Bedtime? Who am I to judge?
One thing that’s kind of weird about my upstairs neighbors: how they do, or do not, discipline their children. Now, I should preface this by noting that ever since I went to them and asked them to keep their 5 and 2 years old’s from hanging out at my ground floor bedroom window and asking me, “Whatchya doin?!?”, I have not once been bothered by inquisitive children.
In some ways, I attribute that more to the sophistication of the 5 year old who heard me explain to Papa how I needed privacy, etc.
It’s 1 AM… I’m getting ready to go to bed… I hear stomping and screaming from upstairs. The children are running around, emitting banshee shrieks, out of control… At One in the Freekin Morning!!
I can’t say I have a conscious memory of what my bedtime was when I was five years old. Later in my childhood, I remember it was nine. Even when I was an adolescent, there was an 11 PM bedtime. I remember this well, because as an early teen, I got chased out of theliving room by Dad several times when I tried to sneakily watch the 11:30 PM episode of Star Trek on Channel 44. Depriving an adolescent of Star Trek?? Child abuse!!
Even as I write this, on a school night, at 10:26 PM PT, I can hear intermittent elephantine trampling noises and banshee-like screaming children coming from upstairs.
Does this bother me? In and of itself, no. Instead, it’s more of a metaphysical annoyance. We all judge how other people raise their children based upon how we were ourselves were raised. Now, you might think that letting 5 year olds run and scream at 1 AM is universally and inherently wrong. Bad for the kids. Bad parenting. I know these thoughts cross my mind as I hear the miniature elephant herd trampling overhead.
Well, how many aspects of how I was raised, which was perfectly, BTW, would have been unacceptable in the Victorian age? How many aspects of accepted parenting in Asia or Africa would be frowned upon by western culture as either being too permissive or too strict?
I can’t say they’ve interfered with my sleep. Who am I to judge my neighbors for letting their kids stay up until 1 in the morning?
“Who am I to judge my neighbors for letting their kids stay up until 1 in the morning”?
Your the downstairs neighbor,that’s who you are.
You are the guy who is living directly below all that insanity happening above you at 1 in the friggen morning.
I gotta tell ya,even when adults do that kinda crap,and I was the downstairs neighbor it usually resulted in a 1 a.m.
confrontation of some sorts.Hey stomping around your second floor apartment at one in the morning is plain rude to the person living below you…..The kids are not to blame the parents on the other hand are asshole’s and that not judging,that’s a fact :groovy:
Nope your going to have to bring it up eventually J….because that kind crap is unacceptable.
and again that is not judging that is simply fact.
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I read your blog here and thought to myself that the subject of bad neighbors would lead to hours of YouYube entertainment. I entered the search phrase: “I hate my neighbor” in the YuoTube search box and did indeed find an endless stream of knock down drag out, shooting, death threats, fence jumping drunkards, stalkers, racist rants and teenagers spying on their older neighors with a running commentary of insults, ridicule and derision.
You have it made compared to most. Here is one benign example that I thought was semi educational in a teenager’s world view of older folks kind of way…
All I can say to this is……some people’s kids. 😉
It’s because that friggin cartoon network is on 24/7 now. We used to get bored with news(before news stations became entertainment channels) and documentaries after 10PM and fall asleep. 😯
Wow… They will be real attentive in school.
I hope we have some form of welfare in the future…so these kids can eat when they are adults.
There was a channel 44 when you were a kid? Back in dinosaur days we walked to school in the snow and we liked it…
OMG!!! I would have to jump out the window and ….wait…. your window isn’t high enough, it’s at ground level…srsly?? I’d go insane … wait maybe I already am, that aside tho, I couldn’t handle that kind of noise above beside or below me.
Truth is …..It is not always your actions that are phuked up….nope sometimes it the other persons actions that are phuked up….this strongly appears to be the case right here……:) 😉