idea!

why don't you write her a note explaining all to go with the slippers? you're a good writer and you won't have to worry about what comes out of your mouth (speaking of cig trades...)

yeah greta idea!! One of your effective, story telling poems wrapped in tissue paper with a lovely pair of slippers (include reciept as you wont know her size feet!!)

A pair of lovely slippers
Purchased just for you
id love for you to wear them
as a gift out of the blue

i'm your friendly underground neighbour
and although we havent met
its like we live together
as my ceiling is very THIN cement!

I hope your not offended
and you enjoy your little gift
ive even included the reciept
to ensue you that they fit!!

:)

puuuurfect. :cool:

look you have it easy last upstairs neighbor got nicknamed heavyfoot.. 5'2 girl who just somhow had no idea how to walk.. I tried to be polite... but after asking her to walk nice.. or atleast in rythem.. I ended up aiming my Marshall 1/2 stack at the ceiling and rocking the fuck out.. she moved a few months later.. the new upstairs neighbor.. she has this weird thing about vacuuming her floors at 4:00 in the morning.. and uh.. we have wood floors.. so I dunno..I haven't met her.. and ya know, I don't give a fuck anymore... fine! I'll cope with it.. out of everything else going on.. that's the last of my concerns.. then again I might have to break outy the 1/2 stack although I would feel bad for my downstairs neighbor.. damn living in the middle!

all told I'd try the slipper/talking to resopnse..as I am a irrisponsible bastard

I had to call the police last night. We're laying in bed at 2 am, trying to fall asleep, and once AGAIN, her idiot drunk boyfriend or whatever he is, is banging on her door...and banging...and banging.

10 minutes later, she finally got up and answered the door. The ritualistic arguing began, with him shouting out "fuck" 5-6 times per sentence. He sounds like a wanna-be thug.

Then, there was some kind of struggle, you could hear her scream, crash, bang, boom....I had to call the cops and tell them there was a domestic dispute upstairs. I thought he was going to kill her.

Now I feel sorry for her and I don't want to be a total bitch,
so I like the idea of a sign on my door and a little note to her. And you know, the 2 am thing didn't bother me NEARLY as much as her clogs all day.
I'm a night owl and I only called the cops because that guy was beating her up.

I liked the poem/slippers idea...I would love it if a neighbor did that for me. Of course, I don't have neighbors. At all. :(

Seriously, the slippers idea should work, though. Good for you for calling the cops. I usually dont' agree with getting cops involved in *anything* but since she was getting beat up and probably would have done nothing about it, at least someone helped her.

the ends of her tibia would be worse.

my brother and mom both walk on their heels for some godawful reason. we lived in a carpeted house, but whn my brother woke up in the morning and walked down the stairs, the walls would literally shake. i was afraid he was going to come through my ceiling some of the time. He had no idea that he was doing it, of course.

so i did what any good older brother would do and started a big pissing match about it. yah, it didn't work. slippers/note is the way to go.

Well, if things keep going the way they're going with her boyfriend, she'll be confined to bed soon with broken bones, and I won't have anything to worry about...

Clearly she is the passive sort, and would accept the note. The problem is that she'll internalize it as a new form of criticism, and after a week, she'll boil every time she sees the slippers. She'll tell the whole story to her abusive boyfriend, and you'll wake up to a screwdriver in your tire some morning with a note saying "keep it to yourself bitch".

Or it could all work out. Don't know.

those Bose headphones that cancel outside noise are supposed to work really well. I think they're expensive, though.

Prostheses make more noise on the floor than clogs, I think.

Get foam earplugs made for shooters. 26dB reduction should do nicely. I don't usually even feel that I have them in.

Why not just ask her to go barefoot? Unless she's a total pig and her floors are unmentionably disgusting, I don't see why she's wearing such heavy shoes in the house anyway...

I used to live in an apartment below a very overweight couple who were fond of long shag sessions in the wee hours. Walls rattled. On one occasion, some plaster fell from my ceiling as I tried to sleep desite the distraction. I never did figure out out how to tactfully bring the subject up, even when he complained about my alarm clock being too loud in the mornings. So I bought a house, and haven't worried about neighbors since.

I think the slippers idea may be too slippery. Most people dislike being criticized, even moreso when the criticism is coupled with "and here is how I decided you are going to solve the problem." It's like an ultimatum. And a "quiet please" sign will only be effective if she realizes how much noise her shoes generate.

Personally, I would talk to her, and implicate some anonymous third-party so she doesn't feel like she's being accused. For instance, "Whoever decided to put a hardwood floor in an upstairs apartment was out of their mind! The hardwood makes the sound of your shoes hitting the floor resonate through my place when I'm trying to sleep." If the problem doesn't go away, you can be more direct with a note, or slippers, or what have you... then she'll have the previous conversation to know where you're coming from.

But, that's just me.

What do you guys think- is this a good approach??


Hi,

If you don’t mind, would it be possible for you to let me know your work schedule so I can try to work my schedule around it?
I know it’s not your fault and you don’t do it on purpose, but those hardwood floors in your apartment make every tiny footstep so loud, and I can’t read, watch t.v., nap, study, etc. because your hard shoes on the floor sound like someone is pounding a hammer through my ceiling.
I don’t mind leaving the house while you are at home. I know there’s nothing you can do about it. I’m not mad at you or anything- you can’t help it that you have hardwood floors and I have a thin ceiling!

I’ve tried to think of what might help this situation that wouldn’t cause you any trouble, and the only thing I can come up with is to work around your schedule.
So, would it be possible for me to know what days you’ll be at home so I can pick up a shift or do something else to get out of the house?

Thanks so much, no hard feelings.
Stacey
(your downstairs neighbor)