February 28, 2011

Dear Upstairs Neighbor

Dear Man who lives above us, and gives me so many sleepless nights & mornings:

Why do you get up at 4 am and stomp around your room??
And then go quiet, tricking me until you get up for good at 5 am?
I think you have a pet elephant up there, or you weigh 600 lbs.- because it's not humanly possible to stomp as loud as you do.
If you don't have a pet elephant, then you must have bloody stubs from all your stomping.
Some days (most days) I get really mad at you, and I want to stomp on my ceiling back so you know what it sounds like.
But until I figure out how to walk/stomp on my ceiling you win every fight you never know we have.
I have thought of many possibilities to give you the benefit of the doubt;
  • you are a world-renowned Irish dancer and love to stomp around dancing
  • you are an interior designer and love to rearrange your furniture every morning at 5 am (with all the moving around and things banging this one seems possible)
  • you had a skiing accident when you were younger, and they had no choice but to replace all your bones in your legs with lead, or concrete, whichever is heaviest. Thus resulting in your stomping everywhere.
You see neighbor? I have tried, but none of these explanation satisfy me.
So, if you are going to come down and prove one of my theory's please either bring your Interior Designer degree, a doctors note explaining your accident, or umm... your Irish dancing tights {?} to prove a reason to me, thus helping me not get so angry at you in the wee hours of the night and again in the wee hours of the morning.

Thanks neighbor- oh, and p.s. If you start your washing machine and/or dryer again late at night or early in the morning I will cut all the wires that give your apartment energy supply..
ok, thanks! {Insert sweet, smiley face here}


oh the joys of apartment living.

3 comments:

Dan said...

That is the worst and especially when you are pregnant and don't get much sleep anyways. We have an upstairs neighbor with a dog.... I want to pound on the ceiling all the time too :) Hope it gets better for ya. PS this is Allison not Dan :)

Anonymous said...

Turn your broom upside down and whenever you hear him just pound right back....I think I saw that once on an episode of Friends. lol.
But who knows, maybe it will work! Good luck!

D-dawg said...

I heard him early Monday morning. It was annoying so I understand your feelings. I keep imagining you raging and running up there to scream at him. Not that you would do that but it would be funny. I'll pray that he will lose some weight! (O;