An student has received a sternly worded note from her downstairs neighbour for a surprisingly innocent reason.
The woman, who’s living in student accommodation in Vienna, Austria shared an image of the handwritten note demanding she ‘stop walking barefoot’ to Reddit drawing in thousands of outraged responses.
The disgruntled neighbour threatened to report the barefoot stomper to the police if they continued to walk around their home particularly between the hours of 10pm to 6am.
A student was shocked to find a rude handwritten note from her downstairs neighbour demanding she stops walking ‘barefoot’ around her own apartment
‘STOP WALKING BAREFOOT. If you keep doing that and especially during the Ruhezeit – Night Silence (22:00-06:00) I will report you to the police for disturbance,’ the note read.
Ruhezeit is known as ‘quiet time’ in Germany where residents are legally forbidden from making noise in the hours the note-writer outlined.
Anything beyond 50 decibels is illegal from 10pm to 6am and people are completely prohibited from doing things like vacuuming, mowing the lawn, hammering and playing loud music or they risk copping a hefty fine.
The disgruntled neighbour threatened to report the barefoot stomper to the police if they continued to walk around their home particularly between the hours of 10pm to 6am
‘*Gasp* imagine having the audacity to walk barefoot in your own apartment,’ the woman captioned the post.
The student said she received the message after she had been away for three months and came back to her dorm for a single night to pack up her things and return her key.
‘It’s not like anything has been happening for weeks to provoke them to write this,’ she said.
‘I was careful not to be loud, have never heard noises myself and no one else has complained about my walking when I did live here full time.’
The post attracted thousands of responses from Redditors with many confused by the strict rules.
‘How is walking bare foot louder than walking with the standard German Karin footwear Birkenstock?’ one user asked.
‘Probably a heel walker like my wife. A sledge hammer would make less impact,’ speculated another.
‘What are they going to tell the police? ‘My apartment is not sound isolated and I can hear my neighbours walking, I would like to report that right now!’ What kind of answer that person is expecting?’ a third laughed.
‘I could understand if your feet were cymbals,’ joked a fourth.
‘What am I missing here? I would think walking barefoot would be quieter. Maybe you have hoofs?,’ another question.
Others recommended ways to further annoy the downstairs neighbour as revenge for the rude request and some sympathised with them.
‘Buy those Dutch wooden shoes. So you won’t walk barefoot…,’ one person suggested
‘My upstairs neighbour sounds like an elephant jumping all over the place. So I get it,’ a second admitted.
‘Having lived with a heel striker before, I side with the neighbour,’ admitted a third.
Previously, a furious resident received a surprisingly well-mannered response after writing a expletive-laden note telling his neighbour to keep the noise down at night.
The heated exchange between the Perth neighbours was shared to news satire site The Bell Tower Times 2.0, leaving viewers eye-rolling.
The disgruntled Mosman Park local penned an angry note to the noisy neighbour telling them to stop playing videos at loudly at night and taped it to a wall in the complex.
A furious resident received a surprisingly well-mannered response after writing a expletive-laden note telling his neighbour to keep the noise down at night
‘Just a tip. Don’t play your personal growth videos at max volume at night, you inconsiderate f*** wit,’ the notice read.
Despite the rude tone, the resident the message was addressed to wrote a polite response on the back of the page apologising for causing a disturbance and requesting the note-maker clean up their language.
‘Sincere apologies if my podcast bothered you. I’ll adjust the volume and placement of my speaker. It was not anywhere near max volume but appreciate the sound must travel and I’m sorry,’ they wrote.
‘I also have a tip that swearing at your neighbour isn’t very nice or considerate either. Simply bringing an issue to their attention is quite enough. Peace and love xoxo.’
Despite the tense tone, the rowdy resident the note was addressed to wrote a polite reply on the back of the page apologising and requesting the note-maker clean up their language
People in the comments were impressed by the ‘restrained’ and reasonable response and joked the resident who wrote the mean message may need to listen to a ‘personal growth’ podcast them self.
‘I think the personal growth podcast needs to actually be turned to max volume… the neighbour obviously needs them more,’ one woman laughed.
‘The f*** wit call was a little blunt but I really appreciate the restrained yet rapidly simmering tension as a dynamic,’ responded another.
‘Yeah maybe just ask the guy nicely. That seems to work in most parts of the world,’ agreed a third.
‘Those podcasts must work, well handled,’ one man laughed and another said: ‘Someone got TOLD’.
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