Comments on: Happy Moving!

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:39:08 +0000

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.

By: Holy guacamole

Holy guacamole — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:24:17 +0000

If I’d been below your bespidered residence, I would’ve asked you to keep a rolled up newspaper or magazine at hand. Just as effective without the constant clomping.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:33:45 +0000

Sounds like a great time to take up clogging

By: Piddlesticks

Piddlesticks — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:04:14 +0000

I’m actually team notewriter on this one. She didn’t HAVE to set up her bed with a drill at 10pm. It’s not like your mattress stops being a mattress if you put it on the floor for one night. Yea, consideration should be given for the moving, but you’re also new to the area, don’t be running power tools around 10 at night.

By: Lady

Lady — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:06:34 +0000

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.

By: ANO

ANO — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:00:13 +0000

Steve clearly only cares about himself and has failed the “don’t be a selfish douchebag” test

By: halcat

halcat — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:21:54 +0000

Does nobody have dogs? Wearing shoes into the house after normal wear (no mud, snow, etc) is the least of my floor’s worries.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:58:17 +0000

I’ve stepped in cat crap in my bare feet before. How do you plan in dealing with that?

By: Bug

Bug — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:53:31 +0000

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.

By: tarn

tarn — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:13:24 +0000

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.

By: Ashes

Ashes — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:52:24 +0000

Thinking of all the times I have accidentally stepped in someone’s spit (or worse!) yeah, people don’t wear their shoes in my home unless they have to (which is never)

By: Ashes

Ashes — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:44:41 +0000

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.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:48:45 +0000

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!

By: JoDa

JoDa — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:53:32 +0000

That’s exactly what I was thinking, Ramen. It gets dark here between 5 PM (winter) and 8:30 PM (summer) and neither of those times are extreme for some moving-in noise. If they said 10 or 11 PM, then I’d be more understanding. We had a neighbor who decided that she was going to do all of her moving herself, which resulted in her hauling things up stairs and moving them around as late as 3 AM for days on end, which is totally unacceptable (and then had the audacity to complain one day when I had to leave for the airport at 4:30 AM and was “disturbed” by my suitcase wheels clicking over the sidewalk for 30 seconds to get in the cab), but “dark” is not the marker of absolute silence.