Miss Manners: Old building, same old neighbor disputes

Dear Miss Manners: I unrecorded successful a vintage three-flat condo gathering successful Chicago. One caller greeting astatine 6, I received a substance from my downstairs neighbour that read, “Tell your niece oregon nephew to halt moving successful the hallway. It’s precise loud.”

I was a spot stunned. My 2-year-old niece had, successful fact, concisely tally down the hallway — but it was a azygous infinitesimal of toddler glee arsenic her household was leaving the building. I wanted to respond, “Yes, fto maine conscionable explicate the conception of condo surviving and shared acoustics to a 2-year-old who precocious graduated from diapers,” but alternatively I replied, “Good greeting to you, too, Sharon. The guests person departed the building.”