A student who enacted the ‘perfect’ revenge on her noisy neighbour has been praised for her brilliant plot. A Reddit user named Lesley told social media users how she dealt with a nightmare neighbour when she was at college.
Her post was titled: “Loud music at 2am? I found the perfect way to shut her up.” Sharing her version of events, Lesley claimed: “When I was in college, I had this neighbor in the dorms named Sarah. Sarah wasn’t evil, just… loud.
“Every night she’d blast music at 1 or 2 a.m., usually when I had an early class. No matter how many times people asked her to turn it down, she’d laugh it off and say, “Relax, it’s college.”
“One night before a big exam, I was desperate for sleep. I knocked on her door around midnight and asked politely if she could lower the volume just a little. She smirked, said “Sure,” and then cranked it even louder. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, absolutely fuming.”
The incident encouraged Lesley to take action, and she soon came up with a plan to give her neighbour a taste of her own medicine. She explained: “The next morning, after my exam, I decided I wasn’t going to let it slide.
“Sarah was notorious for sleeping in late usually till noon and she hated mornings more than anything. So for the next week, I set my alarm for 6:30 a.m. sharp, right when the hall was dead quiet, and placed my Bluetooth speaker against the thin wall we shared. I blasted the cheesiest pop songs I could find, think bubblegum boy bands from the early 2000s.”
The plan had the desired effect. Lesley’s post concluded: “The first day she stumbled out of her room, groggy and furious. By day three, she started begging me to stop. I just smiled and said, “Relax, it’s college.” Funny enough, after that week, her late-night concerts mysteriously stopped. She never admitted defeat, but the silence was golden.”
The story proved very popular, and the post earned over 20,000 upvotes. Praising the plan, someone commented: “I really hate people with main character syndrome. Good on you tho!”
A second viewer said: “That’s how to deal with late night noise makers. They stay up late so dont care but once the noise happens early morning when they are a sleep suddenly its a problem.”
A third added: “This is peak dorm justice. Used their weakness against them perfectly.”
Someone else wrote: “This is the perfect kind of revenge petty, harmless, but effective. Nothing is more satisfying than giving someone a taste of their own medicine.” Lesley replied: “Honestly, this is how all petty revenge should be: creative, non-violent, and hilarious.”