I don't know what kind of a person thinks it's an acceptable idea to drive a booming boom car into a residential neighborhood at 3:30 am, park it, leave the stereo playing, and sit there for almost an hour.
I want back the hour of sleep that turkey stole from me. (And yes, I was woken from a sound sleep. I was dreaming about how some friends and I had worked out a deal with a local sports grill/bar - we didn't like any of the food on the menu, so they let us bring in our own food and cache it there. Until one day I went in to get some of the granola bars we had stored, and the barmaid started screaming at me that I couldn't take them, the bar now owned the food, and it wasn't mine. I think there was some overlay of a coming catastrophe, that I was running around trying to gather food before I had to evacuate or something. Not the best dream but I'm still not happy at being awakened.)
(This is why I cringe a little when an environmental specialist talks about how the Salvation of the World is putting everyone in cities, in high-density housing. There is a sufficiently large number of people who don't want to think of their neighbors, or who assume that everyone can sleep through loud music in the middle of the night. Or who cook fish or peel durians in the next apartment over, when the energy-efficient ventilation system is on the fritz. Or people who have loud fights (or loud, um, "other activities.") Or whatever. And I'm just misanthropic enough - and just sensitive enough to noise and smell - that I would be in misery a lot of the time around that many people.)
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But don't you see, you need this kind of interaction with people different from you, no matter how "obnoxious" you foolishly assume they are, to round out your life experiences and turn you toward the proper perspective.
(Of course, the people who tell you this crap figure that they spent $80 this week in a Guatemalan restaurant and therefore they've fulfilled their end of the social contract. I think they should be thrown in the cage with the bonobos. The ideal primates, we are constantly being told, what with their "sexual freedom" and all.)
Wouldn't a call to the police have been in order -- at least after about 15 minutes? The complaint would have been "disturbing the peace."
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