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OH MY GOD, I'm about to scream...

Asked by chelseababyy (7939points) December 1st, 2008 from iPhone

So I’m laying in bed and all of the sudden I hear someone car horn, I’m thinking okay, maybe someone is getting picked up—no, I was wrong. Some one is outside our apts just holding the horn, for over 5 mins. Then they., honk honk honk, and back to the hooooooooooooooooonk.

#1, what would you do if you were me..
And
#2, what’s the most annoying thing someone could do why you were laying in bed trying to pass out? And
#3, what’s the most annoying thing someone HAS done

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chelseababyy's avatar

They’re still doing it.

chyna's avatar

Ball bat comes to mind. j/k
Call the police.

The_Inquisitor's avatar

crack a window open to yell at them?

chelseababyy's avatar

I don’t have a working phone here, and I dunno where my boyfriends cell is. I’m in the Cayman Islands btw

EmpressPixie's avatar

Turn on some music or a TV to drown it out? I find that noise easier to ignore than something like a car horn.

augustlan's avatar

Sounds like a car alarm to me. That sucks!

Mtl_zack's avatar

open your window, take a deep breath and tell whoever is doing it to fuck off. i bed everyone in the building is waiting for someone else to say something. take initiative,

chelseababyy's avatar

Dude it’s noooooot a car alarm, no way. And I have music on…

DrasticDreamer's avatar

I’d scream at them and find a way to call the cops. Probably a neighbors phone, since you don’t have one.

KatawaGrey's avatar

Cars alarms go off all the time in my neighborhood, so I know how you feel.

Drastic beat me to it. I was gonna say use a neighbor’s phone…

jlm11f's avatar

throw rocks at them! or…you know…whatever rock-like substance you have just sitting in your home.

chelseababyy's avatar

Mmmm someone is out there in the car, there’s no way a car alarm could sound like this. And pnl, I think I just might. I jus bought two big mangos :)

KatawaGrey's avatar

Do you have any indication as to why they’re beeping the horn? Maybe something’s wrong. calling the police might still be your best bet.

Magnus's avatar

You have a camera?
I think better if I visualize the problem.

chelseababyy's avatar

Asdfdsdssa it’s still going off, it woke the boyfriend up, he’s going to look, and idk, I’ve only been here for a month, people here are hella different. Who knows

jlm11f's avatar

no no! not mangoes! mangoes are too delicious to be wasted like that. how about any paper weights?

AstroChuck's avatar

One time I was walking by a car and I guess I got too close because the alarm started going off. I didn’t want the owner of the car to come back and be confused as to why it was going off so I threw a brick through the windshield. I figured that would explain it.

chelseababyy's avatar

Rotten bananas, ice cubes?

EmpressPixie's avatar

@AC: hee hee! No question there!

chelseababyy's avatar

Apparently someone must have broken down and they’re fixing the car.. They have the hood open

chelseababyy's avatar

@ac lololol woooooow

Elumas's avatar

I would go out and get in my car and beep my horn louder. Start a horn war.

jlm11f's avatar

why do they need to keep the horn on while fixing the car? Am I missing something?

Magnus's avatar

Too funny astro. Lol!

chelseababyy's avatar

Who knows, I’m slightly bored, okay, more than slightly, and I’m debating going out there and just being all “WTFmate”

Mtl_zack's avatar

Im with Elumas on this one. Clearly, its on.

chelseababyy's avatar

I’m honestly debating this,

Pros: potentially winning a horn war

Cons: now its raining….

Hmmm

asmonet's avatar

Throw rocks.

chelseababyy's avatar

Unfortunately I’m out rocks
In my house… Need to go to the rock store an get some more :)

jlm11f's avatar

you missed the BOGO deal they had going for it over Black Friday!

Elumas's avatar

Hm. No one has answered numbers 2 or 3…

chelseababyy's avatar

WHY do I always miss the good deals.. PnL, can I buy some off of you?

chelseababyy's avatar

@Elumas, I know.. :[

EmpressPixie's avatar

#3. Someone poked me in the side repeatedly so that I would brush my teeth. I was not interested. If I had been interested in brushing my teeth I would have done so. I just wanted to pass out. Batting their hand away did not work either.

Oh! Or perhaps the time my roommate kept turning the lights on to find stuff. ON OR OFF, ROOMMATE. ON OR OFF. (I wouldn’t have minded either, but the on/off cycle kept me up.)

jessturtle23's avatar

Their horn is probably stuck. My POS car use to do it all the time.

Elumas's avatar

#2 if they were to sneak into my room and force feed me a caffine pill.
#3 when I was rooming with this guy on a trip he insisted on working out before bed. When he hit his head on a dresser he said that he had to stay awake because sleeping with a hurt head can cause brain damage. (yeah) so to keep himself awake he found a dime and a rubber band and kept shooting the dime at the top bunk (mine). (that was from my iPod so the grammar is not up to normal standards)

chelseababyy's avatar

@empress, the lights would PISS ME OFF.

and Elumas… just LOL.

EmpressPixie's avatar

@chealsea: the only thing that stopped me from strangling her was that I knew she was trying to be nice by turning them back off.

KatawaGrey's avatar

If I’m trying to get to sleep, damn near anything can disrupt me, but if I’m already asleep, it is so hard to wake me up. Last year, apparently, one of my roommates had a study session in the room while I was taking a nap and they kept trying to wake me up (not my roommate) by jumping up and down and making noise. My roommate was really nice and moved the study session out of the room but I don’t think they would have woken me up.

What has happened, though, was last year and my roommate insisted on drying her hair in the room when the rest of us were asleep. That was pretty bad…

AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

We used to have a neighbor whose piece of junk car had a horn that went off randomly, usually in the middle of the night, in the winter. She would be too afraid to go out in the dark to take care of it, so it would go off for an hour.

She is no longer with us.

PupnTaco's avatar

My wife was in the Caymans last summer. No honking horns, but she did get deathly seasick. :(

chelseababyy's avatar

@empress, aww well atleast she tried, but still. I HATE THAT.
@PupnTaco, I’m here til March or May, and I love it, and thats horrible :[

augustlan's avatar

What usually happens to me: Juuuuust as I’m finally drifting off to sleep, one of my cats jumps up on the bed, walks up the length of my body to stand on my shoulder, and pushing her face into mine lets out a very loud “MEOW”. They hate it when I go to sleep! I must pet the cat, or she will not stop talking. The cats then fall promptly asleep, on top of me, while I have to do the drifting-off process all over again. : (

chelseababyy's avatar

That’s really cute.. but I can imagine how that could possibly be.

I remember when I got my puggle he could only sleep when he was with me, in bed with me, and he snored, SO LOUD. It was just wrong for such a big noise to come from such a little dog.

TitsMcGhee's avatar

I live in NYC… I don’t really even notice anymore.

All I can hear is my Korean suitemate screaming in English and/or Korean, banging against walls, shrieking, talking on speaker phone, laughing hysterically and occasionally singing or throwing shit against the walls. I’m frightened.

chelseababyy's avatar

OH, wow. That’s ridiculous.. Lmao

rossi_bear's avatar

I would go and see what the heck the problem is with that person and tell them that they are being totally rude. people are trying to sleep. or the ice cubes would be good. that way there is no damage to the car and you can’t get into trouble for anything. sorry to hear that they are doing this. if it continues then call the police. it is a public nusance.

scamp's avatar

I bet the reason the hood is up is because the horn is stuck and they are trying to make it stop. Otherwise, who would stand in the rain late at night with their head under the hood while the horn is blasting?

Put a pillow over your head to muffle the sound, grin and bear it, and try to get some sleep. That poor soggy person probably won’t be able to hear for the next few days.

KatawaGrey's avatar

Well, what happened? Did it stop?

Elumas's avatar

Yeah, what happened?

Trustinglife's avatar

You know what – I bet it stopped.

AstroChuck's avatar

Anyone have a brick?

chelseababyy's avatar

I wish I had had a brick. They were working on it.. I dunno wtf they were doing though. It stopped like at like 1am or so.. Or atleast I THINK. Cuz that’s when I eventually passed out.

THANK GOD.
I wanted to go outside and throw things at them and scream

scamp's avatar

I bet they wouldn’t be able to hear you if you did!

chelseababyy's avatar

It’s happening.. Again… WTF

TitsMcGhee's avatar

I do apologize, my dear.

chelseababyy's avatar

Thanks Hun. They’re still going at it. Who is up for rioting with me?

chelseababyy's avatar

Two people, come on guys. rioting for a Good cause :)

augustlan's avatar

I’m there! Sort of.

chelseababyy's avatar

I’ll hold you to it.

scamp's avatar

Sorry hun, I was all for giving them the benefit of the doubt because I couldn’t imagine someone working under the hood with the horn blaring unless they were trying to fix it.

Under the circumstances, I’m going to order a truckload of bricks for you!!

chelseababyy's avatar

Hahaha. Alright. I can definitely make due with that!

scamp's avatar

Here ya go! Where do you want them?

chelseababyy's avatar

Hahahahahah, right next to the pool pls!

Ducky's avatar

Wow, drop a large watermelon on it while your at it!

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