[yorkietalkjilly]

My neighbors usually have one big blow-out or two at their children's birthdays and they go into the evening, even having a children's musical group, special lighting effects and mechanical rides, etc., but oddly, with their tall, wooden fence and maybe the way the winds blow, my doubled-paned back windows, it doesn't sound really, really loud and is usually over by 9 - 10 p.m.. I usually say nothing, put in earplugs, turn on my white noise, turn up the TV sound and direct it to just the corner where I am sitting, and let it go as it's all about the kids and the whole rest of the year they are angel neighbors. On the other hand, three-four years ago, some young people with a baby moved in across the street and after a few weeks, a visitor there had a car parked in their driveway with those horrible speakers booming loud that you could feel booming in your chest and after 15 or 20 minutes of that, even with my earplugs and white noise, I couldn't bear it any longer and I called the police and they came, stopped in front of that house and the music stopped. It happened again the night the Mavericks won the NBA Championship and after about 30 minutes of the same car with the same speakers and my vibrating sternum, I called the cops, who stopped it. Thankfully that family sold the house & moved this winter! I'm hoping a quiet family moves in there. The For Sale sign just went down. Gulp. You never know what the next family will be like.