DianaLove Thy ..........?
February 25th 2008 11:11
I often wonder if people realise that their huge extensions, forged onto the old houses in my suburb, act as a big amplifier through their air-conditioning unit, usually perched atop their lovely terracotta roof? Surrounded by these type of extensions on either side and behind, while I type at my blog I am able to hear simultaneously arguments on one side and down the back. Quite often the arguments are loud and ferocious, containing lots of screaming, yelling and swearing (they are at it now as i tell you this). The little puppy, curled next to me in her basket, usually shivers, whimpers and draws her body closer in, as though to block out the dreadful stuff humans say and do to each other. Not that our house is immune to arguments, no way, we just had a big loud one with our 12 year old daughter who, having spent the evening cheerfully playing with the dog, bouncing on the tramp and drawing, now informs us she has a heap of homework and can't ppossibly go to bed yet! (8.40pm). So I had a few louder than normal things to say to her, considering she was insisting on her own way. But we don't have a huge air-conditioning outlet nestled unobtrusively atop our modest roof. Maybe people can hear our heated exchanges through the windows, but not all the way down the street, booming out, which is how loud our neighbours are. Do you think they would be embarassed if they knew? Or just keep at it regardless?
Actually, one set of neighbours also have a massive plasma tv which dominates their entire huge back room, and what with the sound booming out and the screen so big my kids can hang on the fence and watch movies through their window! When they first used their big speakers, we were in our dining room trying to eat our tea and the noise bounced the cutlery around on the tablecloth! I tapped timidly on their front door and asked the man of the house to please turn it down a bit but he was so aggresive, fists clenched and stuff, that I was truly intimidated and have never dared say anything since. (I think it plenty tho)
Can you hear your delightful neighbours (good name for a tv show) as well?
Can you hear your delightful neighbours (good name for a tv show) as well?
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Comment by Anonymous
Incidentally, where I live, the wife of the neighbour came to apologise this evening for their fights. They had been going through a rough time. I listened sympathically, said a few supportive words. She was almost in tears. I hadn't heard their fights. But I could tell she was in trouble.
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Comment by Prioriteez
i.e. 3 children's lives = 1 oversized screen.
God will judge us.
Comment by Mars
And those Hungarian peasants gave us the ninth symphony. Not some stuffed shirt librarian in a bow tie.