'It felt like my small win for the day': Fed up folks annoyed by their entitled Karen neighbors share their petty revenge wins

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    Light - Posted by u/chttybb 16 hours ago Downstairs neighbor slamming door 2
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    Font - Our downstairs neighbors have been very insensitive to us living upstairs. They would always slam their doors no matter the time of day. The building would literally shake whenever they slam their doors whether entrance or any doors inside the unit. They would even park their car in front of their unit and would freaking slam the car doors at 5am and talk loud outside qs if they're the only ones living in this complex.
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    Font - Earlier today, they've been going in and out of their unit of course, slamming the door each time. I work from home and constantly on calls and it's been rough - I couldn't focus because of all the loud noise and shaking. But I'm feeling petty today so I opened all our windows and started to vaccuum our floors which probably took around 15 minutes non-stop. I heard him/her slam the door twice while I was vaccuuming and it felt like my small win for the day. All the slamming stopped when I
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    Font - chickintheblack. 15 hr. ago I used to have a neighbor similar to yours. I would just walk heavily so they'd hear my stomps as a petty comeback
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    Font - wingsbc 14 hr. ago That was my first thought reading this. You never piss off people living above you as they literally have full control over the noise level of your ceiling. Time for my aerobics class wearing my steel toed work-boots.
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    Rectangle - MelodicClass7027 13 hr. ago Tap dance and clog dancing classes
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    Font - +2.2 hr. ago Basketball practice. Zoreb1
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    Font - Pineapplegirl1234 +2. 12 hr. ago I once took a stack of books and stood a couple of stairs up and threw them as hard as I could down. Message received.
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    Font - SarahPallorMortis 6 hr. ago +1. "Either someone just died or they want us to shut up"
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    Bird - twilight_songs +1.9 hr. ago I put roller skates on my kids.
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    Font - TheRealJackReynolds 10 hr. ago I'd knock on the wall after every slam.
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    Font - Accomplished-Ad3219 14 hr. ago +1 • My neighbors used to slam theirs all the time. Especially when they got into arguments. One day, I'd slam mine every time they slammed theirs. They stopped after that
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    Font - are succubus1234 14 hr. ago Buy some "house heels" for starts and drink smaller coffees during business hours working from home. Make sure to toss your things on the floor when you come in, packages/ parcels, groceries that it won't hurt. Taking garbage out of the bin? Tie it and plop it next to the bin from a little height, then again next to the door prior to stumbling around to get your shoes on properly. Work call goes well? A good "WOOOOO!!!" Like your fave team just scored last 3 se
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    Font - Diamondplate Dave 2 hr. ago "Midnight clog-dancing meet-up. Held at my private practice area, no charge. Just slam your car door when you arrive so I'll know you're here. Infants, children, and small irritable barkydogs welcome!"
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    Font - Lucky_Farmer_793 +1. 10 hr. ago I had some teenage neighbors that stomped up the shared stairwell. I had to move the bookcase from that wall as it was in danger of toppling when the wall shook. So, I found various elephant trumping/stampeding wav files and, when I perfected the timing, I turned the speakers up. The sound effects accompanied their ascent.
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    Font - I heard them complaining to their mom and she exclaimed, "Well, you DO sound like a bunch of elephants!" And the stomping stopped.
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    Font - VladSquirrel Christ. 14 hr. ago Had a loud/rude family with a few screaming kids in the room next to mine at a hotel and all their noise was coming through an hvac duct all day. Soooo I fired up my bluetooth speaker and propped it against the duct with Hell Awaits by Slayer cranked up on loop while I went out for a couple of hours. The silence when I got back was sublime.
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    Font - LibraryMouse4321 +2 11 hr. ago If you are a renter maybe you can talk to your landlord about the slamming and maybe he can line all the doors with a rubber strip to reduce the sound. Alternately, you can start slamming your doors as well and maybe add a bit of stomping. If they are out making noise and slamming doors at 5am then you can do a bit of noise making late at night. If they come to you to complain, just say "with all the noise you make CONSTANTLY, I thought you liked noise and t
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    Font - gxbcab 9 hr. ago . Buy a roomba and glue strings tied to bells and marbles on it so it makes a loud racket when it moves across the floor. Turn it on every time they start slamming doors.
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    Font - +1 13 hr. ago Some people honestly do not understand. Some do and don't care - those are different breed. They require specific approach. But for the most part it is ignorance. Distdistdist I have few neighbors that enjoy listening to music. Hey, so do I. I even like their selection. But bass coming through the walls gets annoying eventually.
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    Font - I knocked on the door of my next door neighbors and politely asked to turn it down. They did, and I never had issues with them again. Earlier that year, however, I had a bit more stubborn ones that also liked to listen to music at high volume. Well... I just happen to have a set of 1200W EV active speakers. So, there was a involuntary concert of my choosing. 3 solid hours of my favorite metal bands. Haven't heard any more noise again.

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