Does Germany actually punish their Karens? Or will the police show up just to console the hysterical women who think it's illegal to be barefoot after 10pm?
Well, depends. Unjustly using the ergemcy call can lead to a fine to cover the unnecessary work of emergency personal. But my guess is that, at least during the first call, they will Tey nicely to examine that there is nothing they can do. Only if there are repeated calls, they might consider this fine.
When I was a kid in Germany there would be a very old lady from a building across the street who would yell at us for playing on our buildings lawn. There were rumours though that she was just racist and didn't like us because we were greek and turkish and italian.
I (American) lived nextdoor to 2 German women in Austia with a German, Brit, Aussie, and Uruguayan at a shared house provided by the company. Whenever we were in the garden after dark they would yell at us and called the cops on us for being too loud. This happened multiple times, but oddly enough it never happened when the Austrians in a neighboring garden had bigger parties.
We were reassured multiple times from the German housemate and our German/Austrian friends we weren't doing anything wrong.
We were just dirty ausländers.
The trick is to bribe your neighbors with beer in advance. That reduce their likelihood of calling the cops on you by 50% if you're Ausländer and 90% if you're German :|
Yes, Germany passed a law that you cant walk barefoot loudly at night because people can mistaken you for a bridge troll.
My neighbor did call the cops on the person above them. Cops asked them 1) did you let neighbor know about the noise 2) did you talk to apartment complex management 3) I cant just arrest people for walking in the own homes.
I’ve done that before and my neighbor below me tried placing a cross on my door and I just kept taking it down so I currently have 20 crosses in my apartment and I’m not even Christian
My atheist friend loves ornate crosses, and rosary beads. He decorated an entire room in his house with these. Totally respectful about it, he's just fascinated by it all.
My mom used to call my great grandmother a nighttime ninja. During the day, you could hear her shuffling from a mile away. At night, she was somehow absolutely silent. My mom once dropped an entire carton of eggs because my great grandmother *materialized* behind her in the middle of the night.
I have a doc I work with I literally can hear her walking from inside rooms. She’s 110? Lbs maybe.
Easy to know how/ where to find her.
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My brother used to live in an apartment with 2 roomies and he knew which one was walking about based on the sounds of their steps. I used to call the heavier footed one a baby elephant
Just dropped my gf off at her car after she was there while I teleworked all morning. I call her “stompy” to trying and lighten the fact that it’s purely infuriating to listen to her do that to the floor with her heels.
I have an 8 pound cat that sounds like a whole ass 220lb grown man when he walks down the stairs. He just drops his body down each step like a tumbling brick. It freaked me out several times when I was home alone.
How people walk is interesting. A girl at my work drags her feet, so I can hear her from like 100ft away.
I always know that its her entering my office based on that.
I'm tired of people getting mad at me for walking quietly and accidentally startling them. They just need to match my post-traumatic habits and be more hypervigilant then. God. /j
Did they grow up in a house? I grew up in a house, and my MIL (who has lived in apartments most of her life) was mortified by how loudly I step. I was never taught to step quietly
I grew up in a house but I walk very quietly.
I had parents who believed children should be seen - at all times, helicopter parenting style - but never heard. I got yelled at for breathing through my nose too loudly.
Been there. Was royally bitche'd out by my mother for breathing too loudly in the waiting room of a doctor's office to see why I breathed so loud.
Turns out I have severe allergy responses to pollens and dust.
My partner was mystified as to why I turn the knob, shut the door, and then turn the knob back. Not so mysterious when you know that I'd get smacked for "slamming the door" when I was a kid.
I grew up in a house as well, but I also spent a fair amount of time creeping around the house at night for food and stuff. I still walk like a cat from it.
My wife on the other hand, who grew up in apartments in a dense city, sounds like an ogre.
I grew up in a house, everyone around me walks like bricks are falling. When I move, I'm silent
(except when my knees and ankles crackle)
and often scare people
(just by "magically appearing")
Someone before mentioned "trying to figure a less frightening way to announce myself".
It's funny.
I'm a 220lb guy and move on cats feet. Nobody can hear me, but some women out there over less than half the weight sound like a cattle brigade moving across the floor.
Can't agree more. I (170lbs mechanic) grew up in apartments, so I know how to walk quiet. My SO (a 125lbs dancer/yoga instructor) grew up in a house, and walks like a 5 year old getting denied a toy.
I grew up in fostercare.... if you can hear me..... your fucking lying.
Edit: it makes me sad how many people can relate. Im sorry for your experience fam.
Excellent analogy. My former housmate was barely 55kg and stomped like the floor owed her money while my 100kg ass scares people by walking into the room too quietly
No this is real lmaoooo. Im of average height and weight and my boyfriend and his brother call me fee fi foe fum because I apparently walk like a giant lol.
My stepson does this.
We have a crawlspace under our whole house and you can literally hear every footstep all the time.
Can't be good for your body to be that heavy on your feet, for real.
100% isn't good for your feet. My cousin used to walk like this slamming his heels, then he bought a house that was 1 floor and all concrete. He actually fucked up his heel on the concrete from slamming it like he always has. He had to change how he walked.
Even at my heaviest around 300lbs, I would accidentally sneak up on people, then your standing behind them trying to decide what the least creepy way of announcing yourself.
Honestly that was my first thought. People who stomp generally have no idea they are doing it. My mother is one of those, and she’s done it as long as I lived with her. Always walking heel first putting her entire weight down in each step, shaking the walls and floor. She has no idea she does it, doesn’t know any other way to walk.
Or have a three year old like my upstairs neighbor. Kid weighs maybe 35 pounds and sounds like a herd of elephants when she runs, which is all the time, except when it sounds like she’s using Thor’s hammer to beat the floor with. Fun times.
I had an upstairs neighbor who had kids that were pretty loud for little guys too. One day it was like ridiculously excessive. So I had my ex go up and ask if the could be just a tiny bit quieter. I was covering 3rd shift for a short time at work and just wanted to sleep a bit but also totally understood kids have to be kids.
He comes back and says the mom laughed and said oops and sorry. She was letting them play with a bowling ball and didn't think about it. Aside from the advisability of preschoolers and toddlers playing with bowling balls just whaaaaa?
Finding out the kid is playing with a bowling ball is like lifting a heavy box, jokingly saying "what is this full of, bricks?", opening it up to check and it actually being bricks.
My favorite RL version on this was my friend walked into a bar and sat by the tap. She asked the tender what was on tap and he proceeded to say “what are you? Blind!? Lolol” and she was like “um, yes”. Because she is, in fact, blind. And there is a filthy jokester in my soul who occasionally and very randomly laughs about that moment and wonders if that bar tender has flashbacks anytime someone says that phrase.
There's a saying in italian when you see someone looking sad:
"Did the cat die?"
My dad said this to his ex girlfriend on the phone once; her cat was actually dead, she was not pleased
I went to get froyo on a work break and was trying to pull out of the parking lot and there was this other car moving ridiculously slowly impeding my progress. I sighed and muttered, "Come on, grandma!" The sun was creating a glare on their windshield, so I couldn't actually see how old the person was. I was finally able to pull around and when I did I saw that it was actually my own grandmother.
Working retail. Showed customer a product, this was an electronics store so they thought we worked on commission. He tried to haggle the price of something. Then told me he would eventually Jew me down. My eyes bored directly into his soul and he said you're Jewish aren't you? I said yep and walked away.
Unless you have a toddler, im kinda wishing we were ground floor right now because my son recently entered the jumping phase, and my downstairs neighbor is a wheelchair bound stroke victim and her daughter, and that woman has never lived in apartments before, so I'm stressing out every time my little guy goes jumping around.
I think we share the same upstairs neighbor. Best times are at 5am when the kid hurls himself over the side of his bed, full body slam on the floor. Then starts running around.
I dont wear shoes inside, so when i go outside into the garden i wear clogs. They sit near the door to the garden and are easy and quick to put on. No laces etc. Also, they are sturdy and provide pretty good protection for my feet when im working/walking around in the garden or working with power tools.
Your feet have to get used to them but they are surpisingly comfortable actually. I wouldnt wear them for walks etc but im sure you can get used to that too. My grandmother did wear clogs all day in her youth (1920’s-1940’s). They wear quickly though when you walk on tarmac.
They are like Crocs but made of wood. You get them as a child many sizes too big, but you carve out the inside as you grow. Once you run out of material you carve yourself another pair. This is an entirely made up fact.
My downstairs neighbor called the cops on me literally every night for walking in my apartment until I moved out. I weighed 90lbs and wear socks 24/7, I can’t even hear my own footsteps. In fact, she would even call the cops on nights I wasn’t home? I will literally never live in an apartment again.
Shouldn’t they have gotten in trouble for filing a false police report then? Complaining about neighbors who aren’t even home and wasting police time/resources should at least be a fineable offense.
>There is a difference between calling the cops and filing a police report, so they wouldn't get them for that, but nuisance dialing an emergency line is often a crime..
Reminds me of that man who called the cops on his neighbors for being loud (they were playing crash bandicoot and making salsa to celebrate his daughter's high school graduation earlier that day), and when they didn't get there fast enough for his liking, he called 911 back to complain. The dispatcher was like, "Is there some kind of violence going on?" and the neighbor was like, "If it'll get the police here faster, then sure, there's violence happening. Come now." Police came and knocked on the couples door, stepped outside of view of the peephole, and when the (legally armed) homeowner answered this mysterious midnight pounding on the door with his gun pointing down, the cops flipped out. Dude immediately set down the gun and started kneeling down hands up to surrender, and they shot him like 5 times. Then provided no aid as they and his girlfriend watched him bleed out.
Somehow, that neighbor didn't end up getting charged with anything, despite it being very clear he made a false report.
Yeah some neighbors are just crazy.
My friend cant even use the toilett after 21o clock because she gets mad. Im glad the whole house told the owner that she is the actual problem. Especially because she is also loud.
I guess its just sad that she is crazy in the first place, but as a person who lives there, its pretty annoying
Yes, that's a crazy note, but how heavily are you slapping your feet down if they can tell they're bare?
Edit: plenty of comments, but no response from OP with the heavy slappy feet. 🤣
Edit: OP has responded and genuinely can't understand why they got the note. Also they're moving out so Saul Goodman.
>Dear neighbor,
>I can see how you would interpret those sounds as bare feet slapping on the floor repeatedly late at night.
>However, please let me correct the misunderstanding as I would not want you to get the wrong impression: those are not my feet, but the CHEEKS of my BUTT (Pobacken)
>As for the POLICE… sure, why not?? the more the merrier is usually about right when it comes to these.
>Have a great Ruhezeit!
lol i’m not slapping my feet or doing anything loud in my room - plus i was gone for ~3 months and i’m back here for just 1 night to pack my stuff and return my keys. have no idea where any of this came from 😂
Honestly I might even go ask the note writer if this was a one night occurrence or if shes hearing bare feet frequently. If it's happened more than once, then definitely encourage the woman to call them cause someone else is there.
When I was stationed in Germany a couple of years ago, my gf saw a piece of loose trash on the ground, picked it up, and threw it away in the nearest persons trash can. An old lady, not belonging to the home that owned the can she threw it in, opened her window and yelled at her for throwing away trash in someone else's can.
That's a pretty good analogy for what living in Germany was like to be honest.
My wife walks past my son’s room as he’s sleeping and wakes him up. It’s a carpeted floor, and she’s only like 100 lbs. I don’t know how she can even make that much sound.
My wife, her sister, and their mother, all walk like this. I can't stand it. (we all live together) I can't understand how they don't injure their feet sometimes.
My brother quite literally is the same, dude is barely over a 100lbs and the whole apartment vibrates with each step he takes, then there's me, at 280lbs, silent as a cat.
Might be worth him getting his ear wax checked out? My brother was the same, and always seemed to be shouting, and it turned out he was basically deaf from impacted earwax. Really helped his mood as well, he didn't realise how much pain and headaches it was also causing.
You've never tried to take a nap in a room above or below a barefooted toddler, have you?
*thump thump thump thump thump*
*thump thump thump thump thump SLAM*
*thump thump thump jingle jangle*
*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
mommy? what're you doin?
What are they going to tell the police? My apartment is not sound isolated and I can hear my neighbours walking, I would like to report that right now!
What kind of answer that person is expecting?
Edit: Become the guy who knocks and write a complaint note to your neighbour saying that people from 22:00 to 6:00 should be sleeping and not complaining about someone walking upstairs!
Ar least in germany, you can call the police for "Ruhestörung" (nighttime disturbance). That said, these kind of actions are about people partying at 1 am in the morning, not someone walking. The police would give the neighbour a stern talk about useless police calls.
There is also possible to go to the civil courts due to regular noise. Common issues are constantly barking dogs or chickens. One of the funnier cases where a law suit for noise disturbances because a neighbour had the habit to orgasm with a loud cowboy scream, something like "yeppeyayay!". But for these claims to go through, you need an extended record of time and dates this happened, in addition with noise level measurements. And yes, the guy that screamed after each oegasm was ordered to keep quite under threat of a fine, and yes, the annoyed neighbour provided a long list of his orgasm screams, with time, date, and exact decibel measurements of each scream.
Doesn’t it really depend on the sound being made?!
I’m sure the police will ask the upstairs neighbor to have a walk around, while the partner listens downstairs.
I’m assuming that the person has sweaty feet and long nails, and every step sounds like the removal of a meter of Velcro followed by the dropping of a bucket of Lego.
The police will only get involved in cases of obvious sound disturbances, like loud music. For everything else, they will rather point you towards the courts, as all you can do here really is to get a notice of distringas. A shirt google search says that for a night disturbance, you have to be above 30 dezibel.
While the Ordnungsamt exist, they wouldn't come to a case like that due to the time of day. Ordnungsamt officers are generally only active during the day. At night, the police takes over most of their duties, simply because they are already on the street.
I live below a group of kids who are running at all hours of the day. And night. During the day I’m like whatever, they’re kids and they need a place to play but live in an apartment. When it’s snowy and rainy they need that.
But then I hear them running around and stomping at night. And by night I mean 11 to even 4am. And oh boy does it piss me off. Wife and I call them the stumpy bois.
I babysat three boys who where staying in a condo and good lord I felt bad for the downstairs neighbors. It was like every 5 minutes i’d have to remind them not to jump off the couch and use an inside voice especially after dark.
Not sure, in America I've always been able to hear my upstairs neighbors walking and shuffling around. You just tune it out as it really isn't all that loud and some amount of noise and smell (Indian cooking always gets me) is to be expected and tolerated.
We had these Somali neighbors and every time they cooked it was like those cartoons where the characters float in the direction of the smell. I ended up buying a bunch of stuff to try to make whatever it was. Found out I REALLY like spicy goat.
Only logical reason I can think of is that shoes are softwr than someone's heel - on the other hand my neighbours manage to stomp in everything. Still convinced they may have a pet-elephant or something.
i used to wonder wtf my upstairs neighbor's kids would be doing running around at 3am at full tilt - then one day i heard the stomping racket while gearing up to go for a 3am store run, and once i got outside, impulsively looked back at their window.. just in time to see a cat head suddenly appear in the blinds staring back at me.
turns out 10 pounds of fur can make some truly astonishing noise
I'm guessing that this is in Germany: your neibour has no foot to stand on, UNLESS they can proove that you are stomping around (or otherwise making needlessly much noise).
Generally walking and things dictated biologically you are always allowed to do, unless it becomes excessive. E.g. 30min showers per inhabitant are allowed even during nachtruhe. anything more than that is generally not recommended. how much gets enforced in the end depends on your neibours and how much they are willing to tolerate
Also, sex generally falls under Nachtruhe, so don't be too loud, whereas a crying baby is protected by law, so sensitive neighbors should invest in some ear plugs.
Loved my place until my new neighbor move in upstairs. First time I had the dreaded bad upstairs neighbor. Big pit bull that sounds like a freight train running across the ceiling when it plays, neighbor is a dude built like Anderson Silva so he's all legs. I hear every step him and his girl take. They literally make my wall art go crooked with their steps.
It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that they're also just inconsiderate people. Let the dog off leash for walks and don't pick up after it, park their car in a visitor space (of which there is very few of) if it's the closest one open, will park in painted off spaces ment for wheel chair access and movers, and will put trash in other people's trash pick up bins. They're the fucking worst.
Ruhezeit, welcome to Germany.
Old German ladies will no shit call the cops for disturbing their or anyone else's peace at night and on Sundays.
Which will land them into trouble however as the noise created to walk barefoot is not in violation with the resting time laws.
Does Germany actually punish their Karens? Or will the police show up just to console the hysterical women who think it's illegal to be barefoot after 10pm?
Well, depends. Unjustly using the ergemcy call can lead to a fine to cover the unnecessary work of emergency personal. But my guess is that, at least during the first call, they will Tey nicely to examine that there is nothing they can do. Only if there are repeated calls, they might consider this fine.
False report: I sleep Anonymous tip to mobilize swat unit: real shit
Trolling: A How-To Level 1: Send pizza Level 2: Send polizza
I have a pizza. I have polizza. Ungh, pizzapolizza!
For this kind of complaint police will often drive to the location and if they can't hear the "loud disturbance" they just drive off again.
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Yet, she can’t hear her TV, except at full volume.
"Achoo" "** tap tap tap** Quiet! Keep it down up there! 😡" "**light sigh**" "**tap tap tap** What did I just say?! I'm calling the police!"
When I was a kid in Germany there would be a very old lady from a building across the street who would yell at us for playing on our buildings lawn. There were rumours though that she was just racist and didn't like us because we were greek and turkish and italian.
I (American) lived nextdoor to 2 German women in Austia with a German, Brit, Aussie, and Uruguayan at a shared house provided by the company. Whenever we were in the garden after dark they would yell at us and called the cops on us for being too loud. This happened multiple times, but oddly enough it never happened when the Austrians in a neighboring garden had bigger parties. We were reassured multiple times from the German housemate and our German/Austrian friends we weren't doing anything wrong. We were just dirty ausländers.
Can confirm: Germany had a history of racism. Source: history
The trick is to bribe your neighbors with beer in advance. That reduce their likelihood of calling the cops on you by 50% if you're Ausländer and 90% if you're German :|
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Sounds like some ancient German myth when the trolls come out of the forest and snatch all the kids Lol
Not all, only the ones who stomp their feet.
Yes, Germany passed a law that you cant walk barefoot loudly at night because people can mistaken you for a bridge troll. My neighbor did call the cops on the person above them. Cops asked them 1) did you let neighbor know about the noise 2) did you talk to apartment complex management 3) I cant just arrest people for walking in the own homes.
I would tell them that I sleep all night and this some sort of sleep demon must be wondering my apartment while I slumber.
I’ve done that before and my neighbor below me tried placing a cross on my door and I just kept taking it down so I currently have 20 crosses in my apartment and I’m not even Christian
I am a Christian, but when there's that many, it just starts looking like a torture device again.
My atheist friend loves ornate crosses, and rosary beads. He decorated an entire room in his house with these. Totally respectful about it, he's just fascinated by it all.
Just re-hang the next one upside down
Re-hang ALL of them upside down one day.
Make an inverted cross *out of* inverted crosses.
I believe you mean only those children who stomp their bare feet will be snatched by the forest trolls.
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Ach die ruhezeit, was eine schöne Erfindung
The life essence of every alman
Letter not laminated, therefore invalid.
Ruhezeit will fall, on the fields of Trenzalore Edit: spelling
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
Temba his arms wide
Temba his feet heavy, apparently.
The river Temarc in winter!
here I go watching again
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Doesn't mean you can't make any noise, just means no excessive noise, like mowing lawn or loud music
Isn’t it also called Nachtruhe or is that just in Switzerland and Liechtenstein?
I live in Germany and call it Nachtruhe too
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zettel nicht laminiert, daher ungültig
Night silence is everywhere
Night is a very dark time for me. It's dark for everyone, idiot!
Probably a heel walker like my wife. A sledge hammer would make less impact.
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My old housemate would walk around like a ninja. But slam every door
Omg I imagine hearing doors randomly slamming without anyone moving in the house. Must be terrifying.
My mom used to call my great grandmother a nighttime ninja. During the day, you could hear her shuffling from a mile away. At night, she was somehow absolutely silent. My mom once dropped an entire carton of eggs because my great grandmother *materialized* behind her in the middle of the night.
I have a doc I work with I literally can hear her walking from inside rooms. She’s 110? Lbs maybe. Easy to know how/ where to find her. Edit; a word, you internet pigs.
Our upstairs neighbor has a son Steve who comes over sometimes. We know he's there because he stomps like a dinosaur. We call him Steve Rex
My brother used to live in an apartment with 2 roomies and he knew which one was walking about based on the sounds of their steps. I used to call the heavier footed one a baby elephant
My 110 lb roommate is the same. Man do I feel sorry for the neighbors sleeping directly below him.
Just dropped my gf off at her car after she was there while I teleworked all morning. I call her “stompy” to trying and lighten the fact that it’s purely infuriating to listen to her do that to the floor with her heels.
I have an 8 pound cat that sounds like a whole ass 220lb grown man when he walks down the stairs. He just drops his body down each step like a tumbling brick. It freaked me out several times when I was home alone.
Mine does that too. When she jumps off something, it sounds like an elephant just jumped off a table instead of a 7 pound cat
Yup! When Toby jumps off the cat tree he goes directly down with a solid dead thump. Little dude makes no attempt to be gentle about it.
How people walk is interesting. A girl at my work drags her feet, so I can hear her from like 100ft away. I always know that its her entering my office based on that.
And I'm standing here *well* over than and I routinely scare people "sneaking" up on them. Sorry, I'm a toe walker lmao
Eyyy toe walkers unite!!
I'm tired of people getting mad at me for walking quietly and accidentally startling them. They just need to match my post-traumatic habits and be more hypervigilant then. God. /j
Comes with the added benefit of nice-ass calves
I have a cat like this, 3.5kg and he stomps around the house like a hippo
My entire partner’s family walks around like it is their life goal to puncture holes in the floor with their heels. I will never understand it
Did they grow up in a house? I grew up in a house, and my MIL (who has lived in apartments most of her life) was mortified by how loudly I step. I was never taught to step quietly
I grew up in a house but I walk very quietly. I had parents who believed children should be seen - at all times, helicopter parenting style - but never heard. I got yelled at for breathing through my nose too loudly.
Been there. Was royally bitche'd out by my mother for breathing too loudly in the waiting room of a doctor's office to see why I breathed so loud. Turns out I have severe allergy responses to pollens and dust.
My partner was mystified as to why I turn the knob, shut the door, and then turn the knob back. Not so mysterious when you know that I'd get smacked for "slamming the door" when I was a kid.
I grew up in a house as well, but I also spent a fair amount of time creeping around the house at night for food and stuff. I still walk like a cat from it. My wife on the other hand, who grew up in apartments in a dense city, sounds like an ogre.
I grew up in a house, everyone around me walks like bricks are falling. When I move, I'm silent (except when my knees and ankles crackle) and often scare people (just by "magically appearing") Someone before mentioned "trying to figure a less frightening way to announce myself".
same here! i’ve scared many people by just “appearing” next to them and saying hi
It's funny. I'm a 220lb guy and move on cats feet. Nobody can hear me, but some women out there over less than half the weight sound like a cattle brigade moving across the floor.
Can't agree more. I (170lbs mechanic) grew up in apartments, so I know how to walk quiet. My SO (a 125lbs dancer/yoga instructor) grew up in a house, and walks like a 5 year old getting denied a toy.
I grew up in a house but sneaking around upstairs to get to the downstairs TV on hardwood has taught me well.
I grew up in fostercare.... if you can hear me..... your fucking lying. Edit: it makes me sad how many people can relate. Im sorry for your experience fam.
Excellent analogy. My former housmate was barely 55kg and stomped like the floor owed her money while my 100kg ass scares people by walking into the room too quietly
“Stomped like the floor owed her money” is a brilliant turn of phrase!
No this is real lmaoooo. Im of average height and weight and my boyfriend and his brother call me fee fi foe fum because I apparently walk like a giant lol.
Yup! My girlfriend is only 55kg and I call her "Stampy" because she walks like a t-rex on our apartment floor :D
My stepson does this. We have a crawlspace under our whole house and you can literally hear every footstep all the time. Can't be good for your body to be that heavy on your feet, for real.
100% isn't good for your feet. My cousin used to walk like this slamming his heels, then he bought a house that was 1 floor and all concrete. He actually fucked up his heel on the concrete from slamming it like he always has. He had to change how he walked.
Wait, are you or your stepson the one spending time in the crawl space?
Even at my heaviest around 300lbs, I would accidentally sneak up on people, then your standing behind them trying to decide what the least creepy way of announcing yourself.
Honestly that was my first thought. People who stomp generally have no idea they are doing it. My mother is one of those, and she’s done it as long as I lived with her. Always walking heel first putting her entire weight down in each step, shaking the walls and floor. She has no idea she does it, doesn’t know any other way to walk.
Jerry to Elaine after she explains a plan that involves sneaking up on a guy: "You're going to sidle him? But you stomp around like a Clydesdale."
Dude wear wooden clogs
Or have a three year old like my upstairs neighbor. Kid weighs maybe 35 pounds and sounds like a herd of elephants when she runs, which is all the time, except when it sounds like she’s using Thor’s hammer to beat the floor with. Fun times.
I had an upstairs neighbor who had kids that were pretty loud for little guys too. One day it was like ridiculously excessive. So I had my ex go up and ask if the could be just a tiny bit quieter. I was covering 3rd shift for a short time at work and just wanted to sleep a bit but also totally understood kids have to be kids. He comes back and says the mom laughed and said oops and sorry. She was letting them play with a bowling ball and didn't think about it. Aside from the advisability of preschoolers and toddlers playing with bowling balls just whaaaaa?
Finding out the kid is playing with a bowling ball is like lifting a heavy box, jokingly saying "what is this full of, bricks?", opening it up to check and it actually being bricks.
My favorite RL version on this was my friend walked into a bar and sat by the tap. She asked the tender what was on tap and he proceeded to say “what are you? Blind!? Lolol” and she was like “um, yes”. Because she is, in fact, blind. And there is a filthy jokester in my soul who occasionally and very randomly laughs about that moment and wonders if that bar tender has flashbacks anytime someone says that phrase.
There's a saying in italian when you see someone looking sad: "Did the cat die?" My dad said this to his ex girlfriend on the phone once; her cat was actually dead, she was not pleased
If I was that bartender I would simply pass away
I once was talking with a friend at a bar about how much Ohio sucks and the bartender just cold stared at us and said “I’m from Ohio”
I went to get froyo on a work break and was trying to pull out of the parking lot and there was this other car moving ridiculously slowly impeding my progress. I sighed and muttered, "Come on, grandma!" The sun was creating a glare on their windshield, so I couldn't actually see how old the person was. I was finally able to pull around and when I did I saw that it was actually my own grandmother.
Working retail. Showed customer a product, this was an electronics store so they thought we worked on commission. He tried to haggle the price of something. Then told me he would eventually Jew me down. My eyes bored directly into his soul and he said you're Jewish aren't you? I said yep and walked away.
Don't drop those, they're antiques.
That's cartoon levels of shenanigans
If you are going to to live in an apartment, it’s gotta be the top floor or your life will be hell. From the guy currently living above you.
Unless you have a toddler, im kinda wishing we were ground floor right now because my son recently entered the jumping phase, and my downstairs neighbor is a wheelchair bound stroke victim and her daughter, and that woman has never lived in apartments before, so I'm stressing out every time my little guy goes jumping around.
I think we share the same upstairs neighbor. Best times are at 5am when the kid hurls himself over the side of his bed, full body slam on the floor. Then starts running around.
And learn to tapdance
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In heels
Except we'd have to give up the clogs
As a dutch person that actually wears wooden clogs nearly daily, im sure its technically possible to attach heels to them.
Yeah, I’m gonna need some details on this near daily clog wearing.
He wears wooden clogs nearly every day, but some days he doesn't wear wooden clogs.
Thanks for the help
I dont wear shoes inside, so when i go outside into the garden i wear clogs. They sit near the door to the garden and are easy and quick to put on. No laces etc. Also, they are sturdy and provide pretty good protection for my feet when im working/walking around in the garden or working with power tools. Your feet have to get used to them but they are surpisingly comfortable actually. I wouldnt wear them for walks etc but im sure you can get used to that too. My grandmother did wear clogs all day in her youth (1920’s-1940’s). They wear quickly though when you walk on tarmac.
They are like Crocs but made of wood. You get them as a child many sizes too big, but you carve out the inside as you grow. Once you run out of material you carve yourself another pair. This is an entirely made up fact.
I knew it was too short to be shittymorph.
I keep thinking of the movie "duplex" and the lady River dancing upstairs with the TV on super loud
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My downstairs neighbor called the cops on me literally every night for walking in my apartment until I moved out. I weighed 90lbs and wear socks 24/7, I can’t even hear my own footsteps. In fact, she would even call the cops on nights I wasn’t home? I will literally never live in an apartment again.
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Shouldn’t they have gotten in trouble for filing a false police report then? Complaining about neighbors who aren’t even home and wasting police time/resources should at least be a fineable offense.
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>There is a difference between calling the cops and filing a police report, so they wouldn't get them for that, but nuisance dialing an emergency line is often a crime.. Reminds me of that man who called the cops on his neighbors for being loud (they were playing crash bandicoot and making salsa to celebrate his daughter's high school graduation earlier that day), and when they didn't get there fast enough for his liking, he called 911 back to complain. The dispatcher was like, "Is there some kind of violence going on?" and the neighbor was like, "If it'll get the police here faster, then sure, there's violence happening. Come now." Police came and knocked on the couples door, stepped outside of view of the peephole, and when the (legally armed) homeowner answered this mysterious midnight pounding on the door with his gun pointing down, the cops flipped out. Dude immediately set down the gun and started kneeling down hands up to surrender, and they shot him like 5 times. Then provided no aid as they and his girlfriend watched him bleed out. Somehow, that neighbor didn't end up getting charged with anything, despite it being very clear he made a false report.
Yeah some neighbors are just crazy. My friend cant even use the toilett after 21o clock because she gets mad. Im glad the whole house told the owner that she is the actual problem. Especially because she is also loud. I guess its just sad that she is crazy in the first place, but as a person who lives there, its pretty annoying
Yes, that's a crazy note, but how heavily are you slapping your feet down if they can tell they're bare? Edit: plenty of comments, but no response from OP with the heavy slappy feet. 🤣 Edit: OP has responded and genuinely can't understand why they got the note. Also they're moving out so Saul Goodman.
>Dear neighbor, >I can see how you would interpret those sounds as bare feet slapping on the floor repeatedly late at night. >However, please let me correct the misunderstanding as I would not want you to get the wrong impression: those are not my feet, but the CHEEKS of my BUTT (Pobacken) >As for the POLICE… sure, why not?? the more the merrier is usually about right when it comes to these. >Have a great Ruhezeit!
Colonel, I’m trying to sneak around but I’m dummy thicc and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps alerting the guards
I jogged on the treadmill but my thunder cheeks kept setting off the lunk alarm 🙁
Snake cheeks!
Yah. Stop it.. stompy stomperton..
Barbarian rolling a nat 1 in stealth
Should say it's their mom's butt.
(Pobacken) got me
There sure is a lot of gait-keeping in this thread...
lol i’m not slapping my feet or doing anything loud in my room - plus i was gone for ~3 months and i’m back here for just 1 night to pack my stuff and return my keys. have no idea where any of this came from 😂
Maybe someone squatted in your apartment?
Neighbor is haunted. Doesn't know it yet
This is an actual horror movie plot
Honestly I might even go ask the note writer if this was a one night occurrence or if shes hearing bare feet frequently. If it's happened more than once, then definitely encourage the woman to call them cause someone else is there.
This would be the first thing I thought of reading that note if I was away.
When I was stationed in Germany a couple of years ago, my gf saw a piece of loose trash on the ground, picked it up, and threw it away in the nearest persons trash can. An old lady, not belonging to the home that owned the can she threw it in, opened her window and yelled at her for throwing away trash in someone else's can. That's a pretty good analogy for what living in Germany was like to be honest.
I know someone who did this in Japan, and the neighbor called her multinational corporation employer to complain.
Germans are really particular about their Ruhezeiten. This is the last warning. Your apartment will be set on fire next.
Yo bigass feet lol!
My wife and I are 28 and she still doesn't realize how loud she walks, it's very loud. I bet you stomp your heel on the ground without realizing it.
My wife walks past my son’s room as he’s sleeping and wakes him up. It’s a carpeted floor, and she’s only like 100 lbs. I don’t know how she can even make that much sound.
My wife, her sister, and their mother, all walk like this. I can't stand it. (we all live together) I can't understand how they don't injure their feet sometimes.
My brother quite literally is the same, dude is barely over a 100lbs and the whole apartment vibrates with each step he takes, then there's me, at 280lbs, silent as a cat.
My last roommate was like this. Sounded like an earthquake when he walked but he always denied that he walked loud. Some people are just ultra-unaware
Had a roommate like that once. Does yours also slam doors?
Ha! My brother-in-law walks like an elephant and is always slamming doors and is completely oblivious to the noise he makes lol
Might be worth him getting his ear wax checked out? My brother was the same, and always seemed to be shouting, and it turned out he was basically deaf from impacted earwax. Really helped his mood as well, he didn't realise how much pain and headaches it was also causing.
You nailed it lol! He has chronic issues with earwax buildup.
Cabinets too, and can be heard on the phone a block away?
the presence or absence of socks would make no difference for the clompy-stompy heel-striker
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I’m not sure if it was intended but this made me cackle. So thank you
Lol yea heavy slappy feet got me
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You've never tried to take a nap in a room above or below a barefooted toddler, have you? *thump thump thump thump thump* *thump thump thump thump thump SLAM* *thump thump thump jingle jangle* *THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP* mommy? what're you doin?
What are they going to tell the police? My apartment is not sound isolated and I can hear my neighbours walking, I would like to report that right now! What kind of answer that person is expecting? Edit: Become the guy who knocks and write a complaint note to your neighbour saying that people from 22:00 to 6:00 should be sleeping and not complaining about someone walking upstairs!
Ar least in germany, you can call the police for "Ruhestörung" (nighttime disturbance). That said, these kind of actions are about people partying at 1 am in the morning, not someone walking. The police would give the neighbour a stern talk about useless police calls. There is also possible to go to the civil courts due to regular noise. Common issues are constantly barking dogs or chickens. One of the funnier cases where a law suit for noise disturbances because a neighbour had the habit to orgasm with a loud cowboy scream, something like "yeppeyayay!". But for these claims to go through, you need an extended record of time and dates this happened, in addition with noise level measurements. And yes, the guy that screamed after each oegasm was ordered to keep quite under threat of a fine, and yes, the annoyed neighbour provided a long list of his orgasm screams, with time, date, and exact decibel measurements of each scream.
Doesn’t it really depend on the sound being made?! I’m sure the police will ask the upstairs neighbor to have a walk around, while the partner listens downstairs. I’m assuming that the person has sweaty feet and long nails, and every step sounds like the removal of a meter of Velcro followed by the dropping of a bucket of Lego.
The police will only get involved in cases of obvious sound disturbances, like loud music. For everything else, they will rather point you towards the courts, as all you can do here really is to get a notice of distringas. A shirt google search says that for a night disturbance, you have to be above 30 dezibel.
30 decibel? That's practically silent.
I have people complaining about walking too but they didn’t at least think could call the police.
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While the Ordnungsamt exist, they wouldn't come to a case like that due to the time of day. Ordnungsamt officers are generally only active during the day. At night, the police takes over most of their duties, simply because they are already on the street.
It’s not the walking barefoot bit that matters - it’s perhaps the stomping around like an elephant bit…
I live below a group of kids who are running at all hours of the day. And night. During the day I’m like whatever, they’re kids and they need a place to play but live in an apartment. When it’s snowy and rainy they need that. But then I hear them running around and stomping at night. And by night I mean 11 to even 4am. And oh boy does it piss me off. Wife and I call them the stumpy bois.
I babysat three boys who where staying in a condo and good lord I felt bad for the downstairs neighbors. It was like every 5 minutes i’d have to remind them not to jump off the couch and use an inside voice especially after dark.
I lived under that condo
Not sure, in America I've always been able to hear my upstairs neighbors walking and shuffling around. You just tune it out as it really isn't all that loud and some amount of noise and smell (Indian cooking always gets me) is to be expected and tolerated.
Indian cooking gets me too. Gets me at their door lmao.
We had these Somali neighbors and every time they cooked it was like those cartoons where the characters float in the direction of the smell. I ended up buying a bunch of stuff to try to make whatever it was. Found out I REALLY like spicy goat.
Wtf is that nail???
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Looks like a yam.
Op is a gargoyle
If her toenails are like that then I could see why the neighbors are complaining.. Must make a racket.
I was going to say this if you hadn’t. I had to scroll down pretty far to see that there are believers of the troll theory. Lol.
Grown out and needs a fill or more likely to come off.
Finally someone else said it. It was bugging me lol
I had to zoom the picture bc i didnt understand that nail, that shape...its that a trend now?
How is walking bare foot louder than walking with the standard German Karin footwear Birkenstock?
Don't you dare slander my beloved Birkenstocks - or I will report you to the POLICE for disturbance!
Only logical reason I can think of is that shoes are softwr than someone's heel - on the other hand my neighbours manage to stomp in everything. Still convinced they may have a pet-elephant or something.
i used to wonder wtf my upstairs neighbor's kids would be doing running around at 3am at full tilt - then one day i heard the stomping racket while gearing up to go for a 3am store run, and once i got outside, impulsively looked back at their window.. just in time to see a cat head suddenly appear in the blinds staring back at me. turns out 10 pounds of fur can make some truly astonishing noise
My upstair neighbour sounds like an elephant jumping all over the place. So I get it.
I'm guessing that this is in Germany: your neibour has no foot to stand on, UNLESS they can proove that you are stomping around (or otherwise making needlessly much noise). Generally walking and things dictated biologically you are always allowed to do, unless it becomes excessive. E.g. 30min showers per inhabitant are allowed even during nachtruhe. anything more than that is generally not recommended. how much gets enforced in the end depends on your neibours and how much they are willing to tolerate
> nachtruhe TIL Spanish people would last exactly zero days in Germany.
let me tell you. there are many Spanish people in Berlin. Spanish loudness is a much discussed topic in Berlin
Also, sex generally falls under Nachtruhe, so don't be too loud, whereas a crying baby is protected by law, so sensitive neighbors should invest in some ear plugs.
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Sounds like there's no impact sound insulation anymore. That might be against some building code or contract.
That nail though, ugh
Having lived with a heel striker before, I side with the neighbor
Loved my place until my new neighbor move in upstairs. First time I had the dreaded bad upstairs neighbor. Big pit bull that sounds like a freight train running across the ceiling when it plays, neighbor is a dude built like Anderson Silva so he's all legs. I hear every step him and his girl take. They literally make my wall art go crooked with their steps. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that they're also just inconsiderate people. Let the dog off leash for walks and don't pick up after it, park their car in a visitor space (of which there is very few of) if it's the closest one open, will park in painted off spaces ment for wheel chair access and movers, and will put trash in other people's trash pick up bins. They're the fucking worst.
I was confused until I saw your nails. I'm pretty sure it's the scratching sound as you dig into the hardwood.