewell, chat about, and celebrate his life before she called the funeral home to pick him up.
Only thing I could think of as an appropriate response was, “Oh! I’m so sorry! Okay, never mind, then.” Oddest noise complaint I’ve ever experienced!
Mar 6, 2013 at 1:25 pm rating: 17
#53
Like My Shoes
I’m late to the party, but I don’t think I saw any commenters who wear their shoes in the house. There are a few of us aliens around, it should be noted. And I’ve never had a guest ask to remove their shoes, neither have I felt like I should encourage them to.
Mar 6, 2013 at 1:57 pm rating: 4
#54
shawn
I think more important than taking your shoes off is not moving heavy furniture at 10 o’clock at night. In this instance it seems to be an exception, and she should just communicate that…but I get where the neighbors would be annoyed. Every night we have a neighbor that wants to work on his car, right under our window…10 o’clock would be a dream, but this goes on until sometimes 1am. The damn crackheads ruin moving furniture for everyone!
Mar 6, 2013 at 4:48 pm rating: 4
#55
Ashes
I am team Chelsea, but seriously, some people moved in a few months ago, and I swear, for a month straight, every night, they would hold amateur wrestling matches and every evening would build their own furniture from rough-hewn logs. We also thought that maybe twenty people were living there, and that’s why, at 10PM every night, there would be this massive shifting of furniture, as everyone pulled out their cots.
This lasted for over a month. When that calmed down, the woman decided all her daily tasks would be done in high heels (and again, it’s common here in Canada to remove outdoor shoes/boots at the door) so it would be clickclickclick back and forth alllll freakinggggg dayyyyyyy. But they have FINALLY calmed down, so yay, and I didn’t even have to complain.
Mar 6, 2013 at 6:44 pm rating: 1
#56
tarn
There’s a fair number of comments along the lines of ‘get earplugs and suck it up, or move!’
Sure, some noise is inevitable with apartment living. But the onus shouldn’t be entirely on the person who is annoyed by it, to put up or shut up.
The way I see it is, I’ll be reasonably tolerant of noise – IF my neighbours will be reasonably considerate about not making too much of it, especially in the wee small hours. I don’t expect silence. But I do expect them to remember that I’m living under them. I do the same for my downstairs neighbour, it’s no big hardship to be a bit thoughtful.
Mar 7, 2013 at 9:13 am rating: 4
#57
Bug
Did any of you team note-writers happen to read the last two lines?
“We know we too may be loud from time to time, but we will always try to be respectful of our neighbors. All we ask is for the same in return.”
They acknowledge that they themselves will make noise in the future –on multiple occasions– yet refuse to tolerate this *one instance* of noise making? That’s entitlement for you.
And as for the snarkiness of the note, better keep trying on that respect angle.
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:53 pm rating: 11
#58
Lady
My neighbors did this to us the first day we moved in… and some screaming and threats to call the police literally in the first 2 minutes.
It’s not reasonable and it’s not a good way to start off with someone.
Mar 9, 2013 at 11:06 am rating: 2
#59
Dan
Sounds like a great time to take up clogging
Mar 12, 2013 at 2:33 am rating: 1
#60
Jen
Wow – it’s one thing if she was constantly noisy & banging things around for days on end, but on her move-in day? Whoever wrote that note is seriously demented. I want to smack them for making this girl’s 1st day at her new place so negative.
Mar 20, 2013 at 12:39 pm rating: 0
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