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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Comments (77)
Curtis66 19
*stab* * stab*
worldclassrager 41
Ear plugs are one of the best inventions...for now it might be bad but for school it might not be to bad
minidy_fml 10
I feel your pain, hope it gets better!
heyo_mayo87 8
Complain to them or the building owner?
sanecatlady 13
I wouldn't be able to stand it. I'm very sensitive to all kinds of noise and I'm very lucky to be living in an apartment building where people no longer play loud music where the walls are pulsating from the bass, or sound like they're trying to body-slam themselves into the floor above late at night. I had bad anxiety and depression and everyone seemed to think I was the bad guy for complaining.
mimi_ivana 13
I can relate to this. Noise is irritating, especially unnecessary ones. Just talk to the parents. If it doesn't work,retaliate.
XSimpleDesignX 18
Damn how thin are the walls in your apartment complex that you can hear a recorder?
work_while_bent 13
This FML is giving me flashbacks to my first apartment. neighbor to one side gave her 10 y/o son a drum set for xmas, the same day the neighbors on the other side gave their 6 y/o daughter a kids' karaoke machine. I can still hear the migraine-inducing combination of feedback-laden off-key Yanni and random snare drum hits and cymbal crashes. The horror... the horror.
kelloggg 8
I feel for you OP, I hate it when neighbours are inconsiderate. I've always made an effort to apologise in advance if i knew my flat/house would be noisy and give a contact number if it got too loud. The parents should do the same, a simple my child now has a recorder, tell me if it gets annoying.
False_Stupidity 42
Then they could start a jamming session and then even satan himself would complain!