Long time poster name changed as mentioning my work here but been here for years (Pom bear, etc)
I’m wide awake and have been for hours now, dreading the day ahead. I’m a key worker. I don’t work directly for the NHS but they are my client and I’m involved with the creation of the nightingale hospitals. As a result, I’m working from home working all the hours known to humans right now, I’m on my knees.
The street behind us and the street behind them have started this ridiculous habit of all sitting in their gardens which are back to back, all day long, sitting together but not in the same garden (if that makes sense). They all have low fences and some have raised seating areas. They can see each other and communicate. All fine. But one of these houses insists on playing an enormously loud, bass heavy stereo all day long to accompany the social. And I mean all day. Last week it was starting at 9am and yesterday we had 9 hours of it. The bass vibration goes right through the house like a heartbeat and you can’t tune out from it. It’s that doof doof doof doof all bloody day long.
I’ve been round to his house and calmly and politely asked him to stop. He told me he was bored and so was everyone else and that it was tough luck. That was after I’d been trying to work inside with the doors and windows closed and still I could hear/feel it.
I’ve tried earplugs. They don’t drown out the bass thump and I’m afraid I also don’t see why I should have to spend all day with earplugs in? Plus I have young DC so it’s not very practical. I’ve tried white noise and so forth but again, this is heavy bass and it just leaches through it.
I’m exhausted and emotional and I know that, but this can’t be okay. I literally feel like I’m going to pop. What can I do?