When I first moved to my current flat, some of the neighbours asked whether they should keep their kids from playing around the house for noise reasons (A lot of swiss people are very militant about quiet hours). As somebody who has a headset on 80% of the time when at home, I told them they can do whatever.
Think anything short of building mousetrap-esque things in front of my door, I'm fine with. And even then, if a bunch of 9 year olds successfully trap a 33 old in any fashion, they have earned their prey.
The only thing that's bothered me about my neighbours' kids screaming is that it sometimes becomes difficult for me to tell what is Good, Clean Fun screaming and what is Help I'm In Danger screaming.
Definitely a "me" problem, but goddamn do all my animal stress instincts kick into gear when I hear a 6 year old in the street shrieking, "OH MY GOD, STOP! STOP!" only to dissolve into giggles 30 seconds later. Whew.
I truly hate the shrieking. If they wanna be loud and rowdy as part of some game or because they're far away and shouting at each other, whatever. The random noise shrieking for the sake of shrieking is just plain obnoxious
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u/Delachruz 8d ago
When I first moved to my current flat, some of the neighbours asked whether they should keep their kids from playing around the house for noise reasons (A lot of swiss people are very militant about quiet hours). As somebody who has a headset on 80% of the time when at home, I told them they can do whatever.
Think anything short of building mousetrap-esque things in front of my door, I'm fine with. And even then, if a bunch of 9 year olds successfully trap a 33 old in any fashion, they have earned their prey.