[Snowflake]

So, it's official, my downstairs neighbors are insane.

About a month ago, the downstairs neighbors complained to the manager about cat litter and cat poo odor in the master bath (directly below mine). Tango does her business in the box in the tub. The manager came up to our apartment, and my roomie took her into the bathroom, no smell in our apartment. My bathroom is clean and I clean the box twice daily (or more as needed). She advises we move the box to the other (public) bathroom, no way and I have not.

Last week, I come home to find a note under the door, "Dear Neighbor: Your white noise machine or fan is keeping us up at night. We can't sleep and ask that you not run it since it keeps us awake and some nights whatever you are using requires us to move and sleep in our sunroom. We suggest that maybe if you are using a fan to open the windows, it keeps our apartment quite cool." I took it to the manager and showed her, she said ignore it, they're a pain in the ass. I asked, rhetorically, between the street noise, the trash and recycling truck, the construction going on around the building and the garage door opening and closing at all hours right under their (always closed I might add) windows, how the hell do they hear me? The fan I was using is on a carpet and when the apartment is 85 at 3:00am, I am using it, to hell with you, it's hot. Besides, this same fan was running, 24/7 last summer on the hardwood floor right in the doorway to my room. They were under it then, why no complaint of the fan on the hardwood?

So, my roomie calls me today to report that they have now complained that when I flush the toilet, it causes theirs to "bubble." The manager comes into our apartment with the plumber and a secondary plumber downstairs and they flush away and flush away.

If it were not so ridiculous, I'd be angry. I mean, let's be realistic, we all live in an apartment building, it is an old building too, built in 1940. If they think I'm bad, they should live under our upstairs neighbor. She's 80 and and makes more noise than a 3 year old. Heck, her maid makes more noise and drops furniture twice weekly as she moves it to vacuum the dog hair. Hell, I could complain about their BBQ (which is illegal), but I'm an adult and realize this is apartment living and you just have to deal and I close the windows for the half hour it takes for the BBQing to be done.

Clearly this is my month to be on their ****list, literally today. They're nuts.