Before I moved to Switzerland, a friend told me about a friend of his who had decided to leave the country not able to stand the complaints he got from his neighbours about flushing toilet after 10 PM. Both of us laughed thinking it was probably an exaggeration. Even if it was indeed true, I thought it was a one-off case and would never happen to me.
Came August 2006, the first month in our rented apartment in Switzerland, the nightmare began. A female, unemployed, 40+, single neighbour who lived above us started complaining about our baby crying at 3, 4 o'clock in the morning. Although she was not direct with the complaints, and pretending to be nice, it was obvious that she was not happy with it. She thought we had been feeding our daughter wrong food and tried to be clever by suggesting us to change her diet to eggs (eggs??? what the hell was she thinking?) instead of porridge. Tired of hearing her so called "concerns", I told her to talk to the paediatrician. If he is OK with the food, who is she to argue? Since then she stopped mentioning about the cries.
Later, she started complaining about us thumping our feet when we walked. What? It puzzled me for a while. She lived ABOVE and not below us. How the hell that she could hear it? It is even more puzzling when we don't use shoes indoor - how much noise could we make from walking? We are not kangaroos that hops around. Then her nuisance got worse when she also complained about us flushing toilet late at night or very early in the morning and making noise from pulling toilet paper from it's metal holder. What the hell is wrong with this woman. From this point onwards I just got used to her complaints started ignoring her.
Not long after that, along came the saviours. An Indian family moved to the unit above her and a young Italian opposite her. After a while I heard the same story from the new Indian neighbour about the complaints. She also complained that he Italian couple have been arguing all the time - nobody else heard this but her .. strange. Tired on all the complaints, the Indian neighbour called up the landlady, and the response from landlady was "Just ignore her. She's has a bit a problem, and has always been complaining about everyone". Ha! ha! ha! Even another Swiss finds her a bit weird. Perhaps she's the extreme one.
No long after that she moved out not being able to live among the Indians, Malaysians and Italians. LOL!!!
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