Young kids in my apartment complex keep kicking rocks at…
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Young kids in my apartment complex keep kicking rocks at my bedroom wall while I’m asleep
Like the title says, there are these kids that live in my apartment complex in the apartment above mine. Two girls. Randomly, every few days, at 3-4pm, one of the two stands in front of the building in the gravel rain catch, faces the road, and kicks the gravel against the wall of the apartment.
I don’t know why she does this. I don’t have kids but I know they just do things sometimes and I don’t generally care. The problem is that I work overnights, 7:30p-8a and I try to wake up around 6p to get ready and go. Her kicking rocks consistently wakes me up at the equivalent of 3-4am.
First I ignored it. Then I hollered out from my bed “please stop that.” Then I Ieft signs on the wall outside my place explaining and asking her to stop. Nothing worked.
Last week, I just so happened to be awake early on my weekend and I heard her kicking rocks. I poked my head out and asked her to stop and she said NO. Her guardian was with her and I tried to explain to him that it was waking me up but he didn’t respond and just looked at me and went to his apartment.
Again, I had hope in my heart that the shame would make them stop. But guess what? Again at exactly 3:37PM I heard the girls laugh and run to the wall and start kicking rocks.
At this point, I contacted management and I’m writing a note to leave on their door for the adults in their family but I’m so frustrated. I’m tempted to start throwing rocks at their walls/windows or hit my ceiling with a broom at 3:30am ((I can see the bunk bed through the window so I know they’re directly above me)) but I don’t want to stoop to the level of children. I’m also concerned because I know it’s the daytime and quiet hours don’t apply but,,, god damnit,, kicking rocks at my bedroom wall is beyond normal noise.
I just don’t really know what to do next. I’m nervous about knocking on the door and talking to the guardians directly because they didn’t care when I was talking through my window. Also what is management even gonna do? I think the only solution is to make them suffer like I’ve been suffering but I’m not generally the “get even” type of person.
ETA: the note is old and it rained before the kids came back so I took the one on the wall down and left the one in my window that was at “adult height.” That was a few weeks ago lmao but I appreciate the advice that it won’t work. It didn’t.
I’m planning to keep reporting to the landlord. I just wanted to vent about how silly this shit is. Usually I want to retaliate when I’m first waking up and angry but I cool off by the time it’s actually 3am. I’m moving out early in a few weeks due to outside circumstances (moving into a bigger place that just came available with the same property management company!) so it won’t be an issue for me for much longer. Good luck to the next tenant.
In the meantime, I’ve been sleeping at my girlfriend’s apartment most days when I’m working. Let them do whatever they want when I’m not home and let someone with significantly less patience do whatever they do after I leave.
#entertainment
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Like the title says, there are these kids that live in my apartment complex in the apartment above mine. Two girls. Randomly, every few days, at 3-4pm, one of the two stands in front of the building in the gravel rain catch, faces the road, and kicks the gravel against the wall of the apartment.
I don’t know why she does this. I don’t have kids but I know they just do things sometimes and I don’t generally care. The problem is that I work overnights, 7:30p-8a and I try to wake up around 6p to get ready and go. Her kicking rocks consistently wakes me up at the equivalent of 3-4am.
First I ignored it. Then I hollered out from my bed “please stop that.” Then I Ieft signs on the wall outside my place explaining and asking her to stop. Nothing worked.
Last week, I just so happened to be awake early on my weekend and I heard her kicking rocks. I poked my head out and asked her to stop and she said NO. Her guardian was with her and I tried to explain to him that it was waking me up but he didn’t respond and just looked at me and went to his apartment.
Again, I had hope in my heart that the shame would make them stop. But guess what? Again at exactly 3:37PM I heard the girls laugh and run to the wall and start kicking rocks.
At this point, I contacted management and I’m writing a note to leave on their door for the adults in their family but I’m so frustrated. I’m tempted to start throwing rocks at their walls/windows or hit my ceiling with a broom at 3:30am ((I can see the bunk bed through the window so I know they’re directly above me)) but I don’t want to stoop to the level of children. I’m also concerned because I know it’s the daytime and quiet hours don’t apply but,,, god damnit,, kicking rocks at my bedroom wall is beyond normal noise.
I just don’t really know what to do next. I’m nervous about knocking on the door and talking to the guardians directly because they didn’t care when I was talking through my window. Also what is management even gonna do? I think the only solution is to make them suffer like I’ve been suffering but I’m not generally the “get even” type of person.
ETA: the note is old and it rained before the kids came back so I took the one on the wall down and left the one in my window that was at “adult height.” That was a few weeks ago lmao but I appreciate the advice that it won’t work. It didn’t.
I’m planning to keep reporting to the landlord. I just wanted to vent about how silly this shit is. Usually I want to retaliate when I’m first waking up and angry but I cool off by the time it’s actually 3am. I’m moving out early in a few weeks due to outside circumstances (moving into a bigger place that just came available with the same property management company!) so it won’t be an issue for me for much longer. Good luck to the next tenant.
In the meantime, I’ve been sleeping at my girlfriend’s apartment most days when I’m working. Let them do whatever they want when I’m not home and let someone with significantly less patience do whatever they do after I leave.
#entertainment
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