There’s the New York approach:
And then there’s the Chicago approach:
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Shut the front door!
March 7th, 2013 · 57 comments
FILED UNDER: door-slamming · neighbors
There’s the New York approach:
And then there’s the Chicago approach:
related: Carnivore? Keep being awesome!
FILED UNDER: door-slamming · neighbors
57 responses so far ↓
#1
Pete
What about us window slammers? Don’t we get any love?
Mar 7, 2013 at 12:44 pm rating: 90
#2
Stefan
I lived with two slammers in college and my ‘approach’ was to post a sign on the door that read, “Don’t slam the door on your way out. –Queensryche”
Oddly, it worked.
Mar 7, 2013 at 1:03 pm rating: 90
#3
Bee Good
A sharpened pencil inserted into the keyhole and then broken off is a nice accompaniment to a note like this; just sayin it turns up the dial on the aggressive a notch…
Mar 7, 2013 at 1:17 pm rating: 90
#4
pooham
Some people are simply unaware of the noises they make or the strength they use. My Dad is a big guy and I cringe when he closes my car door. It’s always a big slam. And when he gives a hug and pats my back it’s more like a slap slap slap.
Mar 7, 2013 at 1:30 pm rating: 90
#5
Tesstarosa
I think they should have beer and pretzels in Chicago — more people will show up.
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:15 pm rating: 90
#6
Uninspired Required Name
While the “Quiet Club” sounds lame, I agree with them. Everyone in this building slams their doors when they go in and out and it shakes the walls in this cheap craphole every time. It would be nice if they would think about it and realize that not everyone wants to know every time they enter/exit their apartment.
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:39 pm rating: 90
#7
DNH
The support group sounds like a trap!
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:55 pm rating: 90
#8
The Elf
A closer or a slammer? Those are my only two options? Eff that – I say be a a hinge-disassembler. If you piss me off I’ll use power tools at 10pm to do it.
Mar 7, 2013 at 3:18 pm rating: 90
#9
Jerry
I slam my girlfriends back door.
Mar 7, 2013 at 3:35 pm rating: 90
#10
Joe Blow
I assume people aren’t actually slamming the door, they’re just letting it close on its own. Which, if you live in an apartment-type setting, is still inconsiderate and annoying to your neighbors. But I doubt they’re actively shutting the door really hard on their own..
Mar 7, 2013 at 3:50 pm rating: 90
#11
shwo!
Coffee is for closers. Sanka is for slammers.
Mar 7, 2013 at 4:24 pm rating: 90
#12
Jetboy
I assume the Quiet Club members also belong to the Beat a Dead Horse Society because they reference the door slamming like five times.
Jetboy- a member of the I Get it Already club
Mar 7, 2013 at 4:37 pm rating: 90
#13
Pepper
The doors in my apartment complex are all spring-loaded, so not only do they all slam on their own if the tenants don’t stop them, they also all squeak because of the springs. Very LOUD… What can you do, though – such is apartment life.
Mar 7, 2013 at 6:28 pm rating: 90
#14
StorytellERdoc
I guess I forget how nice the simpler things in life sometimes are in my corner of the world…the doors of our house don’t bother me nearly as much as the garage door opener’s grinding! LOL If any of u need to escape the door slamming, you are welcome to come here, pretzels and beer and coffee and doughnuts included! Otherwise, my wife will be sure to NOT slam our hotel doors in NYC in June! Enjoy the day…
Jim
Mar 7, 2013 at 7:34 pm rating: 91
#15
Canthz_B
Gee, I wonder why the meetings in Chicago are held in the basement instead of out in back?
Mar 8, 2013 at 12:09 am rating: 90
#16
Canthz_B
Worst of all are the Alabama slammers. Most times they claim no memory of the incident.
Mar 8, 2013 at 12:12 am rating: 90
#17
Canthz_B
So, we have…
“The Slammers”: People who for some odd reason don’t know their own strength or could be hearing impaired.
“The Bangers”: Usually associated with screen doors with springs which produce the distinctive “Double Bang”.
Lastly, we have…
“The Control Freaks”: Who write snide notes to the other two groups.
Mar 8, 2013 at 12:33 am rating: 90
#18
Silence
Are we absolutely sure that the second note is about closing doors?
Mar 8, 2013 at 6:20 am rating: 90
#19
tarn
I think the NY note is too twee. If I put a note up, it’d be more on the Chicago lines, and would add that door-closing lessons would be included, free of charge.
All the tenants upstairs in my block slam their doors hard enough to shake the walls. Which is annoying, because they just don’t have to.
All the flats have the same doors. If you close them while the key is in and the deadbolt retracted, there’s no slamming required. Easy.
If, on the other hand, you want to be an ass about it, you can slam the door really hard to force it shut while the deadbolt is extended. It takes some effort (often more than one try), it’s fecking LOUD, and it’ll eventually break the lock or the frame.
Conclusion: my neighbours are asses. Who are too stupid to know how a door works.
Mar 8, 2013 at 10:03 am rating: 90
#20
Nope
Or here’s a thought, building/property owners/landlords can just install those devices which slowly close the door on their own after the door is let go. My old apartment complex had them, we never had a problem with this kind of thing.
Mar 8, 2013 at 10:03 am rating: 90
#21
annap
The doors in my building slam themselves shut. They’re heavy so with enough of a backdraft and hands full of whatever, it’s gonna get slammed – sorry!
Mar 8, 2013 at 10:40 am rating: 90
#22
redheadwglasses
This LW annoys me. In my condo, the unit entry doors were set to shut automatically, and if you had a window open, the door could slam shut on me — and if my arms/hands were full (like with laundry or groceries), it slammed shut.
If it was early in the morning or late at night, I made an effort to stick my foot in there to catch the door (Or to keep a cat from darting out into the hallway), but otherwise, geez, noise is part of communal/apartment living. People let the main building doors slam shut all the time (they were very heavy), and the people who lived right next to those doors had to deal with it.
Mar 8, 2013 at 11:51 am rating: 90
#23
Nomnom
Actually I’ve never experienced the problem with slamming doors in the apartments I’ve lived in – of course we didn’t have doors that were rigged to close on their own either.
No, my thing is people slamming doors in my house. It isn’t usually a problem because my mother basically had everyone trained to shut doors softly. I was even trained by her when I was a teenager to OPEN doors softly. So now I find it jarring when anyone wrenches the doorknobs too hard. And I was also taught to walk softly because my grandparent’s house had a crawlspace underneath it so if you walk too heavily it echos – something we don’t have where I live because the houses are built directly on the concrete slabs. As a result I now have ninja-like powers of sneaking.
Mar 8, 2013 at 12:25 pm rating: 90
#24
Seanette
Was the writer of the “Quiet Club” note a pre-school teacher?
At least “Door Slammers Anonymous” offers a little bit of amusement. Not much, but a little.
Mar 8, 2013 at 3:44 pm rating: 90
#25
Ashes
I wonder what happens if you show up in the basement at 8pm on a Monday night? Is someone there waiting to jump you?
This sounds like a sting to me.
Mar 8, 2013 at 8:10 pm rating: 90
#26
Techie
With our neighbors, when they slam their door-it shakes our apartment (and once it shook a picture off the wall, that is how hard they slammed it) so I do feel for the note poster (and not the slammers)
Mar 11, 2013 at 4:16 am rating: 90
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