As somebody who works during the night and therefore sleeps during the day I am no stranger to interrupted sleep. Occasionally I’ve been woken by jackhammers from street repairs, noisy roommates and phone calls all of which weren’t that bad really because they went away after awhile.
However the ongoing problem is neighbours doing renovations on their houses, mowing the lawn, working on their cars or sitting outside while talking and playing with their noisy dog. There’s not much I can do about them, since you can’t choose your neighbours and I can’t exactly ask them to do their work during the night. I got new neighbours though, and after a couple of months I came to like them, because they hadn’t done any of the previously mentioned crap that other neighbours had. Finally I was sleeping well and loving it.
For some unknown reason my brother asked me how I liked my new neighbours, and I told him that “they are actually pretty good”. This I now realize was a huge understatement and because I took them for granted, it seems that they have decided to punish me by getting a drum set. So instead of hearing muffled voices of people and dogs or the occasional echo of hammers hitting nails, I now hear hours of repetitive unfinished drum loops as they practice every evening.
On the plus side I didn’t let it affect me too much since I cleverly set up my old bunk bed mattresses in my junk room and have been able to sleep undisturbed for now. Still, I am hoping that the drums are just a fad and I can go back to sleeping in my bedroom closet soon.
