Aww, that sucks :( Well... at least you tried to let them know. But... maybe they're just having a moment of aggressiveness post-confrontation and will get better?
For instance, when I was living in the dorms, my roommate got really irritated that I left my dirty clothes in a pile on my bed, and occasionally would kick them down off the top bunk in the middle of the night. Apparently, having a shirt of mine on the floor really bugged her.
So, anyway, she e-mailed me to tell me that it was bugging her, and mostly I was just irritated that a. she was upset about it, because dude, it's like... one shirt on the floor and b. she e-mailed me- I mean, I don't think I come off as that mean, anyway, but I wouldn't have like chewed her head off. I probably would have been just surprised and done something about it
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Mandy told me, actually, that she'd written a note to her upstairs neighbor who was pissed at first. Something along the lines of "well I have to walk" but then it eventually got better.
There's someone whose LiveJournal I used to read, still read sometimes, who at one point had a downstairs neighbor complain, and she would also bang on the ceiling with her broom. And this girl (and her boyfriend)'s reaction was "guh, what a bitch, we have to walk! she's crazy" And I actually didn't sympathize with her at all because at that time her personality was actually really annoying me, and then on top of that, her attitude was just so... unwilling, you know? I don't know if she ever eventually got over it, but the lack of attempt to empathize wasn't endearing. It was just automatically "she's crazy." Jeez.
Ben thinks it's a little softer. I'm actually not sure.
I could be way off-base on this, because I've never heard your upstairs neighbor, but I tend to think this is just typical apartment life. I mean, there's a reason most people hate living in apartments and why buying a house seems like a holy grail to 20-somethings. Apartment living has many drawbacks, noise being one of them. It seems like everyone who lives in an apartment complains about either their upstairs neighbors or next-door neighbors. In NH we could hear our next-door neighbors all the time. Here we can hear our upstairs neighbors from time to time, but in general it's much quieter than NH. I attribute this to better construction and not more considerate neighbors
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In Illinois I actually spent very little time in places not on the top floor (very nice), but the noises always bothered me. The campus apartments get the cheapest constructions possible, usually. I wrote posts about my last apartment in IL too, heh. They kept an interestingly regular schedule, actually, but they would also throw their beer bottles two floors down to the closed lids of recycling bins which were right next to people's bedroom windows. They really belonged in a frat house. Anyway, I am definately more annoyed by the standard unavoidable things than other people. I just don't get along well with 'people' in general, so it's really good I don't live in Taiwan. People there are pretty ridiculous in terms of selfish behavior that inconveniences or that affects other people. There is just no concept of how something will affect someone else. That probably relates to how my mom and coworker think and communicate (somewhat talked about in some recent previous post). There are definately people in this building that are
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About the hall phone lady, maybe she has a husband/roommate who has a different sleep schedule and so she goes into the hall so as not to wake him up. I only think of this because I did this all the time at Wheaton and so did my roommate because we would always sleep at completely random times, usually during the day, so the other would go into the hall to talk on the phone.
That's probably it. She's Indian, and there's also this Indian guy (they're both new to the building) who used to spend a lot of time in the halls and right outside the door. They probably live together and just talk on the phone constantly and obviously have to do it in separate locations. Heh. It would be funny if that were true.
Anyway, that's really considerate of you guys. My freshman year I started to keep really really bad hours, and my roommate was really responsible, and by the end of the year she was, like, banging doors and drawers when I was asleep at 3 in the afternoon :) She always said I didn't wake her up at night, but I probably did. I also ate all of her goldfish...
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For instance, when I was living in the dorms, my roommate got really irritated that I left my dirty clothes in a pile on my bed, and occasionally would kick them down off the top bunk in the middle of the night. Apparently, having a shirt of mine on the floor really bugged her.
So, anyway, she e-mailed me to tell me that it was bugging her, and mostly I was just irritated that a. she was upset about it, because dude, it's like... one shirt on the floor and b. she e-mailed me- I mean, I don't think I come off as that mean, anyway, but I wouldn't have like chewed her head off. I probably would have been just surprised and done something about it ( ... )
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There's someone whose LiveJournal I used to read, still read sometimes, who at one point had a downstairs neighbor complain, and she would also bang on the ceiling with her broom. And this girl (and her boyfriend)'s reaction was "guh, what a bitch, we have to walk! she's crazy" And I actually didn't sympathize with her at all because at that time her personality was actually really annoying me, and then on top of that, her attitude was just so... unwilling, you know? I don't know if she ever eventually got over it, but the lack of attempt to empathize wasn't endearing. It was just automatically "she's crazy." Jeez.
Ben thinks it's a little softer. I'm actually not sure.
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Anyway, that's really considerate of you guys. My freshman year I started to keep really really bad hours, and my roommate was really responsible, and by the end of the year she was, like, banging doors and drawers when I was asleep at 3 in the afternoon :) She always said I didn't wake her up at night, but I probably did. I also ate all of her goldfish...
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