'She's nuttier than those poisoned cookies': Fake-nice neighbor leaves a cryptic message using baked goods, sparking a stalemate between floors

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    Posted by u/champagne-problems Neighbor who keeps complaining about me left cookies at my doorstep Good afternoon! want to apologize for had ubidea. no Lou was making. I had food processor was so my loud noise I I'm sorry, if this distar. relaxing Saturday. bed your made some peanut butter cookies and thought I would share with you as an apology. So Sorry! Your Downstairs neighbor.
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    I have lived in my second floor apartment going on nine years and had never had any complaints from downstairs neighbors until a new one moved in about six months ago. I am a homebody and don't have a lot of
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    visitors, just two cats, and it wasn't until I had a guest over three months ago (and for the first time since she's been living here) that she started complaining. She left a note on my door that night complaining that I walk and talk too loud. I ignored her
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    and notified management in case it escalated, and it did. Then she complained to them twice more. It has made me super self-conscious about existing in my own space and I feel like even having conversations
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    on speaker phone is too disruptive for her. She hasn't complained in a while though so I figured it was over, but then she left this note and cookies on my doorstep today and it makes me feel weird.
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    I don't want to be friends with this person. She has already made me feel uncomfortable in my own home and I'd rather leave her unacknowledged. I don't even know what her intention was here. It seems like she's baiting me to apologize. If I respond, I'm going to leave her a simple thank you note, but I don't know if I even want to do that.
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    Jewicer 2 days ago i'm not eating those 2.3k Reply Share champagne-problems OP. 2 days ago LOL they went straight into the trash.
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    SalvadortheGunzerker 2 days ago That's what I would have done 303 Reply Share thetempesthascome 2 days ago and i would have stomped around back to the couch lol
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    Ok-Nefariousness8612 22 hr. ago It's so crazy to start beef with upstairs neighbors, they have all the power.
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    poopoojokes69 · 1 day ago Girl I woulda put on my roller skates and cranked Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Circus Hits if someone was writing me this note... Mind your own gosh darn business and get a white noise machine if it's your first apartment, good lord.
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    . Ali_Cat222 1 day ago In all honesty the part where she capitalized how LOUD her food processor was made me think that she was actually being a bit bitchy or sarcastic in this so called apology anyways. 350 Reply Share Donkey Kong694NE1 1 day ago Also I'm getting a crazy person vibe from the handwriting
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    . squatting_your_attic 1 day ago Look at how she wrote "APOlogize" hahahaha she did not want to write that word.
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    returntoB612 - 1 day ago . her letters slant in all directions, vary in size, and aren't always written the same the spacing between letters and words keeps changing and she didn't sign her name ..she's nuttier than those poisoned cookies
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    Stevie Rae-5 · 1 day ago Agree. "Oh my god, I was so LOUD just now this one time and it was so INCONSIDERATE and I would never want to be so LOUD and INCONSIDERATE and DISRUPTIVE and then not even acknowledge that because how would that be to to not acknowledge it and apologize profusely so anyway here's some cookies." Passive aggressive x100.
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    Striking Tradition75 - 21 hr. ago I picked up on APOLOGIZE and LOUD. Passive aggressive nut job. Keep your distance.
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    Muriel_FanGirl . 1 day ago Good, that woman probably put something gross in them. Or laxatives or something. Plus her 'apology' was hella condescending. Awful woman. I'm sorry you're dealing with such nonsense.
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    TelegnosticOnion 2 days ago Yeah those cookies seem passive aggressive AF in context, personally would put all that straight in the trash and forget about it
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    Thin_Reindeer_9647 2 days ago It is no longer 1968, eating food from people you don't know from a can of paint is extremely dangerous 556 Reply Share Souldies ButGoodies84 2 days ago that part. even if there's not tension/conflict.
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    notreallylucy 2 days ago She thinks if she "apologizes" for making noise it will make you more aware of the noise she thinks you're making. Honestly, I wouldn't respond, even with a thank you. Thanking her will just encourage more unwanted food gifts and/or attempts at friendship. I'd just add this to the report to the apartment manager.
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    Hearing other people exist is a normal part of apartment living. It's inevitable. Normal walking and talking at a normal volume are always okay within your own home. Some people refuse to understand
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    the difference between being able to hear your neighbors exist and being disrupted by it. If you want a silent home, apartment living isn't for you-- it's a problem you resolve by changing your expectations, not by demanding others change their behavior.
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    CuntFartz69.2 days ago Nothing says "I'm sorry" like cookies baked with the one of the top food allergens. 101 Reply Share Professional-Storm45 1 day ago As some one with a severe nut allergy my first thought was if I was OP I would think the neighbor is trying to kill me
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    traumakidshollywood 2 days ago This reads very manipulative; "food processor," "Saturday afternoon," "relaxing." This is a message. I don't know where you live, but I think your local culture can only determine how passive aggressive this message is. Either way, her fawning tactic is likely one she'll whip out in the future.
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    I might suggest another letter, that can remain documented, to your landlord stating you receiving another note from your neighbor regarding "noise" ("on her part" - play that down as it's not your point), and that you're very uncomfortable now in a home you pay for, your peaceful enjoyment is consistently breached, and don't wish this person contact you directly regarding building issues anymore.
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    Reiterate your interest in staying on as a tenant indefinitely in the home you've been happy in for X years where you never had a problem until Y moved in (important for documentation).
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    I think this approach will help you get the most recent exchange with the cookies logged while taking the high- road, but also help communicate again that you are not the problem and don't want one.
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    champagne-problems OP 2 days ago It came across as very manipulative and passive aggressive to me too. It also freaked me out when she knocked on my door as I was sitting at home alone not expecting anyone. I didn't even get up to see who it was because I figured it was her complaining about something else, so I poked my head out an hour later expecting another nasty gram and found that note and the cookies. Thank you for the great advice, I will definitely be doing that!
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    i'm not eating those Good aftern want 8 apologize Dean This dis He Chic
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