Today, just like every other day, I was woken up 2 hours earlier than I needed to be, by the alarm belonging to my upstairs neighbors. They won't wake up until their real alarm goes off: me, pounding the walls and yelling in frustration. FML
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Today, like every day, I woke up at 3 in the morning because my roommate needs "a three hour warning" before his real alarm goes off. His alarm is a constant beeping noise which he always ignores for a good 10 minutes before finally getting up and turning it off. FML
Today, my neighbors in the apartment above me yet again had a loud fight, well past midnight while I was trying to sleep. I stood on my bed and pounded on the ceiling to shut them up. And now I'll have to explain the two fist-shaped holes in the ceiling to my landlord. FML
Today, after my old downstairs neighbor, who would come upstairs to bang on my door and yell at me every time she heard a sound from me at all times of the day, had finally moved out, it became clear that my new downstairs neighbor gets drunk and yells at the TV in the early hours of the morning. FML
Today, my new neighbours moved in. I've neither seen nor spoken to them yet; all I know is that they enjoy hammering at the walls for hours on end and repeatedly setting off the fire alarm. All this in the small hours of the morning. I got two hours of sleep. FML
Today, I was running late and tried to sneak out of the house without waking anyone up. My phone alarm, which I forgot was set on max volume, blasted a loud “WAKE UP!” at 7 AM right as I opened the front door. Everyone in the house was wide awake instantly. FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, I'm a college student. Just like every other goddamn day, my roommate set about twenty alarms a good two hours before she even needs to get up. She just sleeps through the first hour or so of alarms while I wake up. I've been waking up at 6 a.m., even though my first classes are at 9. FML.
Today, my roommate's extremely loud and obnoxious alarm went off six times, waking me up each time, before she finally gave up on hitting the snooze button and went back to sleep for good. FML
Today, my roommate set her extremely loud alarm clock for 5am and continued to hit the snooze button every ten minutes until 7:30. FML
Today, I found out my upstairs neighbors filed a noise complaint against me for banging on the ceiling every night. They conveniently left out the part where they constantly stomp, shout, and do stuff that sounds like they're dropping bricks to the floor every night. FML
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icic6772 0
Wake THEM up two hours early.
instnt1nfction 17
Wait till they leave and then sneak in their apartment and put a walkie talkie user their bed. At 3am start yelling MEEEP MEEEP
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Comments (77)
robertlovespi 3
File a complaint with the landlord or building manager? They are there for these kinds of things.
KiddNYC1O 22
Shit, destroy it with a predator drone missile.
Timmeeh 17
Try wax earplugs. After a few days of oversleeping they'll probably adjust their waking up strategy. That does make your own alarm a minor problem, but a phone on vibrate under the pillow works pretty well in that respect.
KiddNYC1O 22
I wear foam earplugs to bed, they work wonders, and I still wake up to my alarm- ahem- alarms.
audiophileMom 11
Whoo... For a second I was scared you were talking about my husband whenever I'm not home to violently elbow him awake (in a loving kinda way...) your life definitely sucks!
Doribella98 14
Then don't pound on the walls and yell in frustration, maybe if you don't do that their real alarm, you, won't go "on", so therefore they don't wake up ;)
Schiffy 18
The term for an alarm is "going off", don't try to correct it.
Doribella98 14
I was trying to correct it. I put the quotations referring to OP acting like the alarm clock, therefore going off, like you corrected. No need to attack me.
keshaforever1 14
Assholes...
ZoZo17_fml 0
..how can you bang on their walls if they're above you.?
Okayitwasme 0
Invest in ear plugs and a vibrating alarm. My I phone does the trick when I don't want to wake up my spouse.
HomeAl0ne 20
Wait till they go on a two week overseas holiday, forgetting to turn off the alarm that is set for 3:20am on their day of departure. The alarm that goes off constantly for 12 hours before resetting itself for the next morning. The alarm that is on the battery powered clock that isn't affected by you pulling out the fuses to their apartment. The alarm that, after 9 freaking days, mysteriously starts to attract raw shellfish under their front door, shellfish that gradually accumulate into a stinking fly-blown heap over the next five days. Luckily I got over it. *violent eye twitch*
TipOfTheHat 10
To deal with this problem: rent large concert speakers, when they try to go to sleep at night, play death metal music! Turn those speakers way, way up!