Today, I learned from the noise outside my window that construction workers start their days at 5 AM. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Today, I discovered that it doesn’t matter where I move, I will always wake up at 5 a.m. to the sound of construction directly above my ceiling. FML
Noise cancelling anyone?
Today, just like every workday for the last 6 months, the construction workers in my building made loud noises in the morning and woke me up almost 2 hours before I would otherwise have to get up. This will continue for one more year. I'm not a morning person, and I live in a protected historical building. FML
Today, in the early hours of the morning, a worker started drilling the road right in front of my window. He stopped 5 minutes before my alarm clock rang. FML
No sleep for the wicked
Today, I came home from work to find construction workers repaving my street. I work the graveyard shift. FML
Today, like every other day since I moved into this apartment a year ago, the construction crew started their noisy work at 5:30 in the morning. When I moved in I was promised it was a quiet neighborhood; only offices. What have they been building in the meantime? Three nightclubs. FML
GET UP
Today, I left the apartment door open so the construction workers sent by our landlord could work in the kitchen, while I slept in after working a late shift. They knocked on the bedroom door at 7 a.m., asking me to move the bed. FML
Living in perfect harmony
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, recent construction has created a manhole that cars slam over every single morning. This normally starts at 4 a.m. as people make their early commute on my busy street. With every car that hits it, there's a huge echoing slamming noise. FML
Today, I finally decided to go talk to my upstairs neighbour about the loud banging noises he makes every single morning around 8 a.m. It worked. Now he starts at 7 a.m. FML
Today, and for the 4 months preceding it, my neighbors had been remodeling their house, which meant jackhammer noises every morning. The one day they take a break, my other neighbor decides to start a remodeling project. It'll only be two more months of this. FML
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AgentSmith79 9
Stand by your window topless and eat a banana. They will stop what they're doing.
caviar_fml 2
pretty sure it's illegal to start that early
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caviar_fml 2
pretty sure it's illegal to start that early
AgentSmith79 9
No it's not.
mali198922 6
you're dumb
NastyNinja31 0
Make them some tacos and they will start later if u ask
Brool_Story_Co 17
In some cities it is illegal, in some it isn't
kelsey_katie 17
I'm pretty sure that was scarcasm.
Natty7 0
in most cities, there's a legal time to start construction, and I doubt it'd be 5am. however, op might be underexaggerating.
rldostie 19
It is illegal in most places (in the US) to start at 5am. The earliest I've ever heard that was legal was 6am, and in most places it's 7am.
EXTREMOAMADEUS 0
in los angeles its 8 am n must stop at 8pm
TN9R 1
how would you feel as a construction worker given a STRICT time to finish a job, and the nrighbors are bitching at you.
DustyStorm 16
if you have permits you can work 24/7. believe me I've tried to fight them. my current construction workers start before 4am. I'm pissed.
robnunzi12 2
7 AM in MA def illegal before that
dyble95 0
42- Just take some ear plugs and some blow horns (those things that make defining noses) Aim it at them when you are just off the property line and blow away. When they ask you to stop just say "Nope I have a permit and I'm an unconsiderate ass". Then when some one calls the cops for a noise disturbance. Run like hell. ;)
LordGoober 13
48- They are doing their jobs, not being asses.
dyble95 0
Well then go over to there managers office and do that :p. I was just joking anyways. I don't seriously think you should do that. :/
blaherman 12
You all must be dumb if they're paving a road they do it either very early or through the night so they don't delay traffic any more then they have to they pave highways and busy roads at night and early in the morning plus you can also get a permit to do work early.
blaherman 12
Also you may work bankers hours but the rest of the world doesn't
dyble95 0
Bankers hours?
dyble95 0
60 dumb is when you can't figure out something obvious out and so forth. Not a lack of knowledge.
blaherman 12
Bankers hours = 10-5
blaherman 12
Also construction can start at anytime and who cares when you should be getting up at 6 anyhow if you have a job which I don't suspect you do since most people on this site are preteens.
LordGoober 13
60- They pave roads mainly during the summer, and they work close to dark because temperature has to be in a correct range, and also blacktops soak up heat.
lulututu 4
Stop whining. They were doing construction right next to my house at 3 am. It really did not bother my sleeping at all. And last time I checked dumb meant you can't speak.
joanjett 0
It should be illegal for retarded rednecks to start mowing the lawn and screaming at 5:00 too, but you cant have everything.
Feklfekl2222 32
Who the hell calls them construction workers? What happened to an old fashioned builder?
blaherman 12
Hell I've cut down trees at 5 in the morning it doesn't bother many people
upyourzlolz 11
I dont think you used it right.
atthegates 0
70- not everyone has a day job. Some of us work shift work smart guy
Valcannos 11
It's people like 48 that make us construction workers lives hell, and don't think shit like that hasn't happened before. We're just doing our job, not like we love getting up at 5-7 to work/stage equipment anymore than you do lol. Also roads aren't always paved during summer, just most nights through winter get too cold to lay asphalt base or topping.
Tournesol143 28
It's also 7am in NYC. You get a big fine if you start earlier.
ProudTexan117 0
Construction workers do start pretty early. That early? I dunno, but def pretty early
LLLP 0
I think we had already established that
Frijolero_92 1
Suck it up, at least your not them, they have to be up earlier to start at 5
ProudTexan117 0
LLLP I was suggesting that maybe they hadn't started that early and it was an exaggeration on op's part. I've never heard of a construction crew starting work THAT early. And I've worked my share of construction.
ProudTexan117 0
And you, beaner, Are you telling me to suck it up? Cause I think maybe your message went on the wrong post. But just in case it was guided towards me. I have to be up at 3:30 to be at my job by 4:30 to make shift change and work twelve hour shifts, rotating days and nights.
ProudTexan117 0
Are you telling me to suck it up, beaner? And that's the translation of his name. Cause I think maybe your message went on the wrong post. But just in case it was guided towards me. I have to be up at 3:30 to be at my job by 4:30 to make shift change and work twelve hour shifts, rotating days and nights.
Sirin_fml 47
It's an offensive term all the same, and the intent is obvious. So let's be civil and not use it again in polite company.
ProudTexan117 0
Then it's an offensive name and thus should be removed if it's that offensive. I actually take more offense calling someone frijolero. I wasn't trying to offend anyone and I think your panties are in a serious wad about nothing.
ConnorBrown36 5
guess they replace the birds:)
genesisnirvana 11
And the bees
iPoopMusic 0
Sex.
shelbygordon44 7
And the trees. But idk that's just what I'm thinking...
WCARlover 35
Invest in some earplugs, my friend
dyble95 0
Then what about your alarm.
AgentSmith79 9
Stand by your window topless and eat a banana. They will stop what they're doing.
TaylorTotsYumm 10
Then a popsicle. And then a hotdog.
woopdattrick 5
Then a pickle.
turkishjew 0
And then a cucumber and olives
BIEBERSLAYER 10
Then do some jumping jacks
reallytho3 11
Great comment 54! JK
bananaburger 0
And then a corn dog with it bitten off at the top
shelbygordon44 7
C-c-c-combo breaker
lillost93 5
U seem pretty experienced with that :/
pieintheface 0
Earplugs are 5 dollars...
DustyStorm 16
sleep through the alarmzzzzzzzz
btnhdude 0
I like your pic cuz it's ******* true. **** the world. little girls and shit.
ReynshineCutting 10
It's annoying but they'll be done soon. They probably start that early because of the heat. You could get a fan and turn it on. They're great for masking noise. We sleep with one every night because of the traffic on our street.
ReynshineCutting 10
Haha thanks I guess. She's one helluva unicorn. I did that to her for my niece for Christmas and I think I was more excited that my mare was a unicorn than my 2 1/2 year old niece!
green_eggs_and_h 0
I actually find the sound of construction work at 5 am to be quite soothing...
hnz 13
If it's for a month, move to a temporary place?
WCARlover 35
Why would you say a month? What part of the FML even slightly indicated a time period?
duckman9 55
maybe its a permanent construction site... they just might be building the next pyramid next to the OPs house.
tigrouficele2012 44
Bingo, 83. In ten thousand years, archaeologists will be buzzing about the great Boston Pyramids, mark my words. :P
bobbymullet 11
you now have a new alarm clock that you didn't have to pay a penny for. you should thank them.