One of the advantages of living in an RV is, if the neighbors do something that keeps you awake when you want to be sleeping, you can move to a different spot. That’s a bit harder to do when you live in an apartment.
That’s one of the reasons we chose a top floor apartment this time around. We no longer appreciate the pitter patter of little feet overhead.
Now, don’t get me wrong. The apartment we live in is well insulated. We rarely hear anything from any of our neighbor apartments. If I happen to be in the bathroom when the folks below are bathing their little ones I hear happy voices coming up the vent shaft but that’s not a sound I would complain about.
Now we do hear sounds outside that come in through our windows. Like when they mow the grass in the mornings before I get up.
But, can you imagine my puzzlement when I woke up in the wee hours of the morning a couple of nights ago to the sound of snow shoveling? It’s September! But it sounded to me like a metal shovel scraping on a concrete sidewalk. But, we have no concrete outside our windows. The emergency vehicle access drive is asphalt and everything else is grass or brush. Then the noise stopped and I went back to sleep.
The next day Dave and I talked about the noise. He said he thought it sounded like someone plastering a wall. And he heard vacuuming, too. And we both heard some thumps and bumps as well.
Yesterday Dave went down to the office to pick up some packages delivered there for me. And he got the story of the odd sounds.
It seems someone in the apartment below us flushed a toilet then went back to sleep. And slept soundly enough to not realize the toilet was still running–from the tank into the bowl. And right on out of the bowl. Running enough that when someone from the apartment below them went into their bathroom they found it raining in there.
Those odd sounds were maintenance coping with the mess. Walls, floors and a ceiling need to be replaced. The occupants are temporarily in a different apartment. And the fans are running day and night.
Still the sound of the fans is better than the sounds of snow shoveling. Or having it rain in your bathroom. Another reason we are glad to be on the top floor.
TTYL,
Linda
That’s quite a story, Linda! I was thinking ghosts! ha
weird toilet to do that… if mine runs, it just costs me money but thankfully doesn’t overflow… You getting ready to freddy?
The good thing is that if you hear that sound at night in the future, you’ll know that you better check your toilet to make sure it isn’t leaking.
As soon as I read the words “snow shoveling” I could hear the sound of it in my head. Glad I don’t have to hear it for real!
We are back in the land of the living. Going to try to catch up on everyone’s posts.
Well let me tell you what we saw when we arrived in Cortez, CO, today. SNOW on the mountains. Yep, the gal in the office said that they heard they might have an early winter, but this is a bit ridiculous!
Yikes! Thank goodness for top floor apartments indeed. I have a few friends who will only live on the top floors, whether in an apartment building or duplex. I have been very lucky in this regard as I have had no issues whatsoever with noise in my building. If anything, I might be the one who plays their music a tad loud at times. But never any complaints…so far 🙂
Hope all is well with you and Dave and take care.
Lyle
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