Bang, bang, drill, saw, thud, thud, bang, bang

[XmisterIS]

Here I am, having decided to sit in the peace and quiet of my own home to read Irvin Yalom's "Existential Psychotherapy", a weighty and dense tome of 513 pages, no less, and all sodding morning all I can hear from next door is the infernal banging of the builders who are putting up an extension.

Just as I had found perfect silence, aided by a pair of earplugs, I filled my knickers and was scared half to death by a builder knocking furiously on the window of my study! (standing in my garden!!) I popped out an earplug, opened the window and asked him, "*what* ... izzit?" "Sorry mate, can we put a ladder up to 'ave a bang at the side of the extension? I tried ringin' yer doorbell but yer din' arnsa!"

Suddenly I feel like Basil Fawlty trying to listen to Brahm's third racket ...

 

[Globalti]

Gawd! I was once watching a DVD on my laptop in a hotel bedroom, earplugs in, when I suddenly became aware of the room steward standing beside me! I also nearly shat myself, thanks goodness it wasn't a porn movie.

 

[punkypossum]

I know how you feel - I had just got rid of my builders when they decided to knock down and rebuild the extension of the one opposite! Great fun, especially when you are on nights and trying to get some sleep!

 

[Fnaar]

Gawd! I was once watching a DVD on my laptop in a hotel bedroom, earplugs in, when I suddenly became aware of the room steward standing beside me! I also nearly shat myself, thanks goodness it wasn't a porn movie.


This post has been edited by Admin: Today, 14:28:26 - Reason for edit: Don't really need that kind of reference on a "noise pollution" thread

Made me laaarf though when I read it