Red Diabla
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Some would call my husband and I "nutty neighbors" because we own Harley-Davidsons with modified exhaust systems. Yep, loud pipes. However, we try to not be obnoxious when we're out and about on the motorcycles, and the local kids in the neighborhood are fascinated. In the eleven years we've had the bikes, we've only gotten one complaint about the noise, and we adjusted accordingly and all has been good as far as I know.
We have two neighbors that cause us varying levels of grief. The next-door neighbors have high-strung dogs that bark at everything and nothing allllll day, every day. It's horrible if we're home sick and can't get any sleep unless we take some type of heavy medication to knock us out or else the damn barking keeps us awake.
These neighbors have also kept their dogs out until very late at night or let the dogs out very early in the morning. Of course the beasts start barking and wake me up. There have been a couple of times where I've gotten woken up around 2 in the morning and would put on a robe, stomp over to the neighbor's house, and knock repeatedly on the door. They wouldn't answer the door(can't say I blame them for that), but they learned after I did that around three times that it's really incredibly rude to leave the dogs outside that late at night.
Then the dogs would start barking around 6:30am as soon as they're let outside. JEEEZ. The routine would be: they'd bark, I'd get woken up, I'd have to calm myself down because I don't want to start screaming at these people, the dogs would continue to bark, and I'd end up losing almost 2 hours of sleep every day as a result. Finally, I stomped over to the neighbor's house in my bathrobe and knocked on the door. This time, the neighborlady answered and immediately started apologizing. I had to explain that 6:30am is way too early to be having the dog bark, and letting it happen repeatedly was not acceptable. Then I said that if it happened again, I'd be coming back over expecting her to fix me breakfast. So far that approach has worked!
The other annoying neighbor is a hillbilly of such epic proportions I started a blog about his adventures. You can read about the Entropy Project aka Redneck Theater to your heart's content. Most people are amused with the blog. I say it's because they don't have to live with it, so it's much funnier that way.
RD
We have two neighbors that cause us varying levels of grief. The next-door neighbors have high-strung dogs that bark at everything and nothing allllll day, every day. It's horrible if we're home sick and can't get any sleep unless we take some type of heavy medication to knock us out or else the damn barking keeps us awake.
These neighbors have also kept their dogs out until very late at night or let the dogs out very early in the morning. Of course the beasts start barking and wake me up. There have been a couple of times where I've gotten woken up around 2 in the morning and would put on a robe, stomp over to the neighbor's house, and knock repeatedly on the door. They wouldn't answer the door(can't say I blame them for that), but they learned after I did that around three times that it's really incredibly rude to leave the dogs outside that late at night.
Then the dogs would start barking around 6:30am as soon as they're let outside. JEEEZ. The routine would be: they'd bark, I'd get woken up, I'd have to calm myself down because I don't want to start screaming at these people, the dogs would continue to bark, and I'd end up losing almost 2 hours of sleep every day as a result. Finally, I stomped over to the neighbor's house in my bathrobe and knocked on the door. This time, the neighborlady answered and immediately started apologizing. I had to explain that 6:30am is way too early to be having the dog bark, and letting it happen repeatedly was not acceptable. Then I said that if it happened again, I'd be coming back over expecting her to fix me breakfast. So far that approach has worked!
The other annoying neighbor is a hillbilly of such epic proportions I started a blog about his adventures. You can read about the Entropy Project aka Redneck Theater to your heart's content. Most people are amused with the blog. I say it's because they don't have to live with it, so it's much funnier that way.
RD
