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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 10:28:19 GMT
Kimby's mention of drums brought to mind my seeing a drum set being moved into the house across the street the day before yesterday. They were going into the apartment of a stoned out old hippie who fancies himself a rock musician. He already went through (as did we) his "electronic" keyboard phase. I fear the worst as the weather gets cooler and more windows open. City dwellers own guns too. It happened last night,had just lulled off to sleep when I heard them. It went on for a bit,really loud. I finally called him and his response was "there's no way you can hear them over there". My response, " Oh, I just decided to call you at 11:30 at night to make up a story about hearing drums". Then,when I mentioned his 94 year old mother who happens to live right under him in the same house, he said,"oh,she's deaf anyway". They finally ceased .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 10:51:02 GMT
Maybe his mother killed him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 10:55:03 GMT
Maybe his mother killed him. I always thought she would outlive him somehow.
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Post by imec on Oct 8, 2009 11:08:58 GMT
In the previous house we lived in, I got a call at 12:30AM once from the neighbors across the street - "music too loud". O.K., fair enough, I was showing my cousin how, if I played this very high fidelity recording of the 1812 Overture at beyond volume level 6, stuff would start falling off the shelves when the cannons started firing (amazing what 300 watts out of each channel will do ). However, the people that lived next to them (actually closer to our house) later told me that the neighbor that called would only be able to hear my stereo if she were at the front of the house (nowhere near her bedroom) with the window open, doing her best to hear wht was going on. I started disliking her at that point.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 11:44:51 GMT
I'd venture to say it was probably mutual. Alot of people are hermetically sealed in their homes and can't hear stuff that other people can ,particularly if one is upstairs. Also,some people sleep more soundly then others. I hear loud stuff that the next day someone else in close range will say they didn't hear.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 12:02:49 GMT
I am pretty insensitive to noise. I have even realized that loud noise puts me to sleep, even against my will, which I do not understand at all. In the movies, if there is a loud car chase scene, or a battle with a lot of explosions, or a riot, my eyes start closing and I practically have to slap myself to stay awake. If there is a wild party next door, the noise puts me right to sleep (can't speak for my current apartment, because the wall is about half a meter thick, so I can't even hear if there is a wild party unless I am in the building corridor).
Silence is creepy.
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Post by bjd on Oct 8, 2009 14:36:48 GMT
I had a friend living next door to the local neighbourhood witch -- you know, the one everybody hates because she is so unpleasant and never smiles. One day the witch told my friend that the sound of her spoon clinking against her coffee cup in the morning was too loud. On the other hand, the friend had a son with a set of drums, but that never seemed to bother the witch.
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Post by rikita on Oct 8, 2009 15:31:56 GMT
spoon clinking.. yeah that is loud... hehe...
in my old apartment my neighbour once rang the door bell to tell me and my bf that we are laughing too loud. well admittedly the house had very thin walls, and she said she is studying for an exam... but telling someone to talk and laugh less loudly in the afternoon? i think if noise distracts her so much, she should study in the library, or use earplugs, or something...
strangely she never complained about sex noises, even though she must have heard that too...
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Post by Kimby on Oct 9, 2009 21:13:39 GMT
maybe that was the only sex she ever got...
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Post by rikita on Oct 9, 2009 22:55:42 GMT
that isn't even unlikely.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2009 9:37:13 GMT
My newest neighbor dilemna has to do with another neighbor,not across the street but in the house next door,on the river side,right under our upstairs bedroom window. I really like these people a great deal. However,one of them works nights at a nearby music club. She doesn't roll in until about 4a.m. and makes a great deal of racket when coming home. This usually sets off the neighborhood dogs,mine included.It's not an ongoing thing but has become more frequent of late. This a.m. I just went ahead and got up. I'm hoping it's not going to be a regular thing.
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Post by Kim B on Oct 10, 2009 17:01:56 GMT
It will be, if you don't nip it in the bud. And with reinforcements, if others are also awakened by the bar-fly's return home...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2009 22:15:45 GMT
As I've mentioned numerous times in this thread and others,most of the people around me are hermetically sealed with their AC's running. I seriously doubt her own housemates even hear her. This is often the case. Our windows are the only ones opened near 12 months out of the year and the bedroom is upstairs so all sounds really carries. Also,she knows that my main prerequisite as a neighbor is quietude. I'm going to wait it out and see. There must be things about me that annoy her. And I don't want to be perceived as a 'witch' as bjd mentioned earlier. My goal is to grow old as gracefully as I can in my own home like my mother is.
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Post by spindrift on Oct 11, 2009 15:15:51 GMT
My neighbours are trying for a baby. Even though our Victorian terrace houses are well built you can still hear raised voices, crying and shouting through the walls. I wonder what it'll be like when, and if, there's a baby next door. Perhaps I'll have to move into another bedroom since their bedroom is next to mine.
There is a disobedient and spoilt young lady of 12 yrs in the house on the other side of me. It seems that she is traumatizing her poor father. Nearly every day I hear a commotion through the walls. Either she's screaming early in the morning about not wanting to go to school or the father is yelling at her to clean her teeth, not to do this or that. She screams and bellows at her parents. I don't her the mother shouting at her since she is the one who has ensured that no-one corrected the brat whilst she was growing up. Luckily all these noises are muted.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2009 15:25:34 GMT
When that baby starts cutting teeth...I have less difficulty with baby crying because for the most part I know it's non intentional and in many ways can't be controlled like other sounds,be it music,incessant barking etc. The baby has one way of communicating. If it's so ongoing,well,as a mother you know these things...
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Post by spindrift on Oct 11, 2009 16:43:02 GMT
I do, I do....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2009 20:29:46 GMT
I wish some of my neighbors would learn to sort their trash better. Our recycling bin has been refused three times by the sanitation department because they detected organic matter in it.
I am thinking of putting a pleasant but specific reminder in everybody's mailbox. After all, there are only 6 neighbors in the whole building.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2009 23:08:52 GMT
The crows are a real problem around here, when it comes to trash, if they can get at it, they leave an awful mess.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2009 23:28:28 GMT
The crows are a real problem around here, when it comes to trash, if they can get at it, they leave an awful mess. We have many crows here as well and boy they do make a racket. Do you know what a congregation of crows is referred to as? A 'murder'.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 12, 2009 16:26:21 GMT
The ravens (large black birds that quothe "nevermore" - actually they "croak" rather than "caw") around here tear our trash apart. The bears get the blame, unfortunately.
Our neighborhood group got a grant from the State Fish Wildlife and Parks Department to purchase bear-resistant trash containers and distribute them around the neighborhood on free loans.
One neighbor with 5 kids and overflowing trash cans and bags on trash day was offered a can on loan, and got offended by the insinuation that they were being singled out because of their Mexican-American heritage (which was not the case). They hung up the phone on our generous offer!
They did however, finally remove the SEVEN vehicles parked in their driveway and yard (in spite of having a FOUR-car garage)!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 18:41:03 GMT
The crows are a real problem around here, when it comes to trash, if they can get at it, they leave an awful mess. We have many crows here as well and boy they do make a racket. Do you know what a congregation of crows is referred to as? A 'murder'. ;D No, I didn't know that. But I can see why they so named. They are just a real nuisance.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 16, 2009 18:56:27 GMT
Do you know what a congregation of crows is referred to as? A 'murder'. I'd rather have an "exaltation of larks". There's a whole bunch of these rather contrived IMO names.
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Post by imec on Oct 16, 2009 19:00:16 GMT
Pride of Lions, Parliament of Owls...
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 16, 2009 19:01:07 GMT
Here, the seagulls tear the bins apart and make a racket. Many people hate them. Others feed them and then if you ignore the big hulking seagulls (calf-height), they try to pinch your bags or terrorise as many people as possible. Although there's been a visible improvement since a falconer did his job.
As for my neighbours, they are mostly lovely, relatively young people. one couple has had a baby, and like their predecessors, we cannot hear a thing, even though we are neighbours. We have many fellow cyclists in the building. great!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 19:22:33 GMT
My corridor smells like hashish ever since the girl university student replaced the previous roommate of the guy already there.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 16, 2009 19:26:06 GMT
Maybe they'll share?
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Post by fumobici on Oct 16, 2009 20:10:51 GMT
I love the smell of hashish. If they made a cologne that smelled like that I'd buy it.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 16, 2009 20:30:43 GMT
yeech! I remember really disliking that smell when it was still allowed to smoke in trains in Switzerland and I used to commute - particularly unpleasant in the morning.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 16, 2009 22:13:31 GMT
Is it my imagination or are dog people bigger gossipers than cat people? I have learned more about my neighbors in several months of walking with a neighbor and her dog than I have in 25 years of living here.
The guy across the street walks 2 little yap dogs and he's the biggest (and most inaccurate) gossip I've ever known. He'll stop and bend anyone's ear, whether he really knows something or just imagines it.
Is there something about the temperament of someone who chooses dogs that make them more loose-lipped than those who prefer to live with cats?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 16, 2009 22:50:02 GMT
*unclips Cujo's leash*
*points him towards stereotyping cat owner*
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