‘By kids I mean full-grown high schoolers built like linebackers’: Tenant tormented by their upstairs neighbors’ kids' nonstop stomping makes a loud, petty but hilarious comeback by blasting a chaotic playlist through the ceiling on loop

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Dec 8, 2025 5:00 PM EST

Being a downstairs tenant sometimes means you no longer live in an apartment but in an experiment testing the limits of human patience and structural engineering. Above this lucky apartment lives a family of what they call three "kids," although these "kids" are high schoolers built like they were made in a sports lab. Every step overhead sounds like a stampede auditioning for a Michael Bay action movie. The floor shakes, the lamps vibrate, and quiet time is now a myth from a gentler past.  

When one particularly ferocious thud hits at 10 p.m., it feels like an airborne linebacker just landed mid-bedroom. The tenant trudges upstairs to look for logic and instead finds the father shrugging it off with a classic line: "They're just kids." No remorse, no awareness, just pure acoustic terrorism and a man confident that gravity will handle the rest. The family knows exactly how their thuds travel, they lived downstairs before. Which means the stomping is not ignorance, it's a live-action reenactment of their favorite Lion King scenes

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  • My upstairs neighbours stomp like a herd of caffeinated elephants… so I created something to cope 😂

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  • My upstairs neighbours have three "kids" .... and by kids I mean full-grown high schoolers built like linebackers and these people stomp around ALL DAY LONG I'm talking constant footsteps, constant thuds, constant ceiling rumbles.
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  • It's like living under a bowling alley run by toddlers in clown shoes. But then came The 10pm Event.
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  • One night, out of absolute nowhere, it sounded like someone literally launched themselves off their bed and body- slammed straight into our bedroom.
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  • The whole ceiling shook. I genuinely thought Thor himself had yeeted a hammer through the floorboards to collect my soul.
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  • So we go upstairs to say, "Hey, whatever you're doing is happening right above our bedroom." And the dad just goes, "They're just kids." Mate... No.
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  • A frustrated woman sits at her laptop in a kitchen, looking up with exasperation and her hands raised.
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  • These are not kids. These are near- adults generating seismic activity for fun. Also the funniest part?
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  • They used to live downstairs before the house got split into two levels. They KNOW this building has the soundproofing of wet cardboard.
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  • Zero insulation. Zero padding. Just pure echo chamber. And yet they moved upstairs and decided to start parkouring over my sanity.
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  • No apology. No acknowledgement. Just the "kids" excuse and a shrug. We're planning to move soon, but until then we're basically living inside a giant drum someone plays at random hours with their entire body weight.
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  • Soooo I create the "special" playlist for them and pressed a little speaker gently against the ceiling.
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  • And just keep playing it... on loop even when we are not at home If anyone has more cursed chaos songs to add, I'm absolutely taking recommendations.
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  • So, revenge. Loud, petty, and oddly therapeutic. A speaker pressed to the ceiling now delivers an ongoing playlist of chaotic noise to match the upstairs energy. Songs chosen not to soothe but to haunt. It’s less music and more an exorcism through rhythm. The neighbors probably don’t care, but the downstairs tenant sleeps easier knowing that somewhere above, confusion is blooming. Sometimes the only way to fight noise is with noise that bites back, one cursed beat at a time.

  • At this point, unhinged soundtrack energy is the only thing keeping me from screaming into the void.
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  • Sunshinehappyfeet I had a neighbor was that below us. He would come home after the bars closed and play his electric guitar at 3am. I would lay my speakers/sub woofer down on the floor above his bedroom, full volume, and go to work in the morning. All the annoyed neighbors were in on it. Worked like a charm. ♥
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  • OP OkBreadfruit5427 Omg that's honestly so good
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  • strangelove4564 "They're just kids." "That's right. And they need proper parenting." Maybe put that speaker against the dad's bedroom since he's the main failure point.
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  • OP OkBreadfruit5427 He is definitely the main problem, he is WFH so he is always here.. we did put the speaker against where his working space is
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  • Enough-Street-6230 Put All I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey on repeat when you leave.
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  • OP OkBreadfruit5427 Let's the festive season begins hahaha
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  • Missmel1986 Play teenage dirtbag on blast lol
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  • OP OkBreadfruit5427 Added to my playlist!! hahaha
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  • Mr_Pink_Eyez Wow that's petty!....and I'm all for it! We do about the same to our inconsiderate, alc ic neighbor that is nothing more than a blight on society.
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  • Formal_Hyena5065 3zzz va22vqq
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  • Wulfy95 Look up how army men used music for actual torture! There's songs they used listed somewhere and I know baby shark is one!
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  • Hemlock-Tea Look up "Renai Controversy (Renai Circulation x Without Me)" on YouTube and have fun
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