To be annoyed at unnecessarily loud noises?

[lizzlebizzle33]

Ahh it irritates me so much that things which can be a quiet or normal amount of noise are made extra loud by some people.

When I close a door I actually close it, DP feels the need to just swing it closed with one big push, the same with cupboard doors, the fridge, the toilet seat, too many things to list 🙈

Just now my neighbours are putting their bins out and just opening the lid, throwing the rubbish in and walking off while it slams shut.

I know these things aren't a big deal but they grate on me so much! AIBR (am I bring ridiculous)

My dm let's my cupboard doors slam shut! Infuriating

HugoBearsMummy, rather than just calling your DH a "deaf git", have you thought about getting him to have a hearing test so that he can be helped by a professional?

I bought a pair of proper noise cancelling headphones this week and they are heavenly. We're currently saving for a wedding so I shouldn't be spending money (they were expensive) but I live with DP and his brother, who often have their student friends over, so I deserve needed them for my sanity them. They all make so much noise just making a cup of tea or going for a wee, never mind when they've been drinking or are doing anything that might actually make noise.

People who do that WA-HOO yelling when they sneeze are fucking unbearable. Nobody needs to do that.

My sister and her three children all bellow and screech at each other, it’s all I can do not to actually flinch when I’m with them.

Loud motorbikes! (Apologies if someone has already said this, haven't RTFT). It should be illegal - maybe it is?

Omg my dad can't do anything quietly, and slams the door closed so hard the house vibrates. Why! Just why! So bloody annoying! Also people who have their music full blast while you're trying to have a conversation and you have to shout, yet they refuse to turn it down!

People who scream sneeze.

I've found my people.

I didn't used to be so sensitive to noise but a particularly obnoxious neighbour put paid to that. I frequently wear laser lite foam earplugs indoors and it is bliss.

I have a real issue with groups of people laughing just more loudly than necessary!! My DH says I am a killjoy, but I swear NOTHING is that fucking funny😂

It's conflicting noises that do me in. When I used to work we had piped radio on over speakers in the office. That annoyed me enough but then you also had selfish fools who play a different station through their laptop speakers without headphones. So you'd hear two different stations at once. Argh.

DH also causes rage when we're watching TV and he'll start playing a video on his phone so I can hear both. Drives me mad, he's had a cushion flung at him many a time.

But also yes so door slammers, stompers and people who just speak so loudly it's just ridiculous. My Dad and brothers all speak-shout. Honestly if you ring my Dad it's like he's on speakerphone without the speakerphone being on. It's not age or deafness either, he's only early fifties and he's always done it, as do my brothers who are in their twenties and early thirties. My Stepmother and me despair of them! Get the three of them in the same room, along with my DH who speaks at a normal volume but speaks up to be heard over them and it's the most horrific din!

No YANBU. Most people are too noisy now. It’s generally not malicious but thoughtless and inconsiderate. We live in a detached where the children 2 houses down playing (shrieking, actually, almost continually!) in the garden from 7.30am most sunny Sundays and their spaniel being left outside and howling when they go out is enough to develop a nervous tick. Politely wrote to them about the dog and it’s not as frequent now. Haven’t said anything about the kids though: they’ll grow up one day, surely?!
They must be aware how irritating it is to other people though.
Stayed with a friend in a block of flats recently, that was horrendous. Everyone leaving for work at 6.30/7 am without exception left the heavy front door to slam shut, woke us up every morning. How hard is it to take 5 seconds to quietly pull a door to?

the poster with the DC with toot toot cars - take them away!! I presume they were a "gift" from someone? IME that's usually the case with noisy toys.

re motorbikes - living on a busy road, I looked into this. There are some motorbikes - I think it's a gang - that are so loud, you'd think bombs were going off. Apparently it might mean they've made modifications that are illegal, but police obviously can't make a priority out of this.

I did report a neighbour who was revving his bike for about 40 mins every Sat/Sun morning - reported to council as noise nuisance because when I asked him to stop, he said he was entitled to do it.

I think he got a letter from the council because he stopped. Never spoke to me again though

Next doors kids (all 3 of them) are currently blowing whistles non stop in the back garden, I'm about to lose my shit!!

re motorbikes - living on a busy road, I looked into this. There are some motorbikes - I think it's a gang - that are so loud, you'd think bombs were going off. Apparently it might mean they've made modifications that are illegal, but police obviously can't make a priority out of this.

Omg yes, where I lived until recently there was a guy with a motorbike that sounded like this. He would rev it for ages regularly, used to do my head in

God the amount of times I shout to my DD “please oprate the handle!” When she just slams the front door with what sounds like a 300 yard run up Wouldn’t mind as much but she knows our last front door fucked up for this reason. I literally claw at my eyes when I hear that unnecessary bang.

*operate the handle. See, I’m so angry I’m spelling it wrong.

Here's another noise gripe: home phones that ring loudly (sometimes with music). I give home tuition, and sometimes if their phone rings, it's so loud I have to stop talking while the opening of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik rings out.

And the way that TVs often default to loud when they're switched on. I usually press the mute button at once.

I am a noisy person I think. I have 2 really noisy DD’s and we all get on each other’s nerves

My car doors are not nice soft closing ones unfortunately need closing hard or will not close properly. I’m so conscious that I am probably being annoying that I find myself hissing SHHHH to the DC all the time
They stamp about and close doors too hard are always banging plates around it is v annoying
No matter what I have tried I cannot sneeze quietly. I have TRIED 😂
The constant worry about upsetting other people who don’t like noise seems to be a big thing for me!

Working nights you get pretty used to quiet, and to being quiet doing things. At work I have to hold doors until they close or they seem to dash the last few cm and shut with a bang. Dodge the creaky floorboards - on some corridors I must look like I'm playing some sort of wierd hopscotch. I've perfected the art of moving furniture in silence mostly, and definitely of silent cursing.
The world sounds so damned loud to me after a night shift, even just at normal volume.

I just got on a train. Carriage about one-third full, calm and peaceful apart from the small child watching some American kids’ tv programme (lots of high-pitched whiny children's voices) on a tablet, without headphones, at a volume that ensured everyone in the carriage could hear it. I asked her mum politely and with a smile if she could turn it down a bit. Mum looked surprised and turned it down approximately 0.0000000001 decibels 😣

Pookie if you all get on each other's nerves, surely you can all work on being less noisy?