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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to wake my neighbour up at 5.30am

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Thinkmummy · 08/04/2014 23:35

laid in bed getting more irritated with my neighbour who has been singing (warbling in a high pitch constantly for the past two hours. we live in a terrace and the sound travels quite a lot between the two houses. so normally i would bring my vocal 18month dd straight downstairs in the morning but may just let her come into my bed to watch c beebies and squeal and shout with excitement.... in the hope it will wake them next door! grrr

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TalkieToaster · 08/04/2014 23:49

I think you should start singing along. Extra bonus points if you can do it in harmony.

lollerskates · 08/04/2014 23:53

Do it. Do it for me. My neighbours NEVER, EVER stop talking at the tops of their voices, shouting, arguing, calling their fucking cat, just general bellowing; and they don't seem to sleep, so I can't even wake them up by banging the door early in revenge. Fuckers.

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Thinkmummy · 08/04/2014 23:59

ah god i would sing along if i could but somehow dp is managing to sleep through it all! so can't even bang on the wall

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Thinkmummy · 09/04/2014 00:01

i.e. i don't want to wake him.... at least he'll let me nap tomorrow aft when he's home from work and take dd out for a bit

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LokiDokey · 09/04/2014 00:42

Mine slams doors at half past midnight. I may have been a little more heavy handed with our front door in a morning this last week as I know she's in bed...

Gracelo · 09/04/2014 06:43

Our neighbours are noisy at least one night every weekend, they start with singing the same song over and over again and then the shouty fighting starts, occassionally it ends with him leaving loudly banging house and car doors and shouting some more in the street. Last time they kept it up until about 6 am. So, around 8 am when everything was very quiet next door we put on some of the scariest modern classical music we could find as loud as the CD player would let us, pointed the speakers towards the shared wall and went shopping.
They are otherwise quite nice and we get on ok.

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Thinkmummy · 09/04/2014 07:15

gracelo that's hilarious,

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Comeatmefam · 09/04/2014 07:20

Noisy neighbours really are a killer, you have my sympathy.

Our neighbours' toddler used to wake up screaming every morning at 5am for about a year - about 20 minutes non stop. Woke me up every single day. I never complained because he was a baby but I did often used to think 'why don't you bloody well go and settle him,you know we live in terraced houses'. If it had been singing or some 'man-made' noise I'd have had to have said something.

Gracelo · 09/04/2014 07:24

We have quite the collection of scary classical music, we can keep it up for a while. I'm looking forward to getting Terterian's 5th symphony out, it's got a duduk in it which sounds very much like a cow getting strangled (how I imagine it would sounds like, I have never strangled a cow).
I don't think it will make a difference but it amuses us somewhat.

Joysmum · 09/04/2014 07:44

Personally I'd just have called out, 'great singing but could you keep it down a bit please!'

littledrummergirl · 09/04/2014 07:51

Gracelo, my Dh did that with noisy neighbours once only the music was a football track put to a beat. He put it on repeat.
Our music system doesnt normally go above a quarter volume as it is too loud but on that occasion he put it on full.

We never heard another peep from them.

FrancesNiadova · 09/04/2014 08:20

Don't get mad, get even...
As a student living in halls, the night before my piano recital for my end of year exams, my dear neighbour decided to have a party into the early hours. Afterwards, all I could hear we're cries of, "Oh M***" (gangly boyfriend's name).
I was 2nd on, so needed to be up early, alert & warmed up.
As I left my room, I turned my ghetto-blaster speakers to the wall, (yes, that long ago!), turned it up to max volume, & left Stravinsky' s Rite of Spring playing on repeat.
Pure Evil

RoaringTiger · 09/04/2014 09:38

I had awful neighbours when I had a flat about 8 years ago, parties every weekend til 5am, used to bang on my window as they walked by late at night, would purposefully jump on their floor/my ceiling if I dared to complain. The week before I moved out they went on another night out loudly talking about the party they were gonna have when they got home and how much it would 'piss off that bitch' (me!). I locked the communal door to the stairs using my key....they were the only upstairs neighbour at the time so only they needed to use the door (my and my others neighbours door were outside). I got up at 8am to see the two guys from the upstairs flat and 3 of their friends trying to pick the lock slagging me off and saying how 'you wait til next weekend the birch doesn't know what a party is til then'.....they finally managed to get upstairs at about 9am, by which point I was ready to start cleaning with my music on loud and I moved out on the Tuesday :)

LokiDokey · 09/04/2014 10:08

Mine was horrible when we first moved here, her daughter's (then teens) would have kids music on till two am etc.
Much like had been done up thread one morning after an especially loud night I cracked. I'd got a hell of a sound system at the time and to it dh linked about 6 speakers, all of which pointed at their wall.
I'm a huge huge Metallica fan so I treated them to a run down their best early albums. It was so loud that when a friend turned up mid way through my protest he told me he'd heard it 100 yards down the road.

It did work, music wasn't an issue after that. Now she door slams, I've asked her about it before but she can't seen to help it and she's the tiniest woman in the world. We are friends though now.

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