Noisy people

Across the street from my house are two houses that have been broken up into apartments. The apartments are a constant revolving door. Every six months to a year new people are moving in and out.

All summer long I listened to the kids who live in the house on the right running, screaming, yelling and slamming their door past 9:30 a.m. To easily drown out the noise, I would turn on the air conditioning. Problem solved. In the last month, I been sleeping with the windows open to draw in the fresh air. The kids and adults that live in the apartment have kept down the noise after 9 p.m. The kids have to go to bed to get ready for school the next morning.

The apartment house on the left is a something new. The people who live there moved in probably a month or two ago. The last people to live there were really quiet and stayed inside. The new tenants like to sit on their front porch and talk.

Before I get back to the main story: It is no secret that I take sleep aides every Sunday through Thursday night to help me get to sleep faster. I wake up every weekday at 4 a.m. to be at work at 4:30 a.m. Those sleep aides are better then the NyQuil that I was taking to help knock me out.

Sometime last week I took my sleep aide and went to bed. I had fallen asleep when I was awaken by the neighbors. A man and woman were sitting on the front porch talking. Their voices carried into my bedroom and woke me up. It sounded like they were sitting right next to me. I heard every word. That forced me to get out of bed and slam my windows shut. I was not happy.

The other night I was already in bed sleeping when I heard the sound of a guitar. The man was playing a guitar and singing on his front porch. That really made me mad. It was past 10:30 p.m. and this guy was having a private concert on his porch. I got out of bed and yelled "Take your ******* guitar inside!" and slammed my windows shut. I don't know if they heard me or not. But I didn't care. I wanted to sleep.

I don't know if these people have jobs or not. They never sit on the porch during the day. They always come out to the porch at night. I swear they are doing it on purpose. When I pass their apartment in the morning I really want to honk my horn repeatedly to get back at them. I don't because I don't want to wake up my other neighbors. I guess I will have to put up with it until it gets too cold for them to sit outside. GRRRR!