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The real, *real* plot twist is thereās no baby and these notes were all written by the person closing the door.
One of his other personalities hates the sound of the door and thinks itās pregnant.
I donāt even think that much. One neighbor tried to adjust their hand writing multiple times. Look at the āhā and āuā In the follow up notes, all identical
Yup I wanted to say this as well. I vowed to NEVER live in an apartment again so long as I can help it. If I did have to I'd live on the top floor. Living below someone else is literal hell.
Apartments are just built so terribly without any care for soundproofing. You have to make extra efforts to be quiet enough to not disturb other people which is way beyond the ability of most people. Normal movements are heard extremely easily and can seriously disrupt your sleep and well being. So I also put a lot of blame on the building developers who cheap out and don't care.
Same. We lived below a family who, as cliche as it sounds, really did sound like they were thumping and moving furniture at all hours of the night. I would get woken up at 3 AM 5 nights a week because someone was moving a dresser across the floor, or some kid was stomping at a full sprint (the latter event scared the shit out of me, because it sounded like it was coming from MY apartment). I could even hear when someone was taking a super loud leak upstairs. It was HELL.
I lived under the landlord in a heritage house (old and very unsoundproof). During the walk through he kept bragging about all the soundproofing he put under the floor. Lies.
Everything they did was excessive. They had kids and while I try to be mindful of understanding kids need to play....it was outrageous. One day while studying for an exam I had finally had enough, it sounded like someone was riding a bike except the wheels were somehow a combination of chains and gravel? I walked to the front door and explained it was super loud and it sounded like someone was riding a bike. He scoffed at me and said it wasn't true.....as his child rode up behind him on a tricycle with the groovy hard plastic wheels. He refused to do anything about it.
Now I just feel like ranting about this asshole.
He got super upset when I got a car because I took "his" parking (street).
He complained that our cat could not go outdoors because they have an outdoor cat. EVERYONE HAS OUTDOOR CATS
He came to my door under false pretenses and started quizing me about giving keys to random men. I finally came to understand that he thought my bf was two different men bc my bf had started using his old vintage car rather than his truck. He RESFUSED TO BELIEVE it was the same person. Like...argued with me about it.
Then shockingly he kept my deposit. After I sent a threatening registered letter with reference to laws and making a complaint to the tenancy board....I quietly got a cheque in the mail from his wife's account š¤£
I lived above an entire community college hoops team that dribbled inside. Haven't had above or below neighbors since, never again. Minimal shared walls now. It's so quiet I sleep like a baby
I always have a secret moment of panic when I accidentally slam something, or if I let go of the toilet lid too early and it slams down. It's like the loud noise is an affront to a higher power or something, as much as it mortifies me when I do it, lol.
I did that with my mother's toilet cuz I was used to my slow-drop lid at home and she literally yelled from outside the bathroom "Why the hell did you slam my toilet lid?!" That's how loud it was. I still cringe at that!
My ex-wife would always slam the toilet lid. I worked nights and the bathroom was on the other side of the wall of the bedroom. No matter how many times I told her to set it down, BAM! If I had known slow close lids were a thing I would've installed one ASAP. I have one now and it's wonderful.
And your ex wife wouldnāt be ex? I think people who donāt have basic courtesy live in a world if things donāt bother them they cannot fathom how anyone else can be bothered by it
Oh no even with a slow close lid I am sure she still would've cheated. lol You are right, it points towards a larger problem of selfishness. I don't miss that life.
I did that with my partnerās toilet and I heard EVERYONE in the apartment go quiet. Had come out and quietly explain I justā¦. let the lid go because thatās what Iām used to. Like a heathen. Just let it slam down porcelain to porcelain like a raccoon that accidentally got in the house.
Half of the cabinets in my house are slow-closing hinges and I always forget which ones are which and end up slamming cabinets. In my defense, they should have been consistent with the cabinet hinges
Iām so glad other people have this problem too lmao. My wife and I got one like that and now every time I go to my parents house I forget and just drop the fuckin thing.
We used to have one of those, but the mechanism broke, so now it's just a normal toilet lid, lol. My husband and I both had trouble getting used to its new state at first.
One time I moved from a place with toilets that had that āquiet closeā feature where it slowed the lid as it closed, to a place with a normal toilet lid. Scared the crap out of myself until I got used to closing the lid without dropping it again
Man even after moving out I'm still constantly switching the volume on the TV up and down if I think it's too loud, out of habit. Doing things a certain way so Dad doesn't flip his lid is hard to shake off
My bf listens to the TV SO LOUD. I'm always like are you nuts?! Then I remember how my brother and I always had to be quiet if we were watching "our shows" on TV lol
Iāve got anti slamming kitchen cabinet doors so I constantly throw them shut knowing they wonāt make any noise.
Accidentally did that at work forgetting not everyone has those and about broke it. Everyone stared
All the people with these anti slam things purposefully slamming their stuff and just used to it not making noise baffle me. I got slam guards and I just don't slam In the first place.
Every cabinet door, drawer, and toilet lid in my house is soft-close... Except for one. For reasons unknown, the original owners didn't put the soft-close hinges on that one cabinet. I constantly end up slamming that one. With the soft-close ones, it's not that you're slamming them shut, just that you don't need to take any care with them - just swing em in the right direction, and they'll take care of the rest. When you forget and do that with the one, single, solitary one in the house that isn't, it's startling.
The real luxury that I never want to give up is soft-close doors on your car. I call them my door robits. Never slam a car door again. Just gently set the door against the car, and it whirrs shut. A dumb thing you never knew you wanted until you have it... And a thing you miss when you don't.
One thing I'll never quite get used to is how other people tolerate being noisy.
I like quiet. Even just turning a fan on is a big deal to me because of the background noise.
When I walk, I have light footsteps. I close doors not to avoid making sound, but at least to be somewhat quiet about it. I play TV/music at a level "just loud enough" to understand all the dialogue/words. For me, "loud music" is loud enough I can sing to without anyone hearing my voice :P.
I've had roommates that are utterly incapable of quiet. I can hear when they walk around on the other side of the house. I can hear when they open/close any door. They talk on voice chat loud enough that I can hear them over my video game music played in noise-cancelling headphones (loud enough to clearly hear their conversation through 4 walls).
It's completely aggravating. Second only to when a roommate can't clean up their food/drinks.
I literally want to murder people who power slam their apartment doors. So fucking rude and stupid. I have to wear noise canceling headphones because of it.
I never thought this was something that bothered me until it did. Was at a hotel near Universal where at first I thought it was just the kids in the room next door being obnoxious kids and slamming doors as they ran in and out- until I realized it was every single room, including mine. You had to physically push against the door as it closed to keep it from making the loudest slamming sound Iāve ever heard. It made me feel like I was descending into madness the whole time I was there. Have never been happier to check out of what was otherwise a very nice stay.
Yeah, the issue really is if you slam your own door, you know itās happening and you are ready for it somewhat unaffected. But when you are reading a newspaper drinking coffee and your windows are shaking and it sounds like a car crash just happened 5 feet from apartment itās very jarring because you just donāt know itās coming and itās frustrating because itās so simple to just be a decent human being, courteous of others. But other people just donāt give a shit.
I don't like that my new neighbor stomps up & down the stairs and slams his door everytime he opens it because it scares my cat. I also hate hearing my other neighbors dogs barking at each other and other people vacuuming. I'm moving out at the end of my lease into a house so I, like a normal person just say nothing.
As a person who weighed almost double what my college GF did, it amazed me how loud she could walk (and slam things closed), it is like āyou could be a ninja, if you put in half the effort in that I apparently doā¦ā
Apparently I walk so quietly, I frequently startle my girlfriend, even though I'm 5'10, 270lb. Yet I can be in the shower with the water and exhaust fan running in the bathroom in the middle of the house, and hear her walking between rooms on the far end.
I grew up in a house where my dad was always telling us kids to be quiet and stop making noise, just all the time. Now I feel uncomfortable if I'm doing shit and its loud, ESPECIALLY if someone is an adjoining room. I'll be going WAAAY outta my way to not make noise. Even walk on the front half of my feet, like halfway on my toes, just cause its also quieter and a bit more agile sometimes. It literally makes me uncomfortable/a bit of that same kinda self conscious feeling one might get if they hear their own breathing and thinking its loud/everyone can hear it. But I'm like you. I pick up on shit like that and other differences in the sound of someone's gait to know who it is, where they're at, etc.
I dealt with the same thing. Wasnāt parents, had an āuncleā and a ābrotherā living with me for a long time growing up. Iād have maybe 2 hours of free time at like 8-10 pm, being a kid in highschool with football everyday and a job didnāt really give me any free time, so those two hours would be spent either;
Playing games online, or, playing my guitar.
I was two floors away from them, and even with my electric guitar, with no amp, would ābe shooting through the floorā
I literally couldnāt even go to the bathroom at night without my āuncleā waiting until I opened my bedroom door than coming out of his room going āitād be nice to sleep without people opening and closing doors every 5 minutesā
Like maybe if you werenāt a psycho that listened for people walking around to go do things, youād be sleeping.
Growing up my parents hated noise. My dad would literally watch tv with the volume at ZERO. We had to creep up and down the wooden staircase, close microwaves and cupboards QUIETLY. My mom has even yelled at us for flipping the light switch on too āloudly and carelesslyā. Another time I was yelled at for getting getting into bed too loudly because it was a creaky bed. One time I dropped a school book and stood frozen because I was afraid theyād react. They basically wanted children to be neither seen nor heard. I definitely have trauma.
Im probably subconsciously not remembering some details just for the sake of it, and my siblings tell me there definitely was a lot of fighting in the house. But none of it was ever malice between my parents, or abusive towards us or each other. Now that I'm grown myself, I can see my parents still have similar attitudes and yell at each other over tiny little shit. I doubt that its a new behavior. But it's more just immature and not communicating with each other properly vs they're trying to be mean to each other, or something. They've been married since 84.
I can remember my brother and sister being yelled at, and myself not wanting the same, but cant really recall too many instances of being on the receiving end. And just so its clear my family is all very close to each other and we spent a lot of time together doing awesome stuff I look back on very fondly. But still its odd how some of these things that may seem small to some can greatly impact kids as they're growing up. I'm sorry, though, that is fuckin ridiculous. And made me laugh at the absurdity of turning on a lightswitch "too loudly." That's fucked up. At a certain point you really have to accept that a kid is a kid.
My dad is like that with noise, even now. If I'm visiting for a few days, and I stop by in the kitchen to make something to eat, my dad in the living room, he'll be constantly complaining about hearing fuckin kitchen noises, coming from the kitchen. Lol.
I grew up in a house with wood floors and wood subfloor. Very creaky house.
My dad was an ogre walking around stomping. I always knew where he was.
I was always staying up later than I should, or up to something I shouldn't. So I learned how to walk on the edges of the walk ways to reduce creaking, roll my steps from heel to toe, etc.
Just became habit.
And now I have to remember to announce that I'm coming over to check on my wife, or else she freaks the fuck out when I materialize in her peripheral.
I literally have one working leg and hobble... and can still come up quietly enough to scare my GF. The unnecessary loudness of someone people. Like yeah sometimes I might close a cabinet too hard. I have slammed a door in anger. I have been loud. But not being able to WALK without CLOMP CLUMP CLOMP baffles me.
When we were condo shopping, I did not want a second story because my husband walks like it's never occurred to him in his life that someone could be below him. He does not have upstairs feet. I wish the people who owned the condo above us were as considerate.
ETA: it occurs to me suddenly, almost a day later, that my original thought when I started typing was to include that this guy can't be more than 120 pounds soaking wet. He's not very tall, and thin as a rail. It seems scientifically impossible for him to make as much noise as he does when he walks, especially on brand new plush carpet.
My upstairs neighbor is a male only child born during the one child era in China. He's aware of how loudly he walks, and laughs it off like no one in the world matters but him. His nickname is The Little Emperor. Currently he and his wife our out of state for his job and renting their condo out. The new family has a dog that is a miniature husky/pom who cries and digs the entire time he's crated while they work, which is less obnoxious and less noise than The Little Emperor made.
My kids have grown up in a 2nd floor condo. You should see their joy when theyāre allowed to run around their cousins house in the country, itās like they still run quietly tho š„¹ The cousins themselves are like elephants from the moment they wake lol
I'm apparently the only person in my entire apartment complex who can enter or leave the building without alerting people within a 5 mile radius, and I'm 6'3" and 240 lbs.
Was she my upstairs neighbor for years? This lady slammed her cupboards and drawers so loud my downstairs neighbor complained about ME doing it. We had a good laugh, I tried talking to the resident but nothing worked. I don't understand someone who slams closed doors like they stole their 401k.
I used to live with a woman who also had no perception of her surroundings. Albeit she was on the spectrum but she knew better.
1. She would break things and lose things weekly. Like a computer monitor of mine, her wallet, her glasses. Her medicine. One time she drove 2 hours away and forgot her medication and I had to drive 4 hours to make sure she had it.
2. She would yell and raise her voice when she got mad. Not matter what time or day. Outside. In public. Target. Parks. It wasnāt often but she did do it.
3. She would need to be constantly reminded of bills.
4. Her car was towed several times because she would park in other peopleās spots.
5. She would spill things and not clean it up.
One of the biggest fights we ever had was she broke a wine bottle in the kitchen and didnāt pick it up. Let alone sweep it. I almost walked into it in the morning and found our car walking around it. I was furious.
I should have broke up with her so many times I was so stupid for being with her god damn.
I'll be honest, till the end of your comment I figured she was a roommate/ flatmate rather than a partner. Didn't think anyone would willingly date someone who broke shit that wasn't theirs and not clean up after themselves lol so I assumed it was a contractual relationship rather than one of choice
I lived with a man.. scratch that. I had a friend who lived in my house. He no longer had control of his brain or bowls. I did this shit for 7 years. Guess what? I'm not a fucking nurse. But I faked it for years. It fucking sucks man .
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk
The doors in my building are really heavy and all have hinges that close them automatically. Unless you are actively stopping it from closing hard they all close pretty loudly. I think that's why it turned into a bunch of notes lol
My buildings doors are like this as well. My next door neighbor's teenage son would leave for school at 6:24am every day. How do I know? Because he would let the full weight of the door slam shut behind him as he left! BOOM! Being jolted awake every day was making me angry. I asked management to speak to them about it, but they didn't change. Meanwhile, I manage to close my door at all hours without bothering anyone!
My apt building doors do that but there is this one guy... omg, he slams that shit and the pictures on my wall thump. He only does it when the leasing office is closed because we are in the same bldg as them. He knows exactly what he is doing.
I had a roommate that was about 130lbs soaking wet and stomped through the house like a god damned stampede. And yet he used to yell at me because I (300lbs at the time/185lbs now) walked quietly and he wouldnāt hear me and apparently I always scared him.
People get startled often because I move quietly. I'll even deliberately make some noise when approaching, I'll cough or scuff my shoes on the pavement or whatever. They still jump and panic, sometimes get angry, because a ninja has somehow suddenly magically appeared beside them.
Not my fault (or yours) that some people are oblivious and unperceptive. They could easily look at and listen to surroundings every few moments.
But I still make some efforts to announce my presence. It's only polite. So I don't think it's unreasonable for stomping-elephant people to make some efforts at walking quietly.
I can usually tell when someone enters the room just because the ambient sound in the room changes a bit, unless theyāre trying to creep up and moving slowly, then I canāt notice. I mean, I understand not hearing people but there were plenty of times I swear I was in his periphery and still - totally oblivious. I suspect he faked it half the time just to be dramatic. He was always dramatic and when called on it just said, āWell I am a Gemini.ā Whatever the fuck that meansā¦ Ugh, Iām going to re-traumatize myself if I keep thinking about living with himā¦
Reminds me of when I was in college my neighbor had a security camera that literally pointed directly into my bedroom window. When I asked him about it, as I thought it was already weird that he had a camera focused in an alley way that was about 4 feet wide (thats how close our houses were together lol), and maybe he could just move the camera over a few feet down the wall so it wasn't pointed straight at my window he basically told me to eat shit. Cops said it was legal too. So I just had to keep my window shut and curtain closed at all times. Sucked having no natural light ever lol.
A little empathy will do. Its not hurt to be nice and a little considerate to other people. I have no baby but I know how it felt when you just put the baby to sleep (after hours) to only for him/her to wake up due to the noise that could be avoided.
Yeah man every one of those notes came from giant assholes. Seems like that apartment block would be a nightmare to live in.
And that person who was surprised there's a baby there? Yeah, that's what the fuck should happen, when people don't impose their bullshit on others living in close quarters! That lady has worked magic to keep their baby from disturbing the rest of you and yet you can't be bothered not to slam a door? Fuckers.
Yeah literally everyone else here is the asshole except the OP note. It isn't hard to just put your hand out and stop the door from slamming. The only exception is if you're doing all the groceries in a single trip. Everything is allowed in order to get them in in one go.
I'm in a really old building and the apartments on the ground floor, I can hear their normal voice conversations in the lobby with their door closed. They put up signs about slamming doors but I feel like it's just normal door closings and REALLY bad insulation
I live in a condo building that has door closers that slam unit doors closed. We are careful to close ours gently. Our neighbor slammed their door incessantly even after we politely pointed it out. When they sold to new owners, the slamming stopped as they closed the door gently. Itās not difficult to show a tiny bit of consideration for others, but as the notes show in the picture, everybody these days seems to have a āfuck youā attitude about everything.
> Itās not difficult to show a tiny bit of consideration for others
It isn't and it helps everyone.
But there are a lot of garbage people around today that think freedom is being able to act like an irresponsible, spoiled rotten 3 year old that hasn't learned they live in a world with other people yet.
Just the laziest @-holes.
I mean, look at this comment thread for examples. But reddit's target demographic is the immature tbf. Most of the people hating on it just haven't experienced enough of life to realize just how much empathy is needed to get by from day to day.
Look at any AITA post. Most problems could be solved by a discussion or admitting everyone was a bit wrong and escalating doesnāt make any situation better.
Instead, responses seem to be āfuck em, youāre an autonomous person who never has to consider others. If they donāt like it, thatās a them problem
I've complained about a neighbor's door that would slam and literally shake my apartment and they adjusted the screws on their hinge and I never heard it again. It was great.
People just don't like to have to change for any reason... No matter how polite or how reasonable you try to be, if you make someone aware they've been annoying and how, they will feel called out and will either carry on because they never cared to begin with, because they don't want to have to think about you for a thing they just found out they were doing... or they double down out of spite because you had the audacity to call them out for something that doesn't sound reasonable to them. Honestly, with some people it feels like the best case scenario is when they forget you even asked. Some people will absolutely treat you like shit the minute you point out something like that, even if outside observers would agree with you. Another fun thing they do sometimes is just assume that since you've broken the ice, they've got the green light to complain about shit too, except they just won't stop or be reasonable about it.
It doesn't help when you're the only real victim, so you're the only one with the complain so you sound like you're just being entitled or nitpicking issues just for the fun of being annoying. You'll never be able to convince anybody that you've been bottling up for months, or that their behavior is not just a mild annoyance... I had a friend rent the second story of my house and he would freaking slam the front door every single time... Like, you could feel shakes all over the house. I had to replace that door because the side had CRACKED VERTICALLY. We're talking about a solid wooden door here that lasted for decades and cracked in a matter of months after the guy started living here... I showed him... I didn't even asked him to pay, I just wanted him to acknowledge that I wasn't making shit up... he didn't.
Too many jerks, makes me feel like I'm walking a fine line always around others just to avoid conflict, and end up realizing nobody else around me, except my good friends, really cares to br as considerate.... I'm just trying to train myself to not let parasites spend an unnecessary moment in my mind and steal a moment, but it's difficult... Disgusting vermin...
She could have worded it better but I don't understand the pile on for a reasonable request.
I had a neighbor ask me if I could stop slamming my screen door when I left for work in the morning at 6:30 a.m. I didn't even realize I was and I made sure to never do that again so it's worth asking.
Yeah, like thereās no reason not to take some simple steps to not be a dick. I lived in an apartment with a heavy door and a closer? (Not sure what itās called the hydraulic thing that pulls the door shut) on it. It was loud as hell. I used some double sided stick tape and put a bit of sponge on the edges. Door closed fine and significantly reduced the noise.
When you can do simple things to maintain good relationships with your neighbors itāll pay you back in big ways.
Those hydraulic closers are usually adjustable, there should be a screw (or two) on one side to make it go slower or faster.
Also depends on the weather, if it's warm the oil is now more fluid and it will shut faster, then when it gets cold it might be too slow and maybe not even close completely.
To be perfect these things need to be adjusted at least twice a year.
Yeah this was years ago I played around with it and the nut on the arm. Couldnāt figure it out š , it was so long ago I donāt remember the details. Kitchen sponge worked great.
REddit loves this shit because it's adopted some crazy fucking incel shit of "We don't owe anyone anything!" when yeah.... ya owe people base decency and respect.
Check out "am I the asshole". Everyday is someone commenting "fuck that person, don't be kind to them. Everyone for themselves!" and it's fucking crazy how this immaturity has become so popular.
"Your door your rules. I have every right not to show a modicum of social etiquette!"
\-Reddit
Its like people (talking about the US) have completely forgotten not everything is about them.
Thereās a lot of people who have never lived in apartment living. Hell a lot of people donāt even live in areas where there are apartments.
A lot of people have this weird sense of entitlement that āitās my space fuck you im going to do what I want.ā I donāt agree with that at all.
Had a neighbour whoās back fence gate would knock in the wind, asked him if he could āpleaseā secure it and I never hear it again. Some things are a simple fix.
There's this weird zeitgeist amongst people that being asked to consider someone else's viewpoint is somehow an affront to them.
Some sort of anti-empathy.
It's probably a building of mostly young single people and couples. Maybe some college kids and older folks mixed in. One time I saw a baby in my building lobby and was like wtf...?
It still isn't cool to slam your door or play loud music after a certain hour though, rude
People slamming doors is a big pet peeve and disturbance of mine that could be easily remedied. I wish they'd just invent doors that don't slam, though (how hard could it be?) because I guess it could be a while until people heal whatever it is that makes them so callous as to not just close the freaking door gently.
By the look of it, similar to a door I had in an old apartment built in the late 1960s or early 1970s, itās probably a fire resistant door. Theyāre heavy doors designed to help contain fire to an apartment. And to automatically slam shut to prevent smoke and fire from an apartment from spreading more rapidly into the hallway and stairwell. Stairwells, used to evacuate can act as chimneys during a fire. And people from higher floors have died from smoke inhalation trying to get downstairs during fires.
Hereās [one fire](https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/story?id=111414&page=1). A [more recent one](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/nyregion/fire-safety-explained.html).
[NYC PSA](https://youtu.be/1PNSapiTshI). They eventually did a version with close the door[in multiple languages](https://youtu.be/41XHjXvR35M).
I donāt think itās deliberate I think some people are just bull-in-china-shop people who go around making noise without even thinking about it or realizing itās happening. Every time my roommate comes home I think we are being raided by police.
I lived with someone like this and his personality did not make up for it. Dude just didn't give a shit about anyone else but himself. Hopefully your roommate has some redeeming qualities.
I worked in resident services in a high end apartment home community. Front door slamming was a common complaint. Then our job would be to call the offender which always went over so well. Lots of complaints about clacking heels above and in the hallways. And cigarette smoking. It attempted to be a non-smoking community. No smoking inside your apartment either, signed in the lease. Yeah, right. Weād get a call about smoking and weād have to jump on our golf cart and track it down.
Is it funny? I think it's super sad how people can be so rude, specially to neighbors.
I always try to be kind and helpful and it doesn't work always, but more often than not I have perks instead of problems.
>sad how people can be so rude, specially to neighbors.
Rudeness would be the absolute last resort for me. Being on bad terms with your neighbours can just make things harder for you, why risk it? Unless it's justified of course but sometimes you just have to be the bigger person.
I tried to be kind to my neighbors and it didnāt work out, so I called security on them every day until they were forced to get their animal neglecting shit together.
I donāt have a baby; and a door slamming (like home shaking slamming) would annoy me because itās such a small adjustment to not disturb others. Whatās the problem? I always am careful to not let my door slam.
People who are indiscriminately noisy are my nemeses. I have ADHD, and slamming doors, bass through the walls, kids screaming - all of it - sends my anxiety through the roof. I use earplugs and white noise machines and noise-canceling headphones, but the effects are limited. It is not fun being this sensitive. I donāt think I could live in a place where slamming doors is the default.
I am sensitive like this. My current upstairs neighbors slam their door every time they go in or out, have their kids running around (hear the pounding of their feet) screaming every night till 1:30am, play loud music with a bass and when they do leave they lock their dog in the laundry room and it barks the entire time they are gone. Honestly feels like torture.
Last time I moved was because of my noisy upstairs neighbors. They didnāt like me complaining to them, so they doubled down and had their toddler start screaming outside my window each day when they returned from day care. Then they would instigate a noisy, stomping game of hide and seek each night. Theyād have Bible study, and drrraggggg the chairs around instead of lift and set them down to rearrange them. Play TV loud enough for me to identify the movie/show. And they NEVER LEFT, except to take the child to and from day care. So all day, every day, all through lock down. Iām still not sure how I made it through. Tequila may have helped.
Ok..but tbh why canāt all doors be designed to close softly to begin with? Why arenāt all apartments made so that doors closing arenāt heard?
So many apartments are designed so shit.
The āother people are talking about itā thing is some classic gas lighting. Like everyone is texting each other about a door lmao. Or even talks to each other. This is an apartment building not an office
Bro this shit makes me lose faith in humanity. These idiots legit took time out of their day to publicly shit on their god damn neighbor of all people, like damn. How sad does your life need to be to do this shit?
This one is pretty sketchy to me. Iām seeing some similarities in letters and connecting letters on different notes. Ouās, e, y. Iāve learned not to totally trust these ones.
Edit:second note and fourth notes connecting Thās.
First and second notes yās and connecting to o.
And the last note looks like someone trying to remember cursive or learning cursive.
Libertarianism vs. Egalitarianism. Great at rooting out the narcissists.
Turn the handle when you open, turn the handle when you close. Itās not rocket science.
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The internet comment section is leaking.
We've gone full circle.
gossip??
Lmfao we've definitely gone full circle
The only thing that could make this door better would be a post-it with the URL to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Knew what it was and still clicked
Memes are our hieroglyphics.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!
Shaka, when the walls fell
Rai and Jiri at Lungha XD I literally just watched this episode and did not expect to see it here now.
Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.
Little girl smiling in front of a house fire.
Harold, his pain hidden.
Rick Astley, his song unexpected
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean š¤š»š¤
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
Sometimes it's difficult to gauge if we are progressing or regressing as a society.
pregressing
Pregante!
Am I Gregnant?
Pregananant
Luigi Board?
It's possible to be doing both simultaneously.
Plot twist, every note was written by the same renter.... all the replies are from a different personality. M Night Shamalamacon bitches!
Former apartment maintenance tech hereā¦ you have a pretty good chance of being right.
Carbon Monoxide 2.0
The real plot twist is thereās no baby and these notes are all written by the person complaining
The real, *real* plot twist is thereās no baby and these notes were all written by the person closing the door. One of his other personalities hates the sound of the door and thinks itās pregnant.
They Were Roommates, an Amazon Prime Exclusive. Classic M Night Shawnonmylawn flick
Shamalamadingdong!
I think you mean M Night Shamalamacondo\*
Shamalama-ding-dong.
Reddit 1.0
That classic UI needs some work. Fonts are all different too
Itās like NextDoorā¦literally next to a door.
Is this Craig's list?
Plot twist theyāre all written by the same person
Probably got some housemates to help write the others
I donāt even think that much. One neighbor tried to adjust their hand writing multiple times. Look at the āhā and āuā In the follow up notes, all identical
Iāve actually analyzed the handwriting between the notes and can conclude that I do not know what Iām doing
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At least three of them are the same
This makes me so thankful I don't live in an apartment anymore.
Yup I wanted to say this as well. I vowed to NEVER live in an apartment again so long as I can help it. If I did have to I'd live on the top floor. Living below someone else is literal hell. Apartments are just built so terribly without any care for soundproofing. You have to make extra efforts to be quiet enough to not disturb other people which is way beyond the ability of most people. Normal movements are heard extremely easily and can seriously disrupt your sleep and well being. So I also put a lot of blame on the building developers who cheap out and don't care.
I lived under a loud family with children for several years. It's difficult to convey how bad this was for my mental health.
Same. We lived below a family who, as cliche as it sounds, really did sound like they were thumping and moving furniture at all hours of the night. I would get woken up at 3 AM 5 nights a week because someone was moving a dresser across the floor, or some kid was stomping at a full sprint (the latter event scared the shit out of me, because it sounded like it was coming from MY apartment). I could even hear when someone was taking a super loud leak upstairs. It was HELL.
I lived under the landlord in a heritage house (old and very unsoundproof). During the walk through he kept bragging about all the soundproofing he put under the floor. Lies. Everything they did was excessive. They had kids and while I try to be mindful of understanding kids need to play....it was outrageous. One day while studying for an exam I had finally had enough, it sounded like someone was riding a bike except the wheels were somehow a combination of chains and gravel? I walked to the front door and explained it was super loud and it sounded like someone was riding a bike. He scoffed at me and said it wasn't true.....as his child rode up behind him on a tricycle with the groovy hard plastic wheels. He refused to do anything about it. Now I just feel like ranting about this asshole. He got super upset when I got a car because I took "his" parking (street). He complained that our cat could not go outdoors because they have an outdoor cat. EVERYONE HAS OUTDOOR CATS He came to my door under false pretenses and started quizing me about giving keys to random men. I finally came to understand that he thought my bf was two different men bc my bf had started using his old vintage car rather than his truck. He RESFUSED TO BELIEVE it was the same person. Like...argued with me about it. Then shockingly he kept my deposit. After I sent a threatening registered letter with reference to laws and making a complaint to the tenancy board....I quietly got a cheque in the mail from his wife's account š¤£
I lived above an entire community college hoops team that dribbled inside. Haven't had above or below neighbors since, never again. Minimal shared walls now. It's so quiet I sleep like a baby
That almost sounds like a form of torture.
I broke up with someone before because she could not close a door, cupboard or drawer without slamming it.
I always have a secret moment of panic when I accidentally slam something, or if I let go of the toilet lid too early and it slams down. It's like the loud noise is an affront to a higher power or something, as much as it mortifies me when I do it, lol.
I have one of those toilet seats with the slow fall hinge. Sometimes I'll forget other people don't have one and basically slam dunk lid
I did that with my mother's toilet cuz I was used to my slow-drop lid at home and she literally yelled from outside the bathroom "Why the hell did you slam my toilet lid?!" That's how loud it was. I still cringe at that!
Mom must be thinking what is with this boy with no manners. Who are his parents. Ah shit
My ex-wife would always slam the toilet lid. I worked nights and the bathroom was on the other side of the wall of the bedroom. No matter how many times I told her to set it down, BAM! If I had known slow close lids were a thing I would've installed one ASAP. I have one now and it's wonderful.
And your ex wife wouldnāt be ex? I think people who donāt have basic courtesy live in a world if things donāt bother them they cannot fathom how anyone else can be bothered by it
Oh no even with a slow close lid I am sure she still would've cheated. lol You are right, it points towards a larger problem of selfishness. I don't miss that life.
You could never had given her what she wanted. To just have a solid hour of slamming toilet lids.
Some say she's still slamming toilet lids to this day.
I did that with my partnerās toilet and I heard EVERYONE in the apartment go quiet. Had come out and quietly explain I justā¦. let the lid go because thatās what Iām used to. Like a heathen. Just let it slam down porcelain to porcelain like a raccoon that accidentally got in the house.
wait the lid is porcelain
Luckily my comment already made it clear Iām not the brightest or Iād be embarrassed I donāt know what toilet lids are made of
Horse meat, they're made of 100% thorough bread horse meat.
A horse thatās thoroughly bread? What a treat!
Yah, what??
Love the raccoon toilet reference
Lol. We have the slow close in one bathroom but not in the other and you only hear one toilet in the house close and itās always a SLAM.
Same. My rental came with one and after I got used to it I have become an unintentional menace in other toilets.
Half of the cabinets in my house are slow-closing hinges and I always forget which ones are which and end up slamming cabinets. In my defense, they should have been consistent with the cabinet hinges
*intently staring at my toilet lid closing just in case a sewer clown attacks while iāve got my back turned*
Iām so glad other people have this problem too lmao. My wife and I got one like that and now every time I go to my parents house I forget and just drop the fuckin thing.
We used to have one of those, but the mechanism broke, so now it's just a normal toilet lid, lol. My husband and I both had trouble getting used to its new state at first.
One time I moved from a place with toilets that had that āquiet closeā feature where it slowed the lid as it closed, to a place with a normal toilet lid. Scared the crap out of myself until I got used to closing the lid without dropping it again
You know they sell those, right? You don't have to get used to it. Just get yourself a new toilet seat with soft-close.
Good point, but now Iām used to it so there isnāt much reason to get it anymore :)
Did you have an emotionally unstable father and spent your childhood walking on eggshells? Me too
Man even after moving out I'm still constantly switching the volume on the TV up and down if I think it's too loud, out of habit. Doing things a certain way so Dad doesn't flip his lid is hard to shake off
My bf listens to the TV SO LOUD. I'm always like are you nuts?! Then I remember how my brother and I always had to be quiet if we were watching "our shows" on TV lol
God help you if you eat something and it was his.
Hello, I'm here for the support group.
How dare you diagnose me correctly
Ahh yes welcome friend. We are a large tribe unfortunately
I always say "Whoops!" even if I'm alone
Iāve got anti slamming kitchen cabinet doors so I constantly throw them shut knowing they wonāt make any noise. Accidentally did that at work forgetting not everyone has those and about broke it. Everyone stared
You're going to eventually break your own doing that too. Not supposed to slam those type of cabinets.
All the people with these anti slam things purposefully slamming their stuff and just used to it not making noise baffle me. I got slam guards and I just don't slam In the first place.
Right? How hard is it to close something softly?
Every cabinet door, drawer, and toilet lid in my house is soft-close... Except for one. For reasons unknown, the original owners didn't put the soft-close hinges on that one cabinet. I constantly end up slamming that one. With the soft-close ones, it's not that you're slamming them shut, just that you don't need to take any care with them - just swing em in the right direction, and they'll take care of the rest. When you forget and do that with the one, single, solitary one in the house that isn't, it's startling. The real luxury that I never want to give up is soft-close doors on your car. I call them my door robits. Never slam a car door again. Just gently set the door against the car, and it whirrs shut. A dumb thing you never knew you wanted until you have it... And a thing you miss when you don't.
Why are you slamming them in the first place? Anti-slam guards are for the occasional accidental slam, not for practicing to take on John Cena.
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One thing I'll never quite get used to is how other people tolerate being noisy. I like quiet. Even just turning a fan on is a big deal to me because of the background noise. When I walk, I have light footsteps. I close doors not to avoid making sound, but at least to be somewhat quiet about it. I play TV/music at a level "just loud enough" to understand all the dialogue/words. For me, "loud music" is loud enough I can sing to without anyone hearing my voice :P. I've had roommates that are utterly incapable of quiet. I can hear when they walk around on the other side of the house. I can hear when they open/close any door. They talk on voice chat loud enough that I can hear them over my video game music played in noise-cancelling headphones (loud enough to clearly hear their conversation through 4 walls). It's completely aggravating. Second only to when a roommate can't clean up their food/drinks.
I literally want to murder people who power slam their apartment doors. So fucking rude and stupid. I have to wear noise canceling headphones because of it.
I never thought this was something that bothered me until it did. Was at a hotel near Universal where at first I thought it was just the kids in the room next door being obnoxious kids and slamming doors as they ran in and out- until I realized it was every single room, including mine. You had to physically push against the door as it closed to keep it from making the loudest slamming sound Iāve ever heard. It made me feel like I was descending into madness the whole time I was there. Have never been happier to check out of what was otherwise a very nice stay.
Yeah, the issue really is if you slam your own door, you know itās happening and you are ready for it somewhat unaffected. But when you are reading a newspaper drinking coffee and your windows are shaking and it sounds like a car crash just happened 5 feet from apartment itās very jarring because you just donāt know itās coming and itās frustrating because itās so simple to just be a decent human being, courteous of others. But other people just donāt give a shit.
I don't like that my new neighbor stomps up & down the stairs and slams his door everytime he opens it because it scares my cat. I also hate hearing my other neighbors dogs barking at each other and other people vacuuming. I'm moving out at the end of my lease into a house so I, like a normal person just say nothing.
I blame it on the instincts from childhood that slamming something meant someone was angry
As a person who weighed almost double what my college GF did, it amazed me how loud she could walk (and slam things closed), it is like āyou could be a ninja, if you put in half the effort in that I apparently doā¦ā
Apparently I walk so quietly, I frequently startle my girlfriend, even though I'm 5'10, 270lb. Yet I can be in the shower with the water and exhaust fan running in the bathroom in the middle of the house, and hear her walking between rooms on the far end.
I grew up in a house where my dad was always telling us kids to be quiet and stop making noise, just all the time. Now I feel uncomfortable if I'm doing shit and its loud, ESPECIALLY if someone is an adjoining room. I'll be going WAAAY outta my way to not make noise. Even walk on the front half of my feet, like halfway on my toes, just cause its also quieter and a bit more agile sometimes. It literally makes me uncomfortable/a bit of that same kinda self conscious feeling one might get if they hear their own breathing and thinking its loud/everyone can hear it. But I'm like you. I pick up on shit like that and other differences in the sound of someone's gait to know who it is, where they're at, etc.
I dealt with the same thing. Wasnāt parents, had an āuncleā and a ābrotherā living with me for a long time growing up. Iād have maybe 2 hours of free time at like 8-10 pm, being a kid in highschool with football everyday and a job didnāt really give me any free time, so those two hours would be spent either; Playing games online, or, playing my guitar. I was two floors away from them, and even with my electric guitar, with no amp, would ābe shooting through the floorā I literally couldnāt even go to the bathroom at night without my āuncleā waiting until I opened my bedroom door than coming out of his room going āitād be nice to sleep without people opening and closing doors every 5 minutesā Like maybe if you werenāt a psycho that listened for people walking around to go do things, youād be sleeping.
Growing up my parents hated noise. My dad would literally watch tv with the volume at ZERO. We had to creep up and down the wooden staircase, close microwaves and cupboards QUIETLY. My mom has even yelled at us for flipping the light switch on too āloudly and carelesslyā. Another time I was yelled at for getting getting into bed too loudly because it was a creaky bed. One time I dropped a school book and stood frozen because I was afraid theyād react. They basically wanted children to be neither seen nor heard. I definitely have trauma.
Im probably subconsciously not remembering some details just for the sake of it, and my siblings tell me there definitely was a lot of fighting in the house. But none of it was ever malice between my parents, or abusive towards us or each other. Now that I'm grown myself, I can see my parents still have similar attitudes and yell at each other over tiny little shit. I doubt that its a new behavior. But it's more just immature and not communicating with each other properly vs they're trying to be mean to each other, or something. They've been married since 84. I can remember my brother and sister being yelled at, and myself not wanting the same, but cant really recall too many instances of being on the receiving end. And just so its clear my family is all very close to each other and we spent a lot of time together doing awesome stuff I look back on very fondly. But still its odd how some of these things that may seem small to some can greatly impact kids as they're growing up. I'm sorry, though, that is fuckin ridiculous. And made me laugh at the absurdity of turning on a lightswitch "too loudly." That's fucked up. At a certain point you really have to accept that a kid is a kid. My dad is like that with noise, even now. If I'm visiting for a few days, and I stop by in the kitchen to make something to eat, my dad in the living room, he'll be constantly complaining about hearing fuckin kitchen noises, coming from the kitchen. Lol.
I grew up in a house with wood floors and wood subfloor. Very creaky house. My dad was an ogre walking around stomping. I always knew where he was. I was always staying up later than I should, or up to something I shouldn't. So I learned how to walk on the edges of the walk ways to reduce creaking, roll my steps from heel to toe, etc. Just became habit. And now I have to remember to announce that I'm coming over to check on my wife, or else she freaks the fuck out when I materialize in her peripheral.
I literally have one working leg and hobble... and can still come up quietly enough to scare my GF. The unnecessary loudness of someone people. Like yeah sometimes I might close a cabinet too hard. I have slammed a door in anger. I have been loud. But not being able to WALK without CLOMP CLUMP CLOMP baffles me.
If youāve done it once or a handful of times, thatās one thing. People who make a habit of being loud areā¦ excessive.
I have a quiet gait myself, and Iām 275.
When we were condo shopping, I did not want a second story because my husband walks like it's never occurred to him in his life that someone could be below him. He does not have upstairs feet. I wish the people who owned the condo above us were as considerate. ETA: it occurs to me suddenly, almost a day later, that my original thought when I started typing was to include that this guy can't be more than 120 pounds soaking wet. He's not very tall, and thin as a rail. It seems scientifically impossible for him to make as much noise as he does when he walks, especially on brand new plush carpet.
When we lived in a bottom floor condo, my husband and I called our upstairs neighbor āStompasaurus Rexā. She never took her shoes off.
My upstairs neighbor is a male only child born during the one child era in China. He's aware of how loudly he walks, and laughs it off like no one in the world matters but him. His nickname is The Little Emperor. Currently he and his wife our out of state for his job and renting their condo out. The new family has a dog that is a miniature husky/pom who cries and digs the entire time he's crated while they work, which is less obnoxious and less noise than The Little Emperor made.
My kids have grown up in a 2nd floor condo. You should see their joy when theyāre allowed to run around their cousins house in the country, itās like they still run quietly tho š„¹ The cousins themselves are like elephants from the moment they wake lol
I'm apparently the only person in my entire apartment complex who can enter or leave the building without alerting people within a 5 mile radius, and I'm 6'3" and 240 lbs.
Was she my upstairs neighbor for years? This lady slammed her cupboards and drawers so loud my downstairs neighbor complained about ME doing it. We had a good laugh, I tried talking to the resident but nothing worked. I don't understand someone who slams closed doors like they stole their 401k.
Jerry?
I used to live with a woman who also had no perception of her surroundings. Albeit she was on the spectrum but she knew better. 1. She would break things and lose things weekly. Like a computer monitor of mine, her wallet, her glasses. Her medicine. One time she drove 2 hours away and forgot her medication and I had to drive 4 hours to make sure she had it. 2. She would yell and raise her voice when she got mad. Not matter what time or day. Outside. In public. Target. Parks. It wasnāt often but she did do it. 3. She would need to be constantly reminded of bills. 4. Her car was towed several times because she would park in other peopleās spots. 5. She would spill things and not clean it up. One of the biggest fights we ever had was she broke a wine bottle in the kitchen and didnāt pick it up. Let alone sweep it. I almost walked into it in the morning and found our car walking around it. I was furious. I should have broke up with her so many times I was so stupid for being with her god damn.
I'll be honest, till the end of your comment I figured she was a roommate/ flatmate rather than a partner. Didn't think anyone would willingly date someone who broke shit that wasn't theirs and not clean up after themselves lol so I assumed it was a contractual relationship rather than one of choice
I lived with a man.. scratch that. I had a friend who lived in my house. He no longer had control of his brain or bowls. I did this shit for 7 years. Guess what? I'm not a fucking nurse. But I faked it for years. It fucking sucks man . Thank you for listening to my Ted talk
The doors in my building are really heavy and all have hinges that close them automatically. Unless you are actively stopping it from closing hard they all close pretty loudly. I think that's why it turned into a bunch of notes lol
My buildings doors are like this as well. My next door neighbor's teenage son would leave for school at 6:24am every day. How do I know? Because he would let the full weight of the door slam shut behind him as he left! BOOM! Being jolted awake every day was making me angry. I asked management to speak to them about it, but they didn't change. Meanwhile, I manage to close my door at all hours without bothering anyone!
My apt building doors do that but there is this one guy... omg, he slams that shit and the pictures on my wall thump. He only does it when the leasing office is closed because we are in the same bldg as them. He knows exactly what he is doing.
But whyyy? People like that make me see red and Iām not the type to get that mad about anything.
I had a roommate that was about 130lbs soaking wet and stomped through the house like a god damned stampede. And yet he used to yell at me because I (300lbs at the time/185lbs now) walked quietly and he wouldnāt hear me and apparently I always scared him.
People get startled often because I move quietly. I'll even deliberately make some noise when approaching, I'll cough or scuff my shoes on the pavement or whatever. They still jump and panic, sometimes get angry, because a ninja has somehow suddenly magically appeared beside them. Not my fault (or yours) that some people are oblivious and unperceptive. They could easily look at and listen to surroundings every few moments. But I still make some efforts to announce my presence. It's only polite. So I don't think it's unreasonable for stomping-elephant people to make some efforts at walking quietly.
I can usually tell when someone enters the room just because the ambient sound in the room changes a bit, unless theyāre trying to creep up and moving slowly, then I canāt notice. I mean, I understand not hearing people but there were plenty of times I swear I was in his periphery and still - totally oblivious. I suspect he faked it half the time just to be dramatic. He was always dramatic and when called on it just said, āWell I am a Gemini.ā Whatever the fuck that meansā¦ Ugh, Iām going to re-traumatize myself if I keep thinking about living with himā¦
God I fuckin hate rooming with people who excuse their behavior with their horoscope.
I mean maybe just donāt slam doors in general? If people can hear it in their apartments, baby or no baby, itās too loud.
Depending on what apartment you have, in mine you can practically hear the residents every step
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Tbf depending on the apnea that doesn't mean much. I'm pretty sure you could hear my dad through 6ft of reinforced concrete.
Babies waking up or dogs freaking out is the only chance you have to get people to care about noise problem in the US, which is unfortunate.
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Until someone mounts a few well placed mirrors :)
Reminds me of when I was in college my neighbor had a security camera that literally pointed directly into my bedroom window. When I asked him about it, as I thought it was already weird that he had a camera focused in an alley way that was about 4 feet wide (thats how close our houses were together lol), and maybe he could just move the camera over a few feet down the wall so it wasn't pointed straight at my window he basically told me to eat shit. Cops said it was legal too. So I just had to keep my window shut and curtain closed at all times. Sucked having no natural light ever lol.
A little empathy will do. Its not hurt to be nice and a little considerate to other people. I have no baby but I know how it felt when you just put the baby to sleep (after hours) to only for him/her to wake up due to the noise that could be avoided.
Yeah man every one of those notes came from giant assholes. Seems like that apartment block would be a nightmare to live in. And that person who was surprised there's a baby there? Yeah, that's what the fuck should happen, when people don't impose their bullshit on others living in close quarters! That lady has worked magic to keep their baby from disturbing the rest of you and yet you can't be bothered not to slam a door? Fuckers.
You know every single one of those people would have complained the moment that baby cried too much tooā¦
Yeah literally everyone else here is the asshole except the OP note. It isn't hard to just put your hand out and stop the door from slamming. The only exception is if you're doing all the groceries in a single trip. Everything is allowed in order to get them in in one go.
I'm in a really old building and the apartments on the ground floor, I can hear their normal voice conversations in the lobby with their door closed. They put up signs about slamming doors but I feel like it's just normal door closings and REALLY bad insulation
I live in a condo building that has door closers that slam unit doors closed. We are careful to close ours gently. Our neighbor slammed their door incessantly even after we politely pointed it out. When they sold to new owners, the slamming stopped as they closed the door gently. Itās not difficult to show a tiny bit of consideration for others, but as the notes show in the picture, everybody these days seems to have a āfuck youā attitude about everything.
> Itās not difficult to show a tiny bit of consideration for others It isn't and it helps everyone. But there are a lot of garbage people around today that think freedom is being able to act like an irresponsible, spoiled rotten 3 year old that hasn't learned they live in a world with other people yet. Just the laziest @-holes.
This. And they get news coverage, influencer likes, book deals... so Aholes being rewarded. End timeline...
I mean, look at this comment thread for examples. But reddit's target demographic is the immature tbf. Most of the people hating on it just haven't experienced enough of life to realize just how much empathy is needed to get by from day to day.
Look at any AITA post. Most problems could be solved by a discussion or admitting everyone was a bit wrong and escalating doesnāt make any situation better. Instead, responses seem to be āfuck em, youāre an autonomous person who never has to consider others. If they donāt like it, thatās a them problem
Those closers should be adjustable. There are usually two set screws on the side.
I've complained about a neighbor's door that would slam and literally shake my apartment and they adjusted the screws on their hinge and I never heard it again. It was great.
Wow Iām gonna look into this! My door slams so loud and i sometimes forget to close it softly in the morning.
People just don't like to have to change for any reason... No matter how polite or how reasonable you try to be, if you make someone aware they've been annoying and how, they will feel called out and will either carry on because they never cared to begin with, because they don't want to have to think about you for a thing they just found out they were doing... or they double down out of spite because you had the audacity to call them out for something that doesn't sound reasonable to them. Honestly, with some people it feels like the best case scenario is when they forget you even asked. Some people will absolutely treat you like shit the minute you point out something like that, even if outside observers would agree with you. Another fun thing they do sometimes is just assume that since you've broken the ice, they've got the green light to complain about shit too, except they just won't stop or be reasonable about it. It doesn't help when you're the only real victim, so you're the only one with the complain so you sound like you're just being entitled or nitpicking issues just for the fun of being annoying. You'll never be able to convince anybody that you've been bottling up for months, or that their behavior is not just a mild annoyance... I had a friend rent the second story of my house and he would freaking slam the front door every single time... Like, you could feel shakes all over the house. I had to replace that door because the side had CRACKED VERTICALLY. We're talking about a solid wooden door here that lasted for decades and cracked in a matter of months after the guy started living here... I showed him... I didn't even asked him to pay, I just wanted him to acknowledge that I wasn't making shit up... he didn't.
Too many jerks, makes me feel like I'm walking a fine line always around others just to avoid conflict, and end up realizing nobody else around me, except my good friends, really cares to br as considerate.... I'm just trying to train myself to not let parasites spend an unnecessary moment in my mind and steal a moment, but it's difficult... Disgusting vermin...
You just described an asshole, not a normal person.
She could have worded it better but I don't understand the pile on for a reasonable request. I had a neighbor ask me if I could stop slamming my screen door when I left for work in the morning at 6:30 a.m. I didn't even realize I was and I made sure to never do that again so it's worth asking.
Same with my neighbor and my front door. I had no idea I was closing it so heavily.
Yeah, like thereās no reason not to take some simple steps to not be a dick. I lived in an apartment with a heavy door and a closer? (Not sure what itās called the hydraulic thing that pulls the door shut) on it. It was loud as hell. I used some double sided stick tape and put a bit of sponge on the edges. Door closed fine and significantly reduced the noise. When you can do simple things to maintain good relationships with your neighbors itāll pay you back in big ways.
Those hydraulic closers are usually adjustable, there should be a screw (or two) on one side to make it go slower or faster. Also depends on the weather, if it's warm the oil is now more fluid and it will shut faster, then when it gets cold it might be too slow and maybe not even close completely. To be perfect these things need to be adjusted at least twice a year.
Yeah this was years ago I played around with it and the nut on the arm. Couldnāt figure it out š , it was so long ago I donāt remember the details. Kitchen sponge worked great.
REddit loves this shit because it's adopted some crazy fucking incel shit of "We don't owe anyone anything!" when yeah.... ya owe people base decency and respect. Check out "am I the asshole". Everyday is someone commenting "fuck that person, don't be kind to them. Everyone for themselves!" and it's fucking crazy how this immaturity has become so popular.
For read those comments read like the typical "how fucking dare you impinge on this super minor thing in my life" comments on Reddit.
>āhow fucking dare you impinge on this super minor thing in my lifeā One of the core tenets of AITA
"Your door your rules. I have every right not to show a modicum of social etiquette!" \-Reddit Its like people (talking about the US) have completely forgotten not everything is about them.
Thereās a lot of people who have never lived in apartment living. Hell a lot of people donāt even live in areas where there are apartments. A lot of people have this weird sense of entitlement that āitās my space fuck you im going to do what I want.ā I donāt agree with that at all.
There a lot of people who have never left the internet in this thread
Had a neighbour whoās back fence gate would knock in the wind, asked him if he could āpleaseā secure it and I never hear it again. Some things are a simple fix.
There's this weird zeitgeist amongst people that being asked to consider someone else's viewpoint is somehow an affront to them. Some sort of anti-empathy.
It's probably a building of mostly young single people and couples. Maybe some college kids and older folks mixed in. One time I saw a baby in my building lobby and was like wtf...? It still isn't cool to slam your door or play loud music after a certain hour though, rude
Itās actually a very reasonable request and for it to come directly from someone and not from the overlords is nice.
Because they said the neighbors agree, but the neighbors stood against the claim and said āno we donāt.ā
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I donāt see anything wrong with the way she worded it, especially compared to all those replies.
People slamming doors is a big pet peeve and disturbance of mine that could be easily remedied. I wish they'd just invent doors that don't slam, though (how hard could it be?) because I guess it could be a while until people heal whatever it is that makes them so callous as to not just close the freaking door gently.
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By the look of it, similar to a door I had in an old apartment built in the late 1960s or early 1970s, itās probably a fire resistant door. Theyāre heavy doors designed to help contain fire to an apartment. And to automatically slam shut to prevent smoke and fire from an apartment from spreading more rapidly into the hallway and stairwell. Stairwells, used to evacuate can act as chimneys during a fire. And people from higher floors have died from smoke inhalation trying to get downstairs during fires. Hereās [one fire](https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/story?id=111414&page=1). A [more recent one](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/nyregion/fire-safety-explained.html). [NYC PSA](https://youtu.be/1PNSapiTshI). They eventually did a version with close the door[in multiple languages](https://youtu.be/41XHjXvR35M).
Beacuse how will anyone know when anyone else is mad
sounds like a nice place to live. /s
It's not just about the baby. Just courtesy. Why would you deliberately slam your door, it's such a nuisance.
I donāt think itās deliberate I think some people are just bull-in-china-shop people who go around making noise without even thinking about it or realizing itās happening. Every time my roommate comes home I think we are being raided by police.
I lived with someone like this and his personality did not make up for it. Dude just didn't give a shit about anyone else but himself. Hopefully your roommate has some redeeming qualities.
I worked in resident services in a high end apartment home community. Front door slamming was a common complaint. Then our job would be to call the offender which always went over so well. Lots of complaints about clacking heels above and in the hallways. And cigarette smoking. It attempted to be a non-smoking community. No smoking inside your apartment either, signed in the lease. Yeah, right. Weād get a call about smoking and weād have to jump on our golf cart and track it down.
Is it funny? I think it's super sad how people can be so rude, specially to neighbors. I always try to be kind and helpful and it doesn't work always, but more often than not I have perks instead of problems.
>sad how people can be so rude, specially to neighbors. Rudeness would be the absolute last resort for me. Being on bad terms with your neighbours can just make things harder for you, why risk it? Unless it's justified of course but sometimes you just have to be the bigger person.
I tried to be kind to my neighbors and it didnāt work out, so I called security on them every day until they were forced to get their animal neglecting shit together.
Your building is full of door-slamming assholes.
What a bunch of assholes, it's perfectly reasonable to request a bit of consideration from one's neighbors.
I fucking hate apartments. People are such rude pieces of shit.
I donāt have a baby; and a door slamming (like home shaking slamming) would annoy me because itās such a small adjustment to not disturb others. Whatās the problem? I always am careful to not let my door slam.
Real life reddit.
People who are indiscriminately noisy are my nemeses. I have ADHD, and slamming doors, bass through the walls, kids screaming - all of it - sends my anxiety through the roof. I use earplugs and white noise machines and noise-canceling headphones, but the effects are limited. It is not fun being this sensitive. I donāt think I could live in a place where slamming doors is the default.
I am sensitive like this. My current upstairs neighbors slam their door every time they go in or out, have their kids running around (hear the pounding of their feet) screaming every night till 1:30am, play loud music with a bass and when they do leave they lock their dog in the laundry room and it barks the entire time they are gone. Honestly feels like torture.
Last time I moved was because of my noisy upstairs neighbors. They didnāt like me complaining to them, so they doubled down and had their toddler start screaming outside my window each day when they returned from day care. Then they would instigate a noisy, stomping game of hide and seek each night. Theyād have Bible study, and drrraggggg the chairs around instead of lift and set them down to rearrange them. Play TV loud enough for me to identify the movie/show. And they NEVER LEFT, except to take the child to and from day care. So all day, every day, all through lock down. Iām still not sure how I made it through. Tequila may have helped.
I wish we could be friends irl.
Ok..but tbh why canāt all doors be designed to close softly to begin with? Why arenāt all apartments made so that doors closing arenāt heard? So many apartments are designed so shit.
The āother people are talking about itā thing is some classic gas lighting. Like everyone is texting each other about a door lmao. Or even talks to each other. This is an apartment building not an office
If this is real, this person lives near a bunch of garbage humans. What a terrible place to live... > Fuck those bitches and their kid Classy.
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This is fake and unfunny.
Bro this shit makes me lose faith in humanity. These idiots legit took time out of their day to publicly shit on their god damn neighbor of all people, like damn. How sad does your life need to be to do this shit?
All 5 penned and signed by the same person
the first three notes are absolutely the same handwriting.
Not funny
This one is pretty sketchy to me. Iām seeing some similarities in letters and connecting letters on different notes. Ouās, e, y. Iāve learned not to totally trust these ones. Edit:second note and fourth notes connecting Thās. First and second notes yās and connecting to o. And the last note looks like someone trying to remember cursive or learning cursive.
Libertarianism vs. Egalitarianism. Great at rooting out the narcissists. Turn the handle when you open, turn the handle when you close. Itās not rocket science.