If you had to listen to this seven days a week would it bother you? (details inside)

Try running a box fan on high…The white noise will block out most annoying noises, but won’t bother you…

I do sleep with a fan on 3 speed but he isn’t playing that late and I don’t nap. I just feel so sorry for his next door neighbors.

Basketball isn’t too bad to me.
My neighbor was a drummer,as was my younger brother.That will make you climb the walls.

It would disturb me if I was trying to sleep otherwise I’m sure I could tune it out. When I was a kid then kids would play with a big red soft ball against a house wall or their garage doors. For hours. It seemed to me every kid on our street was doing it or they were play two-square or four-square in the street with each other. I think the sound would have been fine if I were allowed out there to do the same. How the other parents tolerated the noise when mine couldn’t, I don’t know.

If it was that annoying, I’d tear down the basketball hoop in the middle of the night. I hate repetitive annoyance.

@lucillelucillelucille a drummer? Maybe I don’t have it so bad after all. but it would be nice if he’d lose interest in it. Why can’t he sit indoors and text his friends like normal kids? LOL

Faraway noises like that don’t really bother me, although yeah, if it was next door, it might get annoying…then again I’m never at home in the day, and I’m sure I stay up late enough for him to be done by the time I go to bed.
Try living in a rooming house full of drunks who occasionally try to bust in your room. Now that sucks.

@Symbeline Lord. That sounds like where my daughter used to live. A real life nightmare, eh?
shudders
Then after she got away from them and moved to the country what did she do? She invited a noisy drunk to come live with her.

I will trade you your basketball player for my rap-blasting, car-repairing, fighting neighbors any time! Send ‘em on over.

I would welcome the sound of a basketball over what I listen to about 10 months a year. The family that lives behind us has 4 daughters and they have a trampoline. They jump on the trampoline often and scream the entire time. Not like laughing, having fun screams, but it sounds like bloody murder. I don’t know what they are doing, I’m assuming they are having fun, because, like I said, they do it often, usually several hours on the weekend. In the spring and fall, you can’t even open the back door or windows unless you want to listen to what sounds like a horror show all afternoon.

OMG they’re probably pushing each other to the edge of the trampoline over and over again.
Dreadful !!!

I’d probably be fine with it, anything to help me further improve my patience…

Noises like that don’t bother me and I can sleep through pretty much anything. But at one point our next door neighbour had a dog that barked constantly and I just wanted to shoot the damned thing.

I wouldn’t be bothered by a basketball. I’ve had some pretty bad neighbours, and I’ve had to live with hours of blasting music so loud that my floor vibrated and dishes rattled in the dish rack, a pool table in the apartment below, a screaming couple yelling about who gave chlamydia to whom… I’d have given anything for a basketball to be my only annoyance.

@Seelix Omigosh!!!