I was THAT NEIGHBOR last night

Our street is mostly single family homes with one three-unit apartment building with well behaved tenants. But our street is right off a busy road with lots of apartments, many filled with college students. This sometimes leads to a bit of conflict because students like to have loud parties that annoy those of us with kids trying to sleep. Okay, I'll admit it, we just use the kids as an excuse; the truth is that we adults don't want to listen to it either.

In the past, one of my neighbors would call the landlord to complain about loud and uncooperative tenants when they didn't respond to requests to be quiet. The landlord was not fond of that solution but the next year or two was quiet. But perhaps the landlord forgot that lesson when selecting tenants for this year.

Last night some unseen but very loud people were outside screaming at each other at the ungodly hour of 9pm (okay, I agree that is not late but hey, they were annoying and Sam was sleeping!) I went on our upstairs back porch that would be looking over the action if the trees weren't blocking it, cupped my hands, then yelled "Please be quiet!"

I heard laughing, a ridiculing taunt and then....silence!

I'm officially an old fart with a low tolerance level.