My neighbors once had a loud party well into the evening (after 1am) in the middle of the week. Since I had to get up at 5am I was not pleased. Alas, I did not have that kind of sound power at my disposal. The best I could come with was to tape the nozzle of compressed air horn down and toss it in the bushes by their house at like 4am. But once I cooled down the next day I didn't care enough to actually go do it.
Is hypocrasy a life sentence?
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That is so funny because it's almost exactly what I want to do except I want to put it through their mail slot. The rest of my neighbours are really good so why P them off.
lol that's pretty good. We don't have mail slots in my neighborhood (there's a central box) and I wanted them to have to get up and go looking for it.
I was one of the pioneers of the "RLC" - Really Loud Car, back in the '80s. At the shop where I worked in Winnipeg we were installing idiotic audio systems right at the start of such stuff. I talked a lot of young fellows into mortaging their future for high current amps and subwoofers. 10 years later, I grew to REALLY hate what they had become, Corollas with 12's and rattling license plates and such. I tried REALLY hard not to complain.
No time limit. Once you have done something yourself, you can't complain when others do it....ever. The people who do complain are being selfish thinking only they can be inconsiderate and/or make silly mistakes in life and no one else. If you don't like the noise, move to a place in the country....oh....and not near an airport because you shouldn't complain about the noise after you buy it.
Instead of taping the horn in the on position use an elastic band or spring device. Block it with an ice cube to keep the horn from going off. Five minutes later when you are nowhere to be seen the ice cube melts and it's wake up time.
No digital red LED timers or tracable electronics.
What's the key here is how well that aligns with your internal values. The fact of having been loud in the past and now being a "model neighbour" leaves millions of details out that can make each case different. As silly as it may sound, you may have simply not realized something that eventually led you to stopping being loud. Others, that still make noise may be doing it regardless and with disregard to everybody else.
As far as "b.tching" goes, you can do it anyways, just to vent. A lot of people do that (often without realizing), so their complaints about your alleged hypocrisy could as well be a hypocrisy on their part: "beam in your eye vs. splinter in your neighbor's eye" sort of a thing. Now, holding that "self-contradictory" behaviour against them would count against you again... It's a vicious circle. The more we let go of, the more we gain in terms of peace.
