Just a note: If the radio in your car is making my 10th floor apartment vibrate, IT IS TOO LOUD.

I guess one of the great things about where we live now, compared to our former apartment, is that there (usually) isn’t much loud noise. There is, however, a great deal of constant background noise, which is probably causing us to slowly lose our hearing, but that’s another topic.

Our last place… was on the first floor, next to the intersection of a freeway offramp and a busy road. It seemed that at every red light, some jerk was sitting there blasting their radio, sometimes so loud that we got nauseous from the sound. I got so frustrated that at times I was tempted to store bricks on our balcony, to be tossed at the thoughtless offenders. (It was especially frustrating when Tommy was born, since he never ever ever EVER went to sleep. When he finally, finally did sleep, somebody’s stupid radio would inevitably wake him up.)

As if that weren’t bad enough, we were also next to a hospital AND a police station. (Considering that where we live now is just down the street from where we lived before, that last part is still true.) So there was also the constant sound of sirens in the air. Very irritating.

But… that’s beside the point. Since we are much higher than we were before, it’s very rare to hear anybody’s radio, much less hear a radio that causes vibration. Still, it has happened a couple of times. Why do people blast their radios so loud? If it’s making somebody outside the car feel nauseous, how can the driver deal with it? And why would anybody be so thoughtless as to blast their radio in a residential area?

I fail to see how anybody could be so arrogant as to believe that their taste in music would be appreciated by everybody. So please, turn your radios down.