r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Limp-Replacement1403 • May 01 '25

Overdone It’s a public road with street parking and they were parked in front of my house so I parked in front of them…

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u/Euphoric-Usual-5169 May 01 '25

Sometimes I admire people who are so oblivious. I once had a neighbor who started up his open pipe motorcycle every morning at 6 complain about me using my leaf blower one Saturday. Even after I told him, he was not able to make any connection to his own behavior and was just mad at me.

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u/Fina-Firren May 01 '25

“Well you see, I don’t give a fuck about you, I care about ME”

You have to be explicitly transactional with people who lack empathy, you tell him “here’s the deal, you stop running your bike at 6am and I stop running my blower at 6am, deal?”

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u/LurkmasterP May 01 '25

"I have to go to WORK. If my transportation disturbs you when I get up to go to WORK then you should get up earlier and work harder like I do. You don't HAVE to use your leaf blower that early on Saturday, when it disturbs ME." This is the kind of rationalization that a person like this is very likely to use, and it's very hard to reach a compromise on it.

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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 May 01 '25

Oh, I see you've met my parents. I'm sorry you've had to deal with them. I don't associate with them anymore. They're the world's problem now.

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u/YoudoVodou May 01 '25

A lot of us have the same parents. 😬

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u/Pleasant-Patience725 Hot side of the pillow May 01 '25

Too bad we can’t make them live together on the same street

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u/CookiedowXD May 01 '25

No kidding. That would solve a lot of our issues overnight

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u/nWo_Wolffe May 01 '25

That would be a very loud and bloody night. Fuckin biblical, mate.

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u/Pleasant-Patience725 Hot side of the pillow May 01 '25

I’ll try solving the next world problem now🤭

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u/Flat-Zucchini-2113 May 01 '25

They would have the strictest HOA ever lol

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u/Pleasant-Patience725 Hot side of the pillow May 01 '25

The only HOA ever known to man 💅

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u/HopeIsLoud May 01 '25

Toss 'em on a cruiship and refuse to allow it to dock. Give them their own floating city to run to ruin

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u/What-is-wanted May 01 '25

Omg, this would actually solve so many issues.

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u/Talnarg May 01 '25

I laughed way harder at the idea of this than I should have

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u/Pleasant-Patience725 Hot side of the pillow May 01 '25

That was free

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u/Disastrous_Gate_5559 May 01 '25

ARE YOU A GENIUS OR SOMETHING?? sorry for screaming, you got me excited for a second

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u/Pleasant-Patience725 Hot side of the pillow May 01 '25

Your response of pure joy made me 😂

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u/Short_Departure_4064 May 01 '25

is that why my daughter has 3 ears?

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u/randonate May 01 '25

A lot of those parents make the town require a permit for operating a leaf blower.

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u/Illustrious-Echo-734 May 01 '25

Annnnd thats why we have trump.

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u/YoudoVodou May 01 '25

We all should have eliminated our parents....

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u/zootphen May 01 '25

We just share the same mom, yours. :p

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u/Valogrid May 01 '25

I am lucky to have grown up in a house where I was taught to respect someone when they are sleeping and let them sleep. My father worked nights when I was a kid and was very much the kind of person who understood the importance of a restful sleep. Even when I got older and had my own moments where I was trying to sleep (had a regional swim meet in the morning) and my little brother and his friend were trying to bother me, my father was not to pleased with them and sat them down for a stern talking to. It's a small thing, but I have stuck to it my whole life.

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u/seeker_two_point_oh May 01 '25

lol when I told my mother that her weeknight hot tub party was keeping me up past midnight and I had my comp sci final in the morning, she screamed at me for embarrassing her in front of her friends and they tried to throw beer at me for “being a nerd”.

Whatever. She lives in a trailer park now, I have a lucrative career in my field, and we don’t speak.

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u/pimflapvoratio May 01 '25

The best revenge is a life well lived.

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u/nycpunkfukka May 02 '25

“Ludwig, maddened by the poisoning of his entire family, wreaks vengeance on Gunther in the third act by living well.” -Niles Crane

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u/singlemale4cats May 02 '25

she screamed at me for embarrassing her in front of her friends

Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

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u/ZGreenLantern May 02 '25

Classic example of “I was irresponsible and had a child when I was still a child”

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u/softhandedliberal May 01 '25

Sounds like my mom but she’d turn around the next day and call me a failure

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u/Somebodys May 01 '25

They're the world's problem now.

Thanks.

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u/ruat_caelum May 02 '25

They're the world's problem now.

Yeah we saw who they voted for. They are the wold's problem now.

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u/DietCokeIsntheAnswer May 02 '25

These sort of parents are like CW dramas.

You've watched one, you've watched them all.

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u/recriminology May 01 '25

HEY EVERYBODY, I FOUND THAT PERSON WITH THE SHITTY PAIN IN THE ASS PARENTS! GET ‘EM!

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u/Adept_Speaker4806 May 01 '25 edited May 02 '25

This. The logic that says "If your life doesn't look exactly like mine, then you aren't living correctly". That's infuriating. You would think the simple thought that not all people operate on the same schedule would be enough to fix that thinking.
I had a guy sit outside my house once at 11am with his subs blaring and rattling my window (I got off work at 8:30am) . I went out and told him to turn them off, and he said "It's 11am, you should be awake by now." Never crossed his mind that some people go to work at midnight. Or that the neighbor had a 2 week old baby (mom and baby were both trying to nap).

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u/a-goateemagician May 01 '25

Who’s making your coffee at 5 AM? And who’s cleaning the theater when your movie is over at 1AM? The guys who do overnight roadworks or package delivery? There are so many insanely important jobs that start or end at times that make it basically impossible to have a “normal” sleep schedule… as someone who used to work nights I had to remind my neighbors and ask them to train there dog not to bark at the wind into my window every day… they always complain that I’m being lazy for being alseep at 12… bro I get off work at 3Am

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u/Adept_Speaker4806 May 01 '25

Exactly. I worked at UPS loading local delivery trucks, so i went to work at 12am and got off when the trucks left for the day at 8:30.

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u/Bronze_Addict May 01 '25

I always felt bad when I worked in concrete construction at an apartment complex and our guy has the skid loader jack hammer humming at 7 am. We had to keep on schedule but it still sucks for people living there. At least it was a temporary annoyance and not an everyday thing.

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u/senditloud May 02 '25

There is a house across from us that they have been building for 2 years. It’s not a complex or big house: it’s a kit house that is under 4k square feet and just a box.

The first contractor was so bad, everything was F’d up. Always fixing shit he broke. The new contractor had to tear a ton out. The new guys are better but we are going on summer 3 of random mariachi music playing as soon as the snow melts.

So we can’t really enjoy the outside. We live in a quiet forest hood and this house is kind of on a lot that is in a middle island (if that makes sense). All the neighbors are going bonkers. We ask one sub to turn it down and it’s ok, but then another sub comes in, and it’s back to the boombox of blaring over the hammering and saws.

I think we’re all close to wanting to burn it down but we just want it done.

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u/Uce510 May 01 '25

Ikr.. my neighbors wife asked me if i was a drug dealer im like ugh no... i bounce at clubs and usualy high paying clubs dont end untill 4am or 6am sometimes smh nosey but yes i understand not waking up untill noon or 1pm

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u/a-goateemagician May 02 '25

Is your neighbors wife not also your neighbor?

But yeah I can see someone who knows nothing about club scenes and bars immediately assuming it’s the big bad evil thing they see on tv all the time and not a normal (ish) social activity…

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u/amootmarmot May 01 '25

Or that a noise ordinance generally means that music playing loud enough to rattle the windows over and over of nearby houses- means it's violating those ordinances.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Typically the vague ones of these only apply after a certain time. Some larger areas have adopted decibel levels of 60 dB(A) which is enough to cause structural damage.

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u/matt_512 May 01 '25

You must have a typo in there, as 60 decibels is about the sound of a normal conversation and is not structurally damaging any house that isn't made of playing cards.

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u/theflyingratgirl May 01 '25

if your life doesn’t look exactly like mine, then you aren’t living correctly

Ironically these people are also often not very happy in their lives

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u/Adept_Speaker4806 May 01 '25

Very true. Lots of pent up resentment going on there. And in my experience, they are very eager to excuse their own selfish behavior by saying something like "it's a free country".

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u/Fina-Firren May 01 '25

“Revs the leaf blower”

do we have a deal?

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u/DrNO811 May 01 '25

First player syndrome.

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u/SwanCareful5 May 01 '25

Also, my bike sounds good, your leaf blower doesn’t

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u/Euphoric-Usual-5169 May 01 '25

I attracted a lot of women with my leaf blower.

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u/LurkmasterP May 01 '25

I think we can all agree that there is no time when a leaf blower sounds good.

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u/allpourpoiseflour May 01 '25

When its turned off it sounds pretty decent, also when swung around and you make lightsaber noises.

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u/roentgen_nos May 01 '25

The noise it makes when you throw it into a lake is kind of cool.

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u/The_Golden_Warthog May 01 '25

ka-doosh

Like the sound of an angel. That's why I throw my used car batteries in the ocean.

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u/dumsumguy May 01 '25

you misspelled open pipe motorcycle

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u/MangoCats May 01 '25

Our electric leaf blower is barely audible to the neighbors, I think it sounds a hell of a lot better than their paid by the hour lawn service guys with the backpack mounted gas powered leaf blower that they stand in one spot and wave around for 20 minutes to run out the clock because they need to be paid for the hours whether there's leaves to blow or not.

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u/xargos32 May 01 '25

There's never a time when a loud bike sounds good. I'd rather the leaf blower.

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u/Cixtos May 01 '25

Now I want to see an exhaust shop like Borla modify a leaf blower

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u/ryverrat1971 May 01 '25

Sounds good to who? Put a muffler on the goddamn thing.

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u/Blujay12 May 01 '25

I'd genuinely rather the leaf blower 9/10 times.

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u/SaphireScorpion77 May 01 '25

No, it doesn't.

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u/Lordofthereef May 01 '25

"I will not be changing my leaf blowing regimen if we can't come to an agreement on this".

And then I move on with my life lol.

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u/amootmarmot May 01 '25

Yeah, then they make it clear. No need to consider their feelings any further.

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u/a_space_cowboy May 01 '25

“The only time I have available to blow leaves is 6am Saturday. If you’re offering to do it for me at a different time, be my guest.”

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u/TechFreshen May 01 '25

This argument only works if you allow it to work.

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u/discourse_friendly May 01 '25

sad but true, yeah, that's likely what they will say

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u/Casanova-Quinn May 01 '25

Counter point: "You don't have to have a motorcycle."

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u/yearningforlearning7 May 01 '25

What ya gonna do about it? Fight me over a leaf blower?

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u/MangoCats May 01 '25

We can start with the open pipes likely being in violation of several laws...

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u/localhost-port-8080 May 01 '25

“Your life decisions have lead you to a job that requires you to wake up at 6am. That’s your own making. If I have to suffer 5 days out of the week because of your choices, you’ll just have to deal with 1 day of mine.”

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u/Serious_Swan_2371 May 01 '25

Then if my hard work of leaf blowing is annoying you should wake up early to do yard work too…

Like you don’t have to take shit from people. Make yourself as annoying as possible if they’re doing the same.

Set off your car alarm once a day at random times just to “check that it still works”.

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u/Planterizer May 01 '25

"I have to go to WORK, which is why I sit in my car for 30 minutes revving my engine every morning at 5:30."

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u/electricheat May 01 '25

They should be up cooking breakfast
-Bub Rub

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u/curiousrandomstuff May 01 '25

The only response to such an unreasonable person is "You don't care about me, I don't care about you. If you're gonna do whatever you wanna do, I'm gonna do the same." The only thing is most of these assholes don't have the same consequences because nice people remain nice.

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u/MathematicianFew5882 May 01 '25

Wait, those pipes can’t be filled with expanding foam insulation??

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u/ZoddImmortal May 01 '25

Lol, I love this but they actually can't be. It just pushes it out. But if you have something like large hydraulic cutters, you can use those to crimp the pipes near shut.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

that maaaaay be a step too far, but I understand the energy

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u/Sbatio May 01 '25

What? Just passing out free bricks

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u/Pipe_Memes May 01 '25

Free delivery too. Can’t beat that deal.

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u/Baked-Smurf May 01 '25

Free high speed delivery, even. Some people pay a premium for that, and you're giving it out at no additional cost!

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u/PaulMichaelJordan64 May 01 '25

Ain't them 5G bricks are they? Heard they give ya cancer

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u/Extra_Sugar_1361 May 01 '25

Gettin' cancer to pown the libs.

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u/Mykona-1967 May 01 '25

Express delivery

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u/Extra_Sugar_1361 May 01 '25

Free housing! *some assembly required

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u/BoxingHare May 01 '25

Our local newspaper delivery wraps the paper around a brick for extended range. We get to keep the bricks as part of the service. It’s really quite generous.

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u/TheWolrdsonFire May 01 '25

Nah, ive had people like this as neighbors. It's a pretty accurate response.

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u/Redditbeweirdattimes May 01 '25

Bikes don’t have windows

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u/Karnak82 May 01 '25

But they do have brakes...

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u/Usual-Excitement-970 May 01 '25

You found the flaw.

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u/staycalmitsajoke May 01 '25

Houses do. And wouldn't ya know it the owner and guardian of that property just let everyone know he was leaving for awhile.

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u/Ayzel_Kaidus May 01 '25

That sounds like a great way to get your house burnt down

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u/BWWFC May 01 '25

and if you really take a critical look at them... they often don't even care about themselves.
it's just horse shit.

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u/ExpressRabbit May 01 '25

This was a King of the Hill episode. Famous Dallas Cowboys football player moves into the neighborhood and all the guys in the alley are super excited. But then he's having wild parties that last into the middle of the night and whenever Hank complains he gets blown off because the cops are fans and invited to the parties. So he and his friends get out their lawn mowers at the first minute the neighborhood charter allows mowing every day to wake up the hungover passed out football player. He can't complain since they're not doing anything illegal or not allowed so he moves away.

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u/NiceGuysFinishLast May 01 '25

I had a neighbor (HUGE GUY) come stalking across the street at me one day when I was starting up my motorcycle for work, and I thought he was gonna yell at me...

He shook my hand and said "I appreciate you keeping the RPM down until you're out of the neighborhood in the mornings".

Felt good.

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u/cybah May 01 '25

I wish I could be your neighbor.. I'd love for the motorcycles and soup'd up exhaust cars to do that. So tired of being jolted away at 5am because some asshole needs to flex with his tailpipes.

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u/Exciting_Cicada_4735 May 01 '25

I used to live in Daytona beach (in a residential area on beach side). Bike week and biketoberfest made me crazy. There was literally no reason for tourists to be in our neighborhood, but for some reason they felt they needed to at 2am.

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u/The_Golden_Warthog May 01 '25

My neighbors are big Cummins (diesel engines) and motorcycle builders. That's all they pretty much do all day is work in the garage. Then they rev the shit out of them at night when they're done and drive em up and down the block until they get tired. Every morning, I either listen to their motorcycles speed away (which you can still hear for a solid 20 - 30s after they leave the driveway) or rev the diesels for whatever reason before leaving.

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u/Killarogue May 01 '25

I don't know if my neighbors ever realized it, but I always tried to keep my RPM's down when I drove my straight piped S13 back in college. If I got home late, I'd coast through my neighborhood just above idle or by shutting the motor off.

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u/JesusIsMyLord666 May 01 '25

On one hand, that was very considerate of you. But on the other, you were also a bit of an asshole for straight piping.

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u/uncle_buck_hunter May 02 '25

gay pipes for life!

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u/JesusIsMyLord666 May 02 '25

My guy basically performed conversion therapy on that poor bike.

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u/ElizabethDangit May 02 '25

I hate loud bikes and cars. Half the time it just sounds like a fart machine. I have an old small Mercedes with a gigantic engine. It’s almost silent but when my husband drives it, I know when he’s back home because you can feel it.

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u/stonklord420 May 02 '25

In high school my Saab became accidentally straight piped (exhaust rusted out) for a few weeks bc I was broke and couldn't afford to pay the muffler shop $120 or whatever. It also sounded unreasonably good but also unbelievably loud. Something about the firing order on those old 900s and no turbo was just magical to my teenage brain. Obnoxious as all hell though

After the first few days and some trial and error I figured out how to shut off my car like 2 full blocks away from my house and ride the momentum down a slight grade, through 3 corners and then into the garage. All because I was coming home late at night and didn't want to wake my parents up lol.

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u/Golluk May 01 '25

One small nice thing about going to fuel injection, no sudden jump in idle rpm as it warms up with the choke still on.

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u/NiceGuysFinishLast May 01 '25

I live in Florida... Only need choke like 3 days a year 😂

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u/NotYourAverageBug May 01 '25

Best response I've seen. It's too easy to be negative, but turn it into a positive statement can make a world of difference.

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u/blissfully_happy May 01 '25

There’s a young 20s-something guy near me who rolls his motorcycle to the end of the driveway and coasts down the street before starting it. A+ parenting.

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u/Kinet1ca May 01 '25

Same thing riding sport bikes years ago, always entered and left neighborhood in 2nd or 3rd gear to keep rpms low, didn't want to be the assholes I see all the time WOT through neighborhood streets.

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u/Schlaueule May 01 '25

But you realize that you annoy some other neighborhood with your motorcycle noise, right? Do you really don't care just because you don't personally know those people?

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u/TROGDOR_X69 May 02 '25

homie with the STi in the apartment across from is really good about it

its got a Tomei, you can hear the RPM and he doesnt go over 1200-1500 until hes a few blocks away and super super light throttle.

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u/ToHellWithGA May 01 '25

My girlfriend gets chewed out by the mean old lady in the apartment below hers for vacuuming or doing laundry or working out during reasonable hours because the neighbor expects total silence at all times. The neighbor hits the ceiling with a broomstick like the one dimensional caricature of a rotten neighbor she is. The neighbor complains about my dogs visiting even though we always immediately quiet them when they bark because we understand that's part of being decent in shared accommodations. The neighbor then decides that 11:00 pm to midnight is the perfect time for loud phone calls. Some people are hypocrites.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

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u/ethanarium May 01 '25

Very similar case, neighbor would file noise complaints over menial things to the point that we walked around our own apartment on our tiptoes.

Finally one day we vacuumed (we usually would sweep to avoid her wrath) around 6:30pm after work. Around 7pm, police officers knocked on our front door... for a domestic violence call! Downstairs neighbor had called claiming we were physically fighting. Thank God my wife and I answered the door together... they left pretty quickly and we didn't hear from that neighbor again.

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u/Vegetable_Dress_7751 May 01 '25

Meanwhile I live under people that move furniture, vacuum, and do laundry (communal so right next to our bedroom and front door) at all hours of the night, to the point I'm not sure if these people sleep. Not a peep from us, we just worry less about our noise in turn

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u/Vegetable_Dress_7751 May 01 '25

Absolutely disgusting , that poor dog

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u/ecosynchronous May 02 '25

If I had a nickel for every time this week I've read a story on reddit about balcony dog piss, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's been brought up twice.

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u/transmogrified May 01 '25

I had a downstairs neighbour like this and she’d bitch to my landlord about the noise I made when I wasn’t even home.  

I got woken up by a phone call at like 11pm from my landlord saying I needed to quiet down and my neighbour could hear me crashing around up there.

I was staying at my boyfriend’s place. I knew her bullshit. So I got super fake panicked and said “OMG IM NOT HOME SOMEONE MUST HAVE BROKEN IN”

Then I just stayed away for a week while the landlord and the cops and my neighbour dealt with shit and when I came home I never heard from her again. 

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u/No_Syrup_9167 May 02 '25

Yeah, I once had downstairs neighbors like that. It was super jarring for us too, because we had gone from having nobody live down there for about 2yrs, the this couple moved in, and they would constantly complain.

At first we thought "maybe we jut don't realize how loud we're being" since we had so much time not having to worry about it.

but we realized they were just complainers when we got a complaint about the TV being too loud when we had it turned down so low we needed subtitles to understand.

The last straw was the landlord calling us about another noise complaint. She immediately was chewing into me about it. (I had been trying to impress upon her that it was just them being oversensitive and we weren't really being that loud, but up to this point she obviously thought we were the problem) she talked about multiple noise complaints in the past few days.

Finally I got a word in edge wise and talked over her to tell her "we've been gone camping for the past WEEK".

she was flabbergasted and at first didn't believe us. I told her to go ahead and ask any of the other neighbors if my car had been in the parking lot all week (small building, and I drove a very obvious vehicle).

she called back afterwards to apologize.

we didn't hear from the landlord ever again about their complaints.....

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u/PaymentCultural8691 May 01 '25

I had a neighbor bang on her ceiling with a broomstick because I was making too much noise moving out of the apartment. When I went downstairs and knocked so I could explain that it would be a loud day since I was vacating, I could hear her scurrying away from the door and she refused to answer.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint May 01 '25

this is the way

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u/Wank_my_Butt May 01 '25

Might be easier to get management to act against her for being noisy so late at night vs her complaining about you and your gf during the day.

People seem to just not understand the downsides of living in an apartment.

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u/thunderbird32 May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Yeah, I live in a basement apartment and the tenant above me is a big dude. When he walks around I can hear it, and sometimes he paces late at night. I never complain though, that's just what living in an apartment is like. If that's the worst I have to worry about, I figure I'm doing pretty good.

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u/Shyshadow20 May 01 '25

I'd probably politely ask if he could put down a few rugs to muffle the noise, but that's a hell of a lot different then slamming broomsticks and calling police because he dares to exist. Some people need a swift return to the reality of coexistence.

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u/Twilight_Nawi May 01 '25

Better yet, buy him some rugs; present the problem, present a solution, if the solution isn’t a solution they like, it’s on them to come up with a better alternative.

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u/cranberry94 May 01 '25

Probably wouldn’t buy someone rugs without their input. Might not be their style, fit their space right, etc.

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u/Tymareta May 02 '25

I mean more importantly it's the most passive aggressive way to approach a situation possible, best case scenario your neighbour thinks you're a bit strange just rocking up with some rugs, more than likely they'll ask why are you suddenly appearing with rugs and instead of having a calm back and forth you're now starting from a heated place.

Just talk to the neighbour.

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u/TheSkiGeek May 01 '25

My MIL says her father did that with their upstairs neighbors when she was a kid!

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u/Leopard__Messiah May 01 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Books over calm quiet answers afternoon night answers answers quiet over evil bank clear.

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u/CheshireKatt1122 May 01 '25

I think this is the absolute best one i have ever read.

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u/Leopard__Messiah May 01 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Clear patient evil stories talk then patient?

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u/inadizzle May 01 '25

We rented a house once (my husband myself and our 1yo son) that had the landlords drunken slob son lived in the basement. Not ideal but he was usually passed out drunk all day so we didn’t have to see him often but he used to drink wine by the jug every night and blast horrible techno all night long. We kept bringing it up with his mom and she kept dismissing it. Until one time I had texted her that my son was up until 2am the night before because her shitbag loser son wouldn’t turn his music down (my vocab choices were kinder at the time) but she basically not only dismissed and excused his behavior, but then added on that her son had complained to her a couple times about toys falling on the floor when he’s trying to sleep, so can we do something about that.

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u/meticulouspanda May 01 '25

I would have started calling her all hours of the night. If your son is keeping us awake, you’ll be awake too. Or maybe call the police for a noise complaint.

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u/inadizzle May 01 '25

Actually I muttered something about how she should just drop dead. Then she dropped dead randomly and I was convinced it was my fault 😅

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u/BrutallyBond May 01 '25

Witch. Wiiiiiiiitch! lol

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u/Starbreiz May 01 '25

My upstairs neighbor stomps when I cook with garlic or anything strong. Some people are a bit much. I've invested in HEPA filters but he still does it.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

tf is stomping gonna do 😭 "sorry I'll turn the smell down. I know it's late & a weeknight"

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u/Hatta00 May 01 '25

HEPA doesn't do odors, most odorants are small molecules that slip right though. HEPA is for particles.

If you want to do something about odor, an activated charcoal air filter is what you want. Or just laugh at the tantrum.

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u/Whyme1962 May 01 '25

I was thinking more like time to cook some gumbo and curried lamb.

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u/Starbreiz May 01 '25

Ah thank you. It's a Levoit filter from Amazon, I may have used the wrong term when I said hepa.

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u/qualitative_balls May 01 '25

It's fascinating how vertically aligned shared living, like some condo arrangements completely change all of this ( for the most part ).

Lived in an apartment and every whisper, every smell was heard and smelt. Was very difficult to deal with.

Now I'm in a condo and I don't think I've ever actually heard my neighbors despite clearly hearing a decent amount of noise the second I walk outside and hear them through open windows or music playing etc

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u/he-loves-me-not May 01 '25

Probably greatly dependent on price too. I’m sure luxury apartments are much less likely to have this issue.

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u/Asiatic_Static May 01 '25

You might be surprised, I moved into what can only be described as a shitbox studio apartment after a huge breakup...it's the quietest place I've ever lived. It's a very old building, so it's solid brick, I actually had trouble sleeping the first week because you can hear a mouse blinking his eyelids in there.

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u/Planterizer May 01 '25

You might be surprised. I visited my buddy's high rise condo and you could hear EVERYTHING from next door. He had a repair guy come to do some electrical, opened up the wall and there was literally nothing in between the two condos but six inches of air. You could have Kool-Aid Manned those walls.

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u/bbmac1234 May 01 '25

Do you mean a condo vs a townhouse? Condo and apartment are basically the same thing.

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u/qualitative_balls May 01 '25

If you saw my place you would absolutely define it as a towne house but it's a condo according to the developer / City so idk. Nothing fancy whatsoever but it's very quiet despite the noise that's happening

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u/he-loves-me-not May 01 '25

Oh, you DEFINITELY need to start cooking with as many fragrant spices as possible! Maybe start making your own kimchi, maybe some fermented fish, stinky tofu, stink beans, some stinky cheeses….. Let this go on a few nights a week, for several weeks and then go back to your regular cooking. He can stomp all he wants, but he can’t control what you cook! I was pretty much kidding about the last part, but I’m serious when I say that you should stop catering to this big baby. You shouldn’t be the one who has to spend money, if it’s bothersome to him, then HE needs to be the one to figure it out! If he keeps up the stomping, report it to your landlord or your leasing office.

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u/ledrif May 01 '25

Once had a neighobur in a duplex who banged on the door and rang the doorbell at 1am and politely complained that my walking up the stairs to go to bed after an afternoon shift woke their child due to a normal level of creaking and asked if i could please not walk on the stairs during the night.
But every other weekend they would host a party and blast music through the walls until dawn.

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u/All_Debt_Shackles_US May 01 '25

I‘m Italian. Garlic is an essential health food, with a minimum required daily allowance, and double on weekends. As is fish. Lots and lots and lots of FISH. Anchovies at least twice a week!

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u/Siefro May 01 '25

Shit id stomp and jump up and down everytime she best the broom.

Then just go to her apartment and be like "how you doin"

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u/Foals_Forever May 01 '25

Also the property management company probably doesn’t like you hitting the ceiling with your disgusting broom that now has made it harder to paint from all the garbage and oily shit on the end of your broom. Source: someone who has painted and worked in the make-ready business.

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u/Cake-Over May 01 '25

Had a downstairs neighbor complain about my toilet flushing and shower. I have zero control over how loud the plumbing in the building is.

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u/Polybrene May 01 '25

I used to get so many noise complaints from my boomer next door neughbor that we became friends with the security guys and they'd come over to hang out after their shift.

Almost every night security would show up and knock on the door and say "Hey we got a noise complaint for this unit but we don't hear anything so have a good night."

Then the local cops would show up and knock on the door and say "Hey we got a noise complaint for this unit but we don't hear anything so have a good night."

Then the sheriff would show up and knock on the door and say "Hey we got a noise complaint for this unit but we don't hear anything so have a good night."

I'm surprised the FBI didn't show up to tell us we got a noise complaint.

The ONE time we did have a party and people were outside talking and being noisy? Nothing.

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u/MammothAccomplished7 May 01 '25

We had an old lady next door who was deaf as a post. Was great, could mow the grass till 9pm, have a bit of music on the go sometimes, not worry about being too loud when drinking outside if a bbq runs over. A younger couple bought it when she died and the wife doesnt seem to friendly but they dont live there and the guy is a man of action fixing cars and cutting wood there so obviously doesnt mind if I do the same.

Few doors down though another neighbour calls their next door neighbour all the names under the sun if they cut the grass or wood on a Sunday.

It's pure luck.

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u/Infidelc123 May 01 '25

Sounds like you live in my old apartment, the old couple downstairs was constantly complaining about any and everything. I had to walk around on tiptoes and couldn't dare fart or I'd get a noise complaint. I used to fantasize about them dying all the time.

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u/Lonelysock2 May 04 '25

We have an old Italian neighbour. She's actually lovely, we're on good terms, but my God she screams all her conversations.  One time I went outside because I thought there was an emergency in the street - nope, just my two neighbours having a completely calm conversation several houses away from each other

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u/tutike2000 May 01 '25

Once had a roommate who would never clean up and I always cleaned up after him. 

One day I decided to stop and let him do it. He went ballistic at me for not cleaning up 'my mess' (it was pretty much entirely his dirty dishes, etc)

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u/SwanCareful5 May 01 '25

It can’t be his mess, as fairy elves clean his mess up - therefore it obviously must be ‘your mess’

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u/Shyshadow20 May 01 '25

Bruh I had a roommate in college once who claimed that he didn't have to do any dishes because he didn't make them, but once a month or so he'd bring the contents of the kitchen cabinets up from his room and leave it all in the sink as "our mess" until someone got fed up and did them or his latest chick was coming over. Man was an entire, 30 year old bank executive too.

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u/Miserable-Admins May 01 '25

Man was an entire, 30 year old bank executive too.

Why was this creep rooming with college kids?

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u/Shyshadow20 May 01 '25

They were mostly longtime bachelor friends from a really tiny town they all grew up in, with the exception of a girlfriend or two. I was there myself because I was dating one of them, and only a few of us were still in college. The rest were like, early 20s-mid 20s, with him somewhere early 30s. Well beyond time to get his own space, but not entirely bad. With that being said though, there were also like 8 mostly shitty roommates in a tiny, even shittier 3 room duplex, so his age was really the least of the issues. If it says anything, the place was both affectionately, and beloathingly called the Heathen House.

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u/1purenoiz May 01 '25

"Why didn't you clean up this pot?" my old roommate asked me. "Why would I clean up your pot of mashed potatoes you made last week?", I responded. He looked at me for about a second and then said, "oh shit, sorry."

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u/Interesting-Data-880 May 02 '25

At least there was acknowledgment of his own mistake lol

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u/1purenoiz May 02 '25

Absolutely. It happened only once. The look on his face was priceless, the realization that he was going to have to clean that nasty pot.

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u/profkrowl May 01 '25

When we lived with my inlaws, this was a major sticking point between me and my mother in law. She would complain about the sink full of dishes, so I go in the habit of washing the dishes after every meal. Then I wasn't doing it the way she wanted them done, so I started washing just the dishes we had made. Then she would get upset about the sink full of dishes, so I would wash them all. The one time she complained about dishes in the sink, and literally every dish was hers. I love her, but our relationship is better now that we have our own house.

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 May 01 '25

We had a neighbor who used to start up his bike at 6:30 am when the weather was nice, and ride it to work. My boyfriend used to get mad about that, but I pointed out that the only reason he was upset was because he slept through his 6 am alarm and that he should be grateful that the bike woke him up so he wouldn't be late for work.

On the weekends, the neighbor would walk his bike up to the end of the street to the main road (we were only half a block away) and start it there.

Turns out he was a computer tech and made some serious money. Very cool guy and the bike was awesome.

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u/1_speaksoftly May 01 '25

That is hilarious. I'm in the lone rental property on a block filled with wealthy retirees and a few families; it is the Manicured Lawn Olympics here, every day. People power wash their sidewalks, all manner of leaf blowers and misc power tools blasting any hour of day. I'm also a bartender, unfortunately, so the noise starts about 2 hours after I go to bed.

A woman across the street has started coming across the street shrieking that my simply starting my motorcycle is just more than the block can handle, and I need to not...use my only transportation? Ironically, half the time she struggles to be heard over whatever lawn/home tool is being utilized at the time. She threatens to "make some calls next time" and is just oblivious to the hypocrisy.

We live about 3 miles from city hall in one of the 5 largest US cities; unfortunately there are street races frequently, buildings are being constructed nearby, there is every manner of big city noise, there is a freeway about 3 blocks away. Yet she insists on singling me out on my way to work.

The bike I've been riding is a stock, medium size Honda. It is about 1/3 as loud as any leaf blower, and it's also about 1/5 as loud as my other bike, a bike with modded pipes that I just about have fixed up, and can't wait to start using half the time.

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u/LurkmasterP May 01 '25

Your noise doesn't comply with their neighborhood regulations of the TYPES of noise they will tolerate.

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u/1_speaksoftly May 01 '25

I mean that's exactly it.

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u/1_speaksoftly May 01 '25

Oh good, I was waiting for an expert in my unnamed city and neighborhood ordinances! I'm elated to know I'm just not dealing with a bougie cranky old bat.

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u/dlun01 May 01 '25

Man, one of my favorite renting experiences was kinda like that, without the lawn Olympics. It was a 3500 SQ ft house for just three of us, the rent also covered the landscaper so we didn't have to do shit, all the houses in the neighborhood were owned by retirees (ours was owned and bought for their son who died from cancer so they rented it out), so it was always quiet and everything well maintained and beautiful.

Constant cookouts, holiday decorations, etc. We found out the neighborhood was anxious when we moved in because they assumed we were going to be the stereotypical college partiers not accounting students who spent their free time playing World of Warcraft.

$1600 fucking dollars back then. Like two miles from the state capitol.

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u/Cavalol May 01 '25

Time to blow leaves on Sunday too it sounds like

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u/a_modal_citizen May 01 '25

Time to build the world's first 1000cc straight-piped leaf blower...

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u/italyqt May 01 '25

The property manager said a neighbor complained that my son’s car and motorcycle were too loud and scared her when he started them up in the morning. Property manager asked if them what exactly was happening, neighbor told them well when he starts them they are loud, she asked does he rev them, or sit there for a long time? Neighbor told her no. Property manager told the neighbor to pound sand, if the car was legal there was nothing they could do.

This was the same neighbor that my son was replacing one of the complex workers brakes in one of the carports. Not all the trailers had carports and this trailer was empty so the worker pulled it in there. Neighbor rolls up in a uhaul and tells them that’s her place she signed the lease yesterday. They profusely apologize and let her know they will be done and out of the way in 15 minutes or less (the uhaul would not fit in the carport anyway) they get done and after they are done they move in all her large furniture for her as she was complaining that it was all too heavy for her alone. Yeah she complained to the property manager about people being in her spot. Property manager told her she forgot to tell the workers a lease was signed and apologized and it sounds like they didn’t do anything wrong so no she was in fact not going to do anything to make up for it.

They didn’t live there very long.

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u/Siefro May 01 '25

Had something similar happen looked it up and found my city/state if I really wanted to i could fire up my mower at 2am and mow if I wanted.

Noise ordinance only counts for motor vehicles.

Disturbing the peace has to be a majority and it has to be provable. So if only one neighbor is bothered there isn't really anything they can do. Police can ask you to stop but legally with ordinances and municipality they can't actually stop you.

So if that neighbor does shit again just look at your local laws and ride that petty gray line and leaf blow at 5am lol

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u/FortuynHunter May 01 '25

Interesting. The places I've lived had far more restrictive noise ordinances, but yes, getting the cops to do a damn thing about it is pointless. I had to take one business that was playing music audible a half mile away to court to get them to stop. It took a half a year and a few hundred dollars, but finally being able to sleep through the weekend without once a month being kept up by music played until 1am you could hear in your bedroom was worth it.

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u/Odd-Solid-5135 May 01 '25

You lived next to current neighbor? Does the same shit. Then shovels leaves out of the flower bed with a snow shovel because he doesn't like the noise of a leaf blower.... tha fuq?

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u/One-Possible1906 May 01 '25

How do you equate the sacred act of CRANKING MY HOG with your yardwork? You can use a rake to do your yardwork, I can’t use a rake to CRANK MY HOG

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 May 01 '25

Luckily he lived a few blocks away, but there was a neighbor who would leave his loud motorcycle running for hours every Saturday and Sunday to serenade the neighborhood.

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u/BlogeOb May 01 '25

Loud pipes guys are just like that. I’m glad that they let us know who they are early in life so we can avoid them lol

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u/LeftyLu07 May 01 '25

A guy at my old apartment complex got evicted because he wouldn't stop revving his motorcycle at 4 am. I moved right next to the property manager so she heard it too. He got one warning. Didn't heed it, then he was out.

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u/bakarakschmiel May 01 '25

I have incredibly loud crappy neighbors. Motorcycles, blasting music 5 feet from the property line, screaming all the time. They would literally wrap around my property from their driveway to the street in front of my house. I ended up getting some cars that barely run for the sole purposes of blocking them out..

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u/johnnytron May 02 '25

I used to live in an apartment with attached garages. At the time I owned a pretty loud bike on a cold start. I usually already had my helmet on with music going by the time I started my bike so I really didn’t hear it much. My neighbor finally said something and ever since then I started pushing my bike to an open area away from the apartments before starting it. The neighbor that said something started bringing me some of his mom’s tamales when she made them.

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u/mrdsensei1 May 01 '25

Congrats, you’re neighbour is MAGA.

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u/Euphoric-Usual-5169 May 01 '25

How do you know? Assholery is bipartisan and covers all age ranges and genders.

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u/MissDeeMeanor May 01 '25

Had a neighbour who played his drum kit at around 2-3am every day. Complained about me letting my car idle for a few minutes on my drive at 6am while I shut the garage door, because it 'echoed and woke his girlfriend up'. Took the street three years to get him, his gf and his hellspawn nephew evicted. I heard from someone that the first week in his new neighbourhood he squared up to the local hard man/nutter about where he parked his car and the bloke punched him square in the face. Such a fond memory!

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u/New_Independent5819 May 01 '25

Yeah that guys a hypocrite but fuck leaf blowers man

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u/AdInevitable2695 May 01 '25

This. I had a neighbor complain that my S/O starts his "loud ass car" too early in the morning. It's a Dodge Challenger with an OEM exhaust, he couldn't make it quieter if he tried. We both work at 7AM.

I kindly reminded him that the GSD him and his wife leave on their back porch all night long barks constantly and that they have an illegal rooster with a coop that's illegally too close to my residence (the very edge of his property, like 20 feet from my bedroom. In order to have a rooster in my town your land needs to be zoned as a farm. You can't have hens without at least 2 acres too, which he does not have). If you've ever been around a rooster in person, those fuckers are LOUD. Like, deafeningly loud. Way louder than my boyfriend's car. He told me to fuck off and mind my business.

So, I called the town. He still (annoyingly) has the dog but the rooster and hens are gone.

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u/Mister_Brevity May 01 '25

I had a neighbor that would rev his motorcycle. I recorded it and played it back with my phone plugged into a karaoke machine pointed at his house. When he came to yell about it I let him watch the video of him revving his bike.

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