Okay, here goes. My neighbors put up a basketball hoop right next to my apartment. Every single day the kids are out there shooting hoops right outside my window, and they are bouncing balls off my wall. It’s only a matter of time before they break a window- it is GOING TO HAPPEN.
Every morning they start at 8 am, which isn’t too bad because I’m always gone to work by then. But it’s not the nicest thing to wake up to on the weekends.
Rather than complaining, I just kept telling myself “Hey, it’s just kids having fun, and it’s not like they’re waking me up.” So I’ve let this go on for weeks without saying anything. But since I work from home most Fridays, they’re driving me insane with rage and I really want to do something about it. But is it too late? Is my lack of complaint thus far basically the same as telling them it’s not a problem? If something goes on for a couple of weeks, do I suddenly lose the right to say anything? What would you do in this situation?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Jericho // Apr 18, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Why not challenge them to a game of 3 on 1 (or how many of them there are) and then absolutely humiliate them? Foul the fuck out of them, scream racial slurs that don’t make sense at them and then, after you win 11-0, kick the ball as far as you can and say “that’s how we play in my neighborhood, you little fuck holes.” I don’t think complaining will go far enough, you need to punish them on a much deeper level.
2 Barry Freed // Apr 18, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Dude, brilliant. Seriousy. I’m going to channel Bill Laimbeer and show them what’s up:
3 Magglio // Apr 18, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Wow. So much anger. I was just going to suggest some chocolate chip cookies. And milk. As a peace offering. Of course the cookies would be laced with rat poop.
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