Rule of thumb... do not live below a family with two children under the age of five.
They were gone for a week or so. On a vacation. It was bliss. The moment they returned, the stomping and running and banging began. These two children are allowed to run the length of the apartment back and forth and back and forth marathon style.
We have complained numerous times.
Oh but they're just kids. There's nothing to be done about it.
They have even had the children come down and apologize.
We were offered cookies once as a bribe I mean a peace offering.
And then later that day the running and clomping and jumping and banging starts up again.
The nerve making their children apologize.
It's not the kids fault.
It's the parents not having the sense, the courtesy and the respect of condo living to make it a rule in the house that there is to be no running. I remember when I was growing up in a house where the only thing below us was a basement and even then we were not allowed to run through the house.
It's frustrating because legally there isn't much if anything that we can do.
And it seriously has gone beyond anything acceptable. We are tired of complaining. We actually just yell up from our condo to theirs. I have even considered late in the night belting out “TOMORROW TOMORROW!!!!” but then that wouldn't be fair to the other neighbors.
We have also considered one of those blow horn aerosol can things but that would freak the cats out even more than they already are.
So all we can do is hope that they decide to move.
PLEASE move.