[katiesue]

Oh Snowflake. So sorry. I lived downstairs the whole time Maddy was small, because hello I thought it would be nicer than having her running around like mad making the people below us insane. However I've found most other upstairs neighbors don't give a hoot about that.

I'm upstairs now and I worry all the time about bothering the nice couple below me. I've told them to just let me know anytime anything's bugging them. They said in the 15 plus years they've lived there I'm the quietest ever. One guy regularly did pottery at all hours, slamming the clay on the floor to get the air bubbles out. Maddy's dad, who isn't a small person, is on the second floor and got a treadmill. I can't imagine the racket that makes when he's running on it.

I'm pretty understanding of others. You are in close quarters and there's not much you can do about most stuff. One neighbor tends to blast his stereo occasionally but honestly it's not that bad and it's always during the day. The one thing I hate is smoke drifting in. But luckily no one near me is a smoker right now.

Oh best upstairs neighbor story. Maddy was having a birthday/sleepover party when we were on the first floor. Our upstairs neighbor was really quiet for the most part but he had a deep booming kind of voice. So the girls are settling down and for a couple it was their first sleepover so I was staying in the living room with them until they fell asleep. Well of course as soon as they quieted down the noise from upstairs started. Oh yea he was getting lucky up there and the booming voice was yelling "yes yes yes" and so on. I was panicking trying to think of what to tell the girls cause I knew someone was going to say something. They were 6 or 7 at the time. Luckily no one said anything and they all fell asleep.