Guy regrets borrowing £30 and then ghosting his upstairs neighbor after getting awoken at all hours of the day by a cleverly clumsy debt collector: ‘I stomped every step, I shuffled, I even played chase [with my] 7kg cat’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 9, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

As an empire built on politeness, the best way to get back at anyone in Britain is to be as underhandedly impolite as possible. Indignant, selfish behavior is heard loud and clear by your enemies, none more than the debt-dodging downstairs neighbor of this next story. 

I was born a heel-walker and only realized my biological predisposition to heavy footfall in my late 20s. Visiting my in-laws, we stayed on the top floor of an older home, and as I unwittingly shook the entire house with each step, my in-laws concocted a series of Big Foot jokes and earthquake puns that would have me attempting to tiptoe with every step. In good spirits, we laughed about my loudness, joking that my lack of stealth would always notify the others of my presence. But I'd never consider weaponizing my loudness, turning each step into concussive booms for an unlucky downstairs neighbor who found themselves on my bad side.

But when the perpetually polite Brit in this next story found himself living amongst a thief, he decided to get payback in the most diabolical way. 

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  • "Don't mess with the person who lives above you"

    So I've lived iny building for over a year now and the first people I befriended live directly below me. Let's call them J and E. J works as a chef full time whilst E games all night and sleeps all day bc her
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  • anxiety makes it too hard for her to work apparently. Anyway few weeks ago J changed jobs and was running low on money going from weekly to monthly pay and asked to borrow £30. Not a huge
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  • deal, I ofc said no worries, thinking we are friends and we live in the same building so everything would be fine. He promised to pay me back in 1 week. He did not.
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  • 2nd late week I texted him multiple times nicely and was completely ignored. I didn't want to start drama in building or anything so I hatched a plan.
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  • The new builds in England are basically built out of cardboard and they can hear all my footsteps (I'm top floor), so since I moved in I've learned to be very gentle with my steps, to be a
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  • good neighbor. However, after the theft, I ran everywhere!! Leaped fromy bed each morning at 6am like a flying hippo to crash upon the floor shaking it. I stomped every step, I shuffled, I even
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  • playEd chased and got chased by the 7kg cat to his joy!! I made so much noise every morning even I started to feel a little guilty.
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  • It only took 6 days before be texted me at 7am on Saturday morning asking what my back details were so he could transfer it over. Winning!!
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  • Don't steal from the people who live directly above you, we control your sleep and general peace, you absolute muppets. WHERE'S THE LOGIC
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  • delulu4drama Don't mess with flying hippos!!
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  • CoderJoe1 You put your foot down
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  • National Pension_110 What a shame they were willing to destroy a good relationship over such a small amount.
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  • Actavisian Love that part of your revenge made your cat so happy!
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  • Aggressive Poet_7319 PETTY! PETTY! PETTY! I LOVE IT!!! YOU'RE AWESOME!
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  • Enviro Nicely done! Especially weaponizing your cat to make noise. It's not as if the downstairs neighbours can prove that you caused your cats to do zoomies.
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  • When I had my noisy downstairs neighbours (I worked nights so I was asleep during the day) and they would bang around all day when I was trying to sleep, I would
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  • get out the cat toys in the early hours of the morning and make my cat run up and down the hallway so it sounded like Godzilla stomping around. My cat would also bang the lid of his covered
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  • litterbox for about 5 mins and scratch around in it so it would sound like his was digging his way to the Upside Down. Now I have nice quiet neighbours downstairs so I can actually sleep better.
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  • cuteintern. What a small price to pay to learn they're a POS, haha. Next time you can tell them to sod off, guilt-free. Because I would bet double that they'll ask again.
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