Neighbors trade petty notes after noise complaint: ‘I genuinely hope the guilt that response [elicited] haunts this woman for decades’

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Feb 9, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Having a difficult neighbor in a claustrophobic apartment building can make your living situation nearly impossible. As soon as someone is accused of making too much noise, people can get petty and defensive really quickly. For instance, a friend of mine had an upstairs neighbor who stomped around constantly at 3 am every morning. As soon as he was kindly asked to be quiet moving forward, the neighbor argued he was stomping because he was trying to tell her to quiet down. This, of course, was hard to believe considering the fact that all my friend was trying to do at that time was go to sleep. Still, this back-and-forth went on for months until the end of her lease.

Here, we have a petty feud between neighbors that even had folks in the comments completely conflicted. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit. Keep scrolling below for the full play-by-play. For more, check out this post about a work trip gone wrong.