Yep, we all know that Uggs are the thing, and have been for years, and will be for many more years but I’m not talking about Uggs being popular as in ‘Uggs are all the rage y’know’. I’m taking about Rage. With an Ugg.
I’m currently doing a mind numblingly boring part of my dissertation. Lots of copy and pasting of big numbers from various voice analysis reports to a spreadsheet is not fun (approx 5,000 big numbers). My wrist is suffering from RSI and my shoulders ache and tingle.
So last night, I thought I’d have a nice early night. Early for me is about 11.30pm as I’m often up ’til gone midnight. I’m lay in bed trying to sleep and all I can hear is a television blaring from next door. It’s so loud I can hear when the incidental music is playing, the cars are screeching and the muffled dialogue. I’m usually a great sleeper so I tried to drift off. No such bloody luck, the noise continued relentlessly. So I banged on the wall. Now the problem is that the old lady next door is deaf. If she’s deaf enough to turn the TV up then she’s likely to be too deaf to hear my polite banging. Every so often I banged on the wall and slammed my bedroom door getting more and more irate. Oh hell, what if she’d fallen asleep!
Once it got to a quarter to 1′ o effing o clock though I was banging so hard my hands were hurting. Grrrr. So I picked up my Ugg and smacked it against the wall THUMP THUMP THUMP…THUMP THUMP THUMP…THUMP THUMP THUMP…until she turned the effing TV off!
I now feel a bit embarrassed as I’m going to have to say something to her when I next see her.
Problem is…she’s Italian…and her English is crap. Not only that she isn’t just Italian…she’s Sicilian…. and we all know what that means…and I’m pretty sure all her relatives aren’t called Don as in short for Donald either.
Gulp.
Filed under: Rants
i`ve got the same problem the old bat next door is totally deaf and has her TV on full volume all day and night!, i can even here it at the top of the house, thats 3 floors up!
Donna Anna, you insulta my mamma - I killa you! Then I takea your Ugga bootsa, and I sella for twicea the pricea. Buona notte!
(Apologies for the ethnic stereotyping.)
I’m reminded of a cartoon I once saw of a man angrily hammering a broom handle against a party wall through which was resounding he theme song of “Neighbours” (”Everybody needs good…”).
And what do you say to her when you next see her? Just the one word “Silenzio!”
LOL Don Tim - I’ll probably mutter apologies to her for ruining her film….
It’s amazing how irate you can be when your sleep is disturbed and how blasé you can be about it in the morning.
I completely understand…but I have a hard time scolding old people
I love my grandma ♥
It must be hard on you because your stress levels are def higher right now because of your workload and you need your sleep more than ever
…but my fucking neighbors should go back to the hillbilly hell they came from. The only reason they could afford the damn condo upstairs is because the former owners needed to sell fast GRRR.
I have to hear Janet Jackson circa 1988 during the day, a howling canine (love dogs but that one’s gotta go), and one of them loves wearing the heaviest boots in the world. And my favorite, at 5 pm daily…they move furniture. Who the hell moves their furniture around EVERYDAY???
Hillbillies and loud, inpolite scum of the earth should only be allowed garden apartments…or trailers LOL
Deaf lil ole ladies should get headphones they can turn up lol
Hope you get some rest and hope you do well on all your work ♥
I’ve been so tired today I can’t wait to go to bed tonight. With my Uggs. I might have to get some ear plugs out of my dungeon too.
My neighbour is a lovely lady. Conversation is tricky and every sentences ends with ‘…..I mean it!’ but she is DEAF!
Groan
Hope you’ve had a better night, Anna . I mean it!
You must have half wished you were deaf yourself the night before.