Noise nuisance has always existed in society, and if we encounter difficult neighbors who cannot communicate effectively, it will not only affect our own lives, but also affect our physical and mental health over time.
When our children were in their third year of high school, a young couple moved upstairs, and everyone was normal at first, although we didn't know each other, I also bought some fruit for this new neighbor, thinking that we could take care of each other in the future.
The situation turned a month later when the couple's two 60-year-old parents moved in with their 8-year-old child. From then on, our family became miserable.
At first, the 8-year-old often cried at night, although I don't know what the reason was, but considering that he was still young, he didn't ask much, and a week later, the child often played basketball in the bedroom from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.
And these two parents in their 60s often get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and work until 6 o'clock, although when they get up this is the freedom of the old man, but he actually runs around on the ground without shoes, and the sound of chopping vegetables in the kitchen, the sound is very crisp, and they have been woken up by almost all around 4 o'clock during this time.
My child is already a senior in high school, and he is about to take the college entrance examination, and every night when he comes home to review his homework, he will be disturbed by their children, and he just fell asleep at about 12 o'clock in the morning, and was woken up by two old people after sleeping for more than 4 hours.
My child's grades have dropped badly during this time, and as a parent, I have been interviewed by teachers several times. When I went upstairs to communicate with them, the two old men started yelling at me.
"What's the matter with me about your child's college entrance examination! Don't tell me you'll move out if you have the ability! ”
"What time do we go to bed and what time do we wake up, that's our freedom, you are not qualified to ask us yet"
"Who hasn't done anything yet, is it because you're not feeling well, that we're not going to live?"
If we continued to communicate like this, we would have a big fight, so I turned around and went back to my house to think about what to do. If the hard ones don't work, I can only come to the soft ones, so I bought a few boxes of beef in the supermarket downstairs, and some snacks that children love to eat and supplements for the elderly to send upstairs, hoping that they can change.
"Uncle, aunt, I see that you are usually very hard, I apologize to you for the incident the day before yesterday, this is a little bit of my heart, please accept it."
"By the way, uncle, my child's academic performance has been seriously declining recently, it seems that it is the reason for not resting well, if the conditions allow, I hope you may move lightly upstairs, I am really sorry to disturb you."
I thought that this matter would come to an end after the two old men accepted the gifts, but I didn't expect it to change back to its previous appearance before it was 3 days.
Seeing that the upstairs neighbor didn't eat it, I could only call the police and find a property to solve the matter.
The property educated it critically, but no substantive action was taken.
After the police came, they could only preach to them, and let the upstairs write a letter of guarantee and then move lightly, this little thing is impossible to detain them, under the mediation of the police, we will each take a step back, and in the future, we downstairs should be tolerant of them, and upstairs should also pay attention to their behavior not to disturb the people.
Unexpectedly, the neighbors who had been educated seemed to have provoked them with this incident, not only did they not converge, but they also made a louder sound than before the adjustment.
Seeing that I had used all the methods, I thought then why not "treat others the way they do!" "Since they make noise, I'll make more noise.
Fight wits with your neighbors
I bought a subwoofer online, as well as a rubber mace, and a drinking water bucket specifically.
Fighting back is also a matter of strategy, because the bucket is made of plastic, it will not hurt the wall, and on the first day when their children played basketball at 8 p.m., I tapped the bucket against the place where the "dong dong" sound sounded.
The crisp sound is very penetrating, not only to cover up the sound of the basketball colliding with the ground, but also to make a loud noise in our room, which can be described as "killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred", but this method is not bad, when I continue to knock, the children upstairs put down the basketball in their hands.
It was the quietest night we've had in our house in a month, and I was ready to fight back against the noise made by the two old men at 4 a.m. In order not to disturb my children's rest, I chose to use a rubber hammer and squatted in the living room at 4 o'clock in the morning to wait for the two elderly people to get up.
When I heard the sound of kitchen knives cutting vegetables again, I immediately responded, and hit the wall with a rubber hammer to make a low sound, although the sound was not loud, but the upstairs must be able to be disturbed by me, so the two old men reined in, afraid that my dead entanglement would affect their grandson's rest.
As soon as I got rid of the noise they made at night, I wasn't going to let them go so easily, after all, they had tormented me for so long, and I was going to torture them this time.
I fixed the subwoofer to the ceiling with duct tape, and then connected it to the Bluetooth of my phone, and found a video of the sound of a chainsaw, which made noise 24 hours a day, and disturbed the neighbors upstairs.
A week later, two old people took the initiative to come to our house with gifts to ask me for peace and apologize!
The crisis is resolved, and enemies are turned into friends
When the two old men came to our door, they first had a miserable meal, saying that they couldn't sleep in the morning and had nothing to do, so they got up to cook, which used to be the case in the countryside, and it has been a habit for many years.
Their children are naturally active, and they all feel that their child has ADHD, and even go to a special hospital for examination.
I told them, "What time do you wake up in the morning, that's your freedom, but as long as you don't disturb the people."
"It's okay for the baby at home to make him quieter, as long as it doesn't affect our sleep, it's also acceptable."
Fighting back is not the goal, if you can get along amicably, then no one wants to have an unpleasant quarrel with your neighbors, as long as you find a reasonable way to solve the problem, this is the goal.