Last week I (23M) left a note on my upstairs neighbors door asking if they could be more conscious of their noise level at night, I even included some stickers in there because I know they have a kid. Since then, the noise levels have decreased which is amazing since I was loosing a lot of sleep due to the sound (mostly consisting of loud sex, and it’s an old building. I can excuse most of the floorboard creaking but it was getting pretty bad), I was kind of going crazy. Anyways, this is after a few months of dealing with the sound, I mustered up the courage to leave the note because I didn’t want to come off as rude and inconsiderate to a family.

The thing i’m writing about is that since then, it seems like all the noise has transferred to my next door neighbors. I’ve been woken up to the sound of angry yelling at 2AM, and they’ve played their TV very loud at night in the last week. I’ve never really had a problem with these neighbors before and i’m aware some noise is going to get through, hell i’m not even trying to be a hypocrite, I listen to the TV at night just at level 2. At around 11:30 last night I got up and wrote a note saying “Hey, The TV has been very loud at night, if you could turn it down a couple of levels that would be appreciated. Thank you.” taped it to their door and went back to trying to get to sleep. Figured this would be a decent solution seeing that it worked with my considerate upstairs neighbors, and I was loosing sleep, didn’t know what else to do. *Little bit of context because I am not always in the right here, I did knock on the wall maybe twice before getting up to drop the note off.

This morning i’m woken up by yelling, “Suck my dick… something something TV loud. something something knocking.” and this goes on for a hot minute, various things being yelled and swearing, the TV comes back on and yeah. So I’m like fuck. I feel like a prick, and since have gotten some advice from family that they wouldn’t have personally left the note. It wasn’t my intention to start shit with them just wanted to ask them to turn the TV down a little at night. Now I don’t even want to go home, I feel like shit, I can’t sleep, and I have to deal with the consequences of a neighbor disliking me and potentially playing their TV loud on purpose at night. Cried about it got overly emotional about it because of my lack of sleep, and now i’m just anxious about the whole thing, never wanted to be that guy.