Am I wrong for being irritated that my neighbor was blasting music and drilling almost half of the day?

[Anonymous]

I didn't care at 1st til I realized he wasn't stopping any time soon. I got so irritated bc his music was super loud right by my back yard where I usually chill at with my toddler. I feel like it's disrespectful to play music that loud as if you want everyone to hear it, that was the main issue for me. Even I don't play my own music loud bc know everyone doesn't wanna hear it so if I do play music it's faint and just loud enough for me to hear but not echo into the neighbors yard or something. I was kinda petty and started banging a chair with my broom just so he understood how obnoxious he sounded and he kept going for a bit and stopped eventually.. was I wrong? Honest answers only lol

[BCRanger10]

No, it's fine to feel that way. If you say he was drilling, my first assumption is that he was working in something and wanted to be able to hear his music. Even so, there's nothing wrong with going to him and politely saying "Hi! Would you mind turning that down a bit? I can hear it in (wherever you can hear it)." Especially if you have at least some good rapport.

[Asker]

Yeah it's too late now bc I already did something really petty so I don't expect us to have a good rapport at all

[BCRanger10]

Did he notice what you were doing and why?

[Asker]

Pretty sure he noticed bc he stopped to hear.. He's also done petty stuff towards me before too. Like once I was playing music for my toddler not even loud, and he turned his music on super loud to drown out mine. To me it was obvious he did it on purpose but yeah..

[EmmaMary]

Couldn't you simply have gone and asked him in a civil manner if it was possible for him to reduce the volume?

[Asker]

Yeah I bet I feel like I would've sounded like a Karen. But I should of def confronted him myself

[EmmaMary]

Thank you for the MHO.

[boggboss]

Was it at unreasonable times?

[Asker]

Not really it was like 9 or 10 am

[boggboss]

Then simply knocking and asking him to turn it down if he didn't mind would have been the right thing to do banging just makes u look like a crazy person

[RavVid]

I think it was fair

[Asker]

I'm embarrassed that I acted like that but in the moment I was just so irritated.

[RavVid]

I think the drilling was ok but music would be continuous so I don't feel you should be embarrassed. Was it a tradie?

[Asker]

He looks like it. He wears the clothing