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
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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 learned from the noise outside my window that construction workers start their days at 5 AM. 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, 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
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, 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
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
Today, I came home from work to find construction workers repaving my street. I work the graveyard shift. FML
Today, I can at last cool off the house by opening my windows after one week of heatwave. Unfortunately, some asshat working for the city decided to repair the street, or rather bang bang bang on the pavement, right in front of them. From 10 pm to 6 am. Every night. For a week. They won't stop. 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, I came home from work early due to a massive headache. A half hour later, the jackhammering started. FML
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HaveNoShame 3
MacGyver your way out of this. Time to duct tape a yoga mat over that sucker.
Tripartita 45
Here, maybe this'll be more your speed: "Today, I spent 16 hours working the fields for the food I eat while still unable to get regular access to clean water, education, or medical aid. If I'm lucky, I'll be groomed to fight in the same theocratic army that has terrorized my family for all six years of my life. FML"
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ski8um 3
Several tubes of JBWeld will take care of that.
icekingz 7
Earplugs
beckezfml 11
Your neighborhood might be able to sue the city to fix it. I know a neighborhood in Austin, TX that was able to sue to get new speed-bumps removed because they were too noisy. Talk to your neighbors. If other people are having the same problem there is a good chance something can be done about it. Alternately, try putting an old towel underneath it and see if that muffles the bang.
andrmac 25
Call the police about a noise complaint, and contact someone involved in the city or town hall. Tell them you will report the noise complaint to the police until the city fixes it.
acherontiastyx 12
In my room at home, there is a pipe in my wall that snaps louder than anything on earth and because my grandmother wakes up at 5 and is loud af, I've gotten accustomed to wearing earplugs every single night. It sucks but I have to. Maybe try it I think it's worth it
slashfla 7
Somehow I flagged this response. I'm a dick. I was commenting that this was sheer genius. Apologies !