I can't stand my neighbors

MrsJEC · January 2012

Baby C2 slept for 6 hours straight last night. That's right--6 hours! I should be so well-rested, right? Um, no. My stupid neighbors decided to set off fireworks until almost 1 am! DH somehow managed to sleep through it, but I could not. I missed out on 3 glorious hours of sleep. Oh, and then Toddler C decided to wake up at 6:15am. Today is going to suck.

Mrs.Froggianna · January 2012

Mine were shooting off fireworks till close to midnight. Seriously, who does that in the middle of a neighborhood?!? DH said I was being a stick in the mud, but I think it's completely rude and inconsiderate to "celebrate" that late. Luckily they didn't seem to bother Luke in the least.

MC+KK · January 2012

Same here, our neighborhood is fire works central and I'm talking about BIG ones. They went off till 1am, everyone slept.... But me!!

HSartteach · January 2012

Mrs.Froggianna:
Mine were shooting off fireworks till close to midnight. Seriously, who does that in the middle of a neighborhood?!? DH said I was being a stick in the mud, but I think it's completely rude and inconsiderate to "celebrate" that late. Luckily they didn't seem to bother Luke in the least.

We did. We're a set of the rude and inconsiderate bastards. But we did it with our neighbors--about 5 houses worth. All the kids slept through, and all the adults were outside. We stopped for about an hour around 11, then did about 4 or 5 more at midnight.

Sorry y'all didn't get any sleep.

nanann · January 2012

I'm with (the majority) of you. I actually really don't mind a bit of fireworks going off at midnight to ring in the New Year. I understand. But keeping it up until 2 am is ridiculous!

Not to mention my heart palpitations I had because, although we've had rain of late, we are still in drought conditions and there are leaves all over the ground. I had to go and check the window a couple times to assure myself there were no burning leaves - I swear they sounded like they were in my own backyard!

and it did wake up Julia who was up off and on from midnight to 2 am. Joy.

Noisemaker · January 2012

Another hater here. The drought conditions make me nervous, and the inconsiderate part of it makes me crazy. Maybe it'd be easier for me to roll with it if it hadn't been going on in our hood for several nights in a row.

Chicklit · January 2012

Annoyed here, too. The neighbors behind us were shooting them off in their backyard, which, given the size of the backyards around here, was like shooting them off in our backyard. And ditto the fear about the drought. I kept watch to see if our yard was going to catch on fire.

I don't begrudge people a good time on a holiday, but the least they could do is take it out of city limits where it's 1) legal, and 2) won't disturb the entire neighborhood.

Mrs.Froggianna · January 2012

HSartteach:
Mrs.Froggianna:
Mine were shooting off fireworks till close to midnight. Seriously, who does that in the middle of a neighborhood?!? DH said I was being a stick in the mud, but I think it's completely rude and inconsiderate to "celebrate" that late. Luckily they didn't seem to bother Luke in the least.
We did. We're a set of the rude and inconsiderate bastards. But we did it with our neighbors--about 5 houses worth. All the kids slept through, and all the adults were outside. We stopped for about an hour around 11, then did about 4 or 5 more at midnight.
Sorry y'all didn't get any sleep.

For the record, you said "bastards," not me. That's taking it a bit far.

ebat · January 2012

nanann:
I'm with (the majority) of you. I actually really don't mind a bit of fireworks going off at midnight to ring in the New Year. I understand. But keeping it up until 2 am is ridiculous!

Agree

We had some neighbors set of fireworks on Christmas night at about 9:30. It sounded like a gunshot, fireworks didn't even occur to us until they set off the next round. My H went and gave them the stink eye(I think it was teenagers though) b/c they were doing it right outside DD2's window

HSartteach · January 2012

Mrs.Froggianna:
For the record, you said "bastards," not me. That's taking it a bit far.

I was making a joke. I know you didn't say bastards. Sorry it wasn't funny. I giggled when I wrote it.

Mrs.Froggianna · January 2012

HSartteach:
Mrs.Froggianna:
For the record, you said "bastards," not me. That's taking it a bit far.
I was making a joke. I know you didn't say bastards. Sorry it wasn't funny. I giggled when I wrote it.

And that's the internet's only downfall--sometimes people can't read the joke behind the statement. Stick out tongue No hard feelings here!

HSartteach · January 2012

Mrs.Froggianna:
And that's the internet's only downfall--sometimes people can't read the joke behind the statement. No hard feelings here!

it's all good. Happy New Year! Maybe you'll get a nap in today...

thethomps · January 2012

I'm so sorry.

I was fully prepared to call the cops since we have a noise ordinance past 11:00 p.m. (and we have teenagers on the corner who regularly violate that ordinance - especially with fireworks). Setting off fireworks at midnight for a little while is fine, but into the wee hours of the morning is not cool.

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