Am I being unreasonable? Neighbor complaints about noise - sorry long

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Public libraries i have used have closed door single person desk areas.

I live in Montgomery County, where the public libraries don't allow cellphone use at all. What you are calling "closed door single person desk areas" they call "quiet study rooms". Is OP's husband occupying a group study room all by himself? Libraries are full of odd people.

I have a newsflash!!! You ready for this? Are you sitting down? I'm not in Montgomery county. I guess we just have better services. The individual study rooms are meant for ONE person. Shocking right?

BTW I have used these rooms for working when I had construction at my home and even conducted business.

Knowyouknow#

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Anonymous wrote:The husband has conference calls at the library? So the entire family is entitled and disrespectful, I see…

There is a reason they are renting. She is a SAHM although she claims to have a job. He conducts business in libraries when he should go to his office The least dangerous thing she is doing to her children is ,letting them slide down stairs on boxes. In 30 years people will be complaining about the bad behavior of her adult children. She is living in la la land of playing with kids and not being an adult. That is why she can't handle adult issue of living with a neighbor

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Anonymous wrote:The husband has conference calls at the library? So the entire family is entitled and disrespectful, I see…

There is a reason they are renting. She is a SAHM although she claims to have a job. He conducts business in libraries when he should go to his office The least dangerous thing she is doing to her children is ,letting them slide down stairs on boxes. In 30 years people will be complaining about the bad behavior of her adult children. She is living in la la land of playing with kids and not being an adult. That is why she can't handle adult issue of living with a neighbor

You're the funniest of them all.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I'm a mom to a 3 yo and 1 yo and would never let my children behave this way. Not all parents of young children are this disrepectful towards their neighbors. Well, at least I hope not.

Disrespectful? Like in "isolating our walls, not allowing ball play, no playing upstairs and not complaining about 11PM laundry habits" disrespectful?
Get a grip.

I explained the physics of vibrations across floorboards a couple pages ago and you conveniently ignored that. You also never answered why you bothered to post if you didn't really want opinions.

Not knowing about the physics of vibrations across floorboards does not make one disrespectful!! LOL!

What happened, weren't you an audio professional 12 pages ago? I see you're just a generic liar.

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Anonymous wrote:OP. when you telework from your job do you ask your children to be quiet so that you can do your work? I think that is all your neighbor is asking

My job doesn't allow teleworking. When DH works from home he goes to the library.
BTW my children are inside their homes, not inside the neighbor's home. I doubt their noise disturbs her phone calls. They're not louder than the leaf blower or lawn mower next door.

Based on what? You don't work in her home while your kids are giggling, laughing, dancing, and sliding down the stairs on cardboard boxes. Don't you think there might be a reason your husband leaves as much as possible?

Would that be your job as an "audio professional", whatever that is?

This is ridiculous. I never claimed to be an audio professional. Not sure why so many are assuming I'm one. "Whatever that is".

06/13/2014 12:44 , Pg 3

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Anonymous wrote:OP. when you telework from your job do you ask your children to be quiet so that you can do your work? I think that is all your neighbor is asking

My job doesn't allow teleworking. When DH works from home he goes to the library.
BTW my children are inside their homes, not inside the neighbor's home. I doubt their noise disturbs her phone calls. They're not louder than the leaf blower or lawn mower next door.

Based on what? You don't work in her home while your kids are giggling, laughing, dancing, and sliding down the stairs on cardboard boxes. Don't you think there might be a reason your husband leaves as much as possible?

Would that be your job as an "audio professional", whatever that is?

This is ridiculous. I never claimed to be an audio professional. Not sure why so many are assuming I'm one. "Whatever that is".

06/13/2014 12:44 , Pg 3

OP here and I'm not 12:44. Sorry!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I'm a mom to a 3 yo and 1 yo and would never let my children behave this way. Not all parents of young children are this disrepectful towards their neighbors. Well, at least I hope not.

Disrespectful? Like in "isolating our walls, not allowing ball play, no playing upstairs and not complaining about 11PM laundry habits" disrespectful?
Get a grip.

I explained the physics of vibrations across floorboards a couple pages ago and you conveniently ignored that. You also never answered why you bothered to post if you didn't really want opinions.

Not knowing about the physics of vibrations across floorboards does not make one disrespectful!! LOL!

What happened, weren't you an audio professional 12 pages ago? I see you're just a generic liar.

And I'm not the PP you're quoting either.

You guys realize that there's more than 2 people posting in this thread, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Also, letting your kids slide down the stairs on cardboard boxes makes me think you're not as quiet and well mannered as you'd like people to believe. I bet you let your kids jump on furniture, too.

Shit, I'm a guy living alone in Col Heights and I don't answer knocks on the door for anyone, and my GF knows to call before she knocks.

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously doubt the landlords would appreciate sliding down the stairs in boxes. You are damaging their property.
That is not normal wear & tear.

Oh please what kind of damage a box can do to carpet?

And the nanny can save her judgement. My children know the difference between what's allowed at home vs what's allowed outside and other people's homes. Why should I keep them from playing and having fun inside their own house? Like I said our noise is nothing absurd that violates the city codes. Kids laugh and make noise. It's life. I'm so tired of this people who expect kids to sit quiet all day.

The hysterical and crazy part of this that makes you sound like a loon, OP, is that you don't acknowledge the damage that the stair can do to your children when the box tips over. Are you fucking insane?

[Anonymous]

Paging all DCUM abstractors, please take one for the team and read this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Well done OP- you kept your cool. You are completely correct.

Imagine, a lawyer acting superior and entitled. Whoda thunk?

She does sound a bit unstable. Locking doors and banging on walls.

Document her threats and actions, please. She might start making shit up about you.

My advice is to now ignore her COMPLETELY. Dont greet, dont engage, ignore ignore. She has threatened you are done with her.

+1

Also, show her the home birth in a duplex thread as a hint to what unreasonable can sound like.

I've had a homebirth, two actually. Our neighbors had no problem with either of my births and in fact didn't hear them. They have, however, complained about the noise our children make.

[Anonymous]

If the neighbor's first instinct was to see a neighbor coming up with cookies and then barricade herself ... I'm wondering why she expects further interactions to be productive.

That's just weird behavior on the part of the neighbor, and expecting absolute silence on the part of OP and her family during regular daytime hours is just weird.

The neighbor needs to invest heavily in soundproofing stuff or a SFH, since she seems to have ultra-sensitive ears.

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Anonymous wrote:I seriously doubt the landlords would appreciate sliding down the stairs in boxes. You are damaging their property.
That is not normal wear & tear.

Oh please what kind of damage a box can do to carpet?

And the nanny can save her judgement. My children know the difference between what's allowed at home vs what's allowed outside and other people's homes. Why should I keep them from playing and having fun inside their own house? Like I said our noise is nothing absurd that violates the city codes. Kids laugh and make noise. It's life. I'm so tired of this people who expect kids to sit quiet all day.

The hysterical and crazy part of this that makes you sound like a loon, OP, is that you don't acknowledge the damage that the stair can do to your children when the box tips over. Are you fucking insane?

Yet another DCUM known for bubblewrapping her child before park trips.

[Anonymous]

If her initials are JK you are in deep shit. She's crazy.