ohgodhelpme

[raven]

Oh my god. Oh my god. It's three am. Next door are HAVING SEX. AGAIN. SO LOUDLY. I can. Hear. Everything. EVERYTHING. They're playing loud music in the mistaken assumption that that blocks it out. THEY'RE WRONG.

Oh god, oh god, there are two walls and a pair of industrial strength earplugs in the way already please kill me now.

eta: I cannot turn up like a zombie to crim lit and tell them it's because of a combination of nineties punk and orgasms they can hear in Peru, oh god. Crim lit is in six hours anyway. shit.

Comments

[47-trek-47.livejournal.com]

Man, that is way beyond any kind of acceptable. I think you really should go and tell them to shut the hell up. The rest of the building will probably give you a medal if you do.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I am the only other person in the building, alas. I think they think they're alone. (Although surely they must be able to hear me moving around? Groan.)

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could make sure that they can hear you?

What my grandmother used to do when her neighbours played loud music was to put her own radio on, turn it up a bit, then shout at her husband, "[Name]! Turn that down!" and then turn her music down again. Apparently this worked every time.

I should note that she did this whether or not my grandfather was in the house, never mind in the room.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! Brilliant. That made me laugh.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Bang on the door and tell them to quit it. Seriously.

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Slip a note under their door if you don't want to talk to them face-to-face. Loud sex is something you don't want to hear at any time of day, but 3 am? The hell??

[tau_sigma]

That is really, really antisocial. Even if you weren't having sleeping problems anyway! Maybe tell them to turn the music down, while somehow hinting at the fact that yes, you could hear them having sex, too?

Also, I have no idea how feasible this is, but could you go and stay with Shim for a few days? Not just because of the loud sex; you really shouldn't be chased out of your own home! But also because I think you previously said that sometimes it's easier to sleep with him? And a change of scene, perhaps, would help?

I am up at FIVE in the fucking morning to catch a train at six. From experience of both, I think that being sleepless at five a.m. is probably worse, but it's a close thing. Certainly being woken at 4.30am is not pleasant.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Urgh. I hope you got away all right and it wasn't too awful!

(You are, of course, absolutely right. I've spent this week on my own a lot because of the snow - the commute to school from Shim's is just about manageable normally but edges into not, in this weather - but now it is Friday and I am at Shim's where absolutely no one is having loud sex. Bliss.)

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Too late now, but yeah, that is entirely banging-on-door territory. Or discreet note territory. 3am!

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

The people suggesting a discreet note are on the right lines, but I suggest (no signature, or anything, just printed on A4 and shoved under the door):

TONE. IT. DOWN.

Jesus. Not on. I'm sorry.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Or, indeed, stuck on the outside of their door.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Ag, Rhys' housemate does this and it is beyond annoying. I swear the next time I am going to wack on his door and shout "I can tell she's faking from here"

[liminereid.livejournal.com]

This may be no help to you at all but in the spirit of sympathy. The girl across the hall in my first year had the noisiest noisiest sex. On night, the night before one of my mods, I snapped and banged on their door at 3 am screaming shut the fuck up I have an exam. Total embarrassment all round, especially over my turn of phrase....But I didn't hear them agin for the duration of my exams. Go for it.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I read in the paper about some woman being given an asbo over her noisy sex. Complain!

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Last time I lived in a flat, the people upstairs would sometimes have very loud sex. Embarassingly they did so the night I let feanelwa have my bed because she was ill. Fortunately she was amused, and just slept in longer in the morning.

Much, much sympathy for you though.