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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 4, 2024 10:20:38 GMT -5
Besides, there is no "wakka-wakka" music, like a real porno movie.
Or, at least, back in the day.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 4, 2024 10:46:29 GMT -5
The joys of apartment living. When my wife and I were first married, we lived in an apartment on the second floor of a three-story building. We were frequently awakened late at night by the familiar "Dun-Dun" tones from Law & Order, as our downstairs neighbors were hard of hearing and turned their TV up WAY too loud. They apparently liked that show A LOT, as it was almost every night. Our upstairs neighbors were a rotating cast of characters. - First, we had one 20-something guy whose parents were paying his bills. He really liked playing his music loud, and he REALLY liked Britney Spears. He wound up getting evicted after having one too many drunken parties and pissing off the family across the hall from us who'd just had a baby. - He was replaced by a very nice Asian family who were very quiet and who also spoke no English. This only became a problem when we noticed water dripping through our ceiling and went up and knocked on their door. We couldn't understand each other at all, so we brought them down to our apartment, which they were reluctant to do, and showed them what was happening. They ran back upstairs and threw open their bathroom door to find that their 6-year old had decided to play with his toys in the bathtub and kept the water running until it overflowed. Good times. - They were replaced by a female college student whose parents were also paying her bills, but she was respectful, quiet, rarely there, and didn't flood my apartment from above, so that was a win. We moved out sometime during her lease into our first house.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 4, 2024 10:51:25 GMT -5
I lived in an apartment which obviously had very thin ceilings. Whenever my intercom buzzed, the dog in the apartment underneath would howl. I did get on fine with my downstairs neighbour, she said the dog seemed really scared of any intercom buzzer or doorbell.
He was a nice dog, but not particularly brave. There was a communal garden in this block. At one point, we had a rat problem. The landlord and council were dealing with it by laying down traps and the like, but rats were coming through a lot. On one occasion, a rat appeared and the dog howled - and then ran up the fire escape. I had no idea that a dog would be scared of a rat because this was a bigger dog, and yet I had a friend who had a Jack Russell - and that would frequently go after rodents.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 4, 2024 15:10:39 GMT -5
Besides, there is no "wakka-wakka" music, like a real porno movie. Or, at least, back in the day. Would love to know the history of porno movie music, just very strange and unique
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Oct 4, 2024 15:30:22 GMT -5
My wife and I were pretty lucky over the years when we lived in apartments/condominiums. A few noisy parties every once in a while, but no night after night noise issues. We once had a guy on his deck below our bedroom who smoked so much weed he made Snoop Dogg seem like a neophyte. It did get annoying in the summer when we had our window open through the night and this clown would be out at 2am smoking and coughing. The worst was when he was on vacation or in between jobs or something and he seemingly smoked weed all day long, deep into the night, day after day for multiple weeks. We finally slipped a note under his door politely suggesting he maybe find somewhere else to smoke or we would get the building manager on his ass. This did work
The funniest story I can recall about a noise issue was when we were awoken around 6am one day to the sound of two extremely drunk guys dragging a grill into the parking lot of our building, thinking it was the perfect time to noisily BBQ some hot dogs or whatever. It didn't take long for our building manager (who took no shit) to arrive looking ready to kill someone. Eventually a cab came and took the two drunk dudes away (poor cabbie). They didn't live in the building and had been invited over by a girl who did, who was also blotto
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 4, 2024 18:02:48 GMT -5
I'd almost forgotten about this. The last time I lived in an apartment, my next-door neighbor used to sneeze loudly, over and over, ten or fifteen times in a row, multiple times per night, night after night. At first I was sympathetic about his evident suffering, but it got annoying fast. I never spoke to him about it.
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