On a street full of house parties and fireworks.
I'll give a backstory. There is a man who lives next door with his wife, they're in their 90s if that is relevant for what was acceptable back in the day?, we are terraced and the walls are thin, but we are very quiet neighbours, never any parties and usually upstairs by 8pm with DS in bed watching his iPad with his headphones and me sat outside his door on night watch (he has ASC as well as other disabilities)
Today is NYE and my turn with DS, me and his dad take it in turns to go out, DP is at work.
There are loads of house parties on the street, fireworks going off. Drunken arguments etc, the same as every year.
So I decide that because me and DS won't be able to sleep anyway, we will stay up eating takeaway pizza and see midnight in while watching rubbish kids films and I MN.
DS inevitably spills crumbs and juice everywhere, so I think instead of waiting till the morning (when I'm tired from no sleep) I'll sweep up and steam the floors now.
Suddenly there's a knock at the door, which I open on the chain at first because it's 10pm. It's the man next door.
Man: "you're hoovering"
Me: I'm not its a steam cleaner, why can you hear it?"
Man: "no I saw you through the window, it's not an appropriate time for that."
Me: it only makes the same amount of noise as an iron would... I've finished now anyway.
Man: well you shouldn't be cleaning at this time, it could disturb us (disclaimer, the house is usually silent after 7:30 while I pray that DS might close his eyes so there's never any cleaning noise)
Me: but... There's house parties everywhere...
Him: it's New Year's Eve. Cleaning after 9pm is antisocial.
Me: ok I won't do it again... Then I promptly shut the curtains.
Really? Is it really antisocial to steam the floors at 10pm when almost every other house on the street has music and fireworks blasting? Never mind the noise we can hear from the town centre?