[RhiannonsMoon]

Yesterday and today I've had to listen to that rap crap from next door. I've been seizing both days because of it.

I can't for the life of me understand what is even remotely pleasing about such din!

It drones on and on and I am getting to the point that I can't stand it any more. I was crying with depression earlier, now I'm crying with anxiety and the constant buzzing and humming in my ears and head.

2 days solid with a couple of hours break from 5am when they went to bed. Then the boys on the other side got up and started with their rap music, droning on and on never a change in sound or pitch, no tune, no tone.

I swear I should hook up my sound system and play Il Divo full at revs! That'd put porridge in their undies! Hmmm...thinking on it now

[waves]

Dear Rhiannon,

i'm so sorry you are having such trouble with your neighbors. Hey, i wonder... since in the one case it is going on all through the night, if you could wander over there one afternoon, and let them know in a very toned down manner (i know, i know, you wanna knock their teeth out... but honey brings more flies than vinegar), that

1. you can hear their music loudly
2. it is preventing you from resting

and ask them if they could possibly quiet it down after 11... that is a reasonable request.

if they are half decent human beings they will be receptive at least to a degree... should at least turn the volume down well before 5 am!

obviously leave out that you don't like their music ... there's no accounting for taste and besides, even stuff you enjoy played around the clock like that is not something you would probably relish. at least i know i would go nuts without some quiet time.

good luck! i hope this gets sorted somehow.

Originally Posted by RhiannonsMoon

I swear I should hook up my sound system and play Il Divo full at revs! That'd put porridge in their undies! Hmmm...thinking on it now

heheh ... you are a funny gal. i love your spirit.

~ waves ~

[Porkette]

Hi Rhiannon,
You should go over to your neighbors and tell them that the Rap music (which I can't stand either) is causing sz. for you and ask them to please turn the music down. If they refuse you can report them to your local police or sheriff dept. for to much noise and how it's affecting you. If the neighbors agree to turn the music down get it in writing from them signed and dated so you are covered for good as long as you are neighbors.
Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue

[waves]

i feel like an idiot.

it was the very first thing you said. guess i've been really distractible... i read your post and mostly got that the music was really bothering you and about it being continuous... missed the main point... that it was causing seizures!

so yeah, like Sue says i would tell them that. i wasn't trying to minimize things when i suggested saying you couldn't rest - i didn't read your post properly! i'm sorry about that.

and i'm sorry this is happening. i really hope they cooperate. yes you can get legal support but i hope they are nice about it so you don't have to have the extra hassle on top of it.

take care. and i'll try to read more carefully. i don't know where the heck my head must have been this morning.



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[RhiannonsMoon]

No worries Waves, I didn't take anything from it other than you are trying to support me and help. I'm more a honey than vinegar person too. If one steps off on the wrong foot it's hard to rebalance. But if one is decent from the outset then it's much easier.

I'm not a confrontationalist anyway. Having agoraphobia I'm much more inclined to sit at home crying about it than do anything about it.

I came up with a solution anyway. I have industrial strength ear plugs, a large bag of them. So I just stuffed my ears and the only thing that got through was the actual duff duff noise. Which stopped at 6.30pm precisely.

They're not bad boys I'm sure if I asked them they'd tone it down, but going to ask them would have me fainting lol...I think the Il Divo idea is better...at about 7am. That way they all get up and wonder what the noise is, then I wait to listen for their rapcrap.

Wouldn't mind too much but it's just so anti-social as well. Never saw a rapper who wasn't shot, stabbed, maimed, drugged or murdered...

Monday here today, nice and quiet they all left for work at about 7.30am *sighs with peaceful heart & mind*

((((hugs))))
Rhiannon

[waves]

I am so relieved you didn't take my post as dismissive. what a goof. yes i was trying to support you. and actually, thought to suggest earplugs later but i see you have got to that. i use them for migraines, but in that case, i am acutely sound sensitive... i can't ask the people in my own house not to, for instance, use silverware (there seem to be high pitched overtones that are piercing when i have migraines), or not to talk in normal voices. so really, i use them mostly to correct for my own sensory perception being abnormally acute. i do ask for my folks not to shout and keep the tv down though, that is fair enough i think!

i understand about the agoraphobia. you have to do what you can do. certainly if you are not up to talking to them, earplugs are better than seizures!

as for the Il Divo... well. i thought it was a funny idea... but i don't think it would necessarily get the point across. in fact, if you did that, and you ever had to defend a position with regard to excessive noise by the others, you would be setting a precedent... even if the music is different. you would be acting in the same way as they are, it would "hurt your case."

also, my guess is it won't bother them half as much, if at all. good chance they won't have seizures! and they might even sleep through it.

i would stick with the earplugs and when you feel a bit stronger consider having that chat with them if the situation recurs. or perhaps a good-natured friend can have the conversation on your behalf... although were it me, i would want to know exactly what gets said.

anyway, glad they stopped at 6.30pm this time. perhaps it was just a "special occasion" or something. let us hope you don't have to deal with this on a regular basis. i wouldn't want you to need to resort to earplugs on a regular basis.

you take care and i hope you get some good rest now.

~ waves ~

[RhiannonsMoon]

It's every weekend. And they are all young red blooded Aussies who see the weekend as the reason for drinking and having BBQ's. Rest? Whats that?

Ooooh when they get to my age they are going to be so sorry they didn't look after themselves...But they'll be obese, drinkers eating too much and yarning about the "Good old days"....no they won't be exercising and taking their blood sugars, that interferes with the weekend plans!

I think I'm laughing but can't hear it over the screaming in my ears

[waves]

that's really terrible.

can someone intervene for you? anyone whose "style" you trust that could go over and ask them to quiet it down?

it really is not right. legally, it is a little complicated, but if they are really loud they probably are illegal. see there are established decibel levels ... based on your area, it is not a country-wide or state thing. if they do not exceed those as heard from a certain distance, the law will not intervene. one step might be to get information on whether they are within legal limits or not. if you are in a quiet residential area... chances are they are not. i am assuming you are in the US. i do not know too much about this but i know even less (zero) about other countries).

i am starting to re-evaluate the Il Divo proposition too. Do you think your soundsystem could OUTBLAST theirs? or could you start yours up as soon as they shut theirs down? sort of like, if you're gonna stick the dog's nose in it, you have to do it as soon as he's done it, or he won't be associate it with the action of doing it much less think it is not appreciated.

sorry you have this chronic auro-neural assault going on. if i were there i would talk to them for you, i really would.

~ waves ~

[RhiannonsMoon]

Thanks Waves you're a treasure (and not the kind that shld b buried treasure either)

This morning at about 10 o clock (luckily I was awake at 5am so had a sleep in) there was this scuffling on the front deck of the house and this almight banging against the glass in the door. I thought it was going to smash.

I got up and went to the door to find one of the dogs who comes here every day after her swim at the beach, so we can give her (and usually Sacha a friend of hers), nutritious doggy biscuits.

But then this kid nearly falls through the door absoluteluy REEKING of alcohol. I asked him who he was, where he was from and how old he was. He said "I'm Alec, I'm from Arkoa, and Im 17".

I was gobsmacked. 17 and can hardly stand up. I was so angry at him! I asked him why he was banging on the glass the way he did and he couldn't remember.

Anyway My partner Deej came and stood behind me (He's a huge hairy biker type), and I never saw anyone stumble away so fast in my life! After he apologised that is.

I told him he should be totally ashamed of himself. Anyway the dog wasn't going anywhere till she'd had her biccies, she's not stupid, so I went and got her one...but she's used to at least two. So she wouldn't leave then until Deej gave her another couple...and this kid was stood at the bottom of the garden weaving backwards and forwards calling the dog who was totally ignoring him. Eventually he stumbled off and was last seen heading toward the surf clubhouse...

Why do kids do this? Don't they realise what sort of life they're going to have? If he's like that at 17, what on earth is he going to be like when he is of legal drinking age?

We have a huge alcohol problem in Australia because the legal drinking age is 18. It should be 21 but the govt know they would lose millions of dollars in drinkers taxes if they raised the age limit, even though there has been umpteen polls saying that it would be the right thing to do.

Anyhoo this is the first time they've ever brought it onto our place.....should be the last after the way I told him off. We could hear him speaking to his mates after he managed to get to the surf club, and they were telling him he should have a sleep...I agreed...

Thanks for reading my rant,
Rhiannon

[brainless]

How irritating! Inconsiderate fools really get my Irish up. I'm like you, the monotone thing brings on a seizure. Whenever my husband is on the phone, I go outside as he has such a monotone way of speaking on the phone, but all the while he paces back and forth.

I guess it's a combination of static and spastic that gets to me!

I wish you the best with your neighbors...oh, and that 17 yr. old will be facing a world of hurt if he continues down this path (not to mention a liver transplant.)

We live on a lake that is secluded and our "neighborhood doggie" (part Golden Retriever and Corgie) roams free. He comes by every morning for his breakfast bisquit. MY Golden Retriever gets very jealous so he gets one, too!