I’m not proud of this but I was pissed off.

About 3 years ago I lived on the second floor of a 3 storey apartment. My kids were quite young. 3,2, and 1. They were no angels but they were good kids. The floors would creak just by them walking. My old downstairs neighbors understood and didn’t complain once.

Then the new neighbors moved in. They would knock on my door constantly with the slightest creak telling me to keep it down. One day they went too far.

My oldest is borderline autistic. She’s downright terrified of loud noises and has trouble coping day to day. But she was starting to get interested in music so I bought her a soundtrack cd from her favorite movie, Frozen.

She was having a good day. She was swaying back and forth to her favorite song and attempting to sing it. I was proud of her for coming out of her shell.

Then all of sudden someone banged on my door so loud it shook like someone was trying break in. Then I heard my downstairs neighbor yell “shut the f up already!!!”

My daughter screamed bloody murder and ran and hid under my bed sobbing uncontrollably. I yelled I was calling the cops and ran after my baby.

When the cops showed up I was still trying to convince my daughter to come out from under the bed. I told them what happened but it turned into a case of ”he said she said”. So they left. When my landlord came to follow up on it she told me to keep it down even if I had to keep my kids on the couch all day.

That was the last straw. We moved 2 weeks later. But before we moved I constantly played the donut man on YouTube for my kids. It had two songs in it that had jumping and stomping in the song. I would dance with my kids and jump or stomp extra hard with the songs.

Like I said I’m not proud of acting immature but I was pissed off.