ugh 2 - I made it worse...
Same Hackney flat... A middle-aged rastafarian guy lived next door on the other side, and on one particular occasion he decided to put some reggae on at 2am, at high volume. When it was evident that he was going to keep playing records all night/morning, I knocked on his door and VERY politely asked if he wouldn't mind turning it down because I had to get up for work in a few hours and needed some more sleep. The first thing he said was "You're racist! You white men always trying to keep the black man down! F*ck off before I cut you up." I just tried to play it all down and said, "Hey, come on, I'm not being racist... I just can't sleep because you've got it on really loud." He sort of nodded and shut his door - didn't slam it - and for a moment I genuinely thought he was going to turn it down. At first there was no change in volume, but at the precise moment my head hit the pillow, sure enough he turned it UP EVEN LOUDER.
(codenamebonkee, Fri 26 Aug 2005, 14:05, Reply)