Three months ago, the noisy neighbour moved in next door.
You know the one I’m talking about. You probably have one of your own. Every building does.
The one who blares the TV at 2am. The one who feels the need to clean out her closet at 7am on weekends. The one who is constantly receiving phone calls or having visitors at the specific hours when you are finally able to grab a few hours’ sleep.
The noisy neighbour is a prototype. Or maybe more of a stereotype. But she has an uncanny way of knowing those days when you need to wake up at 4am to catch a flight for a 14-hour day of business meetings, and she picks those days to keep you up till 3am the night before listening to her taste in music. She also has an uncanny way of knowing exactly when you were looking forward to sleeping in after a week of 14-hour workdays, and picks exactly that Saturday morning to set her alarm clock so loud that you can listen to the 7am news along with her. It’s ever so thoughtful of her to assume that you need to know what’s going on in the world right then.
I was spoiled when I moved in here because the previous occupant of the apartment next door was quiet as a mouse. But then the noisy neighbour moved in, forever shattering my notion of a good night’s sleep.
So now I’m debating whether to fight back. Do I subject my noisy neighbour to my taste in music at hours when I’m awake and she’s asleep? Of course, that strategy risks backfiring… as it would turn me into the noisy neighbour of the people on the other side.
Oh well, in absence of sleep I guess I’ll turn to the second-best idea: coffee.
must be an arab!
…or just some ‘Bloc’ head
That would be Dan ‘Anonymous’ inVan
My solution was arrived at completely inadvertently. I just started talking to the caretakers/landlords when I came back from work (the setup is such that we have a communal front garden) and voila the noisy neighbours obviously thought I have the ear of the ultimate power in the block. Interesting lesson with great side benefits.
Probably both…might consider moving out there Segacs with all them imports and dirty Frenchmen/women around.
Hanthala;
Getting a wee bit testy, are we?
I know that it might be a silly idea, but have you considered just talking to her?
(That one works really well when you do so with a large German Shepherd attached to your arm…)
“(That one works really well when you do so with a large German Shepherd attached to your arm…)”
Ouch!
I have the worst noisy upstairs neighbor… she has like 3 kids and a baby that cries all the time. They are constantly stomping around at all hours. I think there is a dog up there too. I keep having to go up there and argue with them, but I now have my official revenge: next weekend, my roommates and I are all leaving for the weekend. I plan to attach a radio to the ceiling and play “My heart will go on” by Celine Dion on repeat for the entire time. I hope it will produce desired results of quiet. I doubt it though. I bet it will just fuel the fire.