
Slightly off topic, but bear with me.One of my theories me and my crack team (me and the dog) have about the dastardly nature of internet poker is that when not playing against rigged AI you are up against Generation X douchebags that never have to worry about dealing with real life. Mommy and Daddy will take care of you. They wanted your life to better, they coddled you and you can pretty much fucking do whatever you want. About the only thing you've done for the planet is Anonymous kicking the crap out of Scientology. Appreciate that since after internet poker I find Scientology to be the most reprehensible thing on the planet.
I have some twenty something buttwipes that "live" next to me. Their sole existence seems to be about getting away with how much noise they can make without me calling the police. My crack team member is dying of cancer and he's awfully fucking smart. And sensitive. He thinks I'm mad at him. Not fair. There are several topics I'm very passionate about, and the dog is one of them.
Back in the 80's a college dormmate introduced me to heavy metal music. Let's call him Hero, because I have the utmost respect for him. Hero is the third smartest man I've ever met after my friend from high school, Gary, and my brother in law. Hero incited my interest in heavy metal music. To this day I still play a lot of the 70's and 80's greats. Fave groups, Triumph, JP, Scorpions. Hero lived in Japan for awhile, married a hot Asian chick, bounced around the country and experienced the same neighbor bullsit I'm complaining about here. His ten year old blog post follows.
Noisy Neighbors
For the last 20 years, in every place that I've lived, I've had noisy neighbors who woke me up during the night. This happened in the dorms at college (of course), two of the four places I lived in Arizona, my apartment in Japan, all four places I lived in California, and now in my apartment in Texas. Now I'm not a particularly light sleeper, but someone dribbling a basketball 20 feet from my bedroom window at 4am generally wakes me up.
Typically, these are people who are quiet all day long. Sometime around midnight, though, the party kicks in. Some have cranked the stereo full blast between 1am and 3am several nights a week. My current neighbors like to sit on their porch (which is about 20 feet from my bedroom window) and party, scream, shout, make cell phone calls (usually about drugs or their "f*cking time in prison"), or dribble a basketball.
In almost all the cases, I've asked them to quiet down with no real effect. My neighbors (three men living in a one bedroom apartment) in my duplex in Arizona are typical. They'd come roaring home in their giant four wheel drive at 11 pm each night (from where, I have no idea), launching it in the air by driving over the curb and parking in the front lawn. About midnight or 1am, long after I was asleep, they'd suddenly crank the stereo so loud that the walls would rattle. Then I'd drag my butt out of bed, eyes pasted half shut, throw on some clothes and stumble over to ask them to be quiet. "Sure, no problem buddy" they'd say, quite nicely. And it would get quiet. Then the entire scene would repeat again the next night, sometimes 4 times a week. Every single time I asked them to be quiet, they seemed surprised that they'd woken me (even when it was the 4th time that week).
Now I could dismiss this as some aberration, except that I've met with similar behavior almost every single place that I've lived. So I've wondered what's going on here. I think these people are either:
Stupid - Maybe they really don't understand how cranking the stereo at 2 am or screaming outside someone's bedroom window could wake someone. Even when you tell them, it doesn't make sense to them so they ignore it.
Long-term memory impaired - When they crank the stereo at 2 am, maybe they just can't remember that the last time they did it (24 hours ago) it woke the neighbors.
Unable to generalize - The thinking here goes something like this: "On Monday, I cranked the stereo at 2 am, it woke the neighbor and he told me to turn it down. On Tuesday, I cranked the stereo at 2 am, it woke the neighbor and he told me to turn it down. On Wednesday, I cranked the stereo at 2 am, it woke the neighbor and he told me to turn it down. Now it's Thursday, 2 am. . .Party Time!!!"
Complete assholes - They know that the noise will wake you, they know they are a pain in the ass, but they do it any way, because they just don't give a f*ck!
Whatever is going on here, I wish they'd just send these people to Chechnya or something.
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If you are a quality human being there is some modicum of rezpect for the neighbor that is directly attached to the duplex. Yet it seems that every time they see my lights are on it's time to run up and down the stairs and slam the doors closed.
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Back to bogker (boguspoker). Over the past few years I've adjusted my sleep schedule to deliberatley be up at odd for a Baby Boomer hours. Internet Poker gets a vacation while I use that time to fuck with the neighbors