Neighbour's noisy evening antics - MN Jury needed!

[BabstheChicken]

Evening all,

I was about to google a solution for my predicament, when I realised I have the MN jury to hand!

I live in a large block of flats. A couple of times a week I can hear my neighbour having sex VERY loudly through the walls - whilst they are not made of reinforced concrete, they're thick enough that you don't generally hear each other.

It is so loud that I can still hear her when I turn my tv up, and whilst I'm thrilled she's clearly very satisfied in that department, I don't want to have to resort to wearing headphones to accommodate her.

What should I do? Leave some weird (but amusing) note which may cause a horribly awkward situation? Have revenge sex (which just makes me feel petty)? Or do I resign myself to hearing her sweet mating call for the rest of the time we have as neighbours?

TIA

I'd leave it.

She's happy.

Happy neighbours can only be a good thing.

Give them a round of applause when they finish

Have similar issues, marking place.

Wait until they're finished, then get really close to the wall and yell "SEVEEEEENN!" a la Len Goodman.

I had a neighbor like that once, didn't do anything, but neighbor on other side stuck her head out of the window and yelled "I'll come and join you in a minute!" She was around 80, wore a pinny, rollers in her hair and was angrily waving a cooking spoon. The amorous young couple were much quieter afterwards . Ask your granny to do this.

Don't do what I did when I was living in a terrace. Give left side neighbour knowing eyebrow raised glance / glare on way out in morning. Realise that evening that the noise was coming from neighbour right

A few years ago I had a screamer next door. They had a baby. Never heard her again. And then they moved.

Can you 'outdo' them like the scene in When Harry Met Sally.

Put your mouth up close to the wall and scream YES YES YEEEESSSSSS! to try and put them off their stride.

Though I do like the idea of scoring them (and giving tips on improving technique)

Hahahahahahaha reni1

leave them to it. i would not even bring it up

Ah ladies you've made me laugh with your advice. Maybe I should channel my inner Ken voice?

She has, thankfully, finished now so I'm off to bed for the evening (sadly alone land without any antics which would cause me to reciprocate such noises) but do keep the advice, especially the amusing anecdotes, coming (excuse the pun)

Change your wifi nickname to 'wecanhearyoushaggingnumber72'

(Advice plagiarised from an old thread on the same topic)

Imitate her when she's making a lot of noise.

Might teach her not to fake quite so loudly.

(Yes, I've had a neighbour who did this, and it worked wonders)

There was a couple in the NE prosecuted for such noise nuisance, a few years back.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8413974.stm

Have some fun and give them a report card. Score them A-F on subjects such as control, stamina, vocal ability ect.

Confession: I was that neighbor. Not literally Babs' neighbor but I was once the loud sex woman. When DP first moved into the flat we now share we had child free nights and weekends when DD and DSD were away. We had been told the house had been insulated and soundproofed during the renovation before he moved in. Now, we were two people who had been very lonely and unfulfilled before this. For my entire marriage to XH I was unable to ahem do anything without being extremely intoxicated first. I had the PPD from having my daughter and a lot of baggage from a sexual assault that happened when I first moved to London. I was sad, insecure and my mojo was non-existent when I met DP. Suddenly, I felt beautiful, alive, and sexual again and we were just so into each other that I could barely contain myself. It was heaven. Until the Sunday when we left the house to find a note in the freehold from our neighbors. This note, fellow mumsnetters was a masterpiece in passive aggression - congratulating us on our healthy sex life and then detailing where they could hear us, what they could hear, accusing us of involving them in our sexlife against thier wills, and finally imploring us to think of the children (FYI our kids weren't home when this was going on!) I felt horrible, dirty, and ashamed and for months the old anxieties I had after the sexual assault returned. Like I said before, we thought we were soundproofed and we were so lost in eachother, we couldnt hear anyone else through the walls or floors and we didnt think they could hear us. It was positively mortifying, especially because if we knew we would have been more considerate. So many times we saw our neighbors, we even asked if noise was a problem and they always said that it was fine. That note was a terrible shock. So my advice is, leave them a note that is polite and to the point. You dont need to be funny or indignant or anything. If they are decent people they will likely tone it down. Chances are they have no idea you can hear them.

Considerate SkyWasMadeOfAmethyst?

You can have sex without the full accompaniment of zoo noises. I find a silent shag, a good merlot and a fag afterwards says far more than sounding like a dog in heat

Slow claps for Cat. Silently.

lol that must be annoying i had a drummer before and i got earplugs

My radio alarm accidentally went off at midnight, but I'm not sure it was loud enough to actually disturb them, just me. Still plotting my revenge neighbourly advice