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Do your neighbors hate you?
shmokes:
That's how I feel, and why I'm concerned about my use of power tools evening after evening. It would start irritating me, and I think you gotta kind of try to create the world that you would like to live in, even if others aren't participating. It's just a healthy way to live, IMO.
Ummon:
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Well, I am a drummer. If I wanna get behind the skins after 8 PM or so, I actually go over to the neighbor's house and make sure that I won't be disturbing them.
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That's nice. Of course, electronic sets are very convenient also.
--- Quote from: shmokes on August 31, 2008, 03:11:39 am ---That's how I feel, and why I'm concerned about my use of power tools evening after evening. It would start irritating me, and I think you gotta kind of try to create the world that you would like to live in, even if others aren't participating. It's just a healthy way to live, IMO.
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Well then, maybe you needs ta go over there and ask if you're being a pest?
shmokes:
Not really. Like I said, it would irritate me if the neighbors were doing that for hours on-end, night after night. The golden rule should be enough to tell me that I'm being a pest. Furthermore, many people dislike confrontation. Even if I go over all nice-like to the neighbor, maybe she tells me it doesn't bother her, but really she is irritated as hell, but feels like she has no place telling me what to do. Or maybe she just doesn't want to rock the boat and have a neighbor who dislikes her. Maybe she says it's fine because I'm being so polite, but two minutes after I leave he regrets it, but would feel like an ass coming over and saying, "Actually, I don't know why I said that. You're really bothering me.
There's not really much use going and asking the neighbors something that I probably already know. I've just started taking breaks, i.e., if I'm sawing all evening for two or three nights in a row, I'll take a day off. And I'm trying to finish by 9-9:15 instead of 10.
saint:
CLEAR!
*thump*
OK, thread resurrected.
Hemi:
I actually have a neighbor problem that I never knew about since I just moved into a better house in a new neighborhood. There seems to be a few 18-22 year olds across the street who seem to be into motor cycles. They leave their house and excessively rev their engines, they come home late at night and excessively rev their engines. It can be sunday morning very early and instead of just getting on the bike and going where they need to go, they sit there for a while bothering the neighborhood "reving their engines". I have thought of a number of ways to handle this problem, but the way that seems most satisfying to me would be to actually buy a bike, sit in front of their bedroom one morning while they sleep, and rev that baby until the engine blows. Maybe then they would get the idea of how much of a problem it is. :)