With an axe!
Jun. 21st, 2005 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So I actually got to bed at a semi-reasonable time last night, only to be woken at 4am by our unemployed druggy scum downstairs neighbour.
Now, normally I have nothing against unemployed druggy scum, having occupied that postion in life myself. But I never had the lack of consideration to think that 4am was the right time of day to be playing dance/trance at high volume. In this case, high enough volume that it was louder in my bedroom than when I'm playing _my_ music, and what originally woke me was the vibration from the bass coming through the floor.
Now, this has been known to happen before - but it usually lasts about 5 minutes before his mother gets fed up enough to go and scream at him, the screaming lasts about 3 minutes, and then all returns to blissfull silence. I assume that last night she was either out or in a haze herself, because it went on for an _hour_. I ended up borrowing Ed's earplugs, which didn't keep the sound out entirely, but made it quiet enough that I could at least relax a bit and not-quite-get-back-to-sleep. And then after about an hour, he did indeed shut the fuck up, and I got to go back to sleep.
Why, you may ask, did I not go down and reason with the young man? The answer being that the kind of person who plays insanely loud music at 4am is the kind who knows exactly what he's doing, and doesn't care. Reason seemed unlikely to work, and I wasn't feeling insane enough to start a confrontation (or deal with then having to keep walking past their front door on a daily basis).
I shall merely continue to pray that he overdoses or is electrocuted by his stereo system.
And go to bed even earlier tonight.
Now, normally I have nothing against unemployed druggy scum, having occupied that postion in life myself. But I never had the lack of consideration to think that 4am was the right time of day to be playing dance/trance at high volume. In this case, high enough volume that it was louder in my bedroom than when I'm playing _my_ music, and what originally woke me was the vibration from the bass coming through the floor.
Now, this has been known to happen before - but it usually lasts about 5 minutes before his mother gets fed up enough to go and scream at him, the screaming lasts about 3 minutes, and then all returns to blissfull silence. I assume that last night she was either out or in a haze herself, because it went on for an _hour_. I ended up borrowing Ed's earplugs, which didn't keep the sound out entirely, but made it quiet enough that I could at least relax a bit and not-quite-get-back-to-sleep. And then after about an hour, he did indeed shut the fuck up, and I got to go back to sleep.
Why, you may ask, did I not go down and reason with the young man? The answer being that the kind of person who plays insanely loud music at 4am is the kind who knows exactly what he's doing, and doesn't care. Reason seemed unlikely to work, and I wasn't feeling insane enough to start a confrontation (or deal with then having to keep walking past their front door on a daily basis).
I shall merely continue to pray that he overdoses or is electrocuted by his stereo system.
And go to bed even earlier tonight.
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Date: 2005-06-21 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 07:28 am (UTC)At the very least I'm moving to a nicer area of town.
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Date: 2005-06-21 09:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 01:11 pm (UTC)And a bit I'm very glad I didn't move into 5 minutes in the other direction...
Where exactly are you thinking of?
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Date: 2005-06-21 07:59 am (UTC)It pretty much looks like I can only afford to live in shitholes with druggy scum as neighbours. Lovely.
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Date: 2005-06-21 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-06-21 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 01:59 pm (UTC)--
Thankfully, I'm relatively clever and have plans...
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Date: 2005-06-21 09:14 am (UTC)Hope you catch up on your sleep tonight. My early bed attempts were minorly foiled last night by Sean locking himself out and having to play merry hell on the doorbell about an hour after I went to sleep.
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Date: 2005-06-21 10:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 07:42 pm (UTC)If it happens again then I'll be looking into it tho.
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Date: 2005-06-21 05:13 pm (UTC)I can even give you the number of the EH team, if you want it. They are very helpful folk :)
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Date: 2005-06-21 06:29 pm (UTC)Are the EH people the same?
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Date: 2005-06-21 08:01 pm (UTC)We've had fun problems recently (car w/ window smashed, twice), along with the local kids being shits. So be cool, get the cops involved. I mean, if he *is* wasted when they arrive, then problem solved. :D
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Date: 2005-06-22 04:36 pm (UTC)Re: neighbors
Date: 2005-06-22 12:02 am (UTC)