GUILTY!!!!!!!

[ThatsMyBarack]

My next-door neighbors generally are not a noise problem, but tonight I had to go ask them to quiet down when they were having a Halloween party (two girls and about 20 of their friends). Too many kids were screaming on the porch and in front of my house, and it carried all the way through the window. It was like having them right there screaming in my ear!

The mother said, "Well, the little ones will be leaving in about an hour or so. Can you put up with the screaming until then?"

I felt terribly guilty after that. I'm usually pretty tolerant of neighbors when they get noisy (they had friends over and had screamy parties outside all summer!) because when I was in college, I had noise problems all the time (the walls in the dorms were paper-thin). I hated having to listen to other people's blasting stereos while I was trying to study, but I also hated having to "crash parties" and ask them to turn it down because I was invading their space. I even had dorm neighbor who would chew me out for asking others to "turn it down".

So, why do I feel it was wrong of me not wanting to put up with the neighbor kids screaming in my ear while I was trying to watch a movie I'd waited all week to see??

[CanuckAmok]

1. See? Reasoning will always result in guilt.

Next time, just turn the hose on 'em.

[lizziegrace]

2. I'm like you

I've got 20-somethings living next door and I'm old enough to be their - ahem - aunt. I had to go over twice one Friday night because of the commotion and noise. Then I felt guilty.

Why do we let ourselves feel badly when others are being unreasonable? Rhetorical question really. I'm too old to change much.

[Fox Mulder]

3. I'm a 20-something college student...

and I've told people to shut up a few times. I never feel bad really. Just pissed.

[ThatsMyBarack]

4. I wonder how the receiving end feels....

[lizziegrace]

5. The receiving end?

They just laugh at and about me.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

6. We're alike, you and I. I have the same problem sometimes.