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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 08:13am on 2008-11-03

Damn it. After a day of feeling cruddy followed by a long night of not quite managing to fall asleep despite a tryptophan-rich meal, I finally achieved sleep at 7:00.

And as of 7:50, there's a jackhammer chittering its way through the sidewalk outside my window. Ten minutes to fucking eight ay em.

Okay, I know that before the weekend this time would've been called ten to nine thanks to Daylight Redistribution Time, but it is still ten to eight this week, and still fifty precious minutes since I finally managed to fall asleep this morning, and still right outside my fucking bedroom window with a thrice-damned pneumatic jackhammer.

I'm feeling sore from the all over muscle clench that noise produced as it woke me.

Damn it.

(And as long as I'm bitching about stuff on my street: sometime between when I came in Hallowe'en night and the next time I looked out the window Saturday afternoon, some asshole snapped off all the trees that my next-door neighbour had planted in the until-then-empty tree-planter-boxes on the sidewalk over the summer. Broken off right about where the branching started. *grrr*)

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posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 07:28am on 2008-11-03
I feel your pain. Literally. Well, not for some months, but there was a period of 14 months where sleep after about 7:30 was not an option, for jackhammering and rock-crushing right up the street. Ugh. Nothing like waking up feeling like you're the pavement they're hammering!
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.insanejournal.com at 07:42am on 2008-11-03
Ugh! Here they've done a day or two then gone away for a couple weeks then come back again. It sounds so much louder this time. (The first time, they left a big ol' steel plate over a hole in a traffic lane of the cross street (which is US-1 north), so I've been hearing that boom at irregular intervals at all hours. Last time they dug holes in the sidewalk and in the street.)

I can almost understand drivers passing through not being aware enough of their surroundings to notice it's a residential area (literally house shaking car stereos in the wee hours), and I do realize that construction workers' days start bloody early, but is it really kosher to make that much noise where people sleep, before even eight o'clock, when it's not an actual emergency?
 
posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 07:44am on 2008-11-03
Thank you for perpetuating use of the word "assholery". Much appreciated.

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