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Anonymous
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"One night, a few weeks after DC was born, we couldn't take the noise anymore. My DH gathered up the contents of a very full Diaper Genie and opened it up on the steps of the rave 'club' in the wee hours of the morning. To be sure, it was rude, but incredibly satisfying to think about high heels sliding about in the muck... "
yes, really bad! But SOOO hilarious!! OMG!! |
Anonymous
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I have real problems w/ such inconsiderate people. If I feel that I can't approach them in a calm way, I may call 311 (DC non-emerg) and have someone come out. When people are up that late usually alcohol is involved & while they may keep it down after having been asked immediately after I find they usually spark right back up. If you think you can keep your cool and ask them yourself, I'd go for it, b/c I think you would feel really good about it. If they don't quiet down enough I'd probably talk to them in the am and ask them a very specific request that would be very clear, vs "keeping it down" which is totally subjective. And maybe explain that in the future you may just call 311 as to not have to get out of bed, etc. at that ridiculous hour.
An earlier poster commented that she hadn't thought that maybe neighbors could hear her. Really?? I don't understand this! Noise carries and windows, walls etc. aren't sound proof. Sometimes they barely filter the noises from the other side. I don't understand it either when people are blaring their music. Did it ever occur to them that someone next door could be sleeping, working, sick, etc.? I don't even enjoy listening to my music that loud knowing how disruptive I could be. Luckily my neighbors are all pretty considerate. There is one who occasionally is up late or blaring their country music (my least favorite kind) & that is very irritating, but it usually passes pretty quickly, so I just go to a room where it is less disturbing. Good luck and I don't blame you for your frustration. |
Anonymous
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OP, Add a white noise machine, a humidifier, and/or a fan on high to your AC. Maybe some lullabies for the baby too.
Seriously, sleep is important. Try it. |
Anonymous
The OP said the people were on their deck, so I assumed it was a house. She did not mention music. She did not mention a party. She said it was just people on the deck. And she said they could be heard over the air conditioning. I can NEVER hear my neighbors when I am inside my house. So no, it never occurred to me that they could hear me if we were just sitting and talking. I can't hear my husband if he is talking to a friend outside sitting on our deck when I am on the other side of our sliding glass door...only 2 feet from them. So I would be surprised to find out our neighbors could hear him. But I get it, aucustics (spelling?) are weird. Sometimes noises travel in weird ways. So I would hope that a neighbor would first tell us that we are disrupting them, versus call the cops. I thinks its bizarre that people assume the worst and assume the neighbors KNOW they are bothering you. What is one persons PIA means nothing to someone else signed - person who can sleep through a party in her living room but a barking dog can drive her mad |
Anonymous
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FYI, 311 has been eliminated. It's only an automated menu thingie now. You have to call 911 for any 24-hour city service whether or not you have an actual emergency.
Here's what I did. My kid actually sleeps through all kinds of noise, but still wakes up randomly. One night she woke up and started crying, so I picked her up, went out on the back deck, raised my voice over the whimpering baby and yakking neighbors and said in my most apologetic tone that I was having a hard time keeping the baby asleep (gestured to the upstairs window which is the nursery) and would they mind terribly moving the party inside after 10:00? Ok, it was mildly evil to use the baby as an excuse for my request, but boy howdy was it effective. |
Anonymous
I have done this (called non-emergency police) because at 2am I didn't want to get out of bed, get dressed find my shoes, and walk around to the townhouses behind me in 40 degree weather and try to get their attention. I figured the policeman/woman was already awake and could do it. Now, if they had been adjacent to my house and I could have stuck my head out the deck door, I would have. Sometimes you have no idea how far noise travels. |
Anonymous
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Second the white noise. We had two large, noisy dogs when DD was an infant, as well as the loudest, creakiest stairs ever.
The noise was always waking her. Use a looped "rain" soundtrack on our iPod and that helped tremendously. |