Gah

[llywela]

Have finally cracked and written a letter of complaint to my landlord about Him Upstairs. This stupid guy keeps on waking me up by playing loud music in the middle of the night, and it isn't even good music. It isn't every night, nor even every week, but it does happen on a regular basis, and I am way beyond sick of it. It is extremely anti-social and, frankly, I have better things to do at 3am than listen to someone else's horrendous taste in music! Last night was a good example. The music woke me up at about 2.30am, and I spent about half an hour trying to tune out the thumping beat and tuneless caterwauling and get back to sleep, to no avail. Then at 3am I gave in, went upstairs, and thumped on his door as loud as possible until he finally couldn't ignore me any more, and then fumed at him to turn the music off. He didn't, but did turn it down, although it was still on the edges of my hearing. And this never stops him doing it again - he doesn't always even open the door when I knock. Then, between me being thoroughly woken up and him stomping around in a snit, I couldn't get back to sleep all night. Dozed lightly between 5.30 and 6am, but that was it. And I have a job interview this morning, which I now have to go to with my brain feeling like tapioca.

Yep, letter of complaint to the landlord going in the post this morning. Along with a list of long-overdue maintenance issues for his attention, including that security light out the back that he assured me would be fixed after I spotted that prowler back in the spring, but never has been.

Yeah, I'm feeling kind of curmudgeonly this morning. Need to channel some zen before the interview, I think!

Edit - oh, but in other news, one of my cousins and his partner had their second son yesterday, congratulations to them. He's called Evan, which...doesn't exactly go with Luca, which is their older boy's name. Taking both sides of the family into consideration, that is now 15 babies in 12 years - and 12 of them have been boys! Where did all the girls go? Madness.

Comments

[ne-quine.livejournal.com]

Can you not phone the environmental health department of your local council - they can take action against this happening.

I'm surprised you didn't call the police about him putting on his music in the middle of the night!

[bagpuss1966.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're still suffering with the bloke upstairs and his music - how thoughtless he is. :/

Good luck with the interview. :)

[catsdownunder.livejournal.com]

Keeping everything crossed that all goes well with the interview ... time luck was on your side, though Miss Poppy will miss not having you about.

You are Martin are celebrating together ... blue is the colour at the moment :)

[smiler72.livejournal.com]

I hope your landlord gives him a stern warning! What an inconsiderate arsehole!

I've got my fingers crossed for you. Hope the interview goes well. :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh how horrible - I hope your landlord feels able to do something... Are there other people in the building that might be upset by him as well, or is it just you? The police/council will help, but you have to record the noise/disturbance/frequency for quite a while before they're able to take action (or at least that was the case... well, 10 years ago come to think of it - maybe it's more effective now!) Be worth threatening him with it though, maybe...

Congrats on the new bairn though - little bit of nice news for the day at least!

[justwolf.livejournal.com]

Arrgh, he sounds so awful!

And good luck with your interview. I hope that tapioca doesn't have too much effect.

All my cousins are female--maybe we stole the girls from you?

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

All I can say is .... FINALLY! LOL I'd have written that complaint months ago! ;)

*hugs*

[bowtrunckle.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you have a horrible neighbor and an absent and slower-than-molasses landlord. How frustrating. He needs to fix that security light, appealing to his sense of self-preservation might do something ... I'm sure he doesn't want to be staring at legal documents if (God forbid *knocks on wood a million times*) something terrible were to happen as a result of his negligence.

Good luck with your interview!

15 babies in 12 years - and 12 of them have been boys!

O.o Busy family. ;)

[femsc.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Him Upstairs has apologised, but since you can't rely on him behaving properly in future it's probably just as well you've sent the letter.

Fingers crossed that the right job comes up.

[kelzies.livejournal.com]

Hope the landlord gets his butt into gear and fixes up the problems. Rude neighbours are not on. Bah. Hope the interview went okay despite not getting much sleep *hugs*

Congrats to your cousin!

[jayres.livejournal.com]

I hope the interview went well and good luck for the upcoming one. :)

Good luck too for getting your landlord to do the repairs and the noisy neighbour to be more considerate!

Congrats to your cousin. :)

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. I wish *my* landlord would do something about *my* neighbors. :::grump:::