11. Loud Noise - A Rant

You guys are having a great time and that's great, it really is, but could you please, kindly shut the fuck up? I just saw this video on Facebook and it brought up all these feelings so here we are.

I'm in my senior year of college and I've been living in dorms since freshman year. Freshman year I stayed in a freshman-only dorm and apparently shared my side of the third floor with some kind of sports team. For that reason, I had to deal with people racing up and down the halls and playing soccer, yes, playing actual soccer with a ball and everything, in the hallways. They even put a hole in the wall which the community director threatened to make everyone on floor pay for (but it was gonna be split between quite a few people so we each would've had to pay like 84 cents but that's beside the point). However, this didn't typically happen late at night but the noise was still annoying nonetheless. Also, one night (or early morning, it was like 4am) I still don't know to this day if I just happened to wake up at a bad time or was woken up by this, but I heard the people next door to me having sex (-.-')

Sophomore year I was on the second floor of a different dorm and for whatever reason, the noise from the bedroom below would just waft right up to my room. Right where I put my head in my bed. Loud TV during the day and terrible rap music muffled through the night. 

Junior year and senior year I've been in another dorm with the best set up. I share it with four other people, but we each have our own bedrooms and my bedroom is on the end of the building and no one is right next to my bedroom. So noise isn't usually problem and when it is, it's a result of my roommates.

But I say all that to say that I've been dealing with obnoxious people who have no consideration for others. Like, if you want to make noise during the day, that's annoying, but it's the daytime so I'm not gonna complain. But once it's late, like after 10pm, shut up. Stop with the loud music, the loud talking, the loud whatever, just stop. Last semester, I had to go to work at 5:30am after getting back from work at 11pm just the night before to work (what was supposed to be) at 17.5 hour shift. I went to bed a little after midnight before I was awakened by one of my roommates coming back into the room at about 3am. Which is fine, but she had to come in with her buddies and they had to hang out and talk in the living room where all their voices and laughter just wafts through the whole apartment. And it's hard for me to sleep with any noise. I'm still aggravated by this, mainly because literally ANY OTHER NIGHT it would've been fine, but the one time when I have to be up at 5:30am and be at work all fucking day, that happens.

And loud music. For whatever reason, nobody who jams their music really loud has good taste in music? Like, you have to make everyone in your general vicinity suffer with your insufferable music? And it's always rap music. Bad rap music. I like rap when people can actually rap, but this thing where people just talk over a track and wanna call themselves "rappers". Counting to eight and saying "in my bank account" over and over in a monotone voice is not rapping. I mean, I get it. It's easier to pass as a rapper even if you can't really rap unlike, say, singing where if you can't sing, it's hard to convince people that you can. But yeah, not everyone wants to jam to your shitty music. I don't mind hearing it, but when I can't focus on my homework or hear what I'm trying to hear in my room with the door closed, it's too loud. You know, I like rock music. Like heavy metal with the yelling and the screaming and the growling. I realize that may not be everyone's cup of tea. So out of respect for the other people in the world, I don't jam my music super loud when I'm in close quarters with others. I don't even like the play my music too loudly when my dog is in the room with me because I can tell he's bothered by that.

So, that video on FB showed some guy partying with his friends on his back balcony or something, they were outside, that's what's important. So his neighbor called the police and complained about the noise. Which is within her rights to do. He comes to her door the next day and asks if she was the one who called the cops. She gets defensive and her tells her that next time she can just tell them instead of calling the cops. She tells him she's just gonna call them again so he gets "revenge" on her basically because she called the cops on him. What appalled me the most about this was how in the comments everyone was laughing and saying that it "served her right" and she should be more "respectful". What the actual fuck? She should be more respectful because HE'S being too loud in the first place? I'm sorry, but going to someone's front door and asking if they called the police on you is already confrontational. It sends the message that you know what they did and you have a problem with it. It's almost like a threat telling you not to do it again. And everyone's all like, "she could've just asked them to be quiet." No, no. See, the thing is, with people who think it's even okay to be loud at night outside, they typically aren't the kind of people to be considerate of others wishes. Because if they cared about anyone else, they wouldn't be loud in the first place. Best case scenario they they'll be quiet and they might, for a little while, but the noise will come back. Worst case scenario they tell you to fuck off. I can guarantee that the guys who played this "prank" would've been in the second category. 

I know the video was staged, but the concept and more importantly, a lot of the people's response to it was just terrible and makes me lose (even more) faith in humanity. It explains why so many people act the way they do.