Neighbour leaves pointed ‘souvenir’ after being forced to rip up flooring

A war of words between two neighbours has turned ugly after a chunk of wood allegedly scribbled with a pointed message was left on a doorstep.

The neighbours’ identities and where they live is not publicly known, yet what is known is an upstairs neighbour and a downstairs neighbour are at odds over noise.

It all started almost two years ago when the upstairs neighbour, who we’ll call Jill, moved in and asked if she could put in hardwood flooring. 

The downstairs neighbour, who we’ll call Andrea, said no as and that the building was echoey and loud.

“My upstairs neighbour moved in about a year and a half ago and immediately asked if she could put in hardwood floors (my building requires permission from the below floors if people on the upper floors want to put in hardwood),” Andrea wrote in a post to Reddit. 

“I said no as our building is echoey and loud enough as-is. It became very obvious very quickly that she replaced everything with hardwood since I could hear basically every step.”

Then, a few months ago, the building management checked and confirmed Jill had installed wood flooring. 

“She was given a deadline to switch to carpet and, when she asked to meet with me, basically blew up screaming at me that I had “ruined her life” for asking her to remove the flooring that she was never supposed to install,” Andrea claimed.

Earlier this month, on the deadline day of Jill’s carpet-installation, Andrea found something left at her door. 

“Neighbour left a chunk of her wood floor by my doorstep,” Andrea wrote.

On the piece of wood was this note: “Congratulations! I thought you deserved a souvenir. Your neighbour”.

Andrea posted a photo of the alleged offending item online.

“She literally took a chunk of her flooring and wrote a lil passive-aggressive message on it. whelp. Happy new year,” she added.

Since posting about her ordeal, Andrea’s post has been flooded with comments.

“Some people think the rules don’t apply to them,” one person wrote.

“Clean off her message and replace it with “Peace At Last!,” a second person wrote.

“I would hang it on my front door like a wreath,” yet another person wrote.

Others questioned why Andrea couldn’t compromise on area rugs or other flooring solutions.

She explained.

“For months we went back and forth with suggestions but she denied having hard flooring at all,” Andrea wrote. 

“By the time building management got involved they were pissed enough themselves that she’d installed it without permission and had no issue asking her to replace it.”

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