Today, after 3 days of interrupted sleep, I confronted my new neighbor about the noise his wife keeps making during their "private time". He then let me know the noise is actually from his daughter, who's mentally disabled and isn't taking the move well. 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, I saw my upstairs neighbor outside getting the mail. She asked how my day was, and then apologized that the sound of her baby's crying through the walls kept me up last night. Apparently she heard me when I yelled at 2am for her fucking demon spawn to shut up. 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, and for the last 8 months my upstairs neighbours have been making a tremendous noise. I finally decided to go up to complain: "The amount of noise you make is unbelievable ! It sounds like you're driving tractors up here!". The woman replies: "My husband is paraplegic..." FML
Today, after months of peace and quiet since January, a new family moved into the apartment below me ten minutes before I was about to go to sleep. They've been here for 30 minutes and already they're stomping and banging doors all over the place. FML
Today, my new neighbours moved in. I had always thought my bedroom wall was soundproof, because my old neighbours never complained about my loud night terrors. Turns out they were just stone deaf. The new ones can hear everything. FML
Today, I found out that I bought a house next door to crazy people. She asked me if I would mind not showering when her husband is at home, because he can hear me and knowing I’m naked on the other side of the wall turns him on, which is a nuisance for her. He’s unemployed. He’s always at home, the creep. 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, my step mom and her kids moved in. This is my first night sharing a room with her daughter. She snores, sleep talks, and sleep scratches the side of the bed creating a sound like nails on a chalkboard. FML
Today, I had to hear my neighbor whine again through the walls because he can't talk in a quiet voice. You can hear him from across the street, and that's before he gets drunk. FML
Today, my neighbor yelled “Fuck you!” at me through his window. My crime? Closing my front door “too loud.” This man lets his children beat on the walls and slam doors but apparently I’m the problem. FML
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thraax 14
No way you could've known OP. Don't be too hard on yourself
MyGFisaturd 23
Not like you could've known OP, sorry.
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watermelon_bae 15
Invest in a pair of earplugs. That should help you sleep. And as for the family, just apologize, they shouldn't hold it against you.
Dat_Class_Tho 26
@48: Their child is mentally disabled, possibly downs syndrome or something similar. You know that there is no medication that cures that, right? And I hope you don't mean that they should be sedating her. First off, the disorientation and grogginess of such drugs would cause her more panic, not less. Secondly, she's a human being, not a nervous dog that can't handle long car trips.
gearhead369 20
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I'm kinda wondering why you felt the need to confront him anyway. Makes things more awkward then they need to be if it really would've been those kind of noises
Haggis300 25
Because he had 3 days of interrupted sleep so he asked them to maybe keep it down? Fair enough if you ask me...
gearhead369 20
Yes so that's a reason to make everyone uncomfortable! Maybe invest in earplugs or something else because people nowadays have nothing better to do than complain. I feel for OP but at the same time theses things happen
Lalala579121 28
If people are comfortable enough with having sex loud enough their neighbors can hear, I doubt someone asking them to keep it down would make them that uncomfortable.
Mowmeee 7
It's okay, OP. Hopefully the noise gets better!
H4H 15
I'd say wait for the kid to get used to the new house before buying a pair of earplugs
Lalala579121 28
I am slightly confused by this. Do you mean OP should wait for the kid to get used to the house *rather than* buying earplugs? Because the way you have it worded, OP would be buying earplugs after the kid got used to the house, at which point the earplugs would no longer be necessary.
redscarf_fml 8
While there's no way you could've known, there was also no reason for you to automatically assume his wife as the cause of the sounds
Fredrick010 9
I'm saying, you speak the truth and these faggets are still downvoting...i swear people are so sensitive these days, dont want to be told the truth.
Dale_shackleford 13
Have you been around heavily disabled people? Sometimes when they aren't able to formulate speech or cry normally they make noises that could easily be confused with sex sounds.
Randilynne2 10
I'm sorry OP. At least you were nice and respectful about it. There is no way you could have known. I would just buy some cheap earplugs until she fully adjusts to the move.
Big_Poppa12 12
Lmaooooooo this is the type of stuff that'll happen to me
amnesiaspacecat 5
at first i read "after 3 days of uninterrupted sleep" and i was like jeez, how do you do that?
pjsr 33
I agree there's no way you could know, but even if it was sex, you don't just say, 'I'm having trouble sleeping; can you keep your wife quieter during your private time?' You say, 'I'm not sure what it is, but noises from your side keep waking me up. Is everybody ok?' If you said anything more than that, YDI.
Earl_KarmasBitch 36
Immediate reply from neighbour "What sort of noises?" And if they had been sex noises OP is in a worse place than before.
kqwarrior 15
Although there was no way they could have known, OP probably should have gone with a vaguer approach and not have said they thought it was their neighbor's wife during sexy time.