What Can I Do if My Roommate Is Constantly Making Noise?
How loud do you enjoy your music? When I can’t hear you
I once had a room all to myself in my college dorm. However, as the saying goes “All good things must come to an end” or so I thought.
I got transferred to another room. And if that wasn’t enough someone else also got transferred to that room. UHmmmm!!!
I waited and waited. All I wanted was to do my workout when no one was watching. What I didn’t want was someone staring at me while I jumped about looking like a fool. I guess that was too much to ask for.
My second day in the room: I woke up not when my alarm clock rang but somewhat early. I laid my bed and pulled up my workout clothes. I pulled up a video, a high-intensity workout to lose weight at home, on my PC. I was about to hit play when I heard a sound. I turned to my left and saw my roommate.
She had her phone in her hand playing a loud video and her face directly at me.
Everyone was asleep but she wasn’t.
After my day out, I head to my desk to get some work done. I hear laughter. I turn to my left. She is on the phone. I could hear the voices of the people on the other end. It was LOUD. I waited and waited. I waited for the call to end but that didn’t end soon.
I sleep at night; I think everyone should. I don’t think she does. It’s 1 am and the lights are still on. She keeps scrolling and scrolling. I can hear the sound. It’s loud, really loud. I waited and waited. I waited for her to fall asleep. She didn’t.
My life would be hell without my headphones.
When I entered the room, straight up I grabbed my headphones.
At my desk, I increased the volume straight up. I can only hear my music playing.
In the morning, I listen to my playlist and pretend as though it’s just me and me.
That seemed to solve the problem. Soon I realized that wasn’t very effective, however. I couldn’t listen to music and sleep. Wearing headphones at that high frequency may cause some damage to my ears.
So I said it.
CAN YOU PLEASE REDUCE THE VOLUME. PLEASE LOWER YOUR VOICE.
I didn’t say it once. I said it over and over again. After a while, she got to know that I don’t like the noise.
At night, I softly say can I put off the light. (#that’s a way of saying, I want to sleep so shut the f*ck up).
However, I learned a lot from that.
· Learn to speak up.
· Tolerance: sometimes she is still a little loud. Good thing I got my headphones. I guess I too do some things that piss her off.
· Confidence: I became more comfortable about certain things, like dancing around like a simp in the hopes of losing weight.
