It's the Quote Your Insane Neighbors thread!

[ChrisRawk]

No actual quotes but my neighbors have a very loud jam band.  And they're terrible.  You ever listen to musicians try to improvise and they're terrible at it?  That's these guys.  They sound like Steely Dan if Steely Dan were untalented teenagers just learning to play their instruments.  The other night they played til midnight.  Good times.

[Reeleyes]

We had a ranchero band begin in the garage next to our house. At first it was so bad that it was entertaining but over the course of a few months they became really good... at playing ranchero music which I found was not my favorite kind of music.

[Keith Whitener]

My house mates are loud. I listen to white noise loudly on my headphones to drone them out so I can do work: http://free.napster.com/player/tracks/17023124

[slipperyslope]

Holy crap, I don't know where to begin in this thread.


Can I quote a mime-like action?

In the midst of an arguement regardiing the upkeep of my insane neighbor's property and his neighbor on the other side spanning several days, he began simply remaining silent whilst leaning forward almost to the point of falling over and pointing with an overly stretched out left arm toward the side of his long, white woodsiding house where he had painted the name and phone number of his lawyer in large sloppy black paint, presumably so he didn't have to speak anymore?




He's also kind of like a barely speaking male version of the simpson's cat lady from time to time.

A couple gems:
"You can slam your car door but can't knock on his?" - in response to a friend knocking on my front door after parking

"Hey. PSSST! Want some pants?... Black?...." - whisper-shouted across my driveway as I came home in the dark and in the rain late one night as my crazy neighbor offered me a pair of black jeans. I quietly declined, only to find rain soaked black jeans sitting on my steps in the morning.

[Sarah]

Well, that's just sweet. You ungrateful hound.

[Lothar_Brightblade]

My house mates are loud. I listen to white noise loudly on my headphones to drone them out so I can do work: http://free.napster.com/player/tracks/17023124

My roommate has a love affair with tv, which I can't stand. I keep music playing in my headphones constantly as well. It's a college dorm so we're squeezed in. He sometimes watches tv from across the dorm on his bed (top bunk), leading to roughly this configuration (let ---- be his eyeline):

Him -------- Me -------- TV

So I sit there, music turned way up, and having to block his view out from my peripheral vision because I always feel like he's watching everything I do when he's really just watching Whose Line is it Anyway. Needless to say, I'm glad this is my last semester.

[erika]

I haven't had a roommate since college, which I was done with by the time I was 20. I don't think I was meant to live with people I'm not in a romantic relationship with.

[namethebats]

The guy across the hall from me, waking me up shortly before 6 a.m.: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

Five seconds later: "LADY GAGA IS A MAN!"

[betheboy]

No actual quotes but my neighbors have a very loud jam band.  And they're terrible.  You ever listen to musicians try to improvise and they're terrible at it?  That's these guys.  They sound like Steely Dan if Steely Dan were untalented teenagers just learning to play their instruments.  The other night they played til midnight.  Good times.

To be fair, it's a very fine line between a competent jam band and a hundred apes pounding on instruments. The line being the fact that the primates will at least hold my attention for a few minutes.

My god I wish some apes would start a band. 

[effecT]

"If you want to sleep longer in the morning, you will have to talk to my children because i sure won't! I am so good with them right now! I am no going to be the bad guy again!"

- Mom next door with the 4 and 6 year old

[slackmistress]

Okay, I have finally been convinced to do this:

http://twitter.com/My_Neighbors

For things my neighbor says.

[erika]

Oh my. I think people would be depressed if they read too many of my tweets. In large quantity my neighbors are more sad than funny.

This week it was just a piercing voice with a strong Bawlmer accent screaming "RONNIE, RONNIE, 'EY RONNIE" down the street. We live on a hill so it carries well.

[emma]

My neighbour is playing the harmonica really poorly even as I type this, but it's kind of cute. Or at least it will be until I want to go to sleep.

[JonFromMaplewood]

"Yep. That tree easily dates back to the Civil War." [said moments before cutting down the giant, glorious maple between our houses]

[Christina]

I'm not sure this is a quote really, but the only sound that carries from my downstairs neighbor is when he horks up chunks of smoker's lung in the mornings.