We all have that one neighbor that makes you delay going home after work, with the fear of crossing paths with them. Some incidents are funny and some are sad. Here are some of the worst stories from the Redditors about their neighbors. A few of these might have you being grateful for yours.
1. Boundaries
We live on a farm. We share a driveway with one other family. They're very passive-aggressive. Long story short they want us to build a separate driveway. Numerous times he has blocked our only way out.
As of late, I've been finding nails, screws, and scrap metal in the driveway past where they ever drive their vehicles. I try to avoid conflict, but it's starting to get out of hand. As of yesterday, I installed a trail cam in hopes that they will stop being horrible. Time will tell if that works.
Stealyourfaced
2. Pure Madness
Used to live next to this single mother (40s) and her daughter (16). They were the type of neighbors that would have the police round a handful of times a year for god knows what reason.
This one day I was working on my motorbike out in the shared car park when the mother turned up in her Ford Ka and parked next to my parent's car. She got out of her car and proceeded to smash her car door into my parent's about 8 or 9 times while smiling at me.
Her nickname was "Psycho Sally" for a reason.
Slawter.eth
3. The Walls Have Ears
A crackhead stripper who lived above my roommates and me. She would tweak and listen to us through the vents. I know this because she would leave her poetry stapled to our door. Poetry about us talking about how sketchy she looked when she rollerbladed to work every day.
And how she could hear everything we said. Now when I say poetry, I mean really bad grade 9 goth kid song lyric poetry. We would post them on our fridge. They made a great conversation piece. Then she would write more about these conversations.
Skagbaronkris
4. Obsessed With Complaining
Had a neighbor who left a note on my then-girlfriend's car saying she wasn't allowed to park in front of their house because their taxes paid for that part of the street.
That same neighbor constantly called the cops on me for trivial things one time I was shoveling my driveway and I moved my car onto the sidewalk for 5 minutes while I shoveled the spot where it was previously parked. Pretty much every discussion I had with the cops involved the cop making fun of how stupid the people were for calling to complain.
DobRex
5. I Made Him Angry
I used to have a next-door neighbor who would throw fits whenever anybody parked anywhere near his house. At the time, the city I live in had a car share service (Car2Go) where you could grab any of their cars for a short-term rental and, when you were done, park them on the street anywhere it was legal in the service area.
I regularly used the service and delighted in parking a Car2Go DIRECTLY in front of his house. Sometimes the cars would stay there for days, and he hated it. I'd see him pacing around his front yard staring at the Car2Go.
He never realized it was me who was parking them there!
[deleted]
6. Parking Disputes
Not sure who but one of our neighbors has called the city on us 5 times now for parking my husband’s work van in our driveway. Also called the city on us when we were fixing up our driveway. A city employee came by and saw the work, said it was fine, and left but the same city employee has had to keep coming over again and again.
Gotten to the point where he is quite friendly with my husband. I have no idea how people have so much free time just to cause havoc for other people like that.
V4ldel
7. The Racist
I had a weird old creep for a neighbor who would spend his time washing his car in front of his house. One day we had workers over doing building work on the house. after a few days, they informed us that the old creep would hide behind the fence and spend the afternoon abusing them and throwing racist comments.
My dad discreetly crept back to catch him doing it and gave him the fright and humiliation of his life. The next day he started mowing the lawn at night with a flashlight and testing his fire alarm in the middle of the night. the police were called to deal with him.
Meanwhile-in-Paris
8. The Worst
John and Flo were the absolute worst. John tried to get my brother to eat poisonous berries when he was 4 years old. John also caught the woods behind our house on fire. They called the cops on us because we accidentally kicked a ball into their yard.
Flo accused my dad of some sinister crimes and took my parents to court, but the case fell apart when the judge saw there was no evidence, and her husband didn’t show up to support her in court. They finally decided to move because my parents adopted my sister from South Korea and they said she was going to make property values drop.
The 80s were a wild ride. Damn you, John and Flo. This is just a handful of the terrible things they did.
M-Shell
9. The Terrorist
Hid a foot-long homemade pipe bomb in a hollowed-out log in the woods right next to my driveway. Thankfully my sister found it and not my son and it didn't blow up. The bomb squad had to come and examine it and decided it would be safest to blow it up at the scene.
We ended up in the news. Thankfully that neighbor moved a few months ago so I don't have to worry about stumbling across any more homemade explosives.
Shimmergloom
10. I Got Egged
I was like 4 on Halloween with a high fever. A couple of neighborhood kids decided to egg our house. The window was open and 2 eggs went right through and splatted sick little me in the face. My mother ran in my dad's boxers down the block, chased them into a building hallway, and gave one of them a black eye.
The next day there was a knock on the door and it was the guy and his father- who made his son apologize.
Far-Ad9143
11. Entitlement
During winter a snow plow knocked off our mailbox. Because it was like 5 degrees and snowing outside I took some rope and tied it back on until it was a little more reasonable to replace it. I work from home with a window in my office at the front of the house.
I watched him walk out, cut the ropes, and leave a note saying to fix the mailbox. Granted it’s a private sub-development with an HOA and such. Still a bad move all things considered. Or maybe always letting his kids hit our house with things.
Balls, water balloons. You name it. Have had to replace multiple sprinkler vacuum breaker assemblies. Plenty of dents in my siding and dish. Pieces of water balloons stuck to our siding 20 ft up.
The best part is my wife is a night shift nurse and that side is our bedroom wall. So guess who gets woken up?
Kwilson25j
12. The Deputy ‘J’
New neighbors. Younger couple. He's a police officer. He has a loud motorcycle with an even louder sound system on it. He sits in his driveway and revs it for a few minutes at 6:30 am every morning. Then when he gets home, he has the music blaring.
It's usually music full of f-bombs and the n-word. Then he has these 2 huge dogs. They're psychotic. They go off on this insane, loud barking tantrum every time they see someone outside. If I'm in my backyard, on my deck, whatever, they bark.
He just leaves them out there. One of my other neighbors was complaining about him one day. Called him an idiot or something. I called him Deputy Jerk. Pretty soon, his new nickname spread through the neighborhood.
[deleted]
13. Control Your Dogs
Not a current neighbor, but had one that would let their dogs roam the neighborhood freely. Not overly a big deal. We are out in the country and not many people fence their dogs in. But this neighbor didn't care their dogs were everywhere and didn't care that his dogs were harassing our livestock. Which is a big deal.
As livestock can die from too much stress. Well after politely asking multiple times to keep his dogs in and away from our livestock he still just didn't care. So after one day seeing their dogs terrorizing our livestock, I chased their dogs back home.
I then told the neighbor in no uncertain terms to keep his dogs off my property. also informing him in front of his wife and kids what the state law permits me to do to dogs that are terrorizing livestock. After that had little trouble with them.
Except for when their pet peacock decided this mohamadi from Peat it was going to stay summer around my house. Didn't cause a problem so we didn't care much.
Snarkyshooter09
14. Wrong Timing
When I was like 6 a couple of the neighborhood kids threw a bunch of rocks under another neighbor's car that was notorious for being an absolute nightmare. I happened to come outside at the wrong time, and when she saw the rocks she and her husband demanded I crawl under her car and clean them up (which I don’t need to say is a horrible idea) all while screaming at me for “trying to damage their car.”
I came crying home and that’s probably the closest my mom has ever been to physically attacking someone.
Red_Hooligan
15. Keep It Down
We lived in a duplex and next door was a single mom who was a call girl and a bunch of her kids. The kids would sneak across the roof into our window on the second floor to steal from us. The mom and the kids were always up late playing music real loud and such so we ended up calling the police multiple times for noise complaints.
One time she decided to pay us back by calling a noise complaint on us in the middle of the night when we were sleeping and had work early in the morning.
GrundleTurf
16. Trash Monitor
My neighbor across the street is interesting, to say the least. She has this weird obsession with everyone's trash. City regulation says that our trash cans can't be put or left out more than 24 hours from pickup. Pickup is on Tuesday at 10 am (ish).
She gets pissed and leaves notes (pretending to be the city and threatening to impose fines) on everyone's door if they don't bring in their cans by 10 am Wednesday. She left us notes for putting out our trash early because we were going to be out of town.
She has been known to take people's trash cans and drag them almost a quarter mile to the woods behind our houses and dump them there. I've also seen her going through random trash cans on the street. I've also seen her cutting her lawn with scissors and spray painting her white car with gray spray paint. She's a little odd.
MechanicalMoses
17. Hilarious Competition
My neighbor and his neighbor have these weird man-offs that include competing to clear driveways and sidewalks before the other, mowing lawns first. Grilling more and more food etc. It's so fun to watch.
Last summer, my neighbor bought a new grill and then his neighbor bought a new, bigger grill. My neighbor then got rid of his new grill within a month of buying it and bought an even bigger grill. I love going on walks down their way because I always get something grilled.
Maybe_Not_The_Pope
18. Being A Snitch
My next-door neighbor has three teenagers who would party when their single mom was away, playing loud music and doing underage drinking, usually a fight broke out as well after enough liquor.
After the second time I found beer cans and bottles hidden on my property I gathered up all 30 or so and put them in a couple of grocery bags then dumped them in the bush next to where their mom parked.
A few hours later when their mom went to work (I assume as it was almost 6 am) I heard screaming and their front door being slammed, and then she yelled at the kids for a good 10 minutes before driving off at a high speed.
I was pretty pleased with myself, haven't had litter in my yard since!
Wary-Trout
19. Clean The Mess
Our old neighbors had six cats that would all poo in our section, which I didn’t want our toddler to be touching. Every morning before work, I’d walk the property and check the usual spots, and just flick it back over the fence with a dedicated CatCrapStick.
They had to know I was doing it, finding gravel-covered poop in the middle of their lawn would have been a dead giveaway.
Ratbagjim
20. Thin Walls
I used to live in a small complex where the walls were paper-thin. My then neighbor would start playing music every night at a super high volume at 2 in the morning for a month. I couldn't get in contact with him and made an official complaint which he didn't respond to either until the month was over.
According to him he had been on vacation and had a timer on his stereo, so it started playing at the same time every night. He claimed it wasn't on purpose.
Angelsontheroof
21. Unchain The Dog
My backyard neighbor just leaves her dog tied up outside all the time. One time the dog escaped and she drove around looking for it. While chatting I mentioned how it was always barking and she had the gall to lie that she always kept her dog in a kennel inside and rarely outside. I see and hear it all the time, I don't know who she thought she was fooling.
I'm usually good about helping neighbors look for lost pets. I never bother her. The dog is better off not chained up all day.
Morningsdaughter
22. Enough Is Enough
After two years of biting my tongue and not complaining to the landlord about my next-door neighbor's 3-year-old Hellspawn, I couldn't stand the screaming anymore and reported the noise. Her response was to buy the child a whistle.
Another time and place, the neighbor in back of us complained that we were letting our grapevine twine around her fence and we needed to cut it back. Ok, fair enough, it was her fence. But after we had cut the vine one foot back from her fence she reached over the fence one day and chopped the vine down to the roots. It died.
My response wasn't very mature, but I was angry. I loosed two garter snakes into her yard, and one of them happened to be pregnant. That next week I saw her grandson chopping and digging all the underbrush and bushes out from her lawn. Ha.
Butter00pecan
23. Crossing Boundaries
She lived downstairs and smoked dirt weed in a non-smoking building 24/7, left trash in the backyard constantly, flooded the basement with sewage without telling the landlord about it, had multiple random men over every other night (had some of them living with her periodically), left the main door to the apartment unlocked every night.
She left trash in the stairwell for months at a time (empty tv boxes and trash bags), and would leave her obese, flea-covered cat in the stairwell which would scratch at my door during the night.
Haiku_God
24. Liar Liar
A horrible neighbor decided one random night to shoot off fireworks, "because their son wanted to see them." So instead of shooting off Roman candles up into the air, he shoots them across the rooves of his neighbor's houses.
When I say across, houses, so basically shooting at his neighbor's houses. I walk over and ask him to stop. He tells me to go away, so my wife calls the cops. Cops show up at their house (he had since stopped his fireworks show).
A few minutes later, the cops showed up at my house questioning me. Horrible neighbor tells the cops I punched him in the face, traumatizing his family (I didn't). Luckily cops didn't believe him. We have since moved out of that neighborhood. So many stories. It couldn't have been a more dysfunctional Place.
Facelesspirit
25. Hell From Both Sides
Two bad neighbors I had in the past. One went through the effort of having no parking signs put in front of our house (even though street parking was legal in our area) solely because he wanted his kids to be able to play in the street.
The other was a veteran who would frequently have large gatherings where they would light fireworks (not legal in our area) and also would put his trash on our lawn because he "fought for our rights", which means he could do whatever he wanted
Zrth716
26. Revenge
Had a neighbor that would let his dog go unsupervised and would poop on my lawn all the time. My truck radiator needed to be replaced due to a clog so I left him a note that I would be performing a repair on my truck and that I would have poisonous chemicals around.
I removed the radiator and collected most of the antifreeze in a shallow bucket. Go inside for a second to take a piss. Come out and his dog was drinking the antifreeze! I chased him off and go tell the neighbor what had happened.
His dog died a few days later from dehydration and kidney failure. I get sued and he loses for his negligence. So what does he do? He fills pill pockets with rat poison and tries to kill my dog.
I caught my dog foaming from the mouth and rushed her to the vet. They pumped her stomach and used charcoal. I get a report from the vet and go to the police. Nothing is done because I don't have proof he did it.
I moved the next month.
Forcekin6532
27. The Petty Neighbor
We were living in a condo. I just had our second child. So there are a lot of sleepless nights. A new Neighbor had moved in above us. We never had complaints before. This is an older building so sound travels.
There isn’t much we can do about that and babies will cry. One night around 1 am the baby starts crying and right as we’re about to get her to sleep we hear a loud thump and heavy stomping and then slamming of doors and running around the house as if somebody is marching. the walls shook.
This week of everybody in the house has caused both children to start crying power by more stomping. He had put on boots and was storming around his house to pick a fight with a newborn baby.
Urza8
28. Suffering Losses
My neighbor caught his car on fire and part of his house and melted the siding of our house because he was siphoning gas with a shop vac. Keep in mind his girlfriend is in the shower, completely oblivious to what is happening.
He packs up his stuff and walks around the block. Comes around to see the firefighters trying to put his car out and proceeds to say, “Well ain’t I a comedian.” That’s just one of the many things he did to terrorize us.
Vuphsy
29. The Attention Seeker
Used to live in a duplex with shared parking in the front and back of the house and my neighbor decided that day that she didn’t want to park in the back (5 opened parking spots) but wanted to park in the front.
My car was parked in the front with plenty of room left for another car but to her, since she doesn’t know how to park right, it wasn’t enough space. So she decided to bang on my windows and doors at 6 am while me and my 2-year-old were asleep.
When I opened the door and simply told her not to bang on my door like a lunatic and that I wasn’t moving my car she told me to eat crap and tried to fight me (I was 5 months pregnant). I almost did fight her to be honest, but I decided to just go inside and ignore her since I was pregnant and that wasn’t the type of person I was anymore.
The next day she left a note on my door calling me fat. I moved out the week after the incident.
Htxfridaaa
30. He Is A Spy
We lived next door to this old man who sat in his front yard BLATANTLY just staring at us with binoculars. He only did it when my parents weren't home. When my mom confronted him he claimed we were lying. We weren't. So one night we heard a noise outside and my mom pulled up the blind to find herself eye to eye with this old man trying to look into our window.
And there's that other time my neighbor tried to kidnap me by trying to lure me into his car asking me for Harry Potter stuff and he went to jail but I've already told that story here.
Tsim12345
31. I Need Peace
For three days in a row, the person above me in the condo I lived in would play The Eagle's greatest hits or something loudly. All Eagles. All night. He'd scream along to the lyrics and it was just horrible.
I finally went up to his place and he couldn't hear me knocking because of the music. I wait until it's between songs and knock hard. I'm expecting a drunk trashy white guy because the singing was horrible.
Nope, middle-aged Korean guy. His accent was thick and when singing made him sound like a drunk white guy in guess.
A friend of mine bought his first house with his new wife and the day after they moved in found swastikas painted on their fence in the front yard. They're Jewish. Not a great welcome to the community.
[deleted]
32. The Schemer
My neighbor (current neighbor... it worries me to say he's probably less than 150 feet away as I type this) is awful. We'll refer to him as "wooden eye", as he has a lazy eye. First off, he sues people for any reason he can think of.
At some point, Wooden Eye put his house up for rent. When the people who started renting it complained that it smelled like cigarette smoke, he sued them for smoking in a non-smoking house. Wooden Eye is a heavy smoker, and his house was FAR from non-smoking.
Also, he has tried to get us into countless pyramid schemes. He's had a few dogs, but they all ran away because he neglected them (unfed, he wouldn't pay attention to them, leave out during storms, etc). At some point, one of my neighbor's cats got into Wooden Eye's yard.
Wooden eye shot the cat. My mother used to work at a flea market and learned that Wooden Eye would take food from free food pantries meant for homeless people, and sell it in the flea market. Recently he lost his driver's license, so he occasionally asks us for a ride somewhere. Every time he asked, we were 'busy'.
I'm sure there are more things he's done that I don't know about, but he's awful.
GREAT_SALAD
33. Drunken Haze
My neighbor broke into my house in the middle of the night in a drunken blur. We were all in our early 20's and he and his buddy, in their late 20's early 30's, lived downstairs. One night, I heard all this noise and found him passed out drunk in my hall closet clutching a pair of shoes.
I asked him to leave and he said ok but still didn't, I could hear him walking around. I was hiding out in my bedroom since the whole thing was a little unnerving. So I called the police and then I heard them come into my apt and say "Hey you! do you live here!?"
I found that approach rather amusing. Once they got him to be coherent for a few minutes, they told him he couldn't just 'break into pretty girls' houses' and then they asked if I wanted to press charges. Of course, I didn't, I am sure the embarrassment was enough for him.
I didn't see him again for the rest of my time living there.
[deleted]
34. Naturally Moody
I am currently living next to a weird neighbor who has a grudge against everyone on our street. When my dad tried to park our car at our house and she happened to be outside, she would hide behind her car or run inside her house. That's how weird she is.
Once while I was playing basketball with my sisters in the middle of the street (it was the only place big and long enough to play) and her car turned into the street, instead of flashing her lights or honks, she accelerated.
Since the ball was still in mid-air, I waited for it to come down so I could catch it and move aside. She screeched to a stop next to us, opened her door, and raged about how "we are blind and can't see a car on the road". Being 11/12 years old, I had no comeback ready.
The funny thing is, I never knew what happened between us to make our relationship this sour. She has been acting this way since before I was born. Her husband is a good man though. Always smiling at us and greeting us.
Nellek_God
35. The Thief
I had a really bad neighbor back in my early 20s who we caught constantly trying to sneak over in the night and steal gas from our cars and anything we left outside. We lived in a nice neighborhood he was a junkie who lived with his parents.
He got arrested at one point for feeding meat with broken glass in it to a neighbor's dog for fun. He was always a piece of crap but the drugs made him even worse. He tried stealing my lawn mower and I chased him off.
Later that night I caught him outside spray painting my garage and I beat him and called the police. He got arrested for assault, trespass, and vandalism. His parents bailed him out shortly thereafter.
He decided to come to my house with a baseball bat to "get revenge" on me but neither I nor my wife were home. Her father and mother were down visiting us and staying in our spare bedroom. I suppose he kicked/broke down the door to get inside. My father-in-law shot him 6 times in the chest with a 44 special.
Josh_Thompson
36. My Harmless Dog
He lives 5 miles out in the country, and he has four of these Scottish Highlander cows. He is convinced my yellow labrador is going to viciously attack them, and he freaks out whenever my dog is close to his property. He called the cops, and they pretty much told him that there was nothing that could be done.
He can legally shoot my dog if he is actually on his property hurting his livestock. I'm not worried that my dog going to do that, but I am worried that he will just shoot my dog and say that he was hurting them.
He has also freaked out because the garbage truck backed into his driveway, and also that we drove too fast by his house and the dirt kicked up from the road. Just a whiney neighbor that moved from the city out to a rural area I guess.
Tumadreporfavor
37. I Scared Him
After a hockey game, my friends thought it would be hilarious to douse me in warm pig blood. I had just entered my apartment when I heard a knock on my door and one of my neighbors who I had seen around the building had randomly decided to get to know me at that moment.
I had a grey shirt on and some lighter pants. All covered in blood, and it had dried to the point that I had completely forgotten it was still there. His demeanor changed immediately when he finally looked at my clothing.
He kept chatting nervously for a few minutes and then left in a hurry. I went back into my apartment thinking that was a nice gesture and was wondering to myself why he had left in such a hurry. I walked past my hallway mirror and immediately felt like an idiot.
He never spoke to me again, nor did anyone in that apartment complex.
Gankindustries
38. Everything Was Just Loud
Had neighbors once in college who would constantly call the cops on us. At least 3 times a week. The first couple of times we deserved it for being loud. The rest? We could turn the TV on, walk too fast up the stairs, or fart too loud and they would call.
Someone else would be having a party and they would call on us. It got so bad that the cops even showed up one night just for no reason. The exact words were, "We were in the neighborhood and figured we'd be here later, so we were just checking" and laughed it off.
We even went as far as getting a lawyer to get us out of the lease because we were being harassed with the complaints FOR NO REASON. Hated that place.
[deleted]
39. It Almost Bit Me
I lived on the third floor of a walk-up apartment building (four apartments on each floor). I came home from work one evening, arms loaded with grocery bags. Reached my floor and looked up to see a very angry 90-pound boxer running towards me.
I dropped the bags and turned sideways to brace for the dog hitting me. The dog jumped and sailed past down the stairs. I managed to get into my apartment before the dog got back up.
I called the management office to report the dog; twenty minutes later the dog's owner came banging on my door, wanting to know why I called in a complaint. Since the front office told her I was the one to complain.
I gave my moving notice the next day. Two days before I moved out the sheriff's department evicted the neighbor and her dog; said the neighbor was dealing drugs and the apartment chose to object.
Lurkininthecoalmine
40. Midnight Blast
In the third year of college, my room shared a wall with another building (it was a townhouse-style dorm). Pretty awesome single for the most part. Except for the jerk who lived right next to me.
This guy would sleep with his girlfriend seemingly every night - which is fine, mazeltov, sir. Except for the fact he would cover their noises by blaring the worst dubstep music you have ever heard. Which was bad enough on a normal night, but far worse on nights before exams when you're trying to sleep.
This went on for months and months. I walked over to their building a few times to complain, but nothing changed. I moved my bed over to the other side of the room, and he responded by blaring his music louder.
Finally, they broke up, I think. A week went by without music. However, in his grief, he decided to make some popcorn, and of course, burned it. So at 3 AM, the fire alarms went off for everybody, forcing us outside in the cold and the rain of early March, in New Jersey.
Still better than most roommates I've had, I guess.
BlueHighwindz
41. The Weirdos
After some awesome neighbors moved out, we had an old Australian man and his wife move in next door. They proudly told us they had met online and the woman had paid for the man to come here, marry her, and become a US citizen.
After their daughter hit me with her car while I was biking past their house, our relationship was kind of strained. They've had over seven dogs in the past five years, all of which have died or been taken away because some nosy neighbor (me) keeps calling animal control because they beat and starve the poor little things.
Lucyinthesky9513
42. Noisy Drug Addicts
When my parents split up in high school, my mom moved into an apartment close to my high school so I could stay with my friends. Our neighbors down the hall were massive addicts.
I think the most messed up memory I have is the two of them screaming on the balcony at 3 am on a Tuesday over who owed who more money for drugs and who was going to beat who with what item if they didn't shut up.
These incidences were common once every couple of weeks. They would let their friends into the building and they would linger around the lobby of my floor and sometimes ask me for money, smokes, and sometimes drugs. Eventually, they were evicted when our building manager caught them shooting up drugs in their garage with the door open one afternoon.
[deleted]
43. No, Thank You
I live in a sort of economically depressed area because it's convenient to campus as I'm a student. My parents purchased a second home in the area for me to live in… I have this one neighbor (a grown man) constantly knocking on my door trying to sell me services for ridiculously inflated prices: $20 to shovel and salt my extremely small driveway, $20 to mow my extremely small front lawn, tried selling me a weed whacker for $80.
He came over carrying a bucket yesterday and rang the doorbell and I know he saw us inside, so I just ignored him, not sure what it was about but certainly something I would have just said no to and he would have repeatedly pushed it.
And across the street, there are the unattended children who stay out all day in the summer screaming and bothering every stranger who happens to walk by.
[deleted]
44. Air Pollution
My family had a neighbor who would repeatedly call the cops on us. The first time was because our squirrels were stealing pecans from a tree in their yard.
The second time we would have family visit from out of town periodically and they claimed we were running a bed and breakfast without a permit - lowering their property value.
What? They would also yell at my Mom for leaving the house too often and polluting their breathing air by driving so frequently.
Our neighbors were old people with too much time and not enough to complain about.
Pocketrins
45. I Need Silence
I currently live below a toddler. The constant thudding of what I can only imagine is an overweight man-child running around ALL DAY is truly mind-altering. It's like a dull fire poker being jammed into my ears with each step, with each dropped play toy, with every jump from the couch and bounce on the bed. I can't study at home and I haven't experienced silence in months.
The yipping of the dog next door is almost a welcome respite from the migraine-inducing shockwave cascading down from the ceiling.
I'd go back to the early morning crying any day.
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