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Living below someone with a serious temper problem is exhausting even when the noise technically happens at a “reasonable” hour.

One resident has been spending her days listening to her upstairs neighbor scream at video games, complete with shouted obscenities, table banging, and objects being thrown around.

Since it all happens during the day, she doesn’t feel like she has grounds to formally complain, and since it’s isolated to the room directly above hers, the rest of her family doesn’t even realize how bad it’s gotten.

Not wanting to create conflict, and knowing she’s heading off to college soon anyway, she wonders about the best path forward.

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Loud upstairs neighbour

I’m genuinely going insane because one member of the family who lives directly above my room spends the entire day raging at whatever game he’s playing.

This includes screaming (like, YELLING so loud that my phone’s recording app can pick it up clearly), shouting obscenities, banging on the table, and throwing things around.

The resident starts to feel like there’s no way to put a stop to the excessive noise.

But the catch is that he does it all during the day, so I don’t think I can actually complain about it.

It’s horrible because it’s only the guy who lives directly above me, so the rest of my family is not affected by it.

It’s either the father or the son of the family who lives there, since it’s obviously a male voice, but I don’t know what to do.

She contemplates different ways to approach the issue, but clearly doesn’t feel good about any of them.

I’m not a confrontational person at all, and I don’t want to create problems.

I was thinking of leaving a note on their door, but I’m moving away for college soon, and I’d only be home every other weekend, so it’s not that big of a deal, I guess.

I think I’ll resort to wearing headphones the entire day.

Being forced to listen to this day in and day out must be completely miserable.

What did Reddit make of all this?

This user shares their theory about the cause of the noise.

Even if it’s during the day, it’s still a problem.

This racket obviously exceeds the threshold of reasonable everyday noise.

The non-emergency police number could be a good place to report the noise.

There’s a difference between noise you can tune out and noise that actively disrupts your day, and screaming plus furniture-throwing definitely crosses that line.

Luckily for this teen, she’s already headed off to college, so there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

But next time she comes across an issue like this, there’s no harm in a well-placed polite note or a call to the landlord.