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  • #16
    Quoth MadMike View Post
    the number is 717-255-3131.
    Are you sure they didn't change that to a 570 area code at this point? They had to split 717 back around the time I moved away from central PA in the late 90s.
    But the paint on me is beginning to dry
    And it's not what I wanted to be
    The weight on me
    Is Hanging on to a weary angel - Sister Hazel

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    • #17
      Quoth Grendus View Post
      My sister used to have issues with a next door neighbor who liked to have his lady friends over. Loudly. So she put her speakers up next to the wall and piped in some Jesus music to... set the mood. They stopped.
      The last family that lived above Mom had problems like that. The rules were "two hours a day" for practicing music. The woman's son seemed to think that "20 minutes every hour, all day long" somehow met this rule.

      When Mom got sick of it she'd play her stereo, figuring that it would make it impossible for him to keep rhythm. And mostly it worked, except for one day when the guy just wouldn't STOP. I was there so I pretty much said, "Mom, I got this!" I opened my computer, queued up Mandy Patinkin singing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ... in Yiddish. Within 2 minutes the kid was silent.

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      • #18
        Quoth Ophbalance View Post
        Are you sure they didn't change that to a 570 area code at this point? They had to split 717 back around the time I moved away from central PA in the late 90s.
        Nope, I still live near the city, and still work there, and it's still 717 in this area. I think the 570 area is in the northern part of the state. The city is in the south central part.
        Sometimes life is altered.
        Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
        Uneasy with confrontation.
        Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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        • #19
          PepperElf, I like to bust out Ella Fitzgerald and sing along. At the top of my lungs.
          "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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          • #20
            Quoth Crossbow View Post
            We had to call on our upstairs neighbors at one point. Who the hell thinks it's a good idea to vacuum your entire apartment at 3:00AM during the week?

            Of course, they also blasted their music at this hour as well. That stopped when they found out that Mrs. Crossbow and I like bagpipes and we have bigger speakers than they do.
            On my old street we lived next door to The Trolls: Mom, one adult alcoholic son, six younger kids and occasionally baby-daddy. Mom used to vacuum at 2 AM all the time. In the dining room. Which is where the kids were sleeping. We thought maybe one of the kids had a major allergy and mom was trying to keep ahead of the dust, etc. Or she was nuts. We were never sure which it was.
            When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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            • #21
              This reminds me of ¡Fiésta! Family, who live two doors down from me.

              They like to have their friends over and play norteño music on the sweet stereo system they have in their backyard.

              Unfortunately, that means we all have to listen to norteño music.

              A few weeks ago, they were especially loud. In their defense, they did turn it down at 11. But one of their drunk friends kept trying to turn the music back up. It would get really loud again, and quiet a few seconds later, which is almost more annoying than just having it loud. Thankfully, I have earplugs, so I was able to sleep.

              The weekend after the 4th of July was better. But if it happens again, I'm calling the cops.
              "If you pray very hard, you can become a cat person." -Angela, "The Office"

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              • #22
                Quoth PepperElf View Post
                When Mom got sick of it she'd play her stereo, figuring that it would make it impossible for him to keep rhythm. And mostly it worked, except for one day when the guy just wouldn't STOP. I was there so I pretty much said, "Mom, I got this!" I opened my computer, queued up Mandy Patinkin singing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ... in Yiddish. Within 2 minutes the kid was silent.
                I much prefer The Time Warp followed by Sweet Transvestite them maybe Rose Tint My WOrld (now with audience participation track in its full glory.

                Then maybe some Judas Priest Screaming for Vengenance tracks just for a little variety
                I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                • #23
                  Quoth Crossbow View Post
                  We had to call on our upstairs neighbors at one point. Who the hell thinks it's a good idea to vacuum your entire apartment at 3:00AM during the week?
                  Hannelore!

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                  • #24
                    Hannelore is my favorite neurotic!

                    Let's see, to kill the mood for "loud" neighbors.. which in this case was a friend and her boyfriend using my husband's house as a way to get away from her parents.. From the Wolfrider's Reflections CD: Petalwing's "The Remembering." Nothing like that to kill ANY romantic mood. *shudder* For a year... I highly recommend it unless you're planing on having "relations" yourself.
                    If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.

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                    • #25
                      She's probably my favourite blonde, but I don't think I'd go to sleep near her...

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                      • #26
                        Quoth An Haddock View Post
                        My best friend used to live next to a house with a couple of drunks/crackheads/whatever living there. He had to call the cops on them a couple of times. The last time two of them were on the lawn in fist fight and one of them was shouting "You fucked my old man!"
                        It'd be funny if the reply was, "That's right, I'm your Mom and I'm allowed to do that.."

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                        • #27
                          Quoth Grendus View Post
                          My sister used to have issues with a next door neighbor who liked to have his lady friends over. Loudly. So she put her speakers up next to the wall and piped in some Jesus music to... set the mood. They stopped.
                          That was hilarious.
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                          • #28
                            Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                            I much prefer The Time Warp followed by Sweet Transvestite them maybe Rose Tint My WOrld (now with audience participation track in its full glory.

                            Then maybe some Judas Priest Screaming for Vengenance tracks just for a little variety
                            heh yeah but i like going for -effect as well as the annoyance factor.

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                            • #29
                              Oh, I've had all kinds of neighbors like this! In my first apartment I lived on the second floor and above me lived "The Stripper." So named because she never seemed like she was quite fully dressed and often kept me up at night with the rhythmic sounds of her love-making. I never complained about that, though, because it never lasted very long. I did complain, however, when it was 1:30am and it sounded like she was rearranging furniture with a forklift. I knocked on her door and she said she had three children under the age of three in there and what did I expect her to do? I told her I expected her to be the grown-up and put the kids to bed.

                              Then in my next apartment, the people below me and the people next to me were training for the door slamming olympics. It would shake everything in my apartment. One night I got into it with the "lady" downstairs and her male companion threatened me. I called the police. Never saw him again after that.

                              I also enjoy fighting loud music with even louder bagpipe music. One day I'll get a set of my own!
                              "Redheads have at least a 95% chance of being gorgeous. They're also concentrated evil." - Irv

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                              • #30
                                Oh, yes, the door-slamming olympics. We haz contenders.
                                "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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