I just can't win
So, last night I was getting a fabulous night sleep, which, for an insomniac like me, is a precious, wonderful thing, when suddenly, terribly, I was awakened by Madonna -- pulsating, throbbing Madonna "dance" tracks blaring from the apartment above. It was 4 am, so I felt certain it was all just a crazy mistake and the horrible music would be turned off instantly. It was not. I waited. And waited. And tossed and turned.
Time goes by so slowly -slowly, time goes by so slowly-slowly.
You know, Madonna, it really does. Especially, at FUCKING 4 AM WHEN YOU ARE WAILING AND PULSATING THROUGH MY GODDAMN CEILING, AND YOUR MUSIC ISN'T EVEN CATCHY!
I debated what to do. Is it unreasonable for me to ask my neighbor to turn it down? No! I reasoned, it's 4 am!!
So, I threw on a sweatshirt, marched upstairs and knocked on his door. I asked him nicely to turn down his music, to which he very apologetically turned it off completely.
Settled back in bed, I reveled in my little victory and silently congratulated myself for being assertive in a situation only a year ago I probably would have just suffered through.
And then, just as I started drifting off again to glorious, fabulous sleep, my neighbor's bed started rocking and creaking and banging against the wall. Then came the moans, and the grunts, and the Oh God's, Oh God's. So I bolted back upstairs, pounded on the door and yelled, "That Madonna CD you were playing earlier? Oh my god, SO GOOD!"
Oh. At my house its chanting. Sometimes they have gatherings and it is like 20 voices chanting, all it once. It is kind of soothing but also pretty fucking loud.
Posted by:Em | January 20, 2006 at 02:22 PM
HILARIOUS!
ahem... as someone who is guilty of being loud, little did you know that they were doing you a favor. But now everytime you hear Madonna you'll think of the ...soinds of your neighbors.
The Mad Dater,
"Because there's a Bastard in all of us"
http://themaddater.blogspot.com
Posted by:The Mad Dater | January 22, 2006 at 09:54 AM
Im going to have to go out on a limb and say the moans you heard were actually from two guys, which I assume would be louder and rougher than a girl and a guy or 2 girls. I don't find it possible that a straight guy would be jamming Madonna at 4AM.
Posted by:toad734 | January 24, 2006 at 12:34 PM
Toad, it's true, it's true. And sadly, knowing it was two guys actually made it the teensiest bit easier to digest.
Posted by:citywendy | January 24, 2006 at 02:40 PM
I guess for a woman that may be the case, especially if youre a brokeback fan. For me it would just be a little too much. Two girls on the other hand...Well they probably wouldn't have made much noise.
Posted by:toad734 | January 25, 2006 at 06:51 AM
Hey I just came across you blog, great stuff! In my last apartment the walls were so thin I could hear *two* floors below. One day one of my neighbors on the first floor said to me "Hey do you hear Bob snoring every night? Man is he loud." I told her yes indeed I did but I did not want to mention that I could hear the screams and moans of her and her boyfriend. Many a night I spent with a pillow over my head and when my lease ended I was outta there!
Posted by:pghcitiboy | February 06, 2006 at 08:01 PM
Oh dear, glad you got out of there.
Posted by:citywendy | February 07, 2006 at 05:18 AM
I lived above an operatic nymphomaniac.
She also had a penchant for coitus with open windows. And her dating schedule seemed to be an opposite hemisphere from mine.
But even, green with envy, I was saddened when his visits stopped.
Because, you know? Getting some rocks.
Posted by:cinnamongirl | February 10, 2006 at 11:51 PM