I haven't met my upstairs neighbour, but I think they might be an elephant.

Usually, the elephant stops walking around at a reasonable hour. But right now, it's 1AM on a weeknight and they're still stomping around. I've been psyching myself up since 11PM to go up and knock on their door, but figuring out clothes to wear and what to say without being obnoxious kept me paralyzed in bed. Instead, I scrounged up and put in heavy-duty earplugs, on top of the white noise machine. Still can hear the elephant above me.

I need to wake up in 5 hours for work. Finally gained up the courage to do 2 loud raps, and success! They figured out how to walk like a human! I can finally sleep!

Except now my heart won't stop racing and I've got the sweats in bed because I confronted them, even though it wasn't face to face, so I can't sleep anyway.