We get on well with our neighbours. We're not 'friends' as such but will always stop for a chat etc.
Yesterday I saw the woman at the corner shop and we walked home together having a chat.
On the way, she mentioned that I woke them up that morning with my hairdryer and, subtly, asked if I could not use the hairdryer early in the AM. With the way she asked she wasn't really asking for a response or even a conversation about it, just kind of mentioning it in passing I guess in the hope I'll change my routine IYSWIM. So, I didn't respond there and then.
I got home at told DH. He was really miffed about it and said she was very U and I should have told her to bugger off.
This hairdryer usage doesn't happen every day- 3 or 4 weekdays I shower at the gym so don't use a hairdryer at home. On the weekend, I either don't bother drying it or I'm doing it at about 10am.
So a couple of work days a week I do dry my hair at home and it's about 6am when I'm doing it- I recognise that this is v early for some!
I can't really dry my hair elsewhere in the house as the other 2 bedrooms are occupied by DCs and in the living room is the dog who's terrified of the hairdryer and will bark like a mad thing causing more noise.
DH said I'm mad for even considering sneaking around the house in the morning using the hairdryer somewhere inconvenient for me just to avoid inconveniencing the neighbours.
So, AIBU to be using the hairdryer at 6am a couple of days a week? Or is she BU to mention it?
I should say it's quite a powerful hairdryer and we have quite thin walls (we can hear their phone ringing, for example).
AIBU?
Who is BU- me or neighbour?
SmashingBumpkins · 02/03/2016 10:09
I never said you did Alis 
I just pointed out that I don't see it as a valid argument. The neighbour who, by all accounts, is perfectly nice has pointed out, apparently also perfectly nicely, that she is being woken up by the hairdryer. So it's completely irrelevant whether half the world is awake then or not, the neighbour isn't!
If I lived next door to someone doing night shifts and my hoovering at 10am disturbed them I wouldn't think 'fuck you, most people are awake so it's my right to hoover!'. I would try and see if I could do something about it.
I'm a naturally early riser (well not exactly naturally, but that's a different thread). If I wasn't I'd be woken by:
Neighbour 1 that has a diesel car and leaves for work at 0630.
Neighbour 2 whose dog barks a couple of times under my bedroom window at 0600.
Neighbour 3 (adjoining) who plugs in 'something' at 0600 every morning.
Neighbour 4 another diesel car at 0645.
Neighbour 5 who slams his front door after getting the milk in at about 0700.
I'd also be woken by the bin men who come at 0630 every second week and the paperboy and the milkman who comes to neighbors daily at 0630.
Adjoining (retired) neighbour turns his TV on at 0700 every morning - that's my queue to go and get a shower (and dry my hair!). He also watches TV in bed until about 11pm (loud enough for me to be able to tell what channel it is 
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This is a sleepy village 5 miles or so from a couple of major towns. All normal and inescapable noise.
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