Is It MONDAY Yet?!?

[ExFlyBoy5]

WARNING!!! This is a little bit of a rant...you have been warned!

I was up this Sunday AM about 7:30 and have been enjoying some coffee and the local paper out on the deck as the weather is beautiful. But, that peace was destroyed at 8:30 when some jackwagon decided it was a great idea to break out his leaf blower and go to town. It is now 10:14 and he is STILL BLOWING!!! Now, I get it. Our neighborhood is heavily wooded and with Irma coming through, there was a LOT of debris everywhere. I too cleaned up Friday afternoon and used an annoying leaf blower. But...8:30 on a Sunday morning?!? To make things worse, our direct neighbor pressure washed his house yesterday and I assume he did an outstanding job since his pressure washer ran for a solid 7 hours. All weekend, the sounds of the neighborhood have been filled with power tools and equipment.

So, I am anxiously awaiting Monday, my favorite day of the week! I will be able to enjoy my coffee and paper on the deck and not have to listen to nothing but the birds. Ah, how I love Mondays!!

OK...my rant is over, and yes, I feel much better.

 

[golfnut]

Return the favor next Sunday at 8:00.

 

[Another Reader]

I LOVE Mondays! No frantic wage slaves at the grocery stores and not very crowded until the SAHM's arrive with the cranky kids around 10 AM. Only contractors at Home Depot and Lowes, great to hit those places around 9 AM. Yep, I LOVE Mondays!

 

[MarieIG]

I am trying very hard to work up a little sympathy here. Nope, can't do it. I feel sorry for the poor working saps who may have had their only day to relax be forced to spend the day on chores, or to have had their sleep interrupted. Maybe in about three years when I am (hopefully) in your shoes I will be able to better appreciate your situation! (I actually agree that 8:30 is too early on a Sunday to operate loud machinery.)

 

[bingybear]

regulations where I live 8:30am is allowed for doing yard work stuff. There are some differences for week end and week day. Those with normal j*bs likely need to do their yard work on Saturday and Sunday.
Our restrictions are based on average and peak noise power during different times of the day.

Maybe you could chip in so they can RE and then they will have time to do the yard work instead of going to the j*b

 

[dirt_dobber]

I thought looking forward to Monday's was once something I would achieve at age 66 or thereabouts but so thankful to have retired at 57 (yeehaww).
The euphoria starts to kick in Sunday night about 7pm - while remembering I don't have to go to a dreaded Monday morning meeting - and I get out and about town after the rush hour winds down.

 

[Music Lover]

I remember waiting until 9:00 on the weekends (when I was working) to cut the lawn when my preference would have been to start at 7:00, so I don't think 8:30 is too early.

Don't forget that for those still working, they may have other plans for the day and it's not realistic to expect them to give up half of their morning so you can sleep in.

Followup...I just looked up the local bylaws for my city and people are not allowed to operate loud equipment (saws, lawn mowers, etc.) before 7:00 AM and after 9:00 PM on weekdays and 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM on weekends and holidays. I think this is more than fair.

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

Wow...so much hate for wanting to enjoy the Sunday morning without loud noise. Guess some folks are dreading having a 'case of the Mondays'.

Music Lover: If you read my post...I wasn't sleeping in.

 

[Music Lover]

Wow...so much hate for wanting to enjoy the Sunday morning without loud noise. Guess some folks are dreading having a 'case of the Mondays'.

Music Lover: If you read my post...I wasn't sleeping in.

What hate?

I know you weren't sleeping in, so then why bother complaining? Perhaps I'm missing something, but Sunday is just another day and is no more special that any other day in the week other than the fact that for a lot of people it's one of the only two days they have off.

 

[Sojourner]

I too cleaned up Friday afternoon and used an annoying leaf blower. But...8:30 on a Sunday morning?!? To make things worse, our direct neighbor pressure washed his house yesterday and I assume he did an outstanding job since his pressure washer ran for a solid 7 hours. All weekend, the sounds of the neighborhood have been filled with power tools and equipment.

So, I am anxiously awaiting Monday, my favorite day of the week! I will be able to enjoy my coffee and paper on the deck and not have to listen to nothing but the birds. Ah, how I love Mondays!!

I feel your pain! One of my greatest pet peeves is the "nails on chalkboard" sound of a nearby leaf blower that goes on and on and on... and on.

However, in my neighborhood, the scourge of ear-splitting power landscaping tools is far worse on weekdays than weekends. This is due to the nearly ubiquitous use of professional lawn maintenance services by my neighbors. Every single one of my adjacent and across-the-street neighbors uses these companies to handle their yard work, and they often show up like a plague of locusts on weekday mornings during the spring, summer, and fall to conduct their jarring, cacophonous weed whacking and leaf-blowing sessions. They rarely start before about 8:30am, but a few times I've been woken up by the grating, whirring, buzzing noises from h*ll as early as 7:00. In my book, they are truly one of the worst aspects of living in suburbia.

 

[TrvlBug]

I feel your pain! One of my greatest pet peeves is the "nails on chalkboard" sound of a nearby leaf blower that goes on and on and on... and on.

However, in my neighborhood, the scourge of ear-splitting power landscaping tools is far worse on weekdays than weekends. This is due to the nearly ubiquitous use of professional lawn maintenance services by my neighbors. Every single one of my adjacent and across-the-street neighbors uses these companies to handle their yard work, and they often show up like a plague of locusts on weekday mornings during the spring, summer, and fall to conduct their jarring, cacophonous weed whacking and leaf-blowing sessions. They rarely start before about 8:30am, but a few times I've been woken up by the grating, whirring, buzzing noises from h*ll as early as 7:00. In my book, they are truly one of the worst aspects of living in suburbia.

Yep, same here. Most annoying is the need to close open windows during the cooler morning hours because of the dust and fumes coming into the house .

 

[Sojourner]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but Sunday is just another day and is no more special that any other day in the week other than the fact that for a lot of people it's one of the only two days they have off.

Think of it from a different perspective. You go outside one morning, sit in your favorite lawn chair, and get all settled in to enjoy some nice peace and quiet while sipping on your favorite morning beverage. And then, all the sudden, your next-door neighbor starts blaring death-metal rock music at high volumes from his outdoor stereo speaker. Would that annoy you? I imagine it would, and I imagine you'd grumble to yourself about your neighbor not being very respectful of your reasonable expectation of peace and quiet so early in the morning. Why should his desire to listen to loud death-metal music trump your desire to enjoy some peace and quiet at that time of day? After all, he could just as easily listen to that horrible, shrieking cacophony later in the day, or in the evening, or when he gets home from work one afternoon... right?

 

[Sunset]

I have found the weekend to be annoying, as I don't keep track of the days, and suddenly the grocery store is packed, traffic at 10am is busy with all the shoppers.

And the TV news schedule changes for the weekend, instead of being the same time/channel every day!!

I bought a watch to tell me which day it is, and do make an effort to avoid shopping on the weekend when the parking lots are full of the worker bees.

 

[Music Lover]

Think of it from a different perspective. You go outside one morning, sit in your favorite lawn chair, and get all settled in to enjoy some nice peace and quiet while sipping on your favorite morning beverage. And then, all the sudden, your next-door neighbor starts blaring death-metal rock music at high volumes from his outdoor stereo speaker. Would that annoy you? I imagine it would, and I imagine you'd grumble to yourself about your neighbor not being very respectful of your reasonable expectation of peace and quiet so early in the morning. Why should his desire to listen to loud death-metal music trump your desire to enjoy some peace and quiet at that time of day? After all, he could just as easily listen to that horrible, shrieking cacophony later in the day, or in the evening, or when he gets home from work one afternoon... right?

Actually, I do agree to a certain point. I'm not a fan of loud yard tools, and in fact, have a neighbor who seems to have the capability of running motorized equipment non-stop...lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed whackers, etc. He has every piece of equipment that exists and can and will make noise for hours on end.

On the other hand, one of my other neighbors and myself have an casual unwritten agreement...if one of us is mowing the lawn, the other will try to do it at the same time so that "quiet" time is maximized.

I guess what it really comes down to is that people find yard work the most annoying at different times. Some may hate the noise on Sunday mornings, and others hate it on weeknight evenings. Personally, I don't like yard work noise at all and my ideal scenario would be if everyone did their yard work at exactly the same time once a week leaving the other 6 days silent...

 

[Blue Collar Guy]

WARNING!!! This is a little bit of a rant...you have been warned!

I was up this Sunday AM about 7:30 and have been enjoying some coffee and the local paper out on the deck as the weather is beautiful. But, that peace was destroyed at 8:30 when some jackwagon decided it was a great idea to break out his leaf blower and go to town. It is now 10:14 and he is STILL BLOWING!!! Now, I get it. Our neighborhood is heavily wooded and with Irma coming through, there was a LOT of debris everywhere. I too cleaned up Friday afternoon and used an annoying leaf blower. But...8:30 on a Sunday morning?!? To make things worse, our direct neighbor pressure washed his house yesterday and I assume he did an outstanding job since his pressure washer ran for a solid 7 hours. All weekend, the sounds of the neighborhood have been filled with power tools and equipment.

So, I am anxiously awaiting Monday, my favorite day of the week! I will be able to enjoy my coffee and paper on the deck and not have to listen to nothing but the birds. Ah, how I love Mondays!!

OK...my rant is over, and yes, I feel much better.

I have an electric . I thought I would be courteous to my neighbors. Turns out they have the loudest gas , smoke throwing stinky mowers you can find. And they all mow on different days. At least when it snows around here everyone is at it at the same time.

Yeah reminds me of my above post from an older thread ,lol.

When we rented and lived in what we referred to as low rise projects, the landscapers came on Tuesday mornings around 10am and were done by 2pm for the complex. 1 day and done, and at 10 am me and my dog went for "breakfast" at an outdoor cafe, I would eat like I was going to the electric chair, and I would give him a dollars worth of baloney, and water. We both left happy.

 

[flyingaway]

On Monday morning, the professional lawn mowers will come.

 

[braumeister]

Don't ever move to Germany.
Their "quiet hours" laws are legendary

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

Don't ever move to Germany.
Their "quiet hours" laws are legendary

Yes they are. However, when still moving AF jets around the world, it was always great to crew rest on a Saturday night in Germany. Why you ask? We couldn't even run the auxillary power unit until noon on Sunday so we were guaranteed to not be 'alerted' (basically the time when you had to report for a flight) until 10 or so in the morning which is so much better than a 3 or 4 AM alert!

Also, there was a time that the AF was getting fined by Germany when some of the departures out of Frankfurt ran afoul of the very strict noise abatement rules. There was even a 'wall of shame' that had plotted departure maps that would show the violation (usually a track that deviated over a certain area that was the approved route) and recorded decimal levels and the aircraft commander's name. Ah..those were some crazy days.

 

[pjm-7]

I don't care what day it is, leaf blowers should be banned!

 

[97guns]

It's NFL Sunday, you should be indoors behind that double pane glass

 

[braumeister]

Yes they are. However, when still moving AF jets around the world, it was always great to crew rest on a Saturday night in Germany. Why you ask? We couldn't even run the auxillary power unit until noon on Sunday

Even better, I have a friend who was stationed at Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands. Flight operations were restricted to 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday because the base was so close to the royal palace.

 

[ABQ2015]

I live in a desirable, older neighborhood where many of the homes are being remodeled upon being sold to newcomers. This year on my block alone there was one major remodel, re-landscaping of the home next door to include jack hammering up the circular driveway and replacement of the yard block wall, and a kitchen remodel across the street. I'm thankful these updates were completed this year while I'm still working.

Most neighbors, including myself, use professional lawn maintenance services and our yards are large. And my home has the old single pane windows that must be kept ajar for the evaporative cooler to work. Then there is the nearby dog park. I realized years ago that this is a noisy neighborhood during the weekdays and is actually quieter on weekends.

 

[Beldar]

Well, if it's any consolation, you (and the rest of us for that matter) aren't forced to crank out those chores over a 2 day period.

For me, ~every~ day is the "weekend".


_B

 

[jjquantz]

I know that it must annoy the neighbors terribly when I use a pushbroom and a rake to clean up my lawn debris. That constant, gentle "swish, swish" can really get on people's nerves.

 

[Walt34]

I don't care what day it is, leaf blowers should be banned!

It's not an issue here (few trees) but in our previous house I would have invited you over several times in the fall, handed you a rake, and said "Enjoy yourself for the day!" while you were knee-deep in tree leaves.

Absent that alternative, I used a leaf blower and finished in one-quarter or less time that raking takes. And I didn't feel the slightest bit guilty about it.

That said, I never started before 10:00 AM on a weekend or 9:00 AM on a weekday.