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To be angry at my neighbour

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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:
TheAntiBoop · 28/04/2018 19:36

Council rules for builders where I am are 8-6 mon-fri and 8-1 Saturday.

I stick to those hours for diy etc and will tolerate it from the neighbours.

Irritating as out neighbors have extensive work going on for most of the rest of the year so Saturday mornings aren't great but they stick to the hours given by the council and Sunday's are quiet

Purplelion · 28/04/2018 19:38

9am is perfectly reasonable. We are in the process of doing our house up before we move and if we didn’t get started early on a Saturday we would be wasting time as we work FT and can’t get a lot done in the week!
Your neighbour didn’t know you woke up at 6!

SharronNeedles · 28/04/2018 19:44

To be slightly narked but fully accept that this is your problem and no one else's would be reasonable. To be angry at someone for doing things during the day in their own home is very unreasonable

OhWotIsItThisTime · 28/04/2018 19:55

Take a look at your local by-laws. I’m sure you will find 9am on a Saturday is fine for DIY.

my2bundles · 28/04/2018 20:01

So you woke at 6, went back to sleep and woke at 9!? Now ubhave a headache? 😆 Try being woken 5 times a night by a child with severe autism repeating obsessive quotes followed by hour long meltdowns and a baby waking for feeds and not settling, resulting in me getting practically zero sleep. Yes this was my life a few years ago. U get no sympathy from me.

Beerwench · 28/04/2018 20:08

In a society where many expect 24/7 service from things, and obviously that means people to staff them, meaning less people working the standard 9-5 and more working shift patterns, I really don't get this differing times weekdays to weekends. But that's by the by.
9 am isn't too early any day IMO, for you to be privately pissed off and have a grumble to yourself is fine of course, but your neighbour didn't do anything wrong here. It's the same as my neighbours dogs barking intermittently through the day, I work nights, but as it's day time I may mutter and mumble to myself when they wake me but I don't expect the world to be quiet all day because of my lifestyle.
I do get the headache thing though, it happens to me sometimes. I found as hard as it is a bit of exercise after some ibuprofen works well.

ilovepixie · 28/04/2018 20:10

I think 9am is too early on a weekend. On my day off I like a lie in and 9am is way too early.

my2bundles · 28/04/2018 20:15

Pixie, other people on their day off have essential things like waking early with kids and getting essential work done which isn't possible during a working week. Your need to lie in past 9 am which isn't early by any stretch of the imagination does not trump their need to you know, get on with life.

madsiemoomoo · 29/04/2018 10:51

@my2bundles the thing is NO ONE's lives and wants trumps other people's - hence why EVERYONE needs to show a little bit of consideration to their neighbours

imweirdandcool · 29/04/2018 14:47

9 am is not reasonable minim 11 is

FuzzyCustard · 29/04/2018 15:39

I'm guessing those that think 9am is too early probably live in a town. Rurally, things start early every day...and during harvest time, large machinery can be going almost all night in order to get the crops in before it rains.

And you should hear the sheep and lamb chorus at dawn!!

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