Our neighbours across the road (their garden backs onto our road) are out in their garden, drinking and playing loud music. It happens most sunny days - annoying but live and let live, right?
But tonight was ridiculously loud, 'can't hear the TV even though the windows are closed' loud. There's about 10 of them - music getting louder as they get drunker. It was really pissing me off but I tried to ride it out - managed almost 4 hours of it before I snapped. So I stomped/walked across and asked them nicely if they could turn it down just a little. They apologised straight away and the music was off before I got back in my front door. And it felt great! (I may have even declared "And that's how it's done!" as I came back in.)
The only thing is, the music is still off and I feel a bit guilty that I've ruined their night. I only wanted them to turn it down a little. Am I being ridiculous? Or too British? It wasn't even 10 o'clock when I went over so it wasn't really late just bloody inconsiderate/annoying! And they now know where I live/who I am because they would have watched me walk back in... I'm over-thinking this, right?