Reply #41: What used to bug me most during my days of apartment living in college towns [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

was the abundance of pea brains who cranked their stereos up to full volume and then pointed the speakers OUT the window to "serenade" the whole neighborhood.

I once had to leave town early to make a meeting, and the night before, some fraternity, the brains of whose members were obviously addled by exposure to excessive sound waves, held an outdoor dance with full-volume music that lasted till three A.M.

The music was loud enough with the windows closed, and when I opened the windows to figure out who the offenders were (there were three fraternities within nuisance distance), the sound was so loud that I literally could not tell which direction it was coming from.

I called the cops, but being in a college town, they were completely uninterested in enforcing the noise regulations. Their attitude was, "If we went around breaking up every noisy party, we'd be doing nothing else."

And if any of you currently youthful DUers are guilty of excessive noise at night, remember that your musical tastes are not the center of the universe, nor is your desire to party hearty, and that people in the real world have legitimate reasons for wanting to sleep (an essential human need) that trump your desire to get wasted in a wall of sound.

(Oh, and I'm not being a crabby old lady. I felt this way when I was young.)