A FRUSTRATED neighbour has shared how they got revenge on their downstairs neighbour with a passive-aggressive note.
The young man was sick of his neighbour banging on his ceiling, so finally decided to take action.
A man has been left raging at his downstairs neighbour[/caption]
He left a passive-aggressive note for his neighbour, but no one agreed on his tactic[/caption]
He revealed he came up with the idea of leaving a note on their door, but even his family and friends thought it was too extreme.
Instead of listening, he decided to tape the note to their door and took to Reddit’s Am I Overreacting forum to see what the internet had to say.
He wrote: “I drop things around 1-2 times a week (typically small stuff like utensils, my phone, my airpods case) and nearly every time I do, my neighbour will pound her ceiling at least 5 times over the span of a minute.”
He decided he wanted to give the neighbour the benefit of the doubt as it was an old apartment with thin walls.
He confessed that he had already had ‘two stomping tantrums’ in response to the pounding.
But, he said it had the reverse effect, adding: “They only seem to escalate her pounding as she tries to find ways to make more noise.
“The craziest part for me is that we live two blocks from a train station, so it’s not like she isn’t used to noise.”
He decided that he had enough of the banging and stomping drama and decided to post a note to her door warning her to stop.
Taking a piece of kitchen towel and a pen, he wrote: “Stop pounding my floor.
“If you do it again, I will do 100 jumping jacks every morning.
“Thanks for helping me stay in shape! Your upstairs neighbour.”
Later, he added: “I showed it to a couple of friends and family thinking that they’d see it as a funny but relatively harmless form of retaliation.
“But the consensus seems to be that I’m overreacting and I should’ve complained to my apartment manager or had some sympathy for her situation (she’s around 70 years old in a wheelchair).”
He asked Reddit users if he was being unreasonable, and while it seemed he wanted support, many said his response was immature.
One person wrote: “Have you talked to her in person like a human about this? Or did you just resort to taping a paper towel to some old lady in a wheelchair? Do you not own a piece of paper or a post it?
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“Not only are you overreacting, you seem insufferable, and incredibly immature. I imagine you are in your young 20’s. Your note isn’t funny, it’s embarrassing.”
Another commented: “You’re not ‘overreacting,’ you’re just reacting in the wrong way LOL.”
“You need to get some thick rugs. Pettiness isn’t the answer here,” penned a third.
Meanwhile a fourth said: “You’re probably a lot louder than you think…”
“Yeah, you’re overreacting. If you don’t want to hear other people, don’t live in an apartment building. You both need to grow up,” claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: “Your neighbour has already overreacted. This note is nothing in comparison.”
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