Siena Villa

I really want to be a good apartment neighbor. I'm sensitive to the fact that my downstairs neighbors might not be grateful if I take up clogging. I make sure I don't start laundry after 9, since I heard my neighbor's washer running one night. If I can hear them, they can hear me.
So, we weren't pleased when the new downstairs neighbors wrapped up their move-in at 3:00 a.m. last night.

3:00 a.m.

I'm hoping to meet them and actually bring it up with them. Perhaps they're as chagrined that they had to wrap up the move at that time. Maybe they wanted to return the U-Haul and save a day's rental fee. But in the meantime, I called the apartment management to complain.

She was entirely consistent.

Me: Hi. So, we have new neighbors, downstairs?
Her: (warily?!) Yesss.
Me: Well, they moved in at 3:00 a.m. last night.
Her: No they didn't.
Me: I'm sorry?
Her: I saw them moving in during the day, they were quite busy.
Me: I don't know when they started moving in, but they were still at it at 3:00 in the morning.

At this point, she changes gears and says that she'll talk to them 'within minutes'. I'm sure, given her communication skills, that conversation will be something like: "the neighbors upstairs called to complain about you."