Noisy Neighbors in The Night
By NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
United States
May 1, 2012 11:44am CST
So finally my brother falls asleep before ten p.m. and I grab the chance to shut off the dang TV and get some early shut eye as my back and all was hurting badly last night. He then wakes up as soon as I shut it off and goes to the kitchen to do some things and I keep hearing him moving around, etc til he is finally finished and goes upstairs. Then about maybe 3 a.m. some young guy is arguing with another guy walking up the street in front of the house and they stop at the corner. The guys voice sounds exactly like my brother whose doing all the loud talking and arguing, I immediately think it is him as I don't see him on the couch next to my room where he usually sleeps. I get up as this guy is still arguing and being loud as they stop at the corner next to our house, the guy is yelling out loud saying the F word over and over, etc. I can't get back to sleep. Now I'm still thinking it's my brother cause he did get angry at my dad the day before and I heard him say the F word a few times from the basement, and he came up the stairs scaring me being so angry then. But this time, I look out the window and see that the guy isn't my brother, he doesn't wear clothes like that, I couldn't actually see the person'a face but from the outline I could tell it wasn't him, thank goodness. He usually gets upset like that alot on the phone up stairs talking to a few people and once when they had to let him go at work, so I know his temper. My biggest complaint though with this is I'm glad it wasn't my brother, but man, why does it always have to be something disturbing my sleep. Seems even when I get an advantage I still can't get sleep. I had a hard time falling back to sleep again and I don't sleep during the day, there's just too much to do. Woudl it make you angry that those guys were being so loud (well one of them was) and shouldn't they have settled things indoors and not wake people up outside???? Grrr, makes me so mad sometimes these neighbors.
8 responses
@enaira0531 (16)
• Philippines
1 May 12
Well, as for me I live in a very remote village in Rizal. It is one of the suburban places in the Philippines. The life of people here are very simple so they only have one way to celebrate birthday parties and that is singing Karaoke songs all day, all night. The houses here are too close to each other. Imagine your house is in in between the two houses that celebrate birthdays. It is better not to go home and have a sleepover in your relative's house or else you would feel exhausted the next day due to lack of sleep.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
1 May 12
That sounds like fun, though at least. But I hadn't been feeling well. I have some problems with my thyroid and other things that make me achey and tired at night especially. So I so needed some sleep, badly. My point is how the heck something turns up, wether it be phone ringing or whatever to disturb my sleep every time. I feel jinxed with sleep sometimes. Seriously. I hope they at least let the person in between the two homes having a loud bday party there ahead of time so they can celebrate loud and let them sleep. I think it's just too rude, and they should rent a hall or something rather than disturb other neighbors. How would they like it if someone did it to them.
@enaira0531 (16)
• Philippines
2 May 12
So here's the thing they don't care if you haven't slept yet. They think that you should make an adjustment because they're celebrating something and you have to understand them. So whether you like it or not you don't have any choice but to let them do what they want.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
1 May 12
I have some loud neighbors they don't have kids they are still in college or just getting out of college so they think its still cool and fun to be loud like it is on college grounds. But a lot of us where I live have little ones that go to be early and so do us parents especially on weeknights. It makes me mad when people are out side being loud to the point where you can make things out or playing loud music. This to me is a disturbance to the community and I don't hesitate to call the cops to give them a warning to shut there pipe holes up. They might not know how hard it is to get a sleepy child back to bed once they have been disturbed especially children that are my daughters age. I won't take it once September comes and I have a newborn to deal with.
Me and my husband have called the cops before and kicked our roommate and her friends out of our house for being loud and disturbing people.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
1 May 12
The worst part of it it could have been my brother, he sometimes gets loud like that and I tell you it sounded just like his angry voice when it gets that way at times, only this was the worst I have ever heard someone get outside. The guy didn't seem too old though and he was carrying on saying someone didn't have any family and they were the only family he had, but I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or not. Maybe the guy was even drunk, who knows. But it was too much to take that late at night, I never even hear anyone screaming that loud during the day around here like he was carrying on, sheesh.
Maybe that was what the other guy did that he was yelling at, kicking him out for something. It sure sounded like that to me, but then the windows were even closed.
Leave it to those college kids. Just don't think do they. It is not cool or fun being loud at all, my other neighbors across the street sometimes have parties starting at 10 p.m. and leading into the night in the summer, they are so darn annoying. I wanted to call the cops on them too before.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
3 May 12
For me I don't care who the heck they are. Weather I'm related to them or not it snot like they will go to jail the cops will tell them to stop or go home. Because being so loud that others can here is distrubing the peace period here in the US. When you have kids and if they are woken up its so hard to get them back to sleep espeically babies.
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
1 May 12
our patience must be extended to some of the annoying and noisy neighbors that we have. whatever we say to them, they are still our neighbors. we can choose our friends, but the choice is limited for our neighbors unless we decide to reside in another house. the best thing is to befriend our neighbors so that we can talk to them honestly.
@GemmaR (8517)
•
1 May 12
It is horrible when your neighbours make a lot of noise. When I lived in a noisy place, I would always have to make the decision whether I wanted to confront them about it and cause trouble, or whether I should just leave it and have a bad night's sleep. They might not even realise that they're causing a problem for you, because I used to listen to music late at night and didn't realise that the people next door could hear it until they came knocking on my door really angry about it. They calmed down when they realised that I didn't mean any harm by it.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
1 May 12
I'm glad they did the majority of the yelling up at the corner, as it was loud enough to be walking so fast past this house and yelling. I don't care for my neighbor on the corner, she has been really nasty to us. So they can yell all they want up there but I could even hear them down here so it wasn't very pleasant at all. I'm not sure how they got him to calm down but I'm glad they moved on, and I hope I don't hear of anything else like that tonight. I usually don't bother with telling people to shut up or whatever in a nice way or other way as I usually don't get too far. Heck I even live with family who don't seem to care and they will do whatever it is they do anyways even if I say to them to stop it seems, most of the time. Yet I have to be silent when he watches all of his 985 TV shows every night, he's such a Princess. UGH.
@lologirl2021 (5542)
• United States
1 May 12
Well i know here where i live past 11 you can call the cops and they can come and setlle the noise themselves because now its disturbing peace and people sleeping that have to work the next day. Maybe next time you hear loudness outside you should call the cops and let them take care of it for you so you can go back to sleep and have a good night sleep.
I usually have noisy neighbors in the mornings and i hate it so much i cant stand that they have to wake up so early when i can sleep in. I need a day with no one around and for me to just sleep because i am so tired of not being able to sleep well.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
1 May 12
I should have thought to do that but they would have probably been gone by the time the cops got there. They were giving me a slight tummy ache too after awhile, and scaring me as I don't know if any violence, etc. would have erupted. You just never know with some people. 
I would hate to be woken up early too with noisey neighbors, I have that here in the house at around 6ish during the week and 7 on the weekends, I can never sleep in. My idea of a vacation would be just to get to sleep at 9 p.m. and wake up at 9 in the a.m. for one week, I don't care what else I have to do on the vacation, lol.
I would hate to be woken up early too with noisey neighbors, I have that here in the house at around 6ish during the week and 7 on the weekends, I can never sleep in. My idea of a vacation would be just to get to sleep at 9 p.m. and wake up at 9 in the a.m. for one week, I don't care what else I have to do on the vacation, lol.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
1 May 12
Why should it make me angry if people outside fight? Might be hard to fall asleep again but angry? Might be if it would go on and on I would shout outside to keep quite since there are people who like to sleep. I would be way more interested in where my brother was at that moment. You did not see anything clear, just said he would never wear clothes like that... how do you know?
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
1 May 12
It would for me now, cause after so many times of trying to get sleep and this keeps happening. Plus my thyroid problem causes me to get irritated quicker at things, as well. When you're not feeling well and haven't gotten much sleep in weeks you will get angry like me. I wasn't about to go outside to yell at them in my PJ's, not in this neighborhood. I'm not a yeller and don't like to yell at people. My brother was probably upstairs in his "bedroom" where he should be that time at night. I know he wouldn't wear shorts like I saw in the "outline" of the guy up the corner, that is how. It was dark but when I saw out the window from here I could see his baggy loose clothes with shorts and I see my brother every day and he never wears those kind of outfits. And the guy had kind of bushy hair on his head too and my brother is half bald.
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
2 May 12
Yes, sometimes neighbors or other people are really uncaring and does not mind whether they have disturb or hurt the feelings of their neighbors. We do experienced the same thing with our neighbors especially during celebration or parties held in the neighborhood. They talked and sometimes argued loudly. They sang karaoke in full volume especially at night not minding even though they are disturbing their neighbors who are sleeping. And sometimes we hear couples fighting and arguing at the top of their lungs.
I guess there are people like this, like one member said we can pick our friends but we can not choose our neighbors. I guess we must have patience in dealing with this kind of people.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
27 Dec 12
hi,
in the compound where i live there are many children and kids,but in the evening we didn't hear a noise from them,so in the compound no one get annoyed or had been annoyed of them,so still thankful because we can sleep as early as we can or as we wanted.
