Why does me wanting some quiet make me a pariah?

LordSplodge

LordSplodge

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I have worked all week. I just want to sit down and relax in piece and quite, but oh no my step-son wants to play some crap music with the bass right up. Now I don't mind him playing his crappy music but all I can hear is *THUD* *THUD-THUD* *THUD* no matter where I am in the house.

After 3 attempts at me telling him to turn it down I am getting nowhere (guess he had a bad day too, eh? ) so I send Her Indoors up and still no joy I go up and trun the bass down and inform him that if I can hear it downstairs the speakers will go out the window.

The net result of this is he has scampered to his mates who has a mum who presumably doesn't care about getting some piece and quiet. The wife had to give him a lift over there and he moaned about me on the way, she was pig in the middle and I am left being treated like a pariah by the both of them.

Well get over it. This house isn't a democracy. My rules. I did say sorry for making my wife piggy-in-the-middle, but I don't ask more than once.

I have learned the following:

1. I should always go down the pub on Friday
2. Teenagers are crap. They listen to crap music as well.
3. Despite this being an Autocracy I am always in the wrong.

Thanks for listening.
 
You're not his Dad, and you're banging his mum, what gives you the right to tell him what to do?*




* not my opinion, but probably what his is.
 
If it is your house, you can tell your kid where to shove it, if hes just being an unruly teenager tell him simply he can follow your rules or leave, if he doesn't, out the door his stuff goes.

How old is the kid?
 
Ben M said:
You're not his Dad, and you're banging his mum, what gives you the right to tell him what to do?*




* not my opinion, but probably what his is.
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Actually he normally does listen to me. I am (mostly) fair and laid down the "I am the law" rules years ago.

However it's my way or the highway an that doesn't change even if he was the bloody King of England when he is under my roof.

Kids!
 
Make him wear headphones!!!

Its a bit of a compromise then :)

Seeing as its your house and your rules, he should, and will have to obey the rules you and his mum set.
 
I had the exact same problem with my step daughter.

Comes back home from work, eats, goes upstairs, puts on her THUMP THUMP THUMP and to add pain to injury, shouts to her friends on her mobile while still having the music up loud.

Solution - A pair of £100 Senheiser headphones with a monthly subscription to skype.

The cost of silence huh? :rolleyes:
 
WotDa said:
GTFO.

PS. I never noticed how old you were..
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Don't make me come round yours and lay the law down. :p


Youth of today!

Oh and I have always listened to awesome music, even when I was a teenager.

I feel he is more cross at me that I am at him, but c'est la vie. I'll drink a bottle of wine and chill out to some Deerhoof on my iTunespod thingie.
:p
 
Make love to him mum lound an voilently so theat the bed hits the wall "THUMP THUMP THUMP"

and then go downstairs and tell him "that's what it sounds like when you play music"

he'll be physically sick every time he hears anything bassy again.
 
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