OK, so we live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Seriously, it doesn't get much better. We hang out with all our neighbors, everyone is nice, yadda, yadda, yadda.
2 of our neighbors have sons who recently turned 16 and bought very very loud trucks. As if that isn't bad enough, ALL their friends have loud trucks. Both these houses are next to mine, so ALL day (and some nights) all I hear is VROOM VROOM VROOM VROOM! There is one kid (blue truck) that finds it necessary to rev his truck 500 times in front of my house several times a day (he's one of the friends). These kids are GREAT kids. They go to church, make good grades, don't drink, don't smoke, they cut our grass... seriously they are great kids....BUT.... if the kid in the stupid blue truck wakes Coop up one more time, I'm marching out my front door with Coop and he can find a way to put the kid back to sleep!
I hate to say anything because I realize one day, some new mom is going to march out side and yell at Coop for his loud truck, loud music, or what not. However, I really really really can't take it. I've asked my DH several times to please say something to either the kid, the friend, or the parents, but he's a wuss. I'm scared if I say something that it will come off snobby or just like neurotic new mom.
We have enough sleep problems without kid in the stupid blue truck!
Thanks for reading!
Re: NAPR: I'm seriously going to hurt the kid! (not my kid)
I know, but he wakes Coop up atleast 3 times a week. It's not like it is an occasional thing. I even bought a sound machine for Coop's room to help drown out the noise with no luck.
Not to mention I WAS that 16 year old. I had a huge speaker box in my car...hahahahaha...makes me laugh now (the poor parents in my neighborhood)
Honestly I don't think you have any right to ask people to be quiet outside unless it's really late at night. The world doesn't revolve around you & your kid.
I'm not trying to be snarky - there are people who live near me with really loud motorcycles that I wish would be quieter, but I know I wouldn't give it a second thought if I didn't have a kid.
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Good point...and I didn't take it to be snarky. I think i'll just continue to bite my tongue and complain on the bump. hopefully someone else will say something or an oppurtunity will arise that we can casually say something. ughhh, i just so know that coop is going to be this kid one day ... hopefully he will be a good kid like are too,
thanks for all the ideas ladies.
I love this thread because last week DH told me how he felt like he should apologize to our neighbor for all the noise he made as a teenager with his dirtbikes and cars. We bought his parents house and it's been the same 6 neighbors for 20+ years. When DH was 17/18, one of the neighbors had a baby that DH used to wake up all the time. Now that he has a baby, he totally gets it. (I told him he should because she'd get a kick out of it.)
OP, I would just ask him not to rev the truck when he's there. Tell him, you understand that the truck is loud and that's fine, but the constant revving keeps waking the baby. If he is a good kid, he'll have no problem waiting until he's somewhere else to rev.
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