Today, the family in the apartment next to me decided to give their 4-year-old kid a recorder. It's been three hours. Kill me. 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, and all day, I was forced to listen to one of the kids in my apartment building play their recorder loudly and horribly. She started over whenever she missed a note. I was sick, was getting a migraine from it, and couldn't ask her to stop without her mom yelling at me. FML
Today, my neighbor's kid started learning the violin. FML
Today, I found my 6-year-old daughter recording herself on her little tape recorder. When I asked her what she was up to, she replied in her cute little voice, "I'm recording myself so you'll have a souvenir when I'm dead." FML
Today, it's the third day of my dad's revenge after he snapped over me supposedly using the word "duh" in every other sentence. He got his hands on my old recorder and has been playing it loudly and out of tune outside my room when I try to do my homework. My mom thinks this is hilarious. FML
Today, I was woken up to my mom playing the piano awfully. I screamed down the stairs "you suck, stop playing!" Turns out it was my 5 year old cousin playing a recital. For my entire family. FML
Today, the kid who who lives next door and shares a bedroom wall with me got a drum set for Christmas. FML
Today, I was blaring the radio to drown out the sound of the kids in the apartment upstairs. They then started jumping in time with the music. FML
Today, my next door neighbor took up playing the flute as a new hobby. Unfortunately, he's very enthusiastic about actually practising it. It's been 3 hours and counting. 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, the neighbors' kid got a new airhorn. FML
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extrasnipes 22
Did you try asking them to stop? or get noise cancelling headphones?
The_Railgun 5
I feel your pain, it was like that with me for a while; recorders are evil devices that cause people to punch you in the face if you play one
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extrasnipes 22
Did you try asking them to stop? or get noise cancelling headphones?
mb2_native 15
Or he can get a drum set. So when they tell him stop, he can tell them to stop first. Win win, he has fun, and the other kid may stay quiet.
ThankYouGoodbye 14
RIP OP's ears.
ThankYouGoodbye 14
That's actually a good idea. I would suggest making your own set of drums j stead of spending lots of money. A pan or a bowl helps. Bang the hell out that shit.
mb2_native 15
Yeah, those white containers :p cheap, and wont cost you anything except the sticks.
feelingold 18
48 I was thinking bagpipes but I like where you're going with this.
mb2_native 15
53, I'm sorry, but no one deserves that kind of torture. I would rather walk through a room of legos, unless they knew how to play.
badluckalex 23
nothing can stop the instrument of satan...
kaablam 17
#52, you mean spoons, right? No need for actual drumsticks.
colby6666 43
I hope he/she gets over it soon. Sorry, OP.
The_Railgun 5
I feel your pain, it was like that with me for a while; recorders are evil devices that cause people to punch you in the face if you play one
cakefete2 31
Agreed. Recorders are evil instruments forged in the fires of hell. They are more designed for migraines than for music. Have you ever seen a famous recorder recording artist? Yea, me either.
1tsmenoah 20
#32 you kinda tried too hard there
ohcheriecherie 20
people who give children recorders deserve to listen to them forever. there is a special section of hell full of music teachers and misguided parents.
brenton490 19
Recorders were forged in heart of mount doom!! Only there can you cast it back into the fire and release the world from its evil. We must form a fellowship. You have my violin, my trumpet, and my tuba.
A7XCamaro 19
39- back when I was in 4th grade we had to play recorders, wasn't up to the parents.
Pajammerz 3
Actually the $1 recorders kids are given are bad, and kids that play them are bad because they're new to music. Recorders are a baroque/renaissance instrument that can sound very beautiful, especially the wooden ones used by professionals that play in recorder ensembles. Recorders are played at the beginning of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, a song thought by many to be the best rock song of all time. Look up recorder ensemble on youtube and click on the first result, its lovely.
misslysiak 23
You poor thing. I couldn't even stand listening to others play the recorder when I was in primary school and we had to play it. I think if I heard it again now I'd be getting very suicidal
mageepaigeee44 15
Yea elementary schools give kids recorders a lot. Mine did. OP are you sure the kids parents gave it to them? Not that it makes the situation any better for you either way but if they have to learn it for school I would just get some ear plugs or something.
False_Stupidity 42
Um, the kid is 4 years old, not in year 4 at school. I'd say it's definitely the kids parents that gave it to him.
PizzaDeliveryGrl 19
I am... So sorry.
love2killu 21
RIP ears
RedPillSucks 33
Is that Rest In Peace, or the verb?
Jared900DUmpling 30
Lets use some common sense here...
bahamut357 16
Why not both?
mageepaigeee44 15
I think #22 was obviously making a joke and I thought it was kind of clever.
beatlegirl27 20
Recorders are the most evil things in history.
Michael903 18
Was she being accompanied by a teenager on a trombone?
Dave_Davington 34
Just be thankful that they're not bagpipes.
Bano360 25
I feel your pain, my sisters got one for Christmas. It was a very long Christmas.