Olena opened the door to her apartment and was horrified to see that the entire stairwell was littered with garbage, and that a loud conversation was heard on the floor below.

Olena looked up at the littered stairs and felt her breath catch in her throat. There were empty bottles, old clothes, fragments of packages, and much other garbage. “What happened here?” she whispered under her breath in horror. Meanwhile, the voices from the floor below grew louder and louder: “I’m sure you did it! Yesterday you threatened me after that argument in the parking lot!” a man’s voice shouted. -“Are you out of your mind? I would never do such a thing. Look at your hallway, there’s garbage everywhere!” the woman replied angrily. Olena decided to intervene despite her fear. She carefully walked between the piles of garbage and approached her neighbors. “Please, let’s solve this problem calmly.

Yelling at each other is not the answer,” she said, trying to calm them down. -“Olena, did you see what happened?” asked a man who turned out to be her neighbor, Ihor. “No, I just left the apartment. But this can’t go on. We need to find out who did it and sort it out,” Olena replied. After a short conversation, the residents of the building decided to conduct a mini-investigation. It turned out that one of the neighbors had a surveillance camera pointed at the stairwell. When Olena and the neighbors watched the footage, they saw a young girl with a large bag of garbage, who seemed to have found no place in the garbage chute and decided to just dump it all on the stairs. “It’s Karina from apartment eight! She just moved here,” one of the neighbors recognized her.

The neighbors decided to approach the girl and talk to her. It turned out that Karina herself was surprised by her actions. She explained that she had come home late after a difficult day, the garbage chute was clogged, and she simply did not know what to do with her bag. “I’m sorry… I’ll clean it up right away,” Karina said with tears in her eyes. The neighbors, realizing that she was sincerely repentant, decided to help her. A few hours later, the stairwell was clean again. This incident taught the residents of the building to be more united and tolerant of each other, and taught Karina to think before she did something.