With an axe!

[andrewducker]

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.

Comments

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Right. Thanks for that. We're buying a detatched house.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

I can totally sympathise. In the ongoing house-hunting I've seen more than a few places I'd rather burn down than live in.

It pretty much looks like I can only afford to live in shitholes with druggy scum as neighbours. Lovely.

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm having that problem right now -- in the sort of, 'My God, who on earth decides to play loud music with a thumping beat that I can hear through the wall and all the way across our apartment at 6:45 in the morning?' ...The answer being, mind you, middle-aged Korean grad students, which is its own kind of huh?. I suppose I could ask them to turn it down, but one supposes that common sense might have told them to turn it down first. Sadly, no.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with either the local constabulary or environmental health at that nice hour? :).

[neferet.livejournal.com]

what azalemeth said :)

I can even give you the number of the EH team, if you want it. They are very helpful folk :)

Re: neighbors

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

When we lived in an apartment, we had someone that set up new speakers against the other side of the wall of our bedroom, effectively using it as a sounding box. I put on a robe and went next door to tell them that I didn't think this was polite. But then, I'm 195 cm and 125 kilos, so it's easier for me...