Housemates. Very noisy housemates.

tenchi-fan · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:02

Last night I didn't get to bed until after 1am, so I was worried as I wouldn't get the recommended eight hours sleep. Turns out that was the least of my worries... some inconsiderate housemates came in at 3am and blasted reggae music. They turned it down slightly afterwards (when they made sure I was awake, I'm sure), but I still didn't want to hear Bob Marley at 3.30am. So, how to get revenge?

I got a can of glade aerosol and sprayed it on the fire detector. It woke pretty much everyone in the house up, and I'm sure everyone blamed the party animals for smoking **** and no one suspected me... I just hope I'm not around later today when the landlord comes and tells everyone that Zone 3 is really my room!! Ah well. I'm just going to tell them I was burning incense and I guess I got carried away! Anyway although the alarm stopped pretty quickly, an annoying beep continued all night right out side their room. So ha.

Anyway, although they decided to go to bed at around 4 (mainly because of the commotion with the alarm), but that still didn't stop the little 20 year old slapper Sarah from jumping into the sack with a scumbag who doesn't even live in the house but seems to cause a lot of noise... and all was pretty quiet until 5 when Sarah started wailing "YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW MY ******* NAME, YOU CALLED ME SUSAN! WAAAH". She must have really enjoyed wallowing in self pity because she wailed about this until 5.30am when her 35 year old boyfriend shut her up by… err you prob don’t need the details but lets just say it’s bad manners to talk with your mouth full... and unfortunately for me they didn’t even have the manners to close their bedroom door during their 30 minute argument and 30 second make-up so I heard every disgusting sound.
you'd think that'd be it but no...
Out of the ashes (or glade) of their party sprung... another party... at 7 o'clock this morning. The bloody ******** then played music for another hour and a half and only stopped about ten minutes before I went out to work.
Now, I have to live in that house for another 3 weeks and if they want a war they'll get one.
I don’t know if I went a bit too far or not far enough but I’m sitting zombie-eyed at my computer this morning and it’s all thanks to two housemates and their friend who make a lot of noise on work nights with no consideration for the other 8 people in the house.

Visage · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:04

So to persuade people that waking people up in the early hours is a Bad Thing, you, erm, woke even more people up in the early hours?

How terribly mature of you.

AtreuS · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:06

REVENGE!!........... if you are only there another 3 weeks then sit down carefully and plan out your revenge. Dont rush into things.... as they say "revenge is a dish best served cold".

pyro · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:08

Why did you move into a loud house when you have to go to bed before 1am to get the reccomended 8 hours sleep? Also, are you 8yrs old?

tenchi-fan · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:12

How terribly mature of you.

That's what the part of me that says "you went to far" is telling me.

AtreuS said:
REVENGE!!........... if you are only there another 3 weeks then sit down carefully and plan out your revenge. Dont rush into things.... as they say "revenge is a dish best served cold".

Good advice... like next time don't use the smoke detector in your own room. Doh! Yea I have a lot of planning to do over the next few weeks but some of these guys are pretty scummy. Whatever I do can't be traced back definitively to me.

Scam · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:15

I had something similar to me a while back. I have an attic room and the guy beneath me and another housemate came back at 3am and proceed to play the guitar for about an hour. I've told anyone in this house in no uncertain terms that i wont stand for being kept awake at this point of Uni (final year, at this point there was a couple of months to go), so after about 10mins i stamped on the floor a bit. They didn't take any notice so i eventually stormed downstairs into the room beneath me and went to grab the guitar off of the guy. He was so drunk he wanted to instigate a fight (well he was mouthing off and wouldnt let me take it), so i left it. They played on for a bit longer and i stamped on the floor a few more times and they eventually shut up. I was not a happy bunny at all. Que waking up the whole house at 9am with a nice medley of SOAD, Incubus etc.. including banging on doors, playing my drums - basically making a huge ruckuss in no uncertain terms.

I was absolutely livid, ruined my plan of a good days work. It's not just the fact that you get kept up, its more like you have to go and ask them to shutup. Anyone with a bit of common sense should be quiet around the house once they know people are in bed, or after 12 or something. In the end one of the guys apologised and bought me some donuts. Meh.

@Visage, what would you do? If people are stupid enough to be noisy at that time of the night especially when they've been asked to shutup - there's nothing else but to make them feel pain for their efforts!

tenchi-fan · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:17

pyro said:
Why did you move into a loud house when you have to go to bed before 1am to get the reccomended 8 hours sleep? Also, are you 8yrs old?

That was tongue-in-cheek!

And it was never a loud house! It was a quiet house in a quiet area, until the landlord let a druggie move in. In fairness, the neighbours have been complaining about the noise and the guy will probably be evicted *eventually* but that's no good to me having prepaid rent for the next three weeks. At this stage I'd get more sleep commuting, even though I have to get up at 5.30 in the morning when I'm commuting.

Visage · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:17

Scam said:
@Visage, what would you do? If people are stupid enough to be noisy at that time of the night especially when they've been asked to shutup - there's nothing else but to make them feel pain for their efforts!

I wouldnt have moved in with such inconsiderate people in the first place.

basmic · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:19

Prawns underneath the floorboards, TBH.

Try and make your way round the entire house, when people can't see you, and slip prawns in every nook and cranny you can find - under the floorboards will be the best, especially with summer approaching.

tenchi-fan · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:21

Scam said:
Que waking up the whole house at 9am with a nice medley of SOAD, Incubus etc.. including banging on doors, playing my drums - basically making a huge ruckuss in no uncertain terms.

Actually I did that on the girl in the house before. She played loud music at 3am one morning because she was just in from the pub. She was working the next day, too. So I calmly waited until 3.30 and played System (her least favourite band). At 3.45 she asked me to turn it down. I said "not a chance". I turned it off at 4 though so both of us could get some sleep.
But problem is her and Matt (the guy who lives in the house) are always dosed up to the eyeballs on coke or something and they couldn't care less what time it is when they play their music.

I was going to call the guards but settled instead for setting off the alarm.

Scam · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:28

Visage said:
I wouldnt have moved in with such inconsiderate people in the first place.

That's very easy to say but if its a Uni house, how on earth would you know? You befriend people, say on your course in the first year (that arent in your corridor in halls). You might get along with them great, you wouldnt know what they're like to actually live with until.. *tada* you live with them?

Scythe · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:52

You need to make a barrier like someone else did on these forums, with chairs and about 7ft high

Cybermyk · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:02

basmic said:
Prawns underneath the floorboards, TBH.

Try and make your way round the entire house, when people can't see you, and slip prawns in every nook and cranny you can find - under the floorboards will be the best, especially with summer approaching.

Soy sauce or fish sauce would be better and harder to get rid of.

MasterMike · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:10

My brother, who lives with me and some friends, now owns a drumkit. He lives in the room above me. He knows never to play it when I'm sleeping, however, because although he is now 20 I am still significantly stronger than him

Skiddley · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:19

Go on holiday, lock your door and set the timers on everything (alarm clock, tv, stereo etc) to go off at random times during the night

aceface57 · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:20

Maybe you should speak to your landlord about drug use in the house, im sure he will be very pleased by this and take some action?

iCraig · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:21

Every day go and orgasm into the mayonaise jar.

Within a week, it will be sandwich time.

tenchi-fan · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:25

I'm moving out in 3 weeks (going to australia, woo!) so I might invest in a cheap alarm clock radio. Only thing is I only can get revenge on the girl because the guy's room's downstairs.

I'm sure the landlord knows, he's just taking his time to act but I might have a word with him later.

iCraig - your idea is out of the question. The topic of conversation was low enough already!

Superdude · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:28

Ha Ha

I was in a house last night where the fire alarm kept going off in zone 3, you weren't in Southampton by any chance

Anyway I'm afraid thats living with housemates. It's ok if it only happens occasionally and you have to accept that. If its happening a lot talk to them or your landlord.

Whats this thing with reccommended sleep? real men don't follow guidelines

tenchi-fan · 18 Apr 2006 at 12:41

Superdude said:
Ha Ha

I was in a house last night where the fire alarm kept going off in zone 3, you weren't in Southampton by any chance

Anyway I'm afraid thats living with housemates. It's ok if it only happens occasionally and you have to accept that. If its happening a lot talk to them or your landlord.

Whats this thing with reccommended sleep? real men don't follow guidelines

No where near Southampton - but that's a strange coincidence!

It's been happening way too much lately, the guy moved in a few months ago and only recently has parties... mainly just his girlfriend, another girl in the house, and one of his friends who doesn't even live in the house. They don't start til around 3 and can then go on until morning time.

I was joking about the recommended amount of sleep! But it isn't a joke being kept awake all night when you have work the next day!