neighbors & joys of apartment life

[rosebee]

I'm currently attempting to recover from a cold bug that hit me pretty hard (settled in my chest & quickly transformed into Bronchitis according to my Dr). Last week, I was at work for all of an hour and 15 minutes. Holiday, a couple of pre-scheduled vacation days, then I was out sick for almost all Thursday & all of Friday. Made it into the office yesterday, but I'm still hacking & coughing on a regular basis. I'm more than a little tired of it.
Thinking about whether or not I want to go home early again today. I probably will as my wonderful boss came in and said that her boss (big boss for me) would be out all afternoon and wouldn't need me around to do anything.

I tried to get to sleep early last night. I even made it into bed before 9:30. But as I was attempting to drift off to sleep I kept hearing this quiet/muffled banging noise. It took me a while to figure out what in the world it was, but I eventually decided that my new downstairs neighbor must have a drum set.
Around 10 I thumped my foot on the floor several times, and the noise stopped.
If it happens again, I'm gonna thump my foot on the floor a heck of a lot sooner.

Drums should not be allowed in apartments.
::nods::

I'm feeling a distinct lack of bubbly/bounciness lately. I'm sure it's due to the cold. I'm ready for it to be done so I can get back to normal.

Comments

[starsprinkles.livejournal.com]

Dude my last year in college I had a guy under me who played the guitar ALL THE TIME. With a freakin' amp. I probably would have been able to hear him acoustic, but it wouldn't have been AS bad. I used to stomp all around on the floor all the time. Usually he stopped but then one time I had to go down and yell at him. Haha. Man, I really didn't like that guy. I feel your pain.

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

Oh man! That would really suck!

Hopefully I don't have to go down and yell at him. Or if the situation does come up, that HTB (aka whizzmo) is around to do it for me! :)

I looked up my rental/lease agreement and it has stuff in there about quiet hours between 10pm & 7am, and not being allowed to do anything that "distrubs the quiet enjoyment of other residents". So I think if I keep good documentation of everything, and rat this guy out every time the noise gets really bad the apartment complex managers might be able to really do something for me (like giving him a good talking to or kick him out).

Hopefully it won't get too bad though!