Our apartment block got into a huge neighbour row - we're in a constant note war

The Sun

25-05-2025

NOTE KIDDING
Plus, the top neighbour rows Published : 19:02, 25 May 2025
Updated : 19:02, 25 May 2025
A WOMAN has shared how her apartment block has gone into the ultimate 'neighbour war' with multiple people leaving anonymous angry notes.
She took to Reddit to show the series of notes and sassy replies that had been taped to a window in a communal area.
4 A woman shared how a 'note war' has begun in her apartment block, which was initially triggered by smoking Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
4 The 'war' continued with a number of replies Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
The first person had stuck an angry message up that read: 'Please stop smoking here!
'This is a smoke free apartment.
'It stinks up the whole building.'
Instead of apologising, someone had replied, writing on the bottom: 'Make me.'
On a separate piece of paper, they had later added: 'Maybe you should move.
'Plus your dogs stink up the whole building as well.
'We pay rent here too and we should have the right to do what we like.'
The woman had been shocked seeing this note as she was the dog owner but not the smoker, as the second person had assumed.
She explained: 'I got pulled into our neighbors' note war.
'Saw this note this morning and thought it was funny that we were the assumed note-leavers in the building. Your kids are breaking law if they kick their ball over neighbour's fence, High Court rules after couple sued next door
'There's been a constant note war going on for a year now where notes have been put up asking people to stop smoking in their apartments.
'Of course these don't deter the smokers and the complex doesn't have a no smoking policy. 'We are the only dog owners and know this is how apartment living is like with the smoking.'
She clarified that the apartment doesn't have a smoking policy for the person involved.
The woman added her own note into the mix, which read: 'Hi, dog owners here.
'We are not involved with this. Rude.'
4 The woman - who was the dog owner - left her own note after being dragged into the row Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
4 She then showed a pictures of her two dogs Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
People were highly entertained by all the angry passive aggressive notes, and joined in the debate in the Reddit comments.
One person said: 'I would just print out a laugh emoji or something.'
Another added: 'I would have said hey I will try to get my dogs to stop smoking.'
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