‘Everyone’s Upstairs Neighbors’ Are Why I Always Lived on Top Floors

After living in a few different apartments in college I was wiser about that kind of living. Every time I ever shopped for a new apartment I always wanted one in the corner of the building on the top floor. That way I would only have three adjoining neighbors to annoy me. On a middle floor in the middle of the building you could have five or more to drive you insane.

One apartment I had in Brookings while I was enrolled at, not attending so much at SDSU, I had a couple of large neighbors. I didn't care that they were overweight I cared that they were incapable of stepping softly. If one of them got off the couch to get a beer it sounded like a horse trotted by upstairs. Sometime I swear they were doing it just to drive me and my roommate nuts.

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Enter the Above Average sketch comedy channel on YouTube to illustrate what it was probably like inside my old neighbor's apartment. In this video they turn being a noisy neighbor into performance art.