Last night I had some coffee induced insomnia, which I had only taken to wake me up enough for the job interview. The interview that I was worrying about the night before which had caused me to take a popular herbal sleep remedy, so I had to take the coffee. You get the loop 
During this bout of mind racing and body spinning some one sounding very drunk started shouting up to a flat across the street.
“Bobby! Bobby! Are you there?”
“Come down Bobby, I need to talk to you?”
“Bobby man what’s going on?”
Repeat for over an hour
All the time I am thinking
- Bobby isn’t in!
- Bobby is in and he doesn’t want to speak to you!
- You are so drunk you have the wrong building or street!
- GO AWAY
While we are on the general subject of street noise I would like to propose a ‘Silly Noise Tax’ this will be charged to anyone repeating moronic five note ditties from adverts or saying ‘Wasssup!’ or such like. See I believe in progressive taxation 
Kev
4 responses so far ↓
1 Ali // Oct 19, 2005 at 8:56 am
love this idea - I live in countryside where screech owls howl in the night -cows moo all night in a monotone accent and cats fight to the death outside my window - silly noise tax love it!!!!
2 Kev // Oct 19, 2005 at 3:57 pm
Hi Ali,
welcome to the blog.
I have two memorable experiences of sleeping in houses in the countryside. In the first it was so quiet that I couldn’t get to sleep because I was straining to hear some noise outside that just wasn’t there, then I tuned into my heart beating as it was the lousiest noise around and that kept me awake. The other one was the exact opposite with a dog barking, ducks quacking and everything else around making noise all night and it made me long for the noise of traffic!
Kev
3 Ali // Oct 23, 2005 at 11:37 am
you sure like being kept awake! You would have loved last night all police cars, smashing windows and peole screaming at each other - dont’ you love the affect of alcohol when it brings people together like that? I mean there we met 4 new policemen, a passing car driver whose window was smashed by someone falling through it - all those people now have met!!
ali
4 Kev // Oct 24, 2005 at 7:44 am
Hi Ali,
living in the countryside doesn’t sound all that different from living in the city
I never got the chance to mention Friday night and the car alarm that started going off at 8pm and then went off intermittently until at least 4 am, it was the joyous car horn type as well. I really am becoming and old grouch!
Kev