I usually don’t lose my temper or post in the pit, so please excuse the rant if it’s not pit worthy…
I work overnights. I accept that things in an apartment building are not going to be 100% quiet during the day. I am a fairly heavy sleeper so this doesn’t bother me too much. Well, I was trying to sleep today (Christmas) and I got woken up by someone else’s music. I woke up vibrating…the bass was so high it was vibrating my windows!!! I, having only had 5 hours of sleep at this point, look at my bf and he goes upstairs to deal with this. 15 mins pass before the music is turned down. I asked what happened. The stupid, inconsiderate motherfucker argued with my bf about the music! My bf is very nice tempered and polite. He nicely explained to the man that we were asleep and asked him to please turn down the music. Do you know how this asshole responded!!! He told my bf that we shouldn’t be asleep on Christmas. He told him that we should be fucking awake celebrating. He went on to explain that he would NOT turn down his music. This is when my bf got a little pissed. First, we celebrate the joy of the season, but not on Christmas. We use it as a time to do extra things for friends and family and remind people how much we care for them. The ass assumed that we celebrate his religious holiday! He was being a hypocrite by being inconsiderate of others he was not following his own religious teachings!
My bf did explain to him that I work overnights and holidays and that I needed my sleep. The man still refused to turn the music down.
My bf finally had to threaten to call the police. That is when the music cut off! How rude. Why should we have to threaten to call the police to get this goat felching mother fucking muncher to turn down his music! We didn’t even want him to turn it off, just down so we weren’t vibrating. I don’t think that respect for your neighboors is too much to ask.
On the nights I am off, I don’t go around blasting my tv or stereo at 3am! I don’t go running around outside screaming at the top of my lungs! And I would certainly turn down any noise maker if a neighboor came to me with a complaint!
This is supposed to be the season to take that extra step to be nice and tolerant of other people! All I was asking for is sleep! Grar! and now I have been at work since 10pm and I am exhausted. After being awake for so long from the music and getting so upset with the way my bf was treated I couldn’t get back to sleep.
Okay, I feel a little better now. I am sorry if some of that doesn’t make sense. As I stated I am very sleepy. thank you for letting me vent.
Just to play the Devil’s advocate, why not turn up your music loud about 4 hours before the guy above you has to go to work? When he comes down, tell him that it’s your friend’s birthday and you are celebrating even though your friend lives in Costa Rica. You should go so far as to tell him that he shouldn’t be sleeping on your friend’s birthday and he should be celebrating it. Give him a little of his own medicine, and maybe he won’t be such a stupid prick the next time you ask him to turn it down.
Sounds good to me, but that might just be the crack talking.
SPOOFE I wish he had been playing better music! I would have still been woken up, but maybe listening to something decent wouldn’t have pissed me off so much…Okay, I think I still would have been pissed.
nowalls The thought has crossed my mind. Unfortunatly I would disturb my other neighbors as well and I haven’t had any problems with them. I think next time I will just call the police. His wife seemed a little upset with the idea of the police getting involved.
And you are right, this is one case where fighting fire with fire doesn’t really work because you end up disturbing a bunch of innocent people. And frankly, they too were probably bothered by his loud music even though they were awake. I’m sure they were hoping that “someone” (i.e. not them) would speak to him about turning it down. With people like that there is no middle ground; they either have it up, louder than hell or off. They don’t understand the concept of middle ground.
It seems to me that common courtesy is dead and gone for a lot of folks. They feel that it’s “their right” to do whatever they feel like doing at any time because hey, it’s their right to do so. What they miss is the fact that other folks have the same rights. They have the right to sleep when they want to or to enjoy the silence or to read a book without being blasted by some asshole’s music.
Can’t we all try to be a bit more considerate of each other? Is that so hard? If you want to listen to your music at the brain melting level than put on some head phones and blast yourself deaf. I don’t care that it’s two in the afternoon; I still don’t want to hear it! I always try the adult approach of “please turn it down” if that doesn’t work I tell them of the noise ordinance. If they still don’t get it I call the cops. I hate to do that because I know police officers have much more important things to do but sometimes assholes don’t leave you much choice.
The only other thing I can suggest is heavy drapes and sound proofing. If this is a continuous problem, get other neighbors involved in signing a complaint about the noise and take that, by hand, to your local police department. This is one way that my neighborhood got rid of a gang house. You have to be vigilant and basically be a pain in the ass to the local police force but I swear it works.
And I have to say, after a year of really going after the major noise offenders in my neighborhood, we have a street that is fairly quiet. Sometimes, someone will have a party but the noise is within reason and never a continuous problem.
And speaking of continuous problems let me give a big bitch slap to SPOOFE Bo Diddly for putting that stupid ABBA song in my head!
I can relate to this one ! The LIONsob works nights too, and the people below us viberate my house daily. It gets so bad that I can’t hear my television.
And when I have gone down there these kids look at me like I am insane to even dare suggest their music is too loud.
If it keeps up I intend to report them to the management, if that does no good I may have to call the police.
As someone who has had to work nights (and will be moving to the swing shift coming up in about a week) I can completely sympathize. Luckily though, I usually just had to explain I work nights and sleep in the day to any neighbors and they were considerate enough at that point to quiet down.
My only question:
They complained that they were celebrating Christmas with their blaring music? What kind of music were they playing that loud? I shudder at the thought that someone may actually blast up the volume on a Sing Along with Mitch album.
