Today, I sleep during the day because I work nights. My neighbors have a very loud wedding and reception in their backyard including a live mariachi band. 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 having finally kicked my insomnia's ass after three hours, I was woken up by something I only thought happened in movies. Someone had paid for a Mariachi band to play for their girlfriend, outside my apartment building, in the middle of the night. FML
Today, my neighbours had an extremely loud party, which began at midnight and didn't end until 6. I know this because I had a 15 minute sleep, seeing as I had to wake up at quarter past. FML
Today, it's been three days since I started working 12-hour night shifts. My neighbors have now decided to renovate their house. They're focusing on the rooms sharing my wall. FML
Today, I left messages in every neighbors' mailbox telling them to please be quiet at 2, as my daughter was getting married in my backyard. At 2:01 someone started practicing the drums in their garage. FML
Today, it's the second night in a row when I thought, "I really need to catch up on my sleep deficit!" and instead had an even shittier night than the one before. My neighbours just started a party right under my window. FML
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, 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
Today, the people living below me have been blasting their music so loudly that I can hear every word as clear as day. The people next door think it's my music and feel the need to bang on the wall and blast their music just as loudly in revenge. I have two very important exams tomorrow. FML
Today, it's the second week into my new neighbors' routine. He works nights, she works days. He likes to blast out Slayer and Napalm Death all day, she likes to drunkenly sing out of tune to Adele all night. I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown. FML
Today, I learned from the noise outside my window that construction workers start their days at 5 AM. FML
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Top comments
khorstmye 15
Make the best of it!! Go over and hope there is an open bar!!!!
Nevracceptdefeat 26
At least there's not a wedding in their yard everyday...it could be worse
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Comments (74)
a1_z9 10
Make it a red wedding! Or y'know, do your best to sleep and hope your boss is sympathetic, which is admittedly not as fun.
sleepyglowstar 32
Come on, it's like a one time thing. Don't be such a sour puss!
vampire623 6
obviously you get to sleep during the day and don't know this struggle coming from someone who works 3rd shift also I know the pain
JustinJK 21
That's anyone else's fault or life choice. I'm not quieting down in the middle of the day because other people sleep during the day.
russfml 31
I do nightshifts as well. It's hard enough to sleep during the day without a mariachi band. FYL OP
vampire623 6
#29 then I would hope your neighbors start mowing there grass at 5 in the morning why should they care I'd you sleep at night
JustinJK 21
I live in an apartment complex in the city. Plus, my father's landscapers always came early. going to take a lot more than that to wake me. If they have a problem they need to find ways to resolve their issue. Most of society is on a sleep at night do things during the day schedule. Majority rules.
Bruhsco 8
Maybe you could ask them to turn it down a bit? Regardless I feel sorry for you, OP.
MandieL 27
It's their wedding, and during the day. That would be like me asking the construction crew behind my house to stop working so I could sleep.
vampire623 6
#19 No it's called common courtesy how would you like it if I brought a mariachi band to your house while you were trying to sleep
russfml 31
Your allowed a certain amount of noise pollution during the day. I'm sure their wedding didn't exceed it. Unfortunately for us night shifters we have to accommodate using earplugs and night shades
MandieL 27
And it's not common curtesy to allow your neighbor their wedding day the way they want it? I too sleep while everyone else is awake, so I understand how much it sucks, but I'm not about to complain to my neighbors when their kids are playing and screaming and laughing in their backyard, because they are keeping me awake. I'm not going to inconvenience my neighborhood of their day time activities because I work an unholy shift.
TheHumanHeater 6
Most of the time, at least when it comes to mariachi music in my neighborhood, the bass rattles the house if you're right next to it, and can clearly be heard from down the block, not to mention the music being so loud that anyone trying to talk to each other literally have to yell, I doubt that the music was at a reasonable level if OP couldn't just turn on some music or TV.
lyricalservant 21
impeccable timing
hanikayy 15
Wow that sucks. They should just stop their wedding for you so you can sleep.
Anonypus 20
Get an even louder mariachi band and show them who's boss.
katlala 7
there was a party like that in my town lucky I work close to it and not live next to it
oy21vey 11
It's their wedding. It's one night. Suck it up.
LunaJoyce86 15
I work nights too. earplugs are my best friend.
MandieL 27
Sorry op, but there are ways around it. (I too sleep while everyone else is awake) you can't expect people to not go on with their daily lives because you have a nightly one. It sucks, but you need to figure out how to make it work for you. (Ear buds/plugs, headphones, a controlled noise in your home that you can sleep to, etc.) if it doesn't work, it's just one day. It's not like it never happens to people who have to sleep at night too.