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White Denim on headphones
Amazing, has @pajamas started a band?
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Kinnel you don't live in Sydenham do you?
I lost my shit with a neighbour who was out with a DA sander for over 2 hours solid yesterday. He was closer to my house than to his and the noise carried into my workroom like a plague of hornets. He's new to the area and my first words when he finally stopped were "you gonna stop that now - it's fucking noisy". He just looked at me confused and asked "what was he supposed to do?" and that he "needed to finish". When I realised it was harder than trying to explain to a shit driver that there driving is shit I settled for asking for a break as I was unable to concentrate. Occasional loud noises are fine and doing DIY is understandable but not having any clue of how disruptive you can be is beyond me.
While I am glad to still be in work, sitting in a spare bedroom hunched over a laptop is not ideal and I am mightily pissed off that a neighbour is taking advantage of the sunny weather to sand some old bit of shabby shit furniture in his garden all day long. With a loud electric sander of course. So I have to keep the window shut and I can still hear the bastard thing buzzing away so I am listening to White Denim on headphones which is out of character and not conducive to drafting a deed to enable one charity to hand over responsibility to another charity for a project that the first one no longer has capacity to oversee.
If I ask him to stop, he will start again this evening when I want to sit outside. And he’s basically a nice bloke, just a bit addicted to power tools. And he is out of work because of Coronavirus so...
... do I just carry on and hope he hasn’t got sanding projects to fill up the next few weeks? Do I suggest to him he might want some sort of mask to keep the dust out of his lungs?