Dear Lucas : All summer, my next-door neighbors have been waking me up, both early and late, with the sounds of partying, loud TVs or revving their cars. I don’t want to be a whiny neighbor, but I’m losing sleep. I would ask them to turn it down, but I simply don’t have the stomach for social confrontation. Next time they are loud, should I call the cops and file a noise complaint?

Dear Reader : The obvious solution here would be to get invited to the party, so you’re in on the fun and are instead passing along the misery to the other neighbors.

But if you still lack the stomach for some human interaction, try terrorizing them.

Mow your grass in the middle of the night. Curse at the lawnmower until it starts, then sing jazzy renditions of showtunes over the herky-jerky rhythm of the t

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