| Jun222009 | The Noise Conspiracy |
“…just as long as you’re not too noisy. The quiet times here starts at 10pm. People here are usually nice about it and they will leave a note and if it continues, they will complain to management.”
My soon-to-be landlady gingerly closed to door behind me. As she led me through another door and out into the courtyard, she again turned and carefully closed the door.
“Make sure not to let the doors slam.”
Later in the tour (or perhaps it was on a different day and a different tour?) she said the same thing again, make sure we stick to the quiet times, they don’t like noise here. I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer but even I was starting to pick up a vibe and I asked her as much, “You keep mentioning that. Is there a noise problem here? Are the walls really thin?”
She was quick to dismiss my concerns but the thought lingered in my mind. Other than that, it was a super nice apartment in a super nice part of town so we’d already leaped on it.
Fast forward to moving day this weekend. While trudging back and forth between the cars and the apartment, my girlfriend ran into one of our neighbors. Now, I wasn’t there to witness this but this elderly neighbor essentially gave us the same warning about noise levels and how they can complain directly to your landlord or the management.
I was a little paranoid now and I asked my girlfriend to clarify, “Did she say it like she was warning that others would complain? Or did she say it like she meant she would complain?”
“Both,” she replied.
We’ve lived there two nights and had no complaints… yet. We were shuffling boxes around at 10pm last night and the alarm clock did ring at 3am this morning. To further test this, I was shooting people in Mass Effect at 5 this morning. We’ll see how this goes when we whip out Rock Band and host a housewarming party.
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