Super Obnoxious Neighbors

Once you get to college, you come to realize it is not the roommate you should worry about the most: it is the neighbors. And not just the neighbors to the sides, but also in the hallway.

Somehow, I arrived at the unfortunate circumstance of being between two football players, and two boys who like to listen to rap music until 2am.

At least the guys with the music are nice enough to turn it down if you knock on the wall a few times.

The football player, however, is not. I do not know if he has a roommate any longer, but my entire hall is pretty certain the ex-roommate left to live with friends in another dorm. I think I know why. This neighbor of mine, with whom I share the wall that my bed is IMMOVABLY ATTACHED TO, is not the most considerate person in the world. If he ever happens to stumble across this blog, I will not apologize. I'm pretty sure he already knows my opinion about him, via a note I left on his door a few nights ago.



A few nights ago, I was tired, stressed, and sleep deprived. All I wanted was to go to sleep. Now, I'm a light sleeper, so if there's, say, muffled background noise coming from another room I'll have a hard time sleeping. Sometimes I turn a fan on to combat this, because I'm accustomed to sleeping with a fan on.

But this chuckle head. Oh man. This doucheface leaves his TV on ALL FUCKING NIGHT. That wouldn't be too bad. Hearing a movie in the background isn't too bad. But this guy, this inconsiderate douche, left his TV on a DVD menu screen. So it was the same audio loop. For three. Fucking. Hours. I tried turning on music and my fan to drown the sound out, but the music was doing nothing to help me sleep. And having the fan on made me very cold, seeing as it had been below 20 degrees F the entire week.

This isn't the first infraction on his part, either. He shakes the wall repeatedly. I'm pretty sure half the time it's him masturbating. He doesn't turn is alarm clock off right away, if he even DOES get around to turning it off. I have definitely lost sleep as a direct result of sharing a wall with him, and I have woken up in a bad mood because his alarm went off two hours before mine, or he slammed into the wall and jostled me awake, or kept me up until the wee hours of the morning with his TV that he falls asleep watching.

I understand everyone has their habits, good and bad. I understand everyone falls asleep differently, and has different bedtimes, et cetera, et cetera. But COME ON. I draw the line when I have to kick and bang on the wall for three hours before something is done about it.

Tl;DR: it's okay to be a douche sometimes when dealing with a douche. Or when you really need to sleep.

-Doc Badass