Evidently, the manager lied to us about the way this building conducts sound

[vvvexation]

Do we have humans living upstairs from us, or elephants? I swear, it was an order of magnitude less noisy around here when the place was being extensively remodeled before they moved in. Or maybe it's just that random thumping noises are more irritating than methodical tool-using noises because they stop more often and every time they stop you think they're done, only to be disappointed.

This is not helping my attempt to not develop into a world-class curmudgeon by the time I'm forty. Nor, of course, is it helping my paper-writing effort, but a lot of things aren't helping that.

Comments

[marmaladious.livejournal.com]

That sucks. The sounds that get to me are those damned squeaky box-spring sounds. Geez, people, get a room!

Err... a different room.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

The thing about those noises, though, is that they're confined to one room--whereas the folks over our heads seem to be stampeding back and forth across the entire apartment.

Also, with sex noises you get to pop popcorn and cheer loudly out the window when they're done.

[marmaladious.livejournal.com]

Haha! I think the people in the other units would be confused at this periodic cheering that they kept hearing outside.