I live in an apartment. My upstairs neighbour is a nice guy for sure...but he walks very heavy on his heels. He's not a particularly large man...I'd say somewhere around 6'0 - 6'2 and reasonably fit. He just has Very...Heavy...Footsteps.

A couple months ago, I was making my supper and I heard THUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUD and thought at first he had bought an exercise tape or something. Then I thought, "he just doesn't seem like the 'Jane Fonda Workout' type..." and realised we were having an earthquake! I'm not kidding! We were having an earthquake and I thought the guy was up there sweatin' to the oldies! How messed up is that?!?

I don't know why, but for some reason it's just really started to bother me lately. I don't know if his footsteps have gotten heavier, or if I've grown more sensitive to it (I don't know what he drank the other night, but I sure didn't appreciate him hitting the one squeaky floorboard right over my bed at least a half dozen times during the night on his way to the loo).

Argh! He's doing it again! He's up thud thud thud thud thud thud into the kitchen thud thud thud thud thud thud THUD into his la-z-boy, then up again and thud thud thud thud thud thud back to the kitchen and so on! Gaaaahhhhh!

I swear, one day I'll live in my own home and it'll be a feckin' Ranch house with no upstairs! Or if I have an upstairs, I'll occupy it so I don't have people stomping on my head!

Crikey! He's off again! GAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!