*HHGGGRRRRNNNNGNGGGGGHHHH* *BLLLLEEEAAAAARRRRGGHHHH*!!!!!!!!!

[Charlotte Quin]

Hai. WP is down so I have nowhere to post this

Anyhoo, I have this neighbour directly across the driveway from me who has an almost daily habit of getting up at (or is it staying awake until) 4am, going to his bathroom and spending at least 10 minutes making regurgitating/retching/gagging sounds until he vomits. Why do I know all this? Because he's quite noisy during the whole 10-15 minute affair and he leaves his bathroom window wide open for every neighbour to hear/get woken up by. It's disgusting to listen to! Vomiting noises have a certain...physiological response in me (ie. they make sick in my own throat).

What can I do about it? I can always close my window so I don't have to hear it, yes, but it gets pretty warm upstairs in my house and I'd like to have fresh air through my window rather than waste electricity turning on my fan. Maybe he has a genuine health issue, or maybe he has a big night on the piss every night, I dunno. I'd put a polite letter under his door or something but if he's ill it might seems a bit careless and ignorant.

What should I do?

[Al Swearegen]

Ask him next time you see him, if he is alright?

[Callaway]

Maybe when you see him later in the day say something like, "I couldn't help overhearing you getting sick this morning at 4AM and I wonder if you are OK?"

Otherwise set an alarm and close your window before 4AM.

My guess is if he's doing this every night he has a health issue.

[Charlotte Quin]

Maybe when you see him later in the day say something like, "I couldn't help overhearing you getting sick this morning at 4AM and I wonder if you are OK?"

Otherwise set an alarm and close your window before 4AM.

My guess is if he's doing this every night he has a health issue.

Just no. I draw the line at adjusting my sleep routine around this.

If I could only get him to shut his bathroom window before he gets down to business, but if he's sick and really needs to rush to the bathroom to vomit, courtesy towards the sleeping neighbourhood probably wouldn't be the first thing on his mind. The thing is he's there for 10 minutes trying to make himself vomit. I can't think of any health problems that would explain that besides Bulimia.

[midlifeaspie]

*HHGGGRRRRNNNNGNGGGGGHHHH* *BLLLLEEEAAAAARRRRGGHHHH*!!!!!!!!!

Funny, that is the same gut reaction I have to knowing that WP is up

[Charlotte Quin]

*HHGGGRRRRNNNNGNGGGGGHHHH* *BLLLLEEEAAAAARRRRGGHHHH*!!!!!!!!!

Funny, that is the same gut reaction I have to knowing that WP is up

I was just joshin' with my opening line . We all know how much people love it when that place is mentioned

[BruceCM]

That nun's sort of scary! Where's she from? 

[Charlotte Quin]

That nun's sort of scary! Where's she from? 

It's Sister Ruth from the movie Black Narcissus.

[BruceCM]

Thanks! Vaguely heard of that, I'll have to look it up. Since you must like it a lot 

[Bastet]

That nun's sort of scary! Where's she from? 

It's Sister Ruth from the movie Black Narcissus.

I loved her in that movie. She kind of looked like a pale psychotic version of my aunt.

[BruceCM]

Kind of worrying!  :lol:

[El]

Maybe when you see him later in the day say something like, "I couldn't help overhearing you getting sick this morning at 4AM and I wonder if you are OK?"

Otherwise set an alarm and close your window before 4AM.

My guess is if he's doing this every night he has a health issue.

I'd forgotten how adorably optimistic Callaway could be.

My first thought, the the OP, is that it's more along the lines of this guy partying way the fuck too hard.

[renaeden]

Haha, this is 5 years later. I can't remember if you said what happened to the guy.

So what happened?

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

When we lived in Bangkok about 11 years ago our neighbour (behind us) would make a similar gross noise for about half an hour every morning. It was the house that backed onto ours, and I'm not sure how the noise managed to pentrate the walls in his house, travel the distance between our houses, pentrate our walls and windows (our windows were almost never open) and still be so darn loud.

What happened in our case was that we would laugh about it and spend that time in a part of our house where it wasn't too loud.

[Pyraxis]

Shortly before I went on maternity leave, I had a coworker a few desks away who was hacking up a lung all day, every day. Think lingering pneumonia, for months on end.

I took to listening to Mongolian throat singing through high quality headphones at high volume on loop, and it still couldn't drown it out. I was being driven slowly nuts, and my friend was encouraging me to disclose ASD to HR so I could get special accommodations for a seat move. I'm still slightly terrified of the stigma though, so I never did.

When I got back from mat leave, he had died.

Never found out what it was, but now I'm glad I didn't go to HR because I'm sure that's the last thing the poor guy needed. Still, I really wish it were socially acceptable to suggest a person in that situation get a desk in a private room, it would have made everybody's lives less miserable. Yesterday I heard a couple other coworkers talking about it and discovered I wasn't the only one who hated the noise. The guy was apparently a talented developer though.

I'm sure I've bitched about this on here before but it had a big impact on me.