My morning rant, a short novello by Relic:
Back story - I live next door to a college rental house and for the past 5 years, I have had off and on issues with whomever is renting it at the time. Everything from our driveway being used as a thoroughfare to get into
their backyard, to cars parking in our driveway blocking us in, to all night loud parties, to vandalism of my property (beer bottles smashed on my driveway, car egged, pee stains on the side of my house..nice stuff) I have 0 tolerance for that stupid stuff.
This latest group of college kids were a little bit better. They're basically good kids and don't do any of that really goofy crap, the problem is that they act like friggen vampires.. their house is as quite as a tomb all day long as they're either studying at home or in class then starting about 8 or 9pm, their "social time" erupts. It's as though their day starts at about 9pm and goes on full-blast until about 5 am.
Now, that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I did the same when I was in college, but what
does is the fact that they seem to have absolutely NO comprehension of the fact that a) everyone else is likely sleeping at 2 am so it might be a good idea to keep the noise down when outside, b) this is a
residential neighborhood and not a college dorm so the loud shenanigans in the wee hours of the AM are not found to be cute and endearing to the residents who have to be awoken by it several times per week.
For some unknown reason, they particularly seem to LOVE to stand on their back porch and bs for hours even when it's like 13 degrees outside. Being that it's about 30' from our bedroom window, it wakes us up and keeps us up
every time...
Now, I've tried to be cool towards them, and probably on about 7 or 8 instances, I've come outside and in a nice way (even though I was seething at them having awoken everyone in my house), asked them to keep it down a little bit. It's always the same response "oh sorry man, we'll keep it down, sorry about that, good night.." etc etc. I've tried the mean way - "yo, keep it the f down!!!!" They lower the volume for about 5 mins then it's right back to where they were before. You know how late night conversations sound: murmur murmur *loud explosive laugh*,*two or three people shouting over each other* then back down to murmur murmur..
During the big snowstorm last week, they were outside; 4 guys, 2 girls at 3:30 am having a snowball fight..screaming, shrieking, shouting, laughing.
Last night I reached the end of my rope. At about 11:45, they go out on the back porch and start bsing again, 12:15...still there. Talking loudly, laughing, shouting....one goes over and lays on the car horn to make fun of the way his buddy's car horn sounds..so I get up yet again, go outside and ask them - "guys it's f-ing midnight, can you pleeease keep it f down?" "Oh ok, sure man, sorry..."
I go in, it starts up again in 5 mins.. so I called the cops on their arses. No more of giving them the respect and common courtesy to ask them to their faces to keep it down. I now have to be that grumpy, curmudgeonly neighbor that calls the cops over every little thing and somehow, I
feel guilty for doing it...what teh hell is up with that?? It's like having to admit that you are now officially "old"... bastages! GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
