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They also don't have any library voices either.  Parents sound like they are yelling across soccer fields, teens are using their ipods on high, adults are talking in self-important voices on their cell phones...well, you get the idea.

Boy, am I glad I live in the country now.

 That's what I hated most about the dorms in college - as soon as warm weather hit, people decided it was fun to start blaring their music as loud as they could through their open windows, despite the fact that 1) their speakers really were not up to the challenge, 2) everyone else in the building/quad could hear them, and 3) despite popular belief, occasionally people at college would actually want to sleep or study after 10 pm or so on a week day. Gahh!

And then the drunk people walking by underneath the window, screaming at 2 am... or, even worse, the people who would stop to have a conversation outside the window at 2 am...

Don't even get me started on the people who don't have the courtesy to turn up some music and shut their windows before engaging in some noisy "intimate activities"! 

When I lived in Dallas, my next door neighbors (it was a condo) were newlyweds and enjoyed their newfound marital bliss. I would have to wait for them to finish so that I could go to sleep. Fortunately, they worked for a living, so it rarely was happening past 10 or 11 at night. I used to rib the husband for his looks. He looked like Matt Perry from "Friends."

The neighbors in the other unit had a stereo and would blast their post-industrial techno-pop. So, I would return the favor. I turned my 200 watt Fender 85 amp to the wall, choosing the blistering timbre patch on my Roland GS - 6 digital effects brain, and launch into Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" followed by Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild." To give you an idea of how loud my amp can get, I put in my earplugs, first. That amp could vibrate the flooring.

 All in good fun. I got along with them, otherwise.

Ron, you are a man after my heart!  When DH and I were in college, we had a lady who played FUNERAL DIRGES upstairs and some teenage girls who were punk rockers next door. You haven't lived until you've been wakened at 3 a.m. (had to be at work at 7!) by the punk rock version of "Ring of Fire" and slam dancing twits hitting my bedroom wall.

However, I got even.  I played classical music, Norteña music and the soundtrack of "Grease" in Spanish! If I had realized it, I probably could have run the punkers out with a Frank Sinatra album!

ron2

To give you an idea of how loud my amp can get, I put in my earplugs, first. That amp could vibrate the flooring.

 All in good fun. I got along with them, otherwise.

You know what works great after listening to late night rock concerts from your neighbors.  John Phillip Sousa at 8 am.  Stars and Stripes Forever was always a good one.

John Phillips Sousa would make any good drunk run for the porcelain gods in a hurry.  Can you imagine a hangover and the hearing those horns at 8 a.m.?  Oh, what an aching head! ROFLLLL

timsdat

You know what works great after listening to late night rock concerts from your neighbors.  John Phillip Sousa at 8 am.  Stars and Stripes Forever was always a good one.

Good suggestions from everyone.