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Elephants upstairs

This article was published on March 6, 2019 and may be out of date. To maintain our historical record, The Cascade does not update or remove outdated articles.
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I am utterly shocked at how loud the upstairs people are in my house. I share a basement suite with a roommate and I swear, there is one person upstairs that literally smashes their feet against the floor when they walk. They stomped so hard the other week that it knocked a piece of art off my wall and took a chunk out of my baseboard. There goes my deposit. Besides the weekly kitchen bowling sessions (I’m pretty sure they have a whole team up there), they re-arrange furniture for hours at a time and drop everything they pick up. Not only is it loud, it’s just plain discourteous. I’m starting to fear that they’re doing this on purpose to try and get us to move out so they can hike up the rent. On the bright side, if they get any louder I might be eligible to file a noise complaint. In the meantime, I’m thinking of attaching a pair of steel-toes to some broomsticks and kicking the ceiling, but that doesn’t seem like the most effective idea so if you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them, besides actually talking to them about this. (Come on people, we all know face-to-face communication isn’t going to solve any of our problems; I’m trying to be petty here.)

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Darien Johnsen is a UFV alumni who obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree with double extended minors in Global Development Studies and Sociology in 2020. She started writing for The Cascade in 2018, taking on the role of features editor shortly after.

She’s passionate about justice, sustainable development, and education.

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