beep-beeeeeeep *pause* beep-beeeeeep *pause* beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

[trinityvixen]

A school bus decided 6:00 am was a good time to honk outside of our building this morning. There was on-off but regular beeping for at least twenty minutes. It started with a double-tap, transitioned to alarm-clock-like beeps in steady sequence, and rounded off with full horn blasts for five seconds at a time.

And did I mention that the horn sounded like a dying clown horn? Honka-honka!

I almost ran out to the street to beat the blighter senseless. Needless to say, I didn't do that because I managed to convince myself each time that it was going to stop. Who honks for twenty minutes in the dead of morning and doesn't get the message that no one is going to respond except possibly a sleep-deprived mob?

I have trouble falling back asleep when rousted, too, so I barely slipped into semi-consciousness before the alarm went off. I seriously debated calling in sick, I was so zombified. I may still crash this afternoon.

HONKA HONKA.

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[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

"Ah, Homo Sapiens and their guns." -- Magneto

Replace the nouns with "New Yorkers" and "car horns" and you'll get my attitude towards one of the worst local vices. I've seen my neighbors honk in empty parking lots, apparently just to see if their horns worked. One thing in my neighbors' favor: When some idiot does lean on his horn for long stretches they'll come out and yell at them.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

We had the yelling/whistling guy a few years back. I think Jethrien posted about it--he spent a good half-hour in the wee hours of the morning yelling to up to someone in a nearby building. (Someone who apparently didn't have a doorbell or phone.) He reappeared a number of other mornings, though later switched to whistling, which was slightly less annoying.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't even get pissed about the firecrackers in the neighborhood any more. But this?? KILL.

I wonder if the rest of the neighborhood wasn't waiting for someone else to go and yell. God forbid this happens again. They're going to be confronted with crazy bed-head me on no sleep. Woe to that person.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have had those at both our places. Jesus H, STOP SCREAMING THROUGH THE WINDOW. I don't get that instinct. It's not usually in the morning, but it's just as persistently annoying regardless.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I think, really, the part that gets me is that they keep yelling for as long as they do. If someone knows you're coming over but you don't have a cell and their doorbell is broken, then you should only need to yell once. If they don't expect you, then maybe a few times. But over and over for twenty minutes? WTF?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't get the beat-the-head-against-the-wall attitude either. I mean, they either get it or they don't. If they do, shut up and wait. If they don't, GO AWAY.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Ah. He seems to be from the same school as the two ice cream trucks that drive around my neighborhood, though they at least have the good sense to only blast the music in the afternoon.

One trailed me to the supermarket last week. I think he thought I was interested because I kept looking at the truck. No, you fool, I'm glaring because you are playing a thirty-second loop of "If You're Happy and You Know It" interspersed with children giggling.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Omg I know, I have the same problem when something wakes me up. Like the builders who come early in the morning and chat loudly and omfg how is it possible that three floors up and window closed I can still hear them as if they were next to my bed? Sometime I imagine stabbing them all in the head then going back to sleep in the blissful silence :)

Also there is a mysterious truck whicclh sits and makes beeping backing up noises very early in the morning for a few minutes then goes away. I checked this morning and it was THREE AM. WHAT. THE FUCK.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'd be seriously creeped out if the ice cream truck started following me. Just saying. Where I come from, you go to where the music is, it doesn't follow you home.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I LOVE CAR ALARMS AND NOISEMAKERS OF EVERY KIND, COULDN'T YOU TELL FROM MY POST?

HONKA HONKA.

I live in a city. I live in the freaking "city that never sleeps." Well, fuck that noise, I fucking sleep. And it's not like I'm complaining about being woken up at unreasonable hours--I go to bed late, I get up late, so I can't really complain when something is noisy around normal-people hours. BUT SIX AM IS ONLY NORMAL HOURS FOR LUNATICS AND DEAD MEN. LIKE THIS BUS DRIVER.

HONKA HONKA.

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

lolol. And how is it that the council decided that 7AM was a totally resonable hour for construction work to begin? BANGBANGCLANKCRASH.

Fuck that shit. NORMAL PEOPLE do not start work at this hour. Come back at 9am, kthx.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I mean, we have to balance construction to avoid getting in the way of workers. I get it. They're still not allowed to be DICKS at inappropriate hours. Not that the "Cease and desist being cockfaces" regulations have really had any effect on construction workers, mind.

HONKA HONKA.

[saturn-shumba.livejournal.com]

What the hell.

I know for a fact that those kids do NOT care if they're late for school. So quit it school bus, with your bizarre clown horn.

[slothshaman.livejournal.com]

So, if you're completely zombified, does that mean we have to shoot you now? I've been getting antsy for a little carnageonthehelplessbodiesoftheundead, after all.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

At this point, I am not even thinking it was there to pick up kids. Because kids do not go to school at 6 am. Not even for before-school Latin or Choir practices. If he was just like persistently robbing me of sleep to be like "Look at me!" to some friend or another...KILL.

Honka honka!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I got better!

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

I think this may actually qualify as a noise complaint -- call 311 next time, eh?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's hard to catch them before they're gone. Best to do is either yell at them yourself or go out with a shovel. It makes a handy weapon and you can bury the body with it later!

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Turns out that after-hours, noise complaints are actually a 911 offense. Seriously, I called in to 311 about one once and the operator transferred me to 911...

Anyway, I'd be careful with that shovel thing -- hard to find a good patch of dirt in the city. You'd be better off with a jackhammer, and then YOU'RE the douche making the noise.