I swear, I tried to be the reasonable one. But they do this almost every weekend. All day Sunday, I didn’t say a word when the music started around nine.
I even joked to myself, “Well, it’s Labor Day weekend, let them have fun.” But by midnight, the bass was rattling my windows like some kind of bad nightclub. I texted him politely—politely—asking if they could lower it. No response.
By 12:30, my daughter padded into my room, hair messy, eyes half shut, whispering, “Mom, can I just sleep in here?” She’s nineteen, not a little kid, and still couldn’t handle it in her own room because the noise was that bad. That’s when something in me snapped. At 12:45, I slipped on my hoodie, marched across the street, and rang the bell.
No answer. Rang again. And again.
Finally, he opened the door, looking irritated, like I was the one interrupting him. I repeated my text, even explained about my daughter’s room being right there. He sighed, apologized, muttered something about turning it off.
I felt relieved walking back to my house—until I heard his voice boom through the microphone outside:
“Waa waaa, we gotta turn off the music, thanks to THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS.”
The backyard erupted in laughter. People clapping, whistling, someone even booed, beer cans were thrown on our lawn. My face burned so hot I thought it might light up the whole street.
I stood in my driveway, debating whether to spin around and let him have it or just swallow my pride and walk inside. And that’s when I noticed—across the street, someone else’s upstairs light flicked on. Then another.
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