Peace and Quiet

Yesterday I mentioned my incredibly annoying, rude and inconsiderate upstairs neighbors. So today, you get to hear all about them.
These delightful people moved in sometime in February and I knew instantly there was someone new upstairs. If anyone had lived up there from the time we moved in November until February I didn't know they were there. But these people you knew. When they were moving in there was loud and constant crashing going on. I assumed it was just moving noises and it would go way. A few weeks later nothing had changed, there was still almost constant crashing and not just normal walking noise either, like seriously loud wake you up in the morning crashes. Sometime in March after I had been woken up three mornings in a row before 7 a.m. by this noise I went up there to see what was going on. A child, maybe 9 or 10-year-old boy, answered the door. He was there alone and was apparently jumping around like a monkey and then tried to say that they were hearing crashes too and that it was probably just the blow dryer.
Things seemed to settle down for a while and I didn't have any major problems (just minor annoyances)  with them until the end of April, I again was woken up by loud crashes before 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, so I called the apartment managers and they said they would call them and remind them that quiet hours are between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
That seemed to help, until they decided to start dumping water off their balcony, which incidentally runs onto my balcony, multiple times a week. Lucky for them they have yet to do it when I am actually on the balcony, because I guarantee if that happens I might go ballistic.
I have actually come to a conclusion about the water. These people now have a dog, I know this because it barked for hours on end a few days ago while they were gone somewhere.
One morning after I had gone running I was sitting on the balcony and heard the kid come outside and tell the dog to go potty, because naturally if you are going to leave your 9-year-old home alone all day you don't want him to walk the dog. So I think they let this dog do its business on the balcony and then wash it off down onto my balcony!! So instead of just water I am getting dog-crap water washed onto my balcony, grill and the chairs I sit in!
I swear these people have no idea they live on the third floor. They stomp around, literally stomp, I can follow their every move in their apartment based on the noise coming from upstairs, drop things or jump around on a regular basis making extremely loud crashing noises, let their dog bark incessantly and throw water off their balcony without any warning whatsoever. John decided people with children shouldn't be able to live on anything but the first floor because kids naturally make a lot of noise.
If I could afford it, I would break my lease and move right now that is how bad it is. I have even considered moving to a different apartment in the complex if the managers would let us transfer our lease. That is how much I hate these people upstairs, that I would consider making an unnecessary move.
Lucky for me there has been very little noise the past two days and I have finally been able to get a little peace and quiet. Unfortunately, I don't expect the peace to last.