Hello reddit!!
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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!!
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
Edit: guys stop telling not to lend out money, I won’t see anyone struggle to eat. I just didn’t think they were dumb enough to piss off their upstairs neighbor.
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Freaking love this one lol.
Funny revenge story but don’t loan people money you don’t view as a gift.
What a shame they were willing to destroy a good relationship over such a small amount.
You put your foot down
Don’t lend money you’re not willing to part with permanently.
Don’t mess with flying hippos!! 🦛
PETTY! PETTY! PETTY! I LOVE IT!!! YOU’RE AWESOME!
Love that part of your revenge made your cat so happy!
This is like the “don’t mess with the people handling your food”
That’s a hefty cat. Glad you guys had fun!
Well played. It’s frequently dodgy when loaning money to friends.
Like it!
Modern British builds are such crap. If it’s like my place, you can probably hear everything from underneath too.
Considerate people in both flats are the only way to make such places work.
Years ago, even with better sound insulation, I had a one-off problem with an otherwise really nice neighbour. He woke me up at 2am with really noisy music – and I’m as cranky as fuck when woken up unwillingly – so I retaliated with full blast Wagner (yup, the operatic one….). The music suddenly stopped after 10 minutes. I never had that problem again whilst there.
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.
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.
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 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 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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Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdUHCX6w4KY
Damn I’m not sure what I did to my upstairs neighbor because you pretty much described him lol
What a beautiful ballet – the cat and the flying hippo.
Cat leaps, hippo soars—
ceiling shakes with joyful thumps.
Downstairs, peace is gone.
This is why my dad told me to never lend, just give. And never give from you need.
If you lend, then it becomes a power play in the relationship. There is always a ripple from lending.
If you give, then you’re never really out. If they choose to give it back, then that’s just a bonus.
My building is also paper thin and my upstairs neighbor is so loud and inconsiderate, drops things, walks loud at night, etc. He knows too, because I’ve spoken to him about it. Never stopped. I started setting my alarm at 4am every morning to bang on the ceiling. He got the message after the 3rd day and I’ve been enjoying piece and quiet.
Got a sister in law who can’t work or do jack shit around the house because of her anxiety. Brother works his ass off while she bitches. Damn hard to watch.
He’s a chef with access to food. Leftover specials, kitchen mistakes sent back, food that sat in the steamer too long. The amount of food waste in a commercial kitchen is astronomical. He wasn’t starving.
The way I cackled at the flying hippo 🦛. Amazing 👏. I’m glad you got your money back 😀.
Two of our three cats are still called “kittens” even though they are nearing age 2. Both are fairly small, much smaller than your big boy. But MAN, when they get the zoomies, either individually or as a team, you’d think they were the flying hippos!
And if I were living below them…I’d probably be selling my blood to come up with what I owed you.
Ah, who am I kidding? I’d quit my job and come up to play with them full time!
He didnt steal from you. You gave him money.
So does E actually have anything to do with the story or are you just throwing in that bit of casual ableism for your own satisfaction? Anyway yeah, J, what a bother of them to hold you over for 30 pounds like that.