The neighbors whose parents laid down the 310K for the house for their annoying child and her friends? Suck just as much as we thought they would.
Last night they had a party. At about 6PM the guests arrived, and the giggling started. People kept rolling into the house with pillows and blankets until 1AM, and it got louder and louder, as the spoiled brats took it to the street outside my bedroom window.
On the positive side, they did move back inside when we told them to STFU the first time. The SECOND time we told them that (at 1:30 last night) they took it to the basement for the most part. I say, "For the most part," because every 10 minutes or so after that a couple of them would come upstairs to the living room and talk and giggle loudly (think "outside voice") for about 10 minutes or so before returning downstairs.
Then they woke up my in-laws at around 3AM engaging in some sort of drunken argument in the alley way in back of the house.
I HATE THEM. Luca especially hates them.
I said to him, "Just wait until we have a kid. I can't WAIT until it starts screaming at 3AM right outside their bedroom window and doesn't shut up until 7AM. Those little brats *totally* deserve it."
On the plus side, I have found no vomit on our property yet, and my garden seems not to have been destroyed. So I suppose it could have been worse - they could have been male spoiled brats.
(Actually, my husband now tells me that the males who were invited to the party were leaning on the hand rail drunkenly at 1AM chatting loudly, which could have very easily led to puking in my garden. Hopefully as few of them as possible will decide to live in the house.)
However, I may have won the battle of the air conditioner. See, Luca hates the air conditioner, and defers inserting it into the window until the last possible moment (read: when the temperature finally reaches 100 degrees for the 5th consecutive day). Last night he furiously ran down to the basement to retrieve the massive object, and attempted to insert it into the window in his impaired half awake state. Fortunately he gave up quickly, and we resorted to telling the brats to STFU repeatedly instead. But! This means I will get my A/C sooner rather than later, and I will no longer roast!
Every cloud has a silver lining, I suppose.
*STFU = Shut the F*** Up!!
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It's also summertime, OMDG. Hopefully it'll get better in September (though I know that's not much comfort in May).
You can always call the cops on them.
G -- It may be summertime, but one of the principle reasons we moved to this neighborhood was the lack of 24 year olds. No offense. My husband gets up at 4:30 most mornings, and really really needs his sleep on the weekends. Hence the hatred. And then new air conditioner.
I also hate my neighbours. What is it with some people? They've been noisy since the day they moved in.
If you come up with a good solution, let me know. I've called the bylaw officers/police several times, we have an air conditioner in the bedroom and I've started wearing ear plugs.
I hate noisy neighbors!! It is one of my biggest pet peeves.
My brother`s uncle in law has the opposite problem... a lady who keeps calling the cops on them when they have backyard parties, even though they don`t have loud music or anything. Maybe some splashing in the pool. The other neighbours don`t notice the noise at all. Usually, the police just ask a few quick questions, and leave after making sure it is just BS.
In college, we had terrible neighbors in the apartment above us who were always throwing insanely loud parties all night long. When they wouldn't shut up, we would just call the cops. I guess it was sort of obnoxious on our part, but it worked.
I am so glad we live in the country now and all our neighbors are acres away. Ahhh, solitude..
My one dislike about the place we're moving is that the house behind it is a sorority house...and they definitely have space in their parking lot for a decent sized college party. I also had the exact same thought re: screaming infants. That'd teach them.
Can you plant anything like a rapid growing hedge or something to provide more of a noise break?
but yay for the air conditioner!
Thank God you now have your a/c. This old guy figured out STFU on his own. I hope that this won't be going on all Summer.
People being obnoxiously loud when you're trying to sleep have got to be one of the most annoying things ever -- especially because once I get annoyed by them and ask them to be quiet, then I can't go back to sleep because I'm laying there anxiously waiting for them to start being loud again!
But yay for the AC! We just bought a new one today because the old one was set to 66 degrees 24/7 and we were still sweating at night. I'm so excited to see how cold it gets! :)
Our neighbors aren't loud but they have these gatherings every week wherein every person in their family parks on the street and makes it really hard to get out of our driveway. It's not that bad, they could be worse. I have never really had noisy neighbors.
Neighbors ugh. Major selling point of the shack - it might be (sort of) a shack but the nearest neighbor is at least 50 ft away. No more Duplex H*ll (i.e. Listening to my recently released ex-con neighbor and his baby mama fight like the Cramdens, manage what I can only assume was their 24-hour full service day care and/or make sweet sweet love. The horror)!
My neighbors partied all night Saturday; woke up to broken bottles on my sidewalk and front yard... where Storm goes.
Muttering to myself that this was "just great, wow, awesome" my neighbors must have heard me. By the time I got home, ALL the broken glass was gone, a lovely flower on my front steps.
AD2B, Same thing happened here - the neighbor who owns the house apologized for the noise. Said it wasn't going to be a regular occurrence. I'll try to cut her some slack. I know how inconsiderate *I* was when I was 24.
;-)
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