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?

People are loud all day. It is a change from say, 15 years ago. Maybe 10.

I now would like to wear earplugs all day but sadly I can't.

I know exactly when each member of the family who live opposite (three people, three cars) departs for & arrives home from work each day. As soon as the engine comes on in the morning, music is blasting. And you can hear them coming home from a mile away. Of course, this is not the only example of their cúntish behaviour, as is always the way with these types.

Says who? Are you the time police Yes it is early for us night owls who work later in the day!

I think 7am is the absolute earliest time it's acceptable to stop making an effort to be quiet, but even that is early. If I'm not going to the gym, I don't wake up until 8 or 8.30ish. I imagine this is the norm for lots of people WFH. I don't particularly like losing over an hour of sleep because of other people's selfishness.

I cannot stand this either, people with loud voices are the absolute worst. Groups of people on the train who think everyone wants to hear their stupid conversations, people in pub gardens or on the phone bellowing so loud that the whole street can hear aaarghhhh. We were in a pub last week sat outside and this bloke was repeatedly laughing this extremely loud and very high pitched chuckle type noise and the whole pub garden was just staring at him open mouthed!

It sounds as though loads of people have it much worse than we do! I think 7am is terribly early to be making noise outside. It might not sound it to people who have young kids, who may have been up since 5am, but it is early if you WFH, are retired, or your kids have grown up - or - if you work shifts like my DH, who sometimes doesn't get to actually go to bed until 7am.

When we were on holiday, we had a beach hut. The couple from the next along hut decided to camp up against our hut at 7am every morning, play music, chat loudly and smoke weed. They wouldn't move when asked, so after a few day of this, we waited until they had gone to bed, and me and DH had some drinks outside their hut and played The Greatest Showman hits at full volume. The woman stumbled out in her nighty with her hair all over the place, with a very unhappy face. I just said, well if it's okay for you, it's okay for us. Can't believe that I was so brazen now, but I'd had a lot of cocktails!

@TortugaRumCakeQueen Love that update. Were they more considerate after that?

The thing for me is that even if I’ve been up since 6am I don’t want the peace and quiet of morning shattered by some overly loud person or people at 7am.

There is a quiet peacefulness in the early morning that feels a bit sacred to me.

Slamming doors, blasting music from your car as you leave for work, loud conversations seems so selfish and a little bit showing off or announcing to the world: look at me, I’m up early, I work so hard, I’m exercising, I’m motivated not like those lazy sods still in bed or relaxing in the morning.

And again loud conversations on the phone in public often sound like the person is advertising their important phone call, I’m an important person.

This being overly loud when it’s completely unnecessary just comes across as exhibitionist behaviour.

I suspect most of those described are noisy at any time of day.

You could keep a diary and evidence, report to the Council as noise nuisance. Or record it and play it back in a way that makes it discordant or confuses them.

In what way is it not early? I find this annoying as well OP

2 sets of our neighbours have recently moved.

The first, a couple with 2 kids. A pair of helicopter, micro managing parents. Literally directing every move their kids made from the crack of dawn. Loud booming voice. Gone.

The other, a couple with 3 kids. Bloody nightmare kids, bashing balls of the fence, throwing things over the fence. Parents so loud from 6am. Plates, dishes clashed into sinks. Bins banging. Yelling at each other. Gone.

Normal people have moved in, the peace is life changing.

I don’t think 7am is very early. I’d hope for people to be considerate before 6am, eg not always slamming their doors (although we all forget sometimes, right?) but nothing very loud like mowing the lawn or cutting trees until after 8am/8:30am at weekday/end.

At 7am, although I personally wouldn’t be playing my music on speakerphone, it’s daytime so would have a conversation at normal volume and say (but not shout) hello to my neighbours. I get more annoyed by people being loud after 10pm though.

I don't think 7am is particularly early. Normal noise at 7am during the week is fine IMO. 2am squealing isn't.

It's much harder to be silent than you imagine though. The postman with the gates, for example. If he has multiple iron gates to close, wouldn't be able to do that silently. I had to get up very early recently and really tried not to wake the family, but it seems the harder you try the more noise you make!

I wouldn't expect someone to whisper hello at 7am. In London where I live, much of the street is up and on their way to work or school by then.

I think being noisy late is far worse.

But OP I agree with you re the lack of consideration of others.

@Onemoresleeptogonow

Yet, I'm still jealous that you live so close to the sea!

I used to but moved, then I lived in London & moved. Deeply regret both

@TortugaRumCakeQueen

i wake up early (anything from 3:30 onwards, mostly 4:44 at the moment) but the inconsiderate twats outside still really annoy me. Even at 7. The dog walkers who talk/shout at each other across the road, the twat who idles his van for ages, even in this weather (he's at it now, it's a bank holiday, most sane people are still in bed -except the poor buggers who are rota to work) It's just selfish, inconsiderate, twattish behaviour!!

oh & the postie 'knocks' like the house is on fire!

Early morning noise doesn't bother me. I like hearing the world wake up. Late night noise pisses me off tho.

I think some of things described are annoying such as shouting, loud music and the recycling bins because it's so unnecessary but car doors, and the postman wouldnt bother me at all.

Oh god our neighbour opposite!

He is up and out at 5 every morning and he is so fucking loud! Shouting bye to his gf, then car doors slamming, then sitting with the very loud engine running for a good 10 minutes. He wakes me up every day.

Last bank holiday weekend we noticed he had a flat tyre on the Saturday and told him.

He waited until fucking 4.30am on bank holiday Monday to fix the thing and ended up having to beat the wheel off with a sodding hammer.

I was not impressed.

Same here. Was on holiday in Ireland in a campsite in Slane last weekend and a family came very late past 10am, campsite should never have allow them to pitch their tents at this time.The woman and her kids were very loud, it was unbelievable, fellow campers were asking her to keep quiet but to no available, she even honk her car horn and she was a middle age woman, stupid woman.

We have been awake since 5. 47. Grown up people screaming on in the sea. Bonkers.. Overgrown toddlers in a splash park I quoted on my last council complaint... Nobody cares. Can't understand if the noise nuisance law is quiet until 8 am how an organisation can arrange and encourage hoards of people to meet up at 6 am and make noise...
Twats.

I was meeting a friend for lunch and was seated next to a couple while waiting for her to arrive. The man of the couple had a voice like a foghorn and I couldn't bare it. I heard/was shouted at about every detail of his skiing holiday etc etc. A terrible crushing bore and absolutely full of himself. I called the waitress over and asked if I could move. They put me at the other end of the room. When I told them why I'd asked to be moved she said oh I don't blame you, what a racket!! We can't wait for his food to arrive so we can have some peace!!

I think the time of day is possibly a distraction from the underlying problem which is that a few decades of rampant individualism have created a culture of MY LIFE MY RULES.

I was brought up to not disturb other people as I guess previous generations were too. But I don't think that's much of a consideration now. People feel they have an inalienable right to behave exactly as they like and if others don't like it then that's their problem.

And MN, as a rule, supports that. Being kind/nice/polite is frowned upon if it disadvantages you. You need to stand up for your right to do as you please...except when you're annoying a MNetter 😆

Yes, this.

There are so, so many people who just don't seem to have been brought up to think of others. At all. It's just obvious to me that you don't bellow in a restaurant or have loud conversations at a bus stop at 5am when the bus stop is in front of a house or drive around with music blaring out and the window down or watch videos with the sound on on the Tube.

Plenty of people seem genuinely oblivious to how rude, obnoxious and selfish their behaviour is.

My ndn has his truck idling (I say idling but it sounded more like reving it's tit's off) for 20 mins this morning at 6:50

It was SO loud I got up to see what was making so much noise and he was stood by his car talking to someone. Absolute fucking arsehole.

I used to live on a hill. My house was smack bang half way through with a wall that was perfect for sitting on. 2-3 am every Friday and Saturday night. Everyone sat on my wall to have a rest before walking up the rest.
they would sing and chat. I used to shout out the window to shut up.

my new bungalow as I said in a previous post is quiet. Though we have about 8-10 bloody seagulls. They are so noisy at 4 am. And I don’t live near any water. It would appear that someone down there road feeds them so they stay.
anyone know how to get rid of seagulls?

I'm up early, naturally an early riser and I walk the dog early. I'm quiet, it's so peaceful at that time. I did have a neighbour, though, who was like a foghorn. Even though I was up, it annoyed me his voice was the first sound I'd hear booming each day.

He's moved now, thank goodness.