Noisy neighbours…
Now let’s take notes everyone!
How many of us are neighbours? Just look around outside, there’s usually a house on either side, several across the road, several behind you. Then we look at the close urban living style. You know, blocks of flats, sharing laundries, drains, cockroaches. I could go on about it, but really, I just want to rant about the people down stairs.
I live in a very multicultural tower, I’ve posted about how it smells like an international food hall. The people below contribute to it with their rhumba type music, their camel cigarette smoke floating up into my bedroom. Their laughter and constant parties on the weekend, and during the week. I haven’t complained because in a way, it adds to the uniqueness and life experience living here, it can be enjoyable.
This time they’ve managed to piss me off. They’ve obtained some small dog, a terrier, chihuahua, something. It’s still small and a puppy, so it yips like one. Cept the other night. The neighbours locked it out on their balcony last night, so it barked, howled and sobbed in the cold. About 3 hours worth of yipping and crying. When I went off to work early yesterday (on my day off) it was still crying. So I am now the cranky biatch neighbour.
I’ve rung the caretaker (a man who apparently disappears down to the bowling club at 2pm every day, gets pissed and returns at 7pm, drags the kreepy krawly out of the pool, drags it into the pool room, and staggers back to where ever he lives). He listened to me complain bitterly like the biatch neighbour I am, and hopefully within days, the dog will be out. I never wanted to be the cranky biatch neighbour, but there’s one thing that shits me, and that’s dogs in flats.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Hi Lori, its been a while.
I agree completely with what you did. Your apartment is your home and there’s a certain amount of consideration everyone should have for each other. A crying or barking dog during the night is just not on (unless its a once off, and I’d probably let it slide).
You have my support on this one.
Take care and good luck on the job hunting!
February 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Onya sonya!
We had a similiar thing happen to us, but with a large cockatoo. So friggen noisy! We complained and it quietened down for awhile. She didn’t get rid of it, but she paid more attention to it so it wasn’t so noisy. I have no problems with people having pets, so long as they don’t infringe upon the lives of their close neighbours.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I put the complaint in
the dog has either gone, or stopped yappin, let’s just wait for the weekend.