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It's OK mate
I was just really looking forward to my shower earlier and I thought they'd fixed the issue

But I put the shower on and nothing

We get it through the kitchen but by the time it's the bathroom it's just right down

This has been going on for years

They're supposed to be finally fixing it on Monday according to all accounts

I'll just have to have a cats lick until then

'A cats lick'?

Is that some sort of wash?

Hopefully they'll get it all fixed for you.

yeah
When I was a kid I used to get accused of having a "cats lick" instead of a wash

It's supposed to rain today. Why does it always have to rain every time I need to go somewhere. I guess the rain is nothing compared to what I had to deal with last week.

f*****s upstairs are so noisy I can hear their thumps over the white noise of a fan, an audiobook on loud, and my earplugs in. I think the mother-in-law is staying, as there always seems to be twice as much noise up there when she visits. I feel frustrated because my partner won't let me bang on the ceiling with a broom. But I've tried everything else; politely speaking to them about their noise just to make them aware, and speaking to the landlords too. Nobody gives a s**t. I don't know how much longer I can live like this. They're going to be the death of me.

I banged my hands angrily on the ceiling and now they have stopped. I know it might be seen as passive aggressive behaviour and not very neighbourly, but what else can one do with ADHD and noise sensitivity and getting an angry adrenaline rush that makes it difficult to contain oneself and be calm and cool all of the time. Usually I do contain myself but when their noise is really disrupting my sleep or other activities, I just lose it.

Last edited by Tamaya on 03 Jul 2025, 1:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It's a pain isn't it. I take so much crap off my neighbours and then I turn on my music to blast the living crap out of them as I'm about to do now.

Where I live antisocial noise isn't tolerated and can lead to warnings and even eviction from the landlords (not saying you but I mean your neighbours seem the type to create antisocial noise for you). But my neighbours don't create antisocial noise, so there is literally nothing anybody can do about their noise. Even when they're just walking across the room or the kids dropping their toys on the floor really sounds like an earthquake hurricane for us below, and the landlords can't give them warnings for moving about in their own home. But the trouble is with that, is they have more rights because they obviously can't be restricted from doing anything - but that actually restricts us from doing anything. I know this might sound odd but having to live with headphones or earplugs in all the time actually makes my executive dysfunction worse, to the point where I just don't get hardly anything done in the home. I can't communicate with my partner properly if my ears are always blocked with earplugs or headphones, and almost everything I do is restricted really. I mean I have ears and I'm not deaf, but I might as well be, and one day when I'm older all this sound blocking with earplugs and headphones would probably make me go deaf and develop tinnitus and other hearing problems. I already have perforated eardrums anyway and dry itchy ears.

So in the past when I got unsolicited advice and criticism from rich Americans on internet forums who live in a very peaceful home in the countryside with no neighbours, have often told me that having earplugs constantly in my ears whenever I'm at home is no big deal and that I should have more empathy for the parents upstairs bringing up their two young children.
Being told to "have empathy" really makes my blood boil for some reason, and for once I'm actually thinking of my needs, I don't give a crap about theirs upstairs. They chose to have two children, I've chosen not to have children, I'm in a childless relationship where we just want peace and quiet, and we don't choose to live in an apartment either, it's just we have no choice because we're poor and the council won't give us a house or a bungalow of course. But at least we didn't choose to bring children into this world, as we're poor and underhomed (if that's a word?)

They sweep their floors every Sunday at around 6pm. This time of the week always makes me anxious because it's so loud that it can be heard over white noise and earplugs. I usually have a nap on Sunday afternoons as it's like an escapism, and no matter how armed I am with earplugs and audiobooks and fans, the horrific clanging and banging of the broom in the room above always wakes me up with a start and disturbs my sleep. Other noises they make can be masked by the earplugs I use, but for some reason sweeping their hardwood floors seems to be an extremely noisy activity. I do wish I could ask them to sweep at 8 o'clock instead, as by then I'm cooking or eating dinner in the kitchen.

If only they had carpets up there.