People who are LOUD outside, in the very early morning - WTF?

[TortugaRumCakeQueen]

I walk the dogs at around 7.10am every morning. I am very quiet. My dogs are very quiet. If we see someone, I might nod, but I wouldn't dream of shouting pleasantries at that time in the morning. I walk along the coastal path, which is fringed with apartments, and if I was to speak at normal volume, it would definitely wake people up. However, I seem to be the only person who thinks about the fact that others may be sleeping. People boom "GOOD MORNING", or they call their dogs name, at the top of their lungs, or they have loud chats on the phone, with friends who are on loud speak. Thankfully it is not a busy walkway, hence it's very noticeable when someone shouts.

Our postman is equally as annoying. No matter what time he gets here, he slams closed every single iron gate, at full force, so a huge CLANG can be heard, over and over again, as he makes his way along the street.

My neighbour 2 doors down, thinks nothing of singing at the top of his voice, in his back garden at 7am, he also will decant rubbish in to the outside bin at 7am and slam the lid closed creating a big bang.

Is it me?

No, it's not you.

There were a couple of absolute cunts talking very loudly on a balcony below my bedroom window until gone 2am. I'm exhausted and making mistakes at work. Had an important meeting this morning and could barely keep my eyes open. It's literally ruined my day.

Some people truly have 'centre of the universe' syndrome. Doesn't seem to occur to them that other people might want to rest, or sleep, or just enjoy some quiet time without hearing their inane conversations. I wouldn't dream of talking on the balcony past about 10.30pm, even on a weekend night, but consideration seems to be in short supply in modern Britain.

My OH doesn't seem to realise quite how loud his voice is when everything else is quiet! My exH was the same. And Ex was a nightmare if we ever had a really early start, multiple doors slamming/shutting, talking in normal voices etc. Its like they don't realise how much their voice carries when it's still!! went to see something the other night at the theatre with OH and he kept 'whispering' - except it wasn't quiet whispering and was always during a really quiet bit on stage. Its not malicious or deliberate and his normal speaking voice is quiet and unclear/mumbly

I don't think 7 is early to be saying hello to people and you'd have to be a massively light sleeper to wake at that. It seems very different to the example of people hanging out on a balcony at 2am. People tie up their yappy dogs at the newsagent near us when they go in for morning papers and it's bloody annoying if I want a sleep-in but not really unreasonable if the shop is open I guess

No, YANBU. Green with envy re your coastal path dog walk however! Please tell me it's as good as it sounds?

Well I’m pretty quiet I think, and very rarely outside at 7am.

However I think it’s fine for people to start their day with normal daily stuff like talking, rubbish out, gates closing loudly. It’s 7am, not 2am. Most people are awake, or up and about. Even if you are woken, you have generally had all night to sleep.

I wouldn’t expect someone at 7am to whisper ‘good morning’ if I was out.

My fucking neighbour can't set off for work without throwing all his tools into his van and slamming its sliding door about 5 times, and usually conducting his business calls at top volume at 6 am every morning. He's a cunt.

I also heard him moaning into his phone during lockdown 1 that "no one gives a shite about you unless you're a fucking nurse".

Awful man, and he has an equally hideous wife. They're so horrible, quite a few tradesmen have refused to finish jobs for them at their home. This pleases me as I know that other people think they're cunts as well. 🙂

This truly puzzles me. From a young age we were taught when to use our indoor/outdoor voices but some people seem to have no filter.

My previous neighbours seem to like the sound of their doors slamming, whilst having hugely inappropriate personal telephone calls on speaker.

"centre of the universe syndrome" is a good way of putting it.

Right now I'm being driven insane by cars with modified exhausts. They speed past the end of my road pretty much all evening and all night. At the weekends, the entire valley echoes with the sound. I've even bought noise-cancelling headphones. Apparently, it's illegal to have an engine louder than a flushing toilet. So why aren't the police pulling them over? And psychologically, what the hell is going? I get that some people like cars. Fine, if that's what you want to spend your money on, great. But why go to the trouble of modifying the exhaust so it makes a hideous banging and popping sound? Why have an engine that screams so loud it goes through my house even with the windows closed?

My old neighbours (now moved into supported living) used to get their bin in at 5.30am every Tuesday. We each have a really long gravel drive and they are slow walkers so I heard every single crunch and drag. Our bedroom is at the front of the house so when it was summer and the window was open it would wake me up every week. They are absolutely lovely people, it would never have been meant, they just were very early risers (4am!) and would be out and about from 5am doing garden tasks. I do miss them, just not the early starts!

For 20 months now our lives have been blighted by sea swimmers. Squealing and shouting at 6 am. And 7 and. And 8 am.
7
Days
A
Friggin
Week
I read on our local page they have a 4 am meet up planned for June.

Just
Fucking
Marvellous.
Apparently the council can't do anything..

Camping this week. Campsite owners tell everyone on check in that it's quiet after 10pm. First night here some bastard teenagers were talking, laughing extremely loudly in the tent next door until 1am. Why wouldn't you tell your children to STFU??? What is WRONG with people 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

My previous neighbours seem to like the sound of their doors slamming, whilst having hugely inappropriate personal telephone calls on speaker.

This sounds like my neighbours. Not only does the woman shout down the phone outside, but she puts the other person on loudspeaker on full volume. Why you'd want to tell the neighbourhood about your husband's anger and drink problems and how you don't leave the children alone with him (she definitely does) I don't know - someone will eventually call social services about them. I've made passive aggressive remarks, but if she starts again with the hot weather (and I'm working from home) she'll be told this time.

Awful people, too, who can't leave or return to the house without roaring and disturbing the peace and quiet. I have to wear earplugs at night if I want to open a window. I agree with you OP.

I live in a road where people are too important to get out of their car to knock a door or ring a doorbell. Instead they sit with the engine running and beep the horn for their passenger to come out and slam the door several times before roaring off.
If they did get out I am sure they would be visiting one of the many houses that have a Ring doorbell that chimes with the volume of an ice cream van chime on the OUTSIDE of the bloody house, why, just why?
Not everyone needs to be awake early.

I wish you'd come and walk your dog round here OP and give all the other dog walkers a hard stare. I get woken up from 6am by dog walkers having shouted conversations across the street from each other as they walk up/down my road to the woods.

And it's not just a quick "good morning" it's a full blown bellowing conversation.

We live near a park and I'm often woken at unholy hours at weekends and holidays by children shrieking and shouting as they run to the park. Their parents are with them and make no attempt to quieten them.

I get wanting to get early rising children out of the house to burn off energy (well, I don't really - I send mine downstairs to watch TV and eat cereal until a more civilised hour), but could you at least wait till you all get to the park before letting them scream?!

When I worked often left home at 4.30am ,always quiet, my neighbours would slam doors at 8am, on my days off.
told them it was unreasonable and would return favour they looked shocked

We get this all the time. I live in the grounds of a hospital and some of the medical students come back in the early hours and you can hear them talking/screeching at the top of their voices, and drunks returning home in the early hours. Lovely. I can also hear people at the bus stop in the early hours and people on their phones.

I always know it's Thursday when I am woken at some unearthly hour by next doors kids being dropped back by their dad, lots of shrieking, wailing, shouting etc

It's not you OP.

Some people just want the world to know their business and shout about it in the street or through the walls. Stuff I would be mortified for anyone to know. It is just attention seeking and it really annoys me.

As I found out. They can be quiet. They just chose not to be.

We are quiet. I like a quiet home and I dont like anyone to know our stuff.

Definitely not just you OP

I have neighbours very close to me and the guy is so loud I wondered if he might be deaf. His wife and little boy make normal amounts of noise but he is just off the scale. You always know when he's home.

He had a friend round last summer who was equally loud. I said "I bet that's his brother" and sure enough the little boy called him Uncle Loud Mouth, or whatever his name was.

We were brought up to be thoughtful to everyone around us. I even turn my music down in my car when I turn into my street. Apparently not everyone is raised the same way 🤷‍♀️

Is 7 O'clock really early on a week day? Surely a lot of people are up and about getting ready for work at that time.

I live in an apartment on the canal so the path is opposite and we have that all the time. Also added in the horrendously arrogant canoe club members that love to yell their conversations and the amount of others who love overly personal phone conversations on their balconies really boils my blood but I just thought it was me being unsociable and grumpy naturally 😂

I have some separate groups of friends and 2 of the five some I’m going away with absolutely cannot moderate their volume at all.
its embarrassing sometimes as they just are so fucking loud

No, it's not you.

Our neighbour is a noisy bugger (we call him Loud John!), and thinks nothing of undertaking bin fuckery post-11pm, and also at around 8am on the weekend (emptying his glass recycling into the bin, from height, for instance).

There was also a brief spate of 6am joggers going past last year, having a LOUD conversation as they did so. 🙄

Neighbour on one side goes out into his garden every morning at 7am and has a very loud telephone conversation- including weekends.
the other side works nights and comes home every morning around 8am and sits on his drive with the engine on and car stereo at full blare for a good 10 minutes while he writes on his phone 😡😡😡 people are just bloody ignorant.