1) Sometime after 1:45 a.m. I am awakened by someone yelling at their child that when they call them they should listen. Other voices ensue.
2) Sometime after that I am awakened by people talking loudly, possibly singing. I go out onto the balcony to complain at them.
3) At 7:45 a.m. the beer delivery guy for the restaurant across the street starts slamming doors and dragging crates of beer across the steel floor of his steel delivery truck. Steely noises ensue. I am incensed beyond insensate.
This is the second time this week my sleep has been disturbed by jerks and their loud-ass Castellano voices. My Spanish roommate has urged me to throw buckets of wash water on any idiot rude enough to speak at full volume during the wee hours of the night. We are on the fourth floor. It sounds as if we are on the first. I cannot imagine living on the first. I am gleeful at the thought of the next jerk who interrupts my sleep at an unreasonable hour (occasionally I take 6 hour walks and drop dead asleep by 9 p.m. I cannot in good conscience complain if it is before midnight on a weekend when I don’t have work).
So will you keep a bucket of wash water (which, by the way, which washing water will you keep? dishes? bath? laundry?) by the window at all times? I can’t imagine being pelted with wash water as I wander (very loudly and rudely) down the street! It’s awesome! I wish you could take a video while you were doing it.
Heh, well it would be wonderful if it actually were wash water (it would be floor water!) but I’m sure we’ll just surreptitiously have to bring the bucket in from the balcony, fill it with water, and rain liquidy justice down upon them. I couldn’t do it last night b/c without the native here to tell me it’s definitely o.k. I wouldn’t know when it was “permissible”.
I’d love to take a video of it but I somehow managed to forget the charger to my camera’s battery in NYC and then the cord in London!! How useless.
Well, the water sounds fun, but for sleep i recommend earplugs. I use the Howard Leicht “Laser Lite” ones which are soft. Sometimes just one in the ear that’s not on the pillow. Would never have thought I could sleep w/earplugs until I had a girlfriend that did, and discovered I could get used to it.
Not all the time. But for nights like the one you describe.
Boy, let me tell you, we’ve been using earplugs!! Even still, we are often awakened. It’s terrible. I move around too much not to have one in both ears, but it definitely hurts when one’s pressed into the pillow.