Silence after 9pm
And miggyman runs in with this storming late entry.

All week I was trying to figure out if our family had a ritual, as I didnt think it did. But then of course I remembered.

My very light sleeping father. Youre talking the sort of light sleeper where if someone dropped a feather a 100 miles away, it'd wake him up.

As he had to be up at 4am for work, he would go to bed really early. So after 9pm, it was silence time. Well not quite, but certinatly low voices, no banging.

I have learned to be able to do anything in darkness, as we couldnt put any lights on upstairs when we went to bed. You see our doors had a frosted glass pane above them, so any lights would shine through.. and you guessed it, would disturb my father.

There was also no toilet flushing. If its yellow let it mellow, if its brown.. let it drown.


Thats right, there were many a mornings, where id walk into the bathroom to find a couple of stale turds thats been left soaking overnight because, we were unable to flush the damned bog. Grrr.

Whats wrong with cotton wool in your ears and an eye mask eh? Fuck sakes.
(Miggyman, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 15:33, 7 replies)

That's still like that here =/
We've got the darkness, the silence and the no lights because windows above doors. Ours aren't frosted, but what's the point in the first place?? Not quite so bad on the toilet front here though.

It also doesn't help that our house seems to be made of cardboard. I can listen happily to conversations taking place below me and if I bang on the walls they rattle so much I'm scared the houe will fall over.

One day I'll live in a real house with real bricks. That's my dream...
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 15:41, closed)

Those windows are called "borrowed lights"
and they were the bane of my childhood. My sister covered hers with cereal boxes.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 15:45, closed)

Borrowed lights?
Interesting name for them. Never seen any other houses other than my parents that has them. But why if he was so sensitive to light shining in? Thats what bugged me!
(Miggyman, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 15:54, closed)

I got my mum to sew me a mini-curtain
for the one in my room.

Works a treat.
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 15:56, closed)

I lived in a flat once
and it had no curtains at all in my box like bedroom. I had to construct my own curtains from pizza boxes and stuff I found in the dump.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 16:07, closed)

Unflushed loos
Totally do my head in.

My lodger kept leaving the loo unflushed if he finished work late and I was in bed. Had to tell him I'd rather be woken by the flush (it never does), than have to face THAT in the morning...
( snee held his breath since, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 16:15, closed)

I am EXACTLY
the opposite. Nothing wakes me once I'm asleep. I've slept through raging thunderstorms, earthquakes and babies screaming.

We have a seven-month-old baby and his cries never wake me - much to my wife's endless frustration. He's been next to my head, screaming away and I've dozed on regardless. Result!
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 16:33, closed)