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    ‘I brought up banana bread and an apology’: Wholesome friendship blossoms between feuding neighbors after the real culprit of the annoyance reveals himself

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    Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
    Oct 5, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

    Living in an apartment building, there are some annoyances you just have to deal with. For example, someone vacuuming, running around, having a party, etc. But there is an unspoken (sometimes spoken and state in the rules) of appropriate hours for all of these kinds of disturbances. So when someone is making all kinds of noises at 3am, that's not cool, man. 

     

    This lady was experiencing a very loud neighbor. He made a commotion most hours of the day, but the most annoying was at 3am. She figured, since he was an avid gym rat, that was probably the hour he was waking up to go to the gym at 4am or something. Finally, on a particularly annoying night, she snapped and hit her ceiling with a broom stick like an old grumpy lady. It worked and the sound stopped, so she went back to sleep. In the morning, she found a note on her door that explained everything, and then she felt bad… 

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    • Turns out the neighbor's pet iguana named Pickles was accidentally triggering a water system that made noise every night. They apologized and fixed the problem. Now the woman felt bad and came up with some apologies banana bread. Turns out the two become friends after that and she even gets Pickles updates from time to time. 

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    • "I thought my upstairs neighbor was being [disrespectful] at 3am. Turns out, I was beefing with a lizard."

      For weeks, I kept waking up at 3am to loud water sounds coming from the apartment above me.
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    • It legit sounded like someone was taking a pressure washer shower. Every. Single. Night. My upstairs neighbor is this buff dude who stomps like he pays rent per footstep.
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    • I was sure he was showering post- gym just to be annoying. So I left a passive- aggressive sticky note.
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    • No response. Then I got petty: vacuuming at 6am, playing loud "cleaning music", stomping right back.
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    • The Cold War of Apartment 3B had begun. One night, the water started again. I finally snapped and jabbed the ceiling with a broom like some cartoon landlord.
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    • Water stopped immediately. Victory, right? Next day, I see a building notice: "Apologies for the late-night noise.
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    • The upstairs tenant's iguana has been triggering the misting system overnight. Timer is being fixed." I was not feuding with a gym bro.
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    • I was waging psychological warfare... on a lizard named Pickles. I brought up banana bread and an apology.
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    • Now I get iguana updates and we're low-key friends. Pickles still mists at 3am. But now I suffer with love.
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