Be Prepared To Laugh Out Loud, As These 40 Signs From Neighbors Are Not For The Grumpy-Hearted

Long story short, my upstairs neighbor moved in about a year and a half ago and immediately asked if she could put in hardwood floors (my building requires permission from the floors below if people on the upper floors want to put in hardwood). I said no, as our building is echoey and loud enough as-is.

It became very obvious very quickly that she replaced everything with hardwood since I could hear basically every step. A few months ago, building management checked and confirmed that hardwood was installed everywhere. She was given a deadline to switch to carpet and, when she asked to meet with me, basically blew up, screaming at me that I had “ruined her life” for asking her to remove the flooring that she was never supposed to install.

Flash forward to today, her carpet-installation deadline, and I find this by my door. She literally took a chunk of her flooring and wrote a lil passive-aggressive message on it. whelp. Happy New Year!

I'm aware it's not actual wood. My building considers hardwood anything other than carpet for the sake of this rule.

Also, for the people asking why we couldn't compromise on area rugs or something, there's a reason this is the "long story short" version. For months, we went back and forth with suggestions, but she denied having hard flooring at all. By the time building management got involved, they were annoyed enough that she'd installed it without permission and had no issue asking her to replace it.

So my neighbor is a little annoying sometimes. I parked my small SUV about 1 inch on his property by mistake. I know it's my fault this time, but she more often than not takes the liberty to park on my property, but I turn the other way. Here's the note I got.

Thought it might make others laugh too.

"Hello, dear stranger,

Would you supply me with your Wi-Fi password?
My parents will not let me use any wifi the whole summer. Just leave the passcode here and stick this note near your mailbox.
Simple!

Sincerely,
The person who got dared to do this (money is on the line here). I play Hearthstone and can coach you for free – highest rank: rank 68, decayed to maybe 69. Thanks for your cooperation in this endeavor."

Saw this note this morning and thought it was funny that we were the assumed note-leavers in the building. There's been a constant note war going on for a year now where notes have been put up asking people to stop smoking in their apartments. Of course, these don't deter the smokers, and the complex doesn't have a no-smoking policy. We are the only dog owners and know this is what apartment living is like with the smoking. This is our response to being dragged into this fight. Pic of stinky dogs in question.

I drop things around 1-2 times a week (typically small stuff like utensils, my phone, my AirPods case), and nearly every time I do, my neighbor will pound her ceiling at least 5 times over the span of a minute. To give my neighbor the benefit of the doubt, my apartment is pretty run-down and has super-thin walls, so I assume dropping stuff is a lot louder than usual.

Admittedly, I’ve already had 2 stomping tantrums in response to her pounding, but they only seem to escalate her pounding as she tries to find ways to make more noise. The craziest part for me is that we live 2 blocks from a train station, so it’s not like she isn’t used to noise.

This morning, I got fed up and taped the note to her window before leaving for work. I showed it to a couple of friends and family, thinking that they’d see it as a funny but relatively harmless form of retaliation, but the consensus seems to be that I’m overreacting and I should’ve complained to my apartment manager or had some sympathy for her situation (she’s around 70 years old in a wheelchair).

The morning of June 3rd, the first note was on our car. Both my partner and I were a bit annoyed, mostly because of the tone of the note. I get that it is immensely frustrating when non-permit-holders take parking spots from residents, but it was literally the 3rd day of the month (and mind you, there were TONS of UHauls in the area over the weekend and on Monday), so I don't quite understand jumping to the conclusion that we are entitled people from out of town. I imagine most residents had to wait for their stickers at some point when they moved in - why not give us the benefit of the doubt? Maybe I'm just sensitive, but I really feel like that note could have communicated concern without being so extremely rude and presumptuous.

So, we left the printed-out notes in the second and third pictures in our car last night. I wanted to make sure he understood our situation (so he wouldn't call a tow truck on us) and also call him out a bit for being a bad neighbor. Maybe I should've been friendlier, or just not responded at all, but I was honestly so annoyed at his first note - once again, we've literally JUST moved and are thus pretty stressed out and tired and just not in the mood to be dealing with this.

Honestly, my partner and I both got a good laugh out of this last note. I'm thinking we should probably stop responding at this point since this guy is clearly out of his gourd, but it is pretty annoying. I'm thinking, based on his syntax and writing skills, maybe he uses this website (no offense to myself or anyone else here), so perhaps he'll see this and feel some type of shame?

Sunday morning, I cooked chicken fried rice... The ingredients were garlic, onion, sambal, egg, chicken, kecap manis, and leftover rice. The next morning, it was egg fried rice (we love fried rice) and spam, less-sodium egg, garlic, leftover fried rice, and soy sauce.

If these are stinky for them... What else can I cook? I have never cooked food with a strong smell since moving in here. (Shrimp paste or dried fish, which I believe would really smell, NEVER) will be sending an email to the management today and see what happens.

Even knowing this neighbor’s behavior, I’m still going ahead with the portable air hood I ordered from Amazon, and I’ll also be getting an air purifier (something I’ve been planning to buy anyway, now with an extra reason).

She mentioned that I have been cooking stinky food for months. I usually cook a mix of Asian and Western dishes and love trying new recipes. Since I also work in a café kitchen, I’ve been cooking eggs and bacon for years. Honestly, even the food some people call "stinky" in the comments, I don’t find stinky at all! I actually love kimchi and curry.