Loud talking outside at 8am - AIBU?

[sleepchaser]

I'm up at 630am every morning for work. I walk the dogs at 730/8am. Every single morning, Saturday's and Sunday's included, a group of 4 elderly ladies take their morning walk, usually emerging at around 745am/8am. To say that they shout their conversation, is an understatement. The volume of their chat and the cackling is off the charts loud : imagine shouting as loud as you could physically manage. This is right next to multiple apartments, where many people will still be in bed (esp on the weekend). AIBU to think that this is so anti social? I am very careful not to make a peep at this time!

Agreed to the first bit but 8 am isn't early, really. Didn't understand the second part, sorry.

Yep, Village shop is a hive of activity then (as reported to me, I'm still drinking tea).

So you think that most people are up and about at 8 am on Saturdays and Sundays?

Well I personally don't think anyone over the age of 70 should be allowed out of their house until 10am .... drives me made the dawdlers getting their papers when I'm rushing to get my train. They've got all day to do that.

8am fine, my neighbours having a front garden party including screaming children (who stopped around 3am) continuing in loud voices until 4.30 am not so. But it's ok nice a year or so I'll survive.

8am. That’s prime time of day to hear all the parents try and jivvy their offspring along to school and for me to be glad those days are over 😂😂

I’m usually brushing my teeth ready to dress and leave at 8.10 am for work.

They could have hearing loss especially if they are older. If one is hard of hearing the other two may speak loudly for her benefit. I'm deaf in one ear. I hate noisy environments but I appreciate people talking loudly to me. Just a different perspective.

I honestly think a fair proportion are. Where I live the early shoppers/newspaper collectors and dog walkers are all out. That said, I don't live in a very noisy place and I have nothing but sympathy for people who do. People are deserving of a lie in if they want one.

I bet they did move on 😂Do you find your neighbours move on fairly swiftly as well?

I dont know my neighbours lol.
But im sure they hear me.

8am is OK (ish). But even then you should still keep your voice down😡. I have thought about joining a campaign group against noise. It is the bane of my life. We have idiots driving round here in modified cars with banging, crackling exhausts and engines that screech and explode. They wake me up at all hours – 1am, 2am, 5am. Apparently it's illegal, but the police do nothing.

Noise pollution is something we don't take seriously enough. To say it ruins lives is an understatement. I have known two people driven to suicide attempts by noisy neighbours. The UK is a small, crowded island. We're densely populated as well, meaning there's a lack of personal space. The new housing estates are a disgrace. Developers jam horrible little rabbit hutch houses on top of one another, often with thin walls, and then charge a fortune. Because the houses are so small and tightly packed, you only need one loud, horrible family, and it can ruin the lives of a dozen people.

YANBU!

And I expect the same people would get upset if people made noise at a reasonably early evening time, like 9/10 pm.

If you're up two hours earlier then I don't understand? And do they just stand outside your house? Surely they are just walking and talking. I don't believe that's illegal.

You could tell them to be quiet but I think that would be fairly mean spirited.

How would you feel if someone said that to your mum or nan while she was just trying to get exercise and socialise in her retirement?

I live in London but on a quiet street and at 8am not many people are about on my road. Certainly not the two young women in the flats next door, or the older childfree couple on the other side.

im rarely up before 9am unless I have an early start at work this pisses me off. Just because some people are up and about doesn’t mean the rest of the world are.

And just because some people aren't up and about, that doesn't mean the rest of the world has to be quiet.

It is isn’t it. I’m surrounded by utter twats even though I live in a small town which is barely more than a village. Opposite and a couple of houses up is now a nursery. OMG. The staff arrive before 7am and park on the road, slamming doors and shouting to each other. They’re kicking out now and one staff member has been literally having a shouted conversation across the road for 10 minutes with someone parked outside my house. It’s completely unnecessary and inconsiderate. And don’t get me started on being woken up at 5.30 by their commercial waste collection.

8am is a perfectly normal time to be up and about.

Wear earplugs if you don't want to be disturbed by normal neighbourhood noises.

Agree with this

but OP won’t care….

@sleepchaser I recommend you try a white noise machine. I live in a new(ish) build house, the soundproofing between floors is non existent and if I didn't have one of these my adult kids would disturb me non stop as they keep some odd hours with one thing and another.

This is what I have.

www.amazon.co.uk/Machine-Portable-Soothing-Tinnitus-Relaxation/dp/B07WH2DLKY?ref_=ast_sto_dp

I'm not being silly — another misogynistc word condescending people use to put women down, by the way. I'm serious. If these ancient women really are shouting as they exercise, they must be seriously fit. Unfit people can barely speak while exercising.

Shout 'shut up' loudly out of the window. It works.

I was referring to your second paragraph. And no, calling someone silly isn’t misogynistic, you’re just making shit up now.

I often get this as I live in a low rise block of flats above a parade of shops, and my flat is practically above the mini supermarket, which is the most frequented shop out of the 12 shops there. The problem is because the supermarket opens at 8.30 am and there are always people waiting outside from 8am onwards for it to open. Some of them are so loud,I can hear every word they say when I have my bedroom window open. I swear they are sitting on the window sill outside my bedroom window.

Rather than using word salad of words you obviously don't know the meaning of, I suggest rather than being silly you invest in a dictionary. Or maybe take on board the concept that if these people the OP has issue with were elderly men then she would have described them as such. She hasn't said she hates/dislikes their behaviour because of their sex but because of their actions.

Catching up on sleep, after bad menopause nights