To the couple who live above my basemet apartment and park their car directly in front of my bedroom window, please turn off the fucking lights to your car when it sits idle in the drive way for 10 minutes at 6:30am! Even with the blinds shut the light still shines through like a search light as your car is merely inches from the window. Also, when your cleaning the snow/ice chunks off of your car, don’t fucking aim them at my window! What is wrong with you?
—Thanks, now I am awake at 7:00am
This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2009.
since I don’t see them moving the driveway for you, perhaps you need to rearrange some things in your room so that you aren’t getting beamed in the eyes….
it’s not inconveniencing them at all so I don’t see them changing their ways any time soon.
does suck though…. tinfoil seems to be the answer otherwise.
…or a mirror in the window aimed directly at the driver.
ooo, I take mine back. go with the mirror.
May take a few tries to calibrate but it’ll definitely be worth it.
I should have thought of that…. TTFN, you have been around the block a few.
WAH!
Get over it. That’s the price of living in a basement apartment.
Go back to bed.
…or you could stick your head out the door and kindly say, “Ecxuse me, but do you mind turning off your lights until you hit the road, Jack? I would really appreciate it. Thanks.”
TTFN…you area clever one : )
Turning off their lights would take consideration, I doubt they have any of that. Beyond that it would take a tiny bit of smarts to turn off the ”daytime running lights’, I doubt they have any of this either. For most I cars I know of you can turn of the DRL by engaging the hand brake/emergency brake. They’d likely forget they had the brake on and drive around with it on.
I too live in a “walk out” basement apartment and without fail,every fucking morning, the tenants upstairs beep their car horn at approximately 8am. I’m pretty sure its the boyfriend, waiting in the car impatiently for the girlfriend, but holy shit it’s retarded. You would think by now they would have figured out a way to leave together and avoid waking the neighborhood but apparantly not. I don’t even bother setting an alarm anymore.
Coffee! I’m proud of you! Great suggestion!
OP, this bitch isn’t going to help you. It’s now obvious the housemates aren’t receptive to your ESP’d messages
It sucks to be up that early if you don’t have to be. But since your up why don’t you do something usefull like go take a shit on their doorstep! Or just get over it. You haven’t said something to them, like hey can you back your car in when you get home cause, blah blah blah.
The mirror idea is quite brilliant, really… Mirrors w/ tinfoil behind them even, on the other side of the blinds, should block all the light, and maybe give you a giggle as a bonus. Don’t waste energy being mad, it can be fun to get even w/o being the least bit vindictive…
Mirros would work…freak them out a little..they aren’t that bright obviously…
But coffee I think your idea is the best, to be practical. Just ask them nicely if they wouldn’t mind shutting off their full lights..nothing you can do about daytimers. They probably just didn’t think about it is all.
Go with the mirror – a few days of that and they’ll soon be parking in the other direction.
I’m glad that you were awake when I came out shortly after and turned my car and shot pieces of ice at your window… Too bad that there are three cars parked by your apartment – right?
🙂
ummm… what are you doing still in bed at 7 in the morning? The working world is already up and getting shit done at that hour. If you ever want to get out of the basement you need to get your carcass up off the futon and get to work
Surprisingly Trantor, not everyone works the exact same hours.
I used to have a neighbour who worked as a pilot and would work all kinds of crazy hours. Sometimes he’d *gasp* get home at 4 or 5am and *gasp* sleep until the afternoon, Trantor! IMAGINE THAT!
Some people work shift work, douchebag.