to be able to lay quietly in my sick bed instead of 3 days of neighbours' bbq parties getting on my wick ?

[mrsmillsfanclub]

I have been at home for the last few days with a really nasty virus. It's so bad that I have actually taken to my bed (most unlike me). My twat of a neighbour is in his 50's, newly divorced and desperately making up for lost time. He doesn't work and is on invalidity benefit for a bad back (doesn't stop him driving to the pub or sitting on a hard plastic garden share for 7 hours at a time though!)

Anyway he has lots of drunken friends who he invites round very often. I have lost count of the nights he has kept me awake till 3am, drunk in the garden, but I now dread the sunny days too as I know he will be outside with the sodding bbq and the mates swigging back lager for up to 10hrs.

I have no problem with noise usually, kids playing in the garden, lawn mowers, etc, but this is so irritating that I am considering returning to work before I am really well enough, just to get away from it.

I am being an unreasonable, virus ridden old hag aren't I ?

[Shutupanddrive]

Not really, I would be annoyed too. Can you get some earplugs?

[HandMini]

Could you ask him to keep it down for the next day or so, explaining that you're trying to sleep off the virus day and night? Sounds v annoying though. We have loud neighbours too.

[mumsamilitant]

No, you're not being unreasonable. Don't think there's much you can do about the daytime hullabaloo but till 3am? Deffo not on! Have a word, if that doesn't help get dialling.