Why are people so fucking rude

[VelmaD]

It is the day of the switch to daylight savings time and I would like very much to take a freakin' nap but I can't because several of my asshole neighbors think it is perfectly acceptable behavior to open up all their windows and play their music loud enough to wake the dead. Or they think, "hey it's pretty outside...I'm gonna go wash the car in the public parking lot with my music cranked up to 11". :eyes:

Newsflash to the neighbors - I don't like your music. I listen to WAY louder shit than you do and I don't force it on you. I want a nap and if I don't get one there will be shovel beatings.

That is all. *sigh*

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. They're the people who were brought up with a sense of entitlement:

everything they wanted to do was fine with their parents, and their parents never gave a moment's thought to the idea that their children's behavior might be driving other people batty.

[VelmaD]

3. What really pissed me off just now...

was when I asked the ones in the parking lot to turn it down they looked at me like I was the one being an asshole. Sheesh.

[Dr.Phool]

21. I only talked to my neighbor once.

His car stereo was vibrating my walls. I told him that I had a very powerful stereo system. and if he didn't turn his down, I was going to stick 5 speakers on my patio, pointed at his house, and then I was going to buy a Slim Whitman record, and blast his house.

Anybody ever see the exploding heads in "Mars Attacks"? Slim Whitman.

[VelmaD]

27. You are truly truly evil...

and my hero. :)

[barb162]

33. I have a neighbor like that across the street. Can't wash a car

without blasting his lousy music. Yeah, that scene from "Mars Attacks" was a good example of how I feel about it too (very funny movie). There was another scene where an alien made an "o" sign with its hands and one of the humans said something like " wow, it's the sign of the doughnut"

[mhr]

2. I Have Already Accosted Two Such Rude Neighbors This Morning

I do not stomach loud car music, in particular, rap and rock.

You play that in my earshot and you will be met with my face in yours.

You don't like it and become physical, your ass is going to jail.

I've done it before and will do it again.

[VelmaD]

4. I no longer even talk to...

the ones upstairs. I'm done talking to them about it. I call the apartment office and we are documenting noise disruptions. They have been very good for about 2 weeks since the last time the office gave them grief. But today, they've backslid. Eventually my apartment people are going to build up a big enough file to kick them out.

[mhr]

10. I Do The Same - Likewise, I Am A Big Ugly Red Neck Looking

Old crusty white guy.

They generally don't like talking with me twice.

Sometimes being big, ugly, and ornery has its virtues.

[fudge stripe cookays]

44. Oh you are not.

You're a cutie.

For an old guy, that is.

:D
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[Bok_Tukalo]

14. My downstairs neighbors leave me notes

One telling me that I come down the stairs too hard (I taped that one to my door to remind myself not to walk normally) and asking that I please quit stomping around (I do not and that one bothered me since they are seriously starting to intrude on my life; making me feel guilty about walking around my own apartment).

I never play my music loud but a couple of weeks ago I was in a down mood and cranked it up a bit (about half way to my stereo's maximum). I got through one song before there was a knock at the door.

Selfishness can cut both ways.

[mhr]

16. I'd Be On Your Ass So Quick You'd Think Light Traveled Slow

Sounds like you have nice neighbors.

I don't pay rent to have my space polluted by the excessive sounds of others.

[Bok_Tukalo]

20. Fair enough

Personally, I'm not going to lay on the couch all day to keep from offending their sense of space (buy a fucking house or do like I did, knowing that I would have neighbors upstairs, and rent the top floor. It's worth the extra effort in moving).

Interesting that you automatically think that the only ones out of line are the ones who are complained about. Some people are just over sensitive, self absorbed jerks that take out their disappointments on those around them.

[mhr]

28. Once Again, I Don't Pay Rent To Have Someone Else Dictate My

Environment by playing their music so loud I can hear it through brick and mortar.

I am not young anymore and value my peace and quiet.

Hence I will challenge anyone that wants to disturb that peace and quiet because they think they have a righ,t above all others, to inflict their brand of music on the rest of us.

[Bok_Tukalo]

30. Complaining about the music didn't bother me that much

It's the complaints about just walking around my apartment normally that makes me think they are going overboard in their desire for a cocoon.

[mhr]

32. I Have A lateral Neighbor That Bounds Up and Down The Stairs

He seems to indifferent to the noise it causes. At three o'clock in the morning it is enough to wake me up.

I routinely ask my downstairs neighbor if I am walking to hard on the floors.

I have another neighbor that has taken to grilling on Saturdays and Sundays.

I had to ask him to move the grill because the smoke was collecting under the eaves and seeping into my apartment. It gets so bad that I can hardly breathe.

What was I to do let him continue to poison me with his fumes.

If you don't speak up, people assume that all is well.

[Bok_Tukalo]

35. OK

But I'm not going to be a sedentary person. I will move about my apartment when I'm there. I will LEAVE my apartment and walk down the stairs.

Should I complain when I hear their kids' squeals of laughter early on a Saturday morning just below my bedroom window?

[mhr]

40. If They Overdue It - You Bet!

eom

[VelmaD]

17. Sorry, but you're gonna be hard pressed...

to get me to believe it's selfish to want a little peace and quiet in your own home. If you want to listen to loud music do what I do when I feel to need to crank it...put on headphones.

[mhr]

18. Exactly - I built A Really Nice Vacuum Tube Headphone Amp

Just for this purpose.

Sounds lovely!

[Bok_Tukalo]

24. Actually, the complaint about the music didn't bother me that much

I realized I was being a bit loud (didn't take them long though, like they were waiting, HOPING, I would get out of line).

It's the complaints about me going about my business in a normal fashion that I find a bit self absorbed on their part.

[VelmaD]

26. In defense of your neighbors...

you may not understand what you moving about "normally" sounds like down in their apartment. I hear every move my upstairs neighbors make. They swear up and down they are moving normally...down here it often sounds like they're clog dancing up there. I've given up on complaining about it though, I figure it's just thin ceilings or something. The music on the other hand, they can control.

[henslee]

5. Can't hear you, I''ve got Motorhead cranked.

[VelmaD]

7. *snort*

I just wish I had it in me to be a really obnoxious asshole back at these people. See how they like Sepultura or Slayer cranked up next to their bedroom window at 4 in the morning. :evilgrin:

[DS1]

9. Stick with Sepultura for these purposes, the tribal aspects on "roots"

should have them moving out on their own power in no time.

[MuseRider]

12. Opera honey.

Buy something with a big soprano aria and blast the crap out of it. I keep an Opera CD in my truck just for that purpose. I love Opera but very few blasters do. It may not stop them but I would much rather hear that than their music.

[VelmaD]

15. Heee...that is another option...

I have a rather large classical collection...hmmmmm...:dilemma:

[MuseRider]

25. Very rarely

will someone take advantage of your rage and start to rock out to an aria. :)

[onager]

36. Classical? Heh...

I like all kinds of music, but when the neighbors' 3 kids were younger they used to drive me batty sometimes with the rap and metal.
(We're in townhouses/condos, so we have a common wall.)

They always got the hint and turned it down when I put in my CD of the 1812 Overture.

Uh, the CD with the sticker on the front saying: "WARNING: Digital Cannons. Levels in excess of 120 dB. Damage to hearing and your speakers possible..."

Or something like that.

[name not needed]

46. I think blasting Anal C*nt into their apartment may be more effective.

:D

[skygazer]

6. Because when they were kids

Their parents didn't made them behave in restaurants.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2974971

[VelmaD]

8. Heeeee....

pretty much. :)

[fluffernutter]

11. snort!

:spray:

[Southsideirish]

13. After many years of living around noisy, inconsiderate people I realized

that I have to limit my exposure to them in every way I can possibly do so. That is in my housing, of course as I can't do it at work, on the bus, in the store, or restaurants (although I do carry wax earplugs for the latter).'
Regarding housing - I can't have anyone over me or next to me so I have a top floor condo with an inner staircase between me and my only next door neighbor. Mercifully, she's quiet. The condo is on two floors so even if the people downstairs get noisy (sports fans) I can retreat upstairs. Right in the heart of the city, I have finally found total quiet from noisy neighbors but it took years for me to figure it out. Suffered plenty in the interim, however.

[hfojvt]

19. ear plugs and white noise would probably help

Run a box fan or something which will drown out other distractions. If it is daytime it is kinda silly to expect people to be quiet for you. Usually I find that neighbor's music is loud enough to be annoying but not loud enough to enjoy. What bother's me more is people who get up at 8 on a Saturday or Sunday and start cutting their grass. That should be illegal.

[VelmaD]

23. I shouldn't have to wear earphones in my own home...

I should be able to enjoy the space I live in. It would be one thing if it was just a little noise coming through the ceiling. It's not. It's all the windows open with enough volume to hear it on the other side of the complex (I know - I walked around just to see how far I could hear it). And it's people out in the parking lot with the car stereos cranked up loud enough to hear in my apartment over 200 feet away.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

39. Think about it this way...

...they're not doing it to bug the shit out of you. They're doing it so they can get it done before it gets hot as hell. Most of the time people have good intentions and it's not to piss you off...most of the time it's completely innocent, and they would try to change if you'd say something nicely.
Duckie

[BikeWriter]

22. Call the cops on them!

[NoPasaran]

29. One thing you should never do

When you go out of town is to set your alarm to go off at maximum volume at, say, Four AM. No, that would be terrible.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

41. People leave their alarms on in the dorms all the time...

At six o'clock every morning, the girl's who's bed was mirrored to mine on the other side of the wall alarm would go off. And well, on the weekends she usually forgot to turn it off. And it wasn't just the nice music either...It was that ERR ERR ERR ERR shit that makes me completely lose it. So I'd have to find an RA or the Dorm Director to go in and turn it off. I started leaving her notes on friday mornings begging her and bribing her with chocolate to remember to turn it off. It went a long way, and I found it helped her to remember.
Duckie

[NoPasaran]

49. The guy who lived in the apartment below mine used to do that

I always get up early in the morning anyway so it wasn't too irritating except on weekends... still, that's one of the reasons why I bought a house!

[KittyWampus]

31. Constipation FromToo Much Meat & Not Enough Veggies?

[barb162]

34. do you ever wonder why people don't use earphones and blast their

own eardrums into deafness?

[DainBramaged]

37. Find some polka music and blast it till 10PM

Maybe they'll get it.

[barb162]

43. LOL, LOL

[MissMillie]

38. Keep your noise to yourself... a steadfast rule I make for myself

and wish that others would follow suit.

Sorry you're having a hard time getting your nap.

[liberalpress]

42. Don't screw with it, man...

...it's all just part of "The Culture of Life"

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

45. Generally speaking, people suck!

And, not in the good way ;).

Shit like that makes liing in the sticks appealing... :hi: Velma!

[fudge stripe cookays]

47. I feel for ya.

Having had a bazillion asshole neighbors in my time. Many of them below me. And all of them seemed to LOVE Erasure or the disco crap with the "Boom Boom BOOM BOOM BOOM" beat.

I discovered that Mudhoney was quite good for revenge, or even better, get the album "Song X" by Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman.

If I asked someone nicely to turn down their music, and they gave me attitude, I'd take my speakers, turn them so they faced into the floor, and crank it.

They got the idea really quickly after that, and usually didn't give me any more problems.

The last batch in Denton got little giftie bags when I moved, that had fu-fu tissue inside, a nasty note about what assholes they were, and the last cleaning out of the catbox. Made me feel much better.

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[democracyindanger]

48. HAH! That's nothing!

Last night...well actually, this morning, because it was 4 am, my downstairs neighbors woke my up because they were singing "Ring of Fire." Not even singing ALONG with Cash--JUST FREAKIN' SINGING IT. AND ONLY THE CHORUS, BECAUSE NONE OF THE REEDY-VOICED IDIOTS KNEW ANY OTHER WORDS.