neighbors
maybe i'm too accustomed to free standing housing, but this bothered me. i was on a friend's myspace this morning, listening to their profile song for the first time, and i get a knock at the door. i open it and my not-so-friendly neighbor says "could you turn it down" - that sentence should have a ? after it, but she didn't say it like she was asking. i replied "really? i'm sorry, it's just my computer speakers.." she said, "yea , it's loud. it's echoing." so i said "ok, sorry" and i went back into the house and turned it down.
but i don't understand how she could have heard it. i was just listening to laptop speakers, and they weren't on full volume. we live in thick-walled concrete housing with heavy metal front doors.. and this woman lives below and across from us. we don't share any walls.
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i hadn't even finished one song before she came up to complain.
i can't make sense of it.
so after she left, i turned the music back up slightly, but not to its previous volume, for fear of pissing her off, and went outside to see what i could hear. i could barely make out any sound at all standing right outside the door! i'm sure that if i hadn't already known there was music playing, i wouldnt have heard anything. so how do you go from not hearing anything from just outside the door, to it being "loud and echoing" through the walls by turning it up a smidge higher. i mean these laptop speakers (the ones that come built in, nothing external here) are pretty decent at full volume, but even then they're nothing to bother the neighbors with.
don't misunderstand me, i believe in being considerate of your neighbors. i think everyone has a right to request that music be turned down, if it's being playing continuously at an unreasonable volume, but i'm a little miffed at having to tip-toe around my neighbor's super-sonic hearing.
i mean, which one of us is out of our minds? because something doesn't gel here.