Um, noisy neighbors

[golfgal]

Do you mean to record the noise on DVD and then slip the DVD under her door?

Or do you mean to record the noise on DVD and then play it back at a fairly high sound level so they can hear it?

I meant give her a copy of the recording-I am old enough to think in terms of cassette tapes too but a CD would work as well .

 

[SaraJayne]

If she's a screamer, call the cops and say you can hear your neighbor screaming and you're not sure what's going on but it sounds pretty bad. Otherwise I'd go with the whistles, applause and performance critique routine until the noise stops. Nothing worse than the guy hearing, "Hey! That was only 2 minutes this time. You sick or something?" from the other side of the wall.

OMG, I'd love to see the guys face when that happened!

 

[Anna_Marie]

I like the previous posters idea who said to play the Barney songs over and over. Also, calling the police about a domestic disturbance!

 

[FireDancer]

When they are done yell out a score:

"That one only sounded like a 6"

 

[TinklednPants]

I really don't think diverting the police (while funny) from a potentially real and serious issue is a good idea.

 

[TinklednPants]

The landlord lives next door to her

Maybe the landlord is the boyfriend!



I say be happy for the girl that she is enjoying life.

 

[RainbowBrite]

Is she extremely loud, or it is just that you can hear what's going on? My apartment building is very old and we can hear EVERYTHING in the apartment above us. We hear the guy upstairs snoring. If someone was banging on our floor or ceiling or the wall telling us to be quiet when we were just doing our thing, I'd so kindly remind them that I pay to live here and I will go on with my daily life. Of course if we were being ridiculously loud that would be another story.

 

[KiKi Mouse]

I like some of the ideas:

"dude, she's faking it!"
yelling out scores
etc.

I was thinking maybe she is the type of person who wants to be heard.

ummmm, what kind of noise is it anyway? Is she screaming or is it the bed hitting the wall, or a combination of both?

Personally I would probably stand near the wall and scream "oh, baby, harder, harder, oh yeah!" and some other things I can't post here.

Good luck and let us know what you do.

 

[Sweettears]

If that's the case then I would ask what brand of earplugs the landlord uses.

Maybe the landlord is the one keeping her company.

 

[Carly_Roach]

OMG, I'd love to see the guys face when that happened!

I know! It works on so many levels. Does she have another guy in her life? Why does she scream longer with him than with me? Is the neighbor talking to me or to the screamer? How is it the neighbor can hear us anyway? What ELSE are they hearing?

I really don't think diverting the police (while funny) from a potentially real and serious issue is a good idea.

Happens all the time. Trust me, if there were another serious issue at 2:00 in the morning, the police would already be there instead of the screamer's place. And if a serious issue comes up the PO knows to check out the screamer quickly, close the call and get to the serious issue.

They're pretty good at multi-tasking that way. They do it all day long.

 

[daisax]

I think the direct, mature approach would be a simple note saying "You're new to the building, so you probably don't realize how far sound carries here, especially at night. Just wanted to let you know the walls are thin and voices carry."

Involving the landlord or, God forbid, the police is silly. Unless you're afraid of her and her partner for some reason, it's a simple interpersonal situation. No need to drag outsiders into it.

The police may have to deal with a lot of nonsense, but it's always good to prevent them from having to whenever possible. It's one thing to intervene in neighbor disputes when they're underway -- another thing altogether to be used so that one neighbor doesn't need to bother to even broach a subject in the first place. Suspect a meth lab? Call the police. Want the neighbors to keep it down (assuming they're not scary people)? Ask them and give them a chance to good naturedly take the hint.

 

[katesorad]

I've had something like this happen to me before. I can't say that I handled it in the most mature of ways, but I made a tape recording of what I was forced to listen to every night and bought a cheap old boom box with a cassette player on it on Craigslist, and placed it outside her door, playing the recording, on repeat. It was removed from outside her door pretty quickly and I never heard the noises again..

 

[tvguy]

Living in a college dorm, I learned really quickly to sleep through noise.

A co-worker was confronted about noise coming from her apartment, not the fun noise the OP is talking about. My co-worker had to be at work at 4 am, and got up at 3 am. She had one of those beep beep beep alarm clocks. She leaves her apartment one morning, and is confronted by a woman who asks "is that your alarm clock that goes off at 3 am every morning?". She says "yes." "Can you stop using that alarm, it wakes me up every morning". My co-worker says, "well, I'm not sure what to do, I don't recognize you, which apartment do you live in?". The woman says "I don't live here, I live in that house over there..." (pointing to a house a full block away). Talk about light sleeper!!

 

[Sweetpancake]

Okay, I did it! I wrote a polite little note, letting her know that she may not realize just how thin the walls are in this building and could she please keep the noise levels down. I feel better now. Thanks for the advice. I don't expect to not hearing anything in an apartment, you could hear our old neighbors every now and then but it was never this disruptive.