Hitting Snooze for the Fifth Time
Some jerk in my building has been putting up a lot of signs in the halls, stuff like "Please keep your voices down at night and be mindful of your footfalls in the stairwells". This morning it was "To whoever let their alarm clock go off five times this morning: PLEASE WAKE UP AFTER THE FIRST ALARM!!"Posted by erin at May 7, 2003 11:47 AM
The first sign was probably aimed at me, as they hung it up after a post-yo-yo club meeting wherein Hal and Rick had been laughing really loud. The sign was obviously hung near my apartment, although not right by the door.
The alarm clock sign may have been for me, as this morning I did hit snooze an excessive number of times. However, the sign was hung on the front door of the building, and from the other bedroom (the courtyard-facing bedrooms) I know from experience you can hear every alarm clock in the building going off. So it might not have been a sign aimed at me, per say. I have heard my next-door-neighbor's alarm go off for excessive amounts of time in the past (not snooze, but an I'm-not-home continuous alarm). Plus, one super-loud alarm (not mine) went off at least twice as I was leaving for work.
But anyway, fuck that guy!! Fuck you, sign-making asshole! It's my apartment and I'll hit snooze however many times I please. When I had a roommate in a bunk bed directly below me, I was mindful of hitting snooze when she hassled me about it. But I'll be damned if I can't hit snooze in my own super-expensive apartment. If you've got a problem with it, come knock on my door, you chicken-shit!!
This is my planned retaliation sign: Dear Neighbors, Before resorting to hanging up signs or flyers in our building every morning, please consider talking to your neighbors in person. It's more polite, and more effective than anonymous signs. If your problems continue, feel free to talk to the landlord. Thank you, and have a nice day! From Erin in Apartment #_.
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May 7, 2003 11:56 AM, Eugene said:
If you'd like to make things really difficult for this jerk, I have an alarm clock you can borrow - it's designed like a shuttlecraft from Star Trek and it has two wake-up settings: radio, and "annoying as hell" Red Alert klaxon. I am a snooze button kind of guy, which must annoy my neighbors (but probably not nearly as much as their yelling, screaming and stomping annoys me). Fortunately for them, I use the radio setting, but in my college days it was Red Alert all the way because it was the only thing that would wake me up. One weekend I must have left my alarm set and I went away. That thing was blaring all weekend, and there was no one around to turn it off. I didn't like the guys it bothered anyway. I figure them having to listen to my alarm is ample payment for me having to listen to their sex lives.
May 7, 2003 12:05 PM, Erin said:
Yeah - I don't complain or put up signs about my next-door-neighbor's fetish parties. I don't see any signs "Your spanking and whipping is too loud! Please keep it down!"
(I really can hear the spanking directly, and the equiptment building.)
May 7, 2003 02:19 PM, Rick said:
If you think it was that neighbor who put the sign up, confront him. If it was him, just mention his fetish party being loud. Chances are he'll be so embarassed about being outed as a pervert that he'll concede the argument about you being loud.
You may or may not want to mention that you knew people there. Mentioning it will work if he tries to deny it, but mentioning it will probably get him pissed off at Zeke (not like he'll care) and will make you lose any moral indignation you could have at his disgusting sex habits.
May 7, 2003 02:31 PM, ET said:
It's nice that the only person who can hear anything from my apartment is my very hard of hearing grandmother. Heh heh.
May 7, 2003 03:33 PM, N. said:
No, no, there is no way that the sign-hanger is the neighbor across the hall. Geez, this is how rumors get started.
My theory is that the sign-hanger is at the end of the hall one floor up from us. At the moment, there is nobody to confront. It doesn't matter, though - I don't know, really, what there is to say to the guy. Clearly, he feels entitled. I can't think of any argument to... disabuse him of that notion.
May 7, 2003 08:47 PM, Kari said:
Since when are perverts afraid to admit it, especially in NYC?
May 9, 2003 06:40 PM, Agnieszka said:
No kidding. Most perverts in big cities seem not so much to be afraid of admitting it as horribly annoyingly unwilling to shut the fuck up about it.
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