Re: Noisy Neighbors
The little kid and the parents, plus a couple of guests, don't live in the apartment, but were just visiting. Thinking about it, I understand abut having a handicapped kid and all...but what on earth were they doing all drunk and playing with the kid at midniht, anyway? They shoulda been at their own house...how much of being out late and being drunk contributed to the kid's behaviour?
Kids start school at two and a half over here, and even..or especially, if this kid was autistic...he would have had to be at school by eight thirty the next day.
It's difficult to understand the agressive reaction, as what I did by coming over and politely asking to think about their neighbors who couldn't sleep because of their noise was pretty much normal behaviour, and I'm pretty sure that if it hadn't have been me, then somebody else would've come out after a while to say the same thing.
Joe the neighbor, who lives right next door, is forever screaming at and beating his wife...sometimes even tourists knock on his door to ask if things are ok. And once, a new neighbor screamed out the wondow at him to watch out (that was impressive, and Joe quieted down a bit afterwards).
When Keala, my second son, was two, I decided it was time he stopped breastfeeding and he had such a fit (at midnight), that three neighbors came over to see what was the matter. I'd been upstairs contemplating suicide or infantice or psychiatric help when I heard the knock on the door and thought it was the Gendarmes....the three old dears at the door were surprised to see me and said they thought I'd gone out drinking and left the babies home alone (!!!). I got the inquisition as to what I was doing to the baby to make him cry so much.....and then the two kids (there were only two at that time) came down and giggled and began playing in the street so the busybodies went home...but fourteen years later there is still a story going around town that I left the kids to go out and drink.
That made me mad, but the other side of the coin is that if anything ever does happen, it won't go un-noticed for long.
The little kid and the parents, plus a couple of guests, don't live in the apartment, but were just visiting. Thinking about it, I understand abut having a handicapped kid and all...but what on earth were they doing all drunk and playing with the kid at midniht, anyway? They shoulda been at their own house...how much of being out late and being drunk contributed to the kid's behaviour?
Kids start school at two and a half over here, and even..or especially, if this kid was autistic...he would have had to be at school by eight thirty the next day.
It's difficult to understand the agressive reaction, as what I did by coming over and politely asking to think about their neighbors who couldn't sleep because of their noise was pretty much normal behaviour, and I'm pretty sure that if it hadn't have been me, then somebody else would've come out after a while to say the same thing.
Joe the neighbor, who lives right next door, is forever screaming at and beating his wife...sometimes even tourists knock on his door to ask if things are ok. And once, a new neighbor screamed out the wondow at him to watch out (that was impressive, and Joe quieted down a bit afterwards).
When Keala, my second son, was two, I decided it was time he stopped breastfeeding and he had such a fit (at midnight), that three neighbors came over to see what was the matter. I'd been upstairs contemplating suicide or infantice or psychiatric help when I heard the knock on the door and thought it was the Gendarmes....the three old dears at the door were surprised to see me and said they thought I'd gone out drinking and left the babies home alone (!!!). I got the inquisition as to what I was doing to the baby to make him cry so much.....and then the two kids (there were only two at that time) came down and giggled and began playing in the street so the busybodies went home...but fourteen years later there is still a story going around town that I left the kids to go out and drink.
That made me mad, but the other side of the coin is that if anything ever does happen, it won't go un-noticed for long.
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