How can I come on when I know I'm guilty?

[citizenx]

Sometimes I want to leave everything behind and become a hermit, if only for some peace and quiet. Living with my father is great, but it's hard to be left alone sometimes. He hums, he sings, he practices for Saturday. He has a strong voice, and there's no reason he shouldn't be proud of it. It's just that the walls are paper-thin and my ears

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[eyeteeth]

I would counter by intoning (in Hebrew of course), "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, creator of the universe, who hast made my father pipe down so I can get some damn sleep," but maybe this is one of those things that make it good that I'm monolingual. Would earplugs help?

(in Hebrew of course)

[citizenx]

I'm sure it doesn't surprise you that I can say the first bit of that (up until "universe") without even thinking.

The problem with earplugs is that I still need to hear the alarm. It's true that the alarm clock is much closer and louder, but there'd be some experimentation involved in finding out whether I can still be roused from sleep with earplugs in. Of course, this whole thing happened only an hour or so before the alarm was set to go off and I could've just got out of bed and done something useful instead of lying there, trying to ignore the world, finally falling asleep again, being groggy because of the alarm pulling me out.

Re: (in Hebrew of course)

[eyeteeth]

Heck, even I can say the first bit. And I know that "father" is abba, but I admit that "pipe down" has me stymied.

Do you want my alarm clock for the deaf? It shakes the bed. I got it in the hope that the vibrating bed would prevent me from crawling back in and going to sleep again, but it didn't work out that way. It turns out that the thing makes such a horrible noise that I just jerked it out of the wall and then went to sleep again. If you think you could get some use out of it, I'll give it to you.

That's ... odd

[citizenx]

I've never considered what deaf people would need in situations like that. It's intriguing, though I think what I really need is something that slaps me in the face until I get up.

I'd probably just use "be quiet" instead of "pipe down".