There’s nothing worse than noisy neighbours who are constantly interrupting your day in one way or another. Whether it’s their screaming children, loud music booming all day and night while you’re working from home, or just constant partying, it can be hard to know what to do about it.
One woman said on Reddit that her upstairs neighbour would play video games so loud that she’d be able to hear them until the small hours of the morning.
So, imagine her surprise when the same neighbour put in a noise complaint about her, saying that she was making banging noises from up above.
If you’re a downstairs neighbour, it can be seriously annoying if it sounds like there are a herd of elephants living above you, but the woman reckoned that it wasn’t her stomping around the flat, it was simply her “cat jumping off the couch”.
So, the “loud thuds at night” were just a cat, probably going to get some food or a drink. And they wouldn’t have lasted long enough to put in a complaint about.
On Reddit’s ‘Neighbours from Hell’ forum, she explained: “Meanwhile, he plays video games till 2am with the subwoofer vibrating my silverware,” which is less than ideal.
As the old saying goes, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but since her upstairs neighbour had thrown the first metaphorical stone, she decided to get sassy with him and wrote him a note.
She said: “So one night I slid a note under his door that said, ‘Hey! Filing a noise complaint about my cat is wild, but if you want to trade silence windows, I’m open to negotiate’.
“He suddenly decided everything was fine”.
In the comments, people were shocked that the man had filed a complaint over a few thuds of a cat getting about its apartment. Somebody joked that the cat should “be on a diet”.
A cat owner responded: “I mean, this is entirely possible and I know you’re joking, but I would counter your point with this: I have an 18 lb orange boy who jumps and lands like a delicate princess. I also currently have a 3lb kitten that we call ‘Thunder Toes’ because she literally throws herself at whatever she’s playing with.
“She is utterly fearless, crashes into walls, and generally makes a ton of noise. She’s still sleeping in the bathroom at night and when I lock her in Sing-Sing at the end of the night, she takes her plastic spring toy, jumps into the bathtub, and THUMP THUMP THUMP chases them around for 20 minutes tiring herself out. We can hear her banging about from two rooms away. Tiny Miss is LOUD”.
Another penned: “To be honest cats can be extremely loud. It’s easier to understand if you live in a house because when you’re downstairs and if they’re in the bedroom running around and jumping of things, it sounds like boisterous children jumping and running around. I never understood it until I lived in a house and experienced my own cats noise when I was in the living room. When they do it in the room you’re in, it sounds quiet and ridiculous that someone would complain.
“However, when you’re downstairs and hear it from upstairs I’m not sure why but the noise magnifies loudly. However, if this person is being loud themselves perhaps agree to record each other to show each other depending on how good you are with each other because I think it will be a real eye opener for both of you. You’re both probably making more noise than you realise and unintentionally upsetting each other”.
Somebody else shared: “Lmao dude really thought your cat’s tiny parkour was the issue while his whole apartment was doing bass-boosted earthquakes. Classic.”
