I wish I had no neighbor sometimes
My neighbor and his girlfriend aren't the best folks to live next to. He's alright I guess. So is she, if a bit cold. Not too friendly. But this dude has got a snoring problem that won't quit. I swear it keeps me awake at night. And it kinda defies reason, too. I mean, I breathe in a regular rhythm, so I'd assume one snores in a regular tempo as well? But this guy, its a rhythm all right, but just really disjointed. Kinda like free jazz. And it sounds, frankly, UNNATURAL. Last night between 3:20 and 4:20, I lay there listening to this racket, and all I could think of to compare it to was a dog playing tug-of-war on a big rope. Like "GGGGGr, RRRRRg, guh." Then wait a few seconds, and "GGGGGrg, RRRRgh, gugh. Guh." Who the hell takes 2 breaths, then holds them, then takes 3 or 4, then waits a few seconds, and takes another pair? Its bizarre.
Last night it was accompanied by knocks on the wall. I think he must have been tossing around and bumping the wall, but for comfort I pretended it was his neighbor on the other side telling him to keep it down.
More than once he has woken me up with another weird snoring sound, but through the wall it sounds a hell of a lot like he 's repeating "I don't know" over and over, really fast. "Idonno, idonno, idonno, idonno, idonno." Too strange.
Often the two of them will fight really loudly. Usually around 3 in the morning, on a Thursday. (For some inexplicable reason, in Austin, Thursdays are just the "first Friday" of the weekend. Bars are really busy on Thursday night.) But they'll come home really late, and sometimes just lay into each other screaming and yelling all sorts of shit. A lot of the time he calls her "a liar." He kinda browbeats her, seems to very often verbally assault her about character isssues, tries to overwhelm her. Just really loudly. But she's no saint, trust me. What a set of pipes on this girl. I guess everyone needs to vent sometimes, and most every time I ever see her she's all mousy and quiet, but get a few drinks in her and make her mad, and KABLOOEY. Really shakes the foundations. One time I felt really sorry for her. She must have gotten some really terrible news on the phone, because out of nowhere she just starts wailing. "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO, why, why? WHHHYYYYYYYY?????? AAAAAAAA!!!!!! NNNOOOOOOO!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Then she started banging on the walls and it really felt like she wanted them to fall down. BOOM BOOM BOOM! "WHHYYYY???? AAAAAA!!!!!!!" Then maybe stuff like, "I wanted to see her!" Hell, I don't know. It was really disturbing.
And all of this stuff, always, the middle of the night. So you kinda wake to it "in medias res," all dreamy and sleepy, and there's this horrible mayhem going on like 3 feet from your head. Insane.
Last night it was accompanied by knocks on the wall. I think he must have been tossing around and bumping the wall, but for comfort I pretended it was his neighbor on the other side telling him to keep it down.
More than once he has woken me up with another weird snoring sound, but through the wall it sounds a hell of a lot like he 's repeating "I don't know" over and over, really fast. "Idonno, idonno, idonno, idonno, idonno." Too strange.
Often the two of them will fight really loudly. Usually around 3 in the morning, on a Thursday. (For some inexplicable reason, in Austin, Thursdays are just the "first Friday" of the weekend. Bars are really busy on Thursday night.) But they'll come home really late, and sometimes just lay into each other screaming and yelling all sorts of shit. A lot of the time he calls her "a liar." He kinda browbeats her, seems to very often verbally assault her about character isssues, tries to overwhelm her. Just really loudly. But she's no saint, trust me. What a set of pipes on this girl. I guess everyone needs to vent sometimes, and most every time I ever see her she's all mousy and quiet, but get a few drinks in her and make her mad, and KABLOOEY. Really shakes the foundations. One time I felt really sorry for her. She must have gotten some really terrible news on the phone, because out of nowhere she just starts wailing. "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO, why, why? WHHHYYYYYYYY?????? AAAAAAAA!!!!!! NNNOOOOOOO!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Then she started banging on the walls and it really felt like she wanted them to fall down. BOOM BOOM BOOM! "WHHYYYY???? AAAAAA!!!!!!!" Then maybe stuff like, "I wanted to see her!" Hell, I don't know. It was really disturbing.
And all of this stuff, always, the middle of the night. So you kinda wake to it "in medias res," all dreamy and sleepy, and there's this horrible mayhem going on like 3 feet from your head. Insane.
posted by figurebuilder at 12:01 PM
1 Comments:
First of all...i know this too well! rob and i have lived in apts. before and have seen and heard some wierd crap.we had a gay couple that would throw themselves against our wall and we'd find them drunk hanging over the wheel of their car thinking they were dead. i would bang on the wall...i would leave a note...i think that you should get a loud fan and run it at night. that's what i do.
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