Ba-dee-ya, Rantin' in September (monthly mini rants)

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A while ago, I posted this rant in another thread:

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Over in the Pit I just posted about an ice cream truck that was sitting somewhere around the corner for the past fifteen minutes emitting its incredibly irritating repeating jingle. Earlier I had posted about a neighbour’s swimming pool and the associated screeching kidlets.

We now move on to a neighbour deciding that an asphalt-paved driveway was declassé, so he had it torn up and repaved with paving brick. Know what happens when paving brick is being installed? Yes, many bricks are cut, using a gas-powered diamond-tipped masonry saw. Any idea what that sounds like?

And the very next day, someone way over on another street was doing something else. I don’t know what they were doing, but it involved a powerful high-pitched whine that was loud enough to make my windows vibrate a block away, and accompanied by the sound of a big diesel engine.

Then came the next step of the neighbour’s paved-brick driveway, some kind of apparatus that moved around on the driveway, apparently designed to make huge thumping noises specifically to annoy me.

Apparently one of my neighbours must read the Dope, because this inspired him to a major fit of noise-making. He’s decided to rip up half his lawn and create a huge paved-brick front patio, with a long, long paved-brick walkway extending all the way to the back yard, and (I assume, though I can’t see it) lots more brick paving in the back yard itself. In addition, he’d building some sort of stone walls or something that I imagine will enclose some sort of garden.

So this is now Day 3 of incessant stone-cutting, again with one of those gas-powered diamond-tipped saws. Know what those sound like when they’re cutting brick and stone? You can hear it about ten blocks away, and the sound by now is reverberating through my brain.

What’s worse, this neighbourhood seems to have a culture of “monkey see, monkey do”. Many monkeys are now observing all the brick-paving and stone-masonry going on. How could they not – they’re coming from miles around to see what all the noise is about. I fear this may not be the last brick-paving around here.