To my neighbors...- Page 2

[Plum]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 3:18pm

Considering my job prospects, I'll probably end up living at home again once I graduate.

I really don't need to contemplate this right now.

[Millie42]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 3:44pm

Jess, I was seriously saying this the other night. The guys below me like to make the floor and my desk shake with their bass. If I had a stereo here I would torture them to death with the wonderfully LOUD world of musicals.
Heck, I wish I could put Popular on repeat, turn up the volume all the way, leave the room and enjoy my day.

[Millie42]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 3:49pm

Speaking of instruments in dorms, I remember my favorite away message ever of my now-roommate.

She had a guy that played the Sax below her and sucked horribly.
Last december I read this away message:

Do you know what Christmas sounds like when it is dying?
I do.

[CJR]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:06pm

My neighbors currently aren't too bad... though they are quite ghetto and their eldest daughter enjoys trying to hit her boyfriend with her beat up Infinity at 1am. However, I digress.

The neighbors I had in my last apartment were HORRIBLE. I was in a house that had been converted into 3 apartments; Basement, ground level (mine) and upstairs. I was sandwiched in between 2 Trinidadian families. The upstairs neighbors liked to fight at all hours of the day and night (because there were like 9 people crammed into a 3 bedroom apartment, I kid you not), and the downstairs neighbors enjoyed playing Soca music VERY LOUDLY at 2am (and later).

This one night I had just gotten home from a very long night bartending... it was about 3:30am and I was so exhausted I literally hit the bed in the clothes I was wearing and fell asleep. Not even 20 minutes later, my floor began vibrating and my whole apartment was filled with the sounds of two different kinds of music: Soca and Hardcore Rap. Apparently the son and the daughter were dueling it out over who's music would win. *sigh* Out of sheer exaustion, if nothing else, I fell asleep.... They paid for that the next day though. It was a Saturday and because they apparently stay up all night partying, were clearly spending the whole day sleeping. Before I left to do my errands, I put Anything Goes, Cabaret, Seussical and The Full Monty in my stereo on the highest volume it could go and on repeat.

Did I mention the stereo system I had in my apartment had Dolby Surround Sound?

Needless to say, we never had a music problem again.

[mominator]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:20pm

Lesson to be learned here is ALWAYS have a better stereo system and LOUDER music.
Long ago, and I mean long lonng ago. When I was in college.I came down with a really bad cold. I was at my boyfriends apartment when the guy next door just had to share (now get this) "Morning Train"
Of all the god forsaken pop crap he picked this. I went over knocked on the door and asked nicely if he could please turn down the volumn. No go.. he keeps on playing it, I go over again ask nicely to please turn it down.. No go up goes the volumn. Finally I go over and tell him that he does NOT want to get in to a p*ssing with my boyfriends stereo system. He did DJ work on the weekends so he had killer speakers.
Still a no go. Well enough is enough. I bundeled up really well. Opened the windows just a crack and put on the 1812 Overture (this one used REAL cannon fire) Turned the volumn up to alittle over 1/4 of the way (any louder and it would havr cracked the drywall!) and went out for a walk
When I came back there was a note on the door "You win. sorry"

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:21pm

I loved "Morning Train."

[CJR]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:26pm

Mom, that's a GREAT story!

[mominator]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:28pm

Rath I liked the song too, but after the seventh or eighth time I was getting a bit peeved. CJR on Friday Dave can tell you about the speakers he had (man they were awesome!)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:30pm

DGrant - Revenge is best when the opening of Arvo Part's Cello Concerto is used. Try it some time. If not for revenge, it's good for a laugh.

PS - I played first cello in the Brandenburg No. 3. BLISS!

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 8:25pm

If I had a problem with noise, Florence Foster Jenkins would come to my rescue!!!!! It's bad enough at normal levels, can you imagine having her blasting? Muahaha!

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 8:44pm

My dear neighbors- Shut up. I do not care about how much you love George Bush, and I do not care about your stupid, stupid dogs. I do care about you coming to my house 5 minutes after I've been home, and tell me to "be quiet, my husband is sleeping." Look lady, we were MOVING into thwe house. I'm sorry, but you keep your windows open 24/7 and sometimes noise happens. And your husband needs to get off his butt when it's 1:00 in the afternoon.

And next time you threaten to call the cops on me for "screaming", I will come down there. I freaking swear on it.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:17pm

You know what I loved? When we were attacked by the neighborhood association (even though we didn't fall under their jurisdiction) on the day we moved into a new house because the people who'd lived in the house before us had let their lawn grow into something out of Little House on the Prarie. We didn't even own a lawn mower. Grr.