Today, I live in an apartment and all I can hear is my neighbours' bratty kids screaming with their new toys. Not only do I hate kids, making this absolute torture, I also work nights and only fell into bed at 6 a.m. this morning, so that’s 4 hours trying to sleep so far and I’m back at work in 5 hours. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after hearing them stomp around all summer, my upstairs neighbor’s obnoxiously loud kids finally started school. Now I get to hear them get up at 6:30am and stomp around while they get ready. FML
Today, and every night all summer, I can hear the kids outside playing when I go to bed. They’re so loud, it makes it hard to sleep. The kids have a later bedtime than I do, and I’m 33. I'm feeling like a broken down old lady. FML
Today, working from home and to escape my own toddler, I moved my work area into the bedroom. Perfect timing for the neighbor's toddler to scream at the top of his lungs. All day long, underneath my bedroom. I just wanted some peace and quiet to work. FML
Today, I can't any peace and quiet in any room of my flat. The neighbours on one side are arguing, the other side are having very loud sex, the ones upstairs I suspect are playing some sort of games console, and downstairs daughter has been practising her violin badly all morning. FML
Today, like every day since the new neighbors moved into the townhouse next door, their newborn won’t stop crying. The room the two toddlers and newborn are in apparently shares a wall with my bedroom, so I hear crying while I work remote, study remote, and try to sleep. FML
Today, my downstairs neighbours screamed at me for making so much noise that I woke their children up and made them cry. The noise was the sound of a loose floorboard shifting as I crept to my bathroom, and again on my way back to bed. They've sworn to get me evicted. FML
Today, for the fifth day in a row, I have awoken at 6 a.m. to the sounds of my roommate's guest's child screaming. If it's anything like the last four days, the child will continue to randomly screech every fifteen minutes or so for the next five hours. I work 13-hour night shifts. 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 met my new upstairs neighbors. They have a four-month-old child and appear to be firm believers in the "let them cry it out" philosophy. The baby's room is right above mine. A few days of trying to sleep through this shit and I'll look like a Walking Dead extra. FML
Today, I got a new upstairs neighbor, a fucking breeder with three brats and a screeching newborn. They’ve barely started moving in their shit and I can hear the howls already. It’s not fair to put them in upstairs apartments above people just trying to enjoy some peace and quiet. FML
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Hangryko 32
Calmly talk to your neighbours about your situation and/or try to change your shift. In the meantime try ear plugs, move to a different room to sleep, find ways to soundproof your apartment such as a white noise machine. All else fails, submit a noise complaint.
Marcella1016 32
Man I love kids and that shit is torture to me too. I feel your pain, OP.
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Hangryko 32
Calmly talk to your neighbours about your situation and/or try to change your shift. In the meantime try ear plugs, move to a different room to sleep, find ways to soundproof your apartment such as a white noise machine. All else fails, submit a noise complaint.
Grumpy Jack 27
Parents usually don't like it when non parents people complain about their kids. I don't know how it works in your country but in mine, you earn more money working on night shift jobs. Since I do work at night, I thought about ear plugs but then I wouldn't hear my phone ring and couldn't wake myself up. Isolating an apartment can be expansive and if you're in a rent, it gets more complicated. Lots of tenants don't care about your well-being as long as you pay your rent on time. I've had these kinds of problems and even if you get the authorities involved, things don't change and you might as well live with it or move out.
randybryant799 21
Get some ear plugs.
mccuish 25
Put in a noise complaint
Marcella1016 32
Man I love kids and that shit is torture to me too. I feel your pain, OP.
Lydmyers 9
I feel you, man. kids are messy, annoying and loud - I have three of them.