Street Party

[poliphilo]

The residents of Meldrum St, which backs onto ours, had a street party yesterday, complete with beer tent and bouncy castle. The first we knew of it was the sudden eruption, mid-morning, of industrial strength music. Nothing like that has ever happened round here before- and I settled my nerves by thinking,  "Oh good, community spirit". We went shopping in the afternoon. When we returned the music was soppier and Ailz- whose listening post is better located than mine- said they were working a karaoke machine. The end came around 6.00.  I looked out the upstairs window and saw the bouncy castle being rolled up. The silence was heavenly.

Comments

[heatherp8.livejournal.com]

we have neighbors right next door who occasionally have loud parties with boisterous attendees.
Trouble is, they don't roll things up at 6 -- they go on and on and on...

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Street parties like you describe don't happen in Spain. But I guess you could say that Spain is one giant street party.
Our next door neighbours don't live in their house any longer. They just use it for all night parties...outside. Now that's annoying. We've had to call the police more than once because they haven't respected the noise ordinances.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's no fun at all.

This was a very well-organized party. They must have had a permit for it- and they'd blocked off the street

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We don't get late night parties round here, but we do have quite a lot of honking of car horns.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you live in a really nice area. Parties that end at 6 PM? Or at least loud music that ends at that time? Heavenly!
Used to be hell here, but now it's better - much better.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a downmarket area, but our corner of it is relatively quiet. A lot of our neighbours are Muslim- and Muslims don't (officially) drink.