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To be angry at my neighbour

61 replies

Zeezee7 · 28/04/2018 16:53

I live in a flat, and this morning I was woken up at 9am by a neighbour using a loud drill.

I woke up at 6am and went back to sleep, so the wake up has left me feeling grouchy and awful all day, with a pounding headache to boot.

AIBU to be pissed off about this loud wake up call on a Saturday morning?

OP posts:
user1483387154 · 28/04/2018 17:31

Yabu. Perfectly ok time to make some and not their fault you woke up at 6

FootnerFace · 28/04/2018 17:32

Op did you drink alcohol last night?

Mountainsoutofmolehills · 28/04/2018 17:34

I feel your pain. There is always a neighbour DIYing or an alarm in my street.

lilcolibri · 28/04/2018 17:35

Lol - 9am is fine if you're up at that time with kids. If you're childfree and enjoy a lie in on weekends, it's a fucking disgrace.

Poor you. I mean it, it's not sarcasm.

Imsosceptical · 28/04/2018 17:36

I get up at 5am every morning and savour my hour of solitude with a cup of tea before everyone else gets up! Granted I’m down under where everyone is up early and goes to bed early (8pm for me most nights, it’s pitch black......) but 9am is a joke, you cannot be serious?

Billben · 28/04/2018 17:37

YABU. 9am is a perfectly reasonable time to start doing diy at the weekend (more so if you work mon-fri). You feel headachy because you’ve woken up earlier. That’s your fault. Don’t blame the neighbour for it.

jamoncrumpets · 28/04/2018 17:39

DH got up with DS today and cracked on with a few household jobs. When he'd finished after about an hour he came back upstairs and looked at the time: 7am. The words 'that' 'little' and 'bastard' may have been (lovingly) uttered.

DiddimusStench · 28/04/2018 17:39

Of course YABU.

The reason I feel headachy is because I’d already woken up and was woken up again by the noise. I’m not sure about the science of it, but going back to sleep after waking up usually makes people feel more tired (something to do with R.E.M.?) So it’s partly my fault, but being woken up in that way was unpleasant and the noise went on for quite a while

You were woken up once, 3 hours before, not even in the night. Really really trying to resist the urge to whip out my very small violin....

FrancisCrawford · 28/04/2018 17:40

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greathat · 28/04/2018 17:41

I'm guessing you have no young children in your life ~yearns for a 9am lie in~

Viviennemary · 28/04/2018 17:42

9 am isn't great but it's a perfectly reasonable time to start doing work on a house.

Doodlesplodge17 · 28/04/2018 17:44

Sweet baby Jesus, 9am!
You lucky devil, my neighbours have been doing their extension for nearly a year and every Saturday and Sunday they start between 7:30 & 8am. What’s a lie in?

FuzzyCustard · 28/04/2018 17:45

Another one saying 9am for household noise is fine.
And sleeping until 9! The last time I did that was....well never actually! The day's half over by then.

insancerre · 28/04/2018 17:45

9 am?
It's hardly the crack of sparrows

bimbobaggins · 28/04/2018 17:48

At 9 am I’ve already been up for 3 hours. I wouldn’t get my drill out but do put my washing machine on. I’d love to lie in until 9.

Tink2007 · 28/04/2018 17:49

Nope, YABU.

BewareOfDragons · 28/04/2018 17:49

Sorry, OP, but you are being unreasonable.

Most people work M-F. When do you propose they get essential DIY work done on home and garden and car?

TemptressofWaikiki · 28/04/2018 18:00

YABU Most people only have the weekend to do any DIY

maxthemartian · 28/04/2018 18:06

9am is really not that early.

LakieLady · 28/04/2018 18:25

We had a crane lorry delivering building materials to the house across the road at 8.15 this morning. That woke up half the bloody street, I should think.

I don't think 9 is that early for a Saturday, tbh, but maybe a bit early if it was a Sunday.

Squirrelinatree · 28/04/2018 18:30

My neighbour knocked a wall through between his lounge and kitchen at 7am on a Sunday morning. 9am on a Saturday sounds fine to me

Sweetpea55 · 28/04/2018 19:24

9am is ok to start doing diy..unless of course you have been at work all night and just got to bed.

madsiemoomoo · 28/04/2018 19:27

I would be fuming at 9am - people like a lie in at the weekend!!

WeirdyMcBeardy · 28/04/2018 19:29

YANBU. People do like to lie in at weekends, they should show more consideration, as should most people on this thread that would obviously start DIY early on a Saturday, and yes 9am is early.

madsiemoomoo · 28/04/2018 19:31

And for the 'I'm always up way earlier than that' brigade, whoopdie do for you. If your own personal hours are all that matter, you won't mind if I get my drill out at 8pm and wake your kids up - after all it's not that late and I don't go to bed for hours after. It's called consideration for your neighbours, there seems to be a lot lacking....