“About five months ago,” writes Catherine in Massachusetts, a new tenant moved in and began a new exercise regime: running back and forth in the building hallways. “His/her gait is rather lumbering and resonates throughout our apartment,” Catherine says. “We were startled at first, but have come to giggle over this frequent disruption. Apparently, one of our neighbors isn’t laughing.”
From there, things began to escalate. “Fortunately,” Catherine says, the ensuing flame war “just goes to show that most of our neighbors have a great sense of humor.”
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69 responses so far ↓
#1
Miles
History in the making: first meme invented in a hallway.
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:02 pm rating: 90
#2
Pete
The dog one is fair. Learn to speak human, or stop yelling!
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:10 pm rating: 90
#3
d1337
Wrong font…these should be in Comic Sans.
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:16 pm rating: 90
#4
Wilma Jo
These get progressively more hilarious. I especially love that dogs aren’t allowed to talk in the hallway and that no one is allowed to have fun! Whoever is writing these must be the Grinch.
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:19 pm rating: 90
#5
Elisha
Wow, running back and forth in the hallways? That is a new one. I lived in various apartments for about a decade and depending on the structure of the apartment complex, that could be really annoying and loud. I was so glad when we saved enough for a down on a house so we would not be submitted to the odd behaviors of others(at least, the neighbors are several feet away versus several inches). In any case, all the notes are great.
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:28 pm rating: 90
#6
mouse
Haha, “STOP USING THE HALLWAY” is my favorite. Having fun neighbors is the best.
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:58 pm rating: 90
#7
Aaron B from IL
There was a faculty member at my local community college who used to use the 3rd floor as their running track on Saturdays after classes were over. He was a bit of an odd bird.
As for the string of notes… They are full of awesome. I am most impressed with the fact that all of the note leavers made a very good effort at keeping the same spacing, punctuation, and even the centered text the same across all the notes. That also makes me wonder if all of the notes weren’t left by the same person.
Oct 25, 2012 at 3:09 pm rating: 90
#8
bunny
But what I want to know is, is the runner still running? (Cue “Chariots of Fire synthesizers”)
Oct 25, 2012 at 3:22 pm rating: 90
#9
Emily
I came home to my new apartment yesterday to find a man fervently going about sit-ups on the landing on a yoga mat. I thought ‘good on him. I should do some sit-ups too’. As for running in the hallway, I’d take it one step further and progressively add in obstacles. Then I’d invite everyone in the building to participate in ‘hallympics’.
Oct 25, 2012 at 4:57 pm rating: 90
#10
Red Delicious
That escalated quickly…
Oct 25, 2012 at 5:03 pm rating: 90
#11
Ace of Space
I’m suprised that there isn’t a “please stop breathing in the hallway” sign as well.
Oct 25, 2012 at 5:39 pm rating: 90
#12
Eileen
To the hallway-please
STOP BEING A HALLWAY
To everyone else-
If you are as annoyed as I am at the fact that we have a hallway, please tell the office whatever you know about the hallway. They want to talk to it.
It’s only fair to blame the hallway as well, for existing.
Oct 25, 2012 at 6:36 pm rating: 90
#13
Xyzzy
I bet that the person that wrote the first rant is a parent with a baby or toddler, based on quite a few funny STFU Parents blog posts about disrupted naps.
Personally, this sort of thing is why I live in a single-family suburban house rather than an apartment; I can’t filter noise out and have over-powered hearing, so it wouldn’t take long for me to totally lose it. I’d probably leave the noisy neighbor a timidly polite note asking to jog a floor up/down (or do it during different hours) so it wouldn’t get to me.
Oct 25, 2012 at 7:03 pm rating: 90
#14
shepd
It is rude to use the hallways as a gym. If you’re doing noisy exercises (lifting weights, running in place, whatever), that’s usually not appropriate for an apartment (unless you’re on the bottom floor). Either use the supplied gym in the apartment building or go to a gym. Or stop living in the wrong place for what you want to do.
Go team STOP RUNNING.
Oct 25, 2012 at 8:48 pm rating: 90
#15
phoenix
I have a neighbor who does this every night with her five year old, to tire him out for bed.
It’s a cheap building, so their running actually rattles our walls but…eh, at least it’s 8 pm so it usually doesn’t bother anybody. Kinda weird though until I realized why I heard a little kid sqealin running past my door followed by adult running
Oct 25, 2012 at 10:47 pm rating: 90
#16
Lisa S.
This is fabulous.
Oct 26, 2012 at 8:24 am rating: 90
#17
Lisa S.
OK so whoever is running in the hall is an asshat. BUT.
Does the original note writer really need to unleash the apartment-building Gestapo to try to identify the culprit? If it’s important for him to know who’s doing it so that management may deal with it because he wants to avoid the confrontation, couldn’t he just go and investigate himself? Like, open his door? I can just picture him sitting in his apartment in the dark, save the light from his computer monitor, cursing the running and saying, I’ll show him. Oh, I WILL SHOW HIM. [print]
Oct 26, 2012 at 8:31 am rating: 90
#18
Fireseeker
The next note should read:
To the note-posters:
Please stop posting notes in the hallway.
To everyone else — if you’re as annoyed as I am by the note-posting, please tell the office whatever you know about them. They want to talk with them.
Oct 26, 2012 at 8:58 am rating: 90
#19
Trish
Something tells me that the “talk” in the office will go like this, “hey, one of the tenets complains about everything, can you just stop running in this area?”
Oct 26, 2012 at 10:43 am rating: 90
#20
raichu
Running in the hallways constantly is really rude. But the note hardly seems necessary; it’s not exactly a whodunit mystery to try to open your door, see who is running, and try to stop them.
I love the ensuing note-war.
Oct 26, 2012 at 11:18 am rating: 90
#21
oi
To talking ads – Please
…………………………… STOP TALKING
…………………………….in my internet.
To everyone else – If you are as annoyed as I am at soulless disembodied voice telling me to buy crap, please tell the webpage owner whatever you know about these evil talking ads. They want to talk to them.
Oct 26, 2012 at 12:02 pm rating: 90
#22
oi
I’d like to believe that all the subsequent notes are posted by the same person, the infamous RUNNER!
Oct 26, 2012 at 12:07 pm rating: 90
#23
Bookmark
This is fantastic. Kudos to the other residents!
I have no idea why someone would leave a note out like this in the first place for this situation. If someone running in the hallway is bothering you, then open your door when you hear it and ask if they can jog elsewhere. He/she probably isn’t aware that his/her running is making as much noise as it is.
I once had new neighbors move in across the street who – according to my roommates – would turn up their bass so high that things in our apartment would rattle. The first time it happened when I was home (and yeah, things really were rattling!), I walked outside of my apartment and other tenets were standing outside as well, grumbling about “how rude” the neighbors were being, but weren’t actually doing anything about it other than complaining. I walked across the street, knocked on the door, and asked if they’d turn the bass down (noise level was fine, only bass was too high). They apologized, said sure, and we never had a problem with it again.
Point: Not everyone does dickish things to be dickish – half the time, they don’t know it’s bothering you if you don’t tell them. And it’s a lot easier (and quicker to resolve) to let them know in person than to leave a childish note.
Oct 26, 2012 at 12:14 pm rating: 90
#24
GhostWriter
I DID try to confront the ugly little spud in the hallway, but then he decided to run right at me, and, and, …he slimed me.
Oct 26, 2012 at 2:56 pm rating: 90
#25
So
Why would someone run inside anyway?
Unless you live somewhere that is 6ft deep in snow or freezing cold why would you not go outside for a run?
Oct 26, 2012 at 5:27 pm rating: 90
#26
Gecko Hunter
Was this The Hotel New Hampshire?
(“Keep running, John-O”)
Oct 26, 2012 at 6:46 pm rating: 90
#27
0rd
The apartment building needs to make a running track in the basement the noise won’t transfer from the solid floor and the runner can get some laundry done to boot.
Oct 26, 2012 at 11:54 pm rating: 90
#28
Sean
I am a tenant in this hallway. I took the signs down and brought then to the office because I saw this escalating and didn’t want to live in the warzone. One correction – the new tenant isn’t exercising in the hallway: His dog needs to get a run in and the guy runs down the hallway to the elevator, and back to his apartment with the dog. There is no man in short shorts with a head band doing laps of the hallway, I assure you.
Oct 27, 2012 at 11:00 am rating: 90
#29
TurnOffTheDarnLights
I would be willing to live in this apartment complex, the neighbors clearly have a fantastic sense of humor!
Team Note Writer(s)!
Oct 28, 2012 at 9:47 am rating: 90
#30
JN
I had a hallway runner in my apartment building too. And apparently the person had running friends and would sometimes run with a couple of people. They did this on the main floor so that noise wasn’t bad, but people complained to management because they kept scaring and/or bumping into people as they ran around the corners.
And this happens not just in rental buildings. The majority of my building is owned.
Oct 29, 2012 at 11:45 am rating: 90
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