Which is worse to hear through your walls....

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1. Your neighbor's stereo playing something you hate.
2. Your neighbor's stereo playing something you actually like.
3. Your neighbor's television.
4. Your neighbors having odd, ribald sex.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going with #3. I find #2 more annoying than #1, actually, as it sort've hampers my appreciation of the music in question. #3 is the most irritating to me, just because all you hear is muffled, indecipherable mumblings. I find #4 somewhat annoying but also somewhat hilarious.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

What on earth is wrong with hearing odd, ribald sex?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Neighbors drunk, walking through the hall infront of your unit. The conversations they have!! SHUT UP!!! AND THE WAY THEY LAUGH!!!!! Makes me want to run out into the hall and punch them!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

#1 for me, i've never had the 'pleasure' of hearing my neighbours have odd, ribald sex tho

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure if they're like us they positively want to kill you

x-post...i think...

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard my neighbors having sex, but a friend of mine on 23rd street has to deal with it on a disarmingly regular basis (it's like clockwork, I tell ya). I've been over there when it's happening, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. And they're two porty gay guys who clearly like it a bit rough. I found it unspeakably hilarious, but I can't imagine having to live next to it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

portLy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess.

Stop asking me to die.

I will, eventually, but you will first!

Well, at least, that's what I pray!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

how can you have unribald sex?

― omg, Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

fat gay guys are hilarious!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess, you haven't heard these guys. Trust me. You'd laugh. It's not a critiscism of them, it's just an odd, surreal experience to hear it. And I'm sure they're well aware of how audible they're being.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

And they're two porty gay guys who clearly like it a bit rough.

Like my gay uncle, I think. When I sleep over at my grandma's, my room is underneath his. Oh, lord! I haven't had to hear that for a while. Mainly because he doesn't have a boyfiend anymore. I pray he doesn't get one this week. I have to stay at my grandma's all this week. I couldn't get any sleep because of the noise!! Just awful.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

no, no, i dont like to hear people blowing their nose through the walls let alone fucking.

okay that's the creepiest x-post like ever

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. but my uncle isn't fat.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Look, pretty much everyone sounds ridiculous while having sex (or at least if they're doing it right). I don't wish to be misinterpretted as being homophobic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(heh heh "sugar walls")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

dan, you read a post about a 12 year old having to listen to her big fat gay uncle fucking and that's the best you can do?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Look, pretty much everyone sounds ridiculous while having sex

They don't sound rediculous, just noisy, and inconciderate. They knew I was beneath them. My mom even got pissed off and had to talk to them about it. But before she did, she told my grandma about it. Oh, Lord! I hate that house!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

dan, you read a post about a 12 year old having to listen to her big fat gay uncle fucking and that's the best you can do?

I was 11 when it started. And my uncle is not fat. He's pretty much in shape.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i, for one, feel relieved.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to date this wonderful girl, she's still a good friend. she was loud, not in person, but in bed, and especially so at a certain point, which was often (which is partly why she was wonderful, but not mostly).

she lived at home while i was dating her, she was a couple of years younger than me. she slept (or didn't) in the room next to her mum's. when i stayed at hers, she seemed to be, uh, *extra* vocal, which i felt very self-conscious about, especially the next morning over the breakfeast table.

i remember one night in particular, though, when, after a particularly noisy 'goodnight' we lay together on her single mattress. and then we started to hear sounds that suggested we'd woken her mum up. and her mum's boyfriend. and they were *loud*, making some of the scariest sex sounds i have ever heard. and i remember my girlfriend getting very pissed off at this.

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

threadkiller

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Good anecdote, though. Weren't you tempted to turn to your girlfriend and exclaim: "YOU SHOULD TALK, YOU CRAVEN CARNAL BANSHEE!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

#4 - clearly. There is no room for debate on this matter. Especially like me on Friday night when you are in the depths of emo-esque despair and they WAKE YOU UP with their relentless frottaging. And worse still, decide to have a post-coital chat.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Relentless Frottaging!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, though, I live on a main road and can confirm that the sounds of drunken fighting in the street below you and subsequent police sirens is by far worse than any of the above options.

That and your next door neighbour screaming in the middle of the night. Proper, clinically-disturbed screaming. It's horrible.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait until the police decide to raid the brothel.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

the police helicopters I hear at 3 or 4 AM are usually more disturbing than any noise my neighbors could make. With the exception of our downstairs neighbors' crying baby. So Alex, when your neighbors are pissing you off with their various noises, just think of how your little one will soon be able to avenge you.

― hstencil, Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot alex had spawned. hstencil otm.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah.

When my mom broght me to SF when I was one month old, we lived in an appartmen with my grandma. We almost got thrown out because of me.

But I was so cute, they couldn't bear to see me leave.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

drunk, coked up sluts listening to bon jovi at four in the morning, singing along.

hate living in a dorm.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bon Jovi??

OMG.

I feel sorry for you.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

drunk, coked up sluts listening to bon jovi at four in the morning, singing along.

That sounds like my idea of heaven.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree. Drunk coked up dorm sluts are fucking fantastic.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

all of those are horrible. except the sex, not that big of a deal. (i'm very loud myself).

-hate loud drunken neighbors stumbling in when I have to work int he morning.

-hearing "ain't no mountain high enough" over and over, fucking blaring, on saturday mornings.

-night punctuated by gunshots. Which isn't the worse. i like tracking them and hearing them move around the block. Hardly ever hear sirens following.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the drunk coked up dorm sluts = the daughter of Norm from Cheers.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate hearing music through the walls, good or bad. i used to get woken up on a regular basis by my downstairs neighbor blasting a diva house anthem (something along the lines of "work your body! work that body!") and singing along at the top of his lungs. not such a problem lately, as he's on tour pretty frequently - his disco-fied version of a pink floyd hit has taken off, especially in europe.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for reminding me that I have to find a new apartment. (I tend to agree with your ordering of these things. TV is definitely the most annoying sound.)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuckwit neighbours playing driving games on their wall sized telly with the sound turned right up at 7am on a Sunday morning annoy me much more than plain old shagging.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the drunk coked up dorm sluts = the daughter of Norm from Cheers.

The HOTTNESS keeps on comin'. I saw him bring the pain on The Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee this week. He lost to Brett Butler--alas.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have spent the last hour downloading white noise generators and nature sound mp3s 'cuz of street/neighbor/yappy little dogs I'd like to dropkick noise. (I seem to have settled on 'four tet' as being the best solution.)

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i have never heard any noise coming from any neighbors in any house. in an old house the girl whose room was next to mine had a boyfriend whose speech was just at the right frequency to carry through into my room, but he wasnt there that much.

i have never heard any of the 4 things in the question

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot alex had spawned. hstencil otm.

Well, it hasn't happened just yet....we have about seven weeks to go.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it gonna happen.

Hope you're prepared.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure Alex has spent the past 29 weeks in soiled underwear, tossing newspapers out the window and screaming Billy Joel lyrics as oposed to preparing for the birth of his child.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(Alternately, he could have been sticking grapefruits in his ass and making smoothies.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I fear that soiled underwear will play a large role in my future.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(Alternately, he could have been sticking grapefruits in his ass and making smoothies.)

????

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

A loud child is the most annoying for me (mainly because my landlords don't really listen to music and their bedroom is on their second floor) but their living room is above my bed, so at 7am on the weekends I generally hear a toddler clomping around and dropping stuff.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the best things about moving is that i won't have to deal with my upstairs neighbors anymore. there's a guy that's about 16 years old and all his friends come over on their scooters, which they park right outside my window after revving the enjines for a long time. then they ring the bell and shout 'ricky!' over and over.

plus, they have two dogs that start barking every time the bell rings.

so that's my choice for worst neighbor sounds.

― colette (a2lette), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I take that back, the worst is having construction and repairs done on your bedroom walls at 8 in the morning on a Saturday.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

television is the worst: it's just so inane and senseless, and you end up having to listen to it because your mind just automatically starts to follow the words. music & sex noises you can just kind of tune out.

then again, i am biased. my roommate gets up every morning as early as possible to turn on the TV and then leave it on without even watching it. TV as background noise is my biggest pet peeve ever.

― j c (j c), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst for me, definitely: being woken up early in the morning by the sound of the neighbours' small children crying, awfully loud - and then, while still not quite awake myself - "wot the ???!??!???" - hearing the parents' yelling through the wall also and suddenly getting the uncanny & really frightening feeling that they may have given their kids a very heavy beating, or... "???!??!???"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

At my old place I had to deal with hearing my landlord upstairs reading self-help books out loud into a tape recorder. I think he had OCD or something because he'd do this at least once a day and had hundreds and hundreds of cassettes full of this stuff that he had dictated-- mostly on the subject of picking up women and boosting self-confidence. One time, when he was away on vacation, I had to go up to his place to adjust the air conditioning and I noticed he had written "self respect" on the mirror in red lipstick.

I'm glad I got the hell out of there. I'm also glad that I got the chance to make mp3s out of some of the stuff he had read, but that's another story altogether.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

("another" story? yeah right! ;)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear.. there's no connection between him giving me the key to his place and those mp3s.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian which dorm are you in?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

No sex noises in my house - the walls are too good. My vote is foxes fucking (or at least calling out for some vixen action) as they do it directly outside my window, and it's the most hideous, unearthly sound.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, Markelby, do you live in the Shire?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You get urban foxes, Alex. I think I saw one last night, in fact. They can make an awful racket.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that there are more foxes per square mile in London than anywhere else in Britain.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

fox-sex is very common in Zone 3 Alex

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

They say the prettiest girls live in Nottingham

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It just seems rather exotic and rural (or at least by NYC standards), that's all I'm sayin'. No disrespect.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think any was taken! You should totally introduce foxes to NYC - they'd love it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't they just. Sounds like a baby screaming. Ugh.

In praise of the Urban Fox

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

personally i think the foxes are just taunting me

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I rarely hear my neighbours at all, except when they're having a screaming drunken row (which last time culminated in one of the panes in our shared front door being smashed).

My upstairs neighbours play odd emo-industro-trance type music at all hours of the day and night, but I prefer this to garbled TV noise, especially as I don't have a working TV any more.

But the worst thing was staying at my parents' house once when my sister still lived at home, and hearing FAR more than I wanted to about her and her boyfriend's sexual problems being screamed up the stairs. (My parents are hearing impaired so I guess she never usually had to worry about being overheard.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Saved my sanity...

http://www.thesoapbar.com/shop/media/quires_med.jpg

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Answer is:

5) Running water when you know all the taps and heating are off.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Foxes sound like women screaming... it's a horrible noise. A few weeks ago my flatmate and I were standing out at 11pm in the backstreets round the back of my house in the snow trying to make sure that there wasn't someone being violently assaulted back there.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

So that's what Hendrix meant by "Foxy Lady!" Ah....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt OTM - though maybe it's a Blackheath urban fox thang.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

he's on tour pretty frequently - his disco-fied version of a pink floyd hit has taken off, especially in europe.

Lauren lives next door to the Scissor Sisters? Yikes.

Foxes do make horrible unearthly baby-torturing noises, but I think the ones that live in Highgate are quite well-mannered. Or just aren't getting lucky very often.

Odd, ribald sex is the best kind, but I do kind of object to loudness when I'm trying to have a quiet Sunday morning, for instance.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd love to live next door to Sarah Matronic. with Andre 3000 on the other side - i would drive him insane by yelling 'lend me some sugar, ah am yo neigber!' thru the wall

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst so far for me was probably hearing extremely loud domestic violence from the neighbors upstairs a la cusswords, obvious hand-to-flesh smacking/hitting sounds, furniture being knocked over, followed by the make-up grudgefuck (still cussing at each other, mind) that goes on for THREE HOURS with the woman screaming "I HATE YOU SO MUCH YOU ASSHOLE!" as she apparently climaxes.

Gunshots have always bothered me the most though. Especially when they were obviously from inside the apartment building.

It's threads like these that make me so glad to live in a house.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Shake, shake it, shake, shake it, shake it like a vacuum cleaner!

xpost obv.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Growing up, there was a family who lived downstairs from us in our apartment building (we were on the 7th floor, they on the 6th) who had an abusive father in their ranks. You used to hear him constantly, furiously berating his kids...it would come up through the bathroom. Lots of screaming, crying and door slamming. After about three years of this, one of his kids, his son, jumped out of the 6th floor window, killing himself.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My vote is foxes fucking (or at least calling out for some vixen action) as they do it directly outside my window, and it's the most hideous, unearthly sound.

aye. everytime i hear those noises i have to go and find my cat, because i'm scared the hungry foxes will tear him to shreds...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think horny foxes would be wanting to eat your kitty, mate.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"mate"

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Not much into foreplay, then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, they're foxes. They need no foreplay.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I never realized foxes were such a problem.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Thy are if you want to sleep. I had to resort to earplugs the other day. I put them up the fox's ass.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, nickalicious and alex's stories are kind of upsetting me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

disturbing they are but worth hearing - reminds me how grateful i should be that all i have to worry about is copulating foxes

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren lives next door to the Scissor Sisters? Yikes.

i live above jake. he is a joy, hi-nrg tendencies aside.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My neighbors next door at my old apartment always had constant yelling and crying baby noise going on at all hours, about 8 people lived there. I'd take a stereo or odd, ribald sex noises over that cacophony any day.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't hear our neighbours through the walls, but we can hear downstairs far too much. He has a terrible snoring problem, and often we'll hear him snoring in the front room when he's fallen asleep in front of the tv, and unfortunately our bedroom is directly above theirs, so we get to hear him snoring when we're trying to get to sleep. They get up really early in the morning, and make no effort to keep their voices down when they're chatting in bed at 6am, and it often wakes us up. She has a voice like a foghorn, and two days after we moved in Chris joined in with their conversation, as we could hear every word. She sometimes forgets to take her keys with her, in which case she will bang on the door (why she doesn't use their doorbell god knows) constantly, yelling at her other half to come and let her in. For some reason whenever their door is banged or knocked on it reverberates throughout our flat, so her forgetting her keys is the most annoying of their habits. And they've got TERRIBLE music taste.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"These bedroom walls are paper thin / you took a side in every neighbour's row"

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

In my last apartment, my next door neighbor used to play drum'n'bass at excessively loud volumes at incredibly erratic hours. I went over one early morning to politely ask him to turn it down (he was generally pretty cool about it, as he used to come by to ask me to turn down whatever crap I was playing at the time). I expected to find him coked out of his mind and hopping about, or having strenuously sweaty sex, but I found him doing nothing more than sitting around....which I found rather odd. Wonder what he listens to these days.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm unfortunate enough to live in a street full of jakies who shout up at each others windows during the night. There is a terrifying looking girl called Psycho who lives in the close next door. Her sister stays in a homeless unit across the road and the appear to share custody of a baby and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Many a night I've been woken with them shouting across to each other, most memorably the second night I spent in my flat when I was woken at three in the morning by their crow like screeching.

"Psycho! Huv you got the wean?"

"Naw, ah thote you hud er!"

"Naw, mibbe she's wae 'er da?"

"Whit wan?"

etc etc

Apologies to those who aren't familiar with ned-speak...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

well I can hear fatty the grump below me watching pornography at all hours of the day and night. On surround sound no less. Like he really needs to hear the sound of a wet quim from 5 speakers at full blast. Maybe it enhances his masturbatory experience. He also only leaves the house to go get Wendys or McDonalds. He buys everything off of the internet and has packages delivered at all times, its probably gallons of lube for all the pickle polishing he does.

― Chris V (Chris V), Monday, 1 March 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Apologies to those who aren't familiar with ned-speak...

Oh, I'm well aware.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 March 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

I think I found earplugs that will actually work for me. I had unsuccessfully tried two different types before, then given up. If these earplugs work for me in this apartment, it's something very big. The noise is mostly just from my neighbors having sex at all hours of the day, lucky fuckers. The walls are simply very thin. Otherwise, there aren't many noise problems, so pretty good earplugs are probably good enough to allow me to regularly sleep well.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

5) "What did I tell you last time about playing with matches?"

A friend of mine swears she heard this coming from a neighboring apartment. Gotta admit that few things concentrate the mind like the idea of a neighboring kid playing with matches.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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