My landlord had to cut a hole in my bathroom roof, and they taped plastic over the hole promising to come back later and patch it. Every time there’s an air draft the plastic rustles, and since I had forgotten all about it I was half convinced I was haunted.
I once rented a 2BR apartment and a couple of months in my landlord removed one of the bedrooms. It was like pulling teeth but I finally got him to lower my rent by $50.
I’m sorry, but what the fuck‽ How the hell does someone decide to remove a bedroom while they have a tenant‽ That can’t be legal…
Yeah, I don’t know about the legality of it. Probably worse than the removal of the bedroom was the fact that it also removed one of the two ways of getting into/out of the apartment, so I’m sure it violated fire safety regulations. The funny thing was that the downstairs was a music store with the upstairs being three apartments, and they removed my back bedroom so they could build a new addition on the back of the building. For months, I could just walk out of my kitchen and into the new addition, and had I wanted to I could have just gone downstairs and helped myself to the music store’s stock (like, guitars, amps, synthesizers etc.). The store had locks and an alarm system on all the doors and windows, but nothing securing its connection to the new addition. Oh well, Stratocasters are shit anyways.
Oh shit they like actually took it away, I’d interpreted it as them combining two rooms giving you less functionality but equivalent space.
I’d be more concerned about the mysterious light in my face.
Lol. My home (not even a house, but a flat) is WWII era lol. It has rudimentary electrical installation. Like, it fullfills all requirements…if we back the clock by around 30-40 years. Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason. And I have old communist newspapers as “insulation” in the floor xD
Anyway, what I wanted to say…if you live in similiar conditions, everything that your mind connects to possible shortcircuit somehow manages to reboot you from sleep to full awareness within nanoseconds. xD
Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.
My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.
We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.
Wish I could replace it, but heavy case of living from paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully flat isn’t mine but a third party organisation belonging to city, so they cover every electrical f-up that happens.
I…am not sure if knob and tube was even used in EU, and between short search and LLM query the answer seems to be “no”. So this may be the closest EU equivalent to that xD
All in all tho, I can relate to hunting shorts. At this point 5/7 of my mini electrical boxes (can-like shape hole in the wall where cables junction?) were replaced by electrician, because they all shorted to all hell. When I moved in it was worse - I had parallel connection between lightswitch and outlet and similiar shit xD Last owner was a handyman builder and…it was showing. A lot.
Also I have only one circuit on singular fuse so that’s also fun.
God, there really is something there with that “problem!” signal that our brains can give off before any conscious dots have been connected. And this is for abstract shit that you’d figure our monkey brains wouldn’t give a damn about.
But… might be a predator?
Alexa has a wake word. We have wake noises
I’m a super heavy sleeper but when we had our baby its like any baby sound is kept in the light sleep category and it wakes me up.
Its bizarre because I have the memory of hearing the sound and processing it while I was asleep, like was I even sleeping or does my memory just scrub everything until triggered like some game recording software to save the last x minutes
It sounds like you’d have to wind it back more, 30 years only puts us in the 90s and the stuff you’re talking about sounds like even the 80s would have at a minimum raised eyebrows by the inspectors
I’m getting Eastern Bloc vibes
DING DING DING. We have a winner! WWII deutsch building then renewed under communist gov*. From that point forward, all changes were made only by flat owners. I have a total hodgepodge of handyman shit in my home xD
* At least from what I know.
No, clearly 30 years ago is the 60’s. I’m not old.
I would accept early 70s but otherwise it’s nonsense
80’s sound possible, tbh.
10x worse with cats. What the fuck have you gotten into…
My house is almost 100 years old, and so I hear my cat when he’s coming up the stairs, and I get robbed of the extra 60s before he just starts meowing. He’s an old man now, 15 or so, and so he spends the nights inside now, and he’s not a fan. He will come upstairs anytime between 1145 and 230 in the morning and just start meowing, loudly, and I have a wife and two kids and I need them all to stay asleep, so poor Bruce Willis gets locked in the basement.
Sometimes it’s right as I turn my light off when I’m done reading, and I lay my head on my pillow, he just rolls in. Sometimes I’m fast asleep and he does it. But five nights a week, at least, he needs to wake me up, and he goes to the backdoor, so the farthest place from my spot in bed, because he thinks he’s going outside, and then I pick him up and put him in the basement. He will never learn.
Have you tried setting up a little cat bed near your own bed? In the basement, he’s probably lonely. Getting older, he might be feeling lonely down there at night, and wanting to seek out company.
He just wants to go outside. He’s a lone wolf type cat. I may try the bed thing, but sometimes he’ll hang on my bed or my daughter’s for a bit, before ultimately deciding to wake everyone up so he can go outside.
I’m sure you’ve heard it but in most areas it’s strongly recommended to always keep your cats indoors or otherwise leashed or restrained when outside, as they can be devastating to local wildlife and being outdoors can shave years off a cat’s lifespan.
Yeah, I know, but he was a steet cat until my wife scooped him up, he was about three then, and it was very hard to take the street cat out of the street cat. The alternative, as you can tell, becomes locking him in a basement, which isn’t a great alternative to me.
I wasn’t trying to be judgey, a lot of people think it’s better for the cat to let them have freedom to roam, but indoor cats have nearly double the lifespan.
No, it’s cool, I didn’t interpret it that way. I get it and I understand it, but I wrestle with having had this cat since 2014 at this point, knowing what he’s like and where he came from, and it definitely conflicts with guidance I’ve read, but he’s healthy and great weight and active when he goes out, and so here we are.
I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I’ll hear something and think “ah, it’s just the cat” and go back to sleep without checking.
Is that not one of the reasons to have a cat?
Easily one of the top 5 reasons, right up there with killing spiders
*gun cocking noises"
meh, probably the cat.
Anyone who’s ever owned cats wouldn’t think twice about their ability to cock a gun.
The worst is when you think “ah, it’s just the cat”, but then you see them sleeping nearby. So now I have to assume it’s just a little ghost cat, so I can go right back to sleep
My cat actually saved me from a break in by straight up attacking the dude.
I was sleeping on the couch in my trailer and suddenly woke up to my cat yowling and some dude screaming and by the time I realized what was going on the guy had already run out the door with my cat right behind him.
Kitty cut deep too cause there was blood spatter on the door frame where dude grabbed it while running away.
Good for you. My cats would be cowering in the basement under the bed. They are scared of people. My dog on the other hand would alert the entire neighborhood to the existence of the break-in. But she’s a 17 lbs dog, and would be scared of the thief, so she’d then just let them steal whatever they want.
My cats would mostly probably try to cuddle an intruder.
I need a cat…
Good kitty!! My girls have saved me more than once, people underestimate how much they love and protect us💝
I swear random shit crackles and pops in the middle of the night
Thermal expansion.
Is that like domain expansion? /s
The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?
Damn, one of your neighbors might have found baby Superman instead of you.
A son? In this economy?
I’m guessing that’s what I heard a few months ago.
People all around our lake heard a loud explosion at the same time, but nobody ever found the source.
Around me it’s always pricks setting off illegal fireworks but somehow the bad guy is the person slashing their tyres so they don’t come back to the neighbourhood
The year is 199X…
Twenty years ago today…
Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn’t.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.
Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works
Plumbing is the worst. Just kill me now
I have a cat who likes to hunt insects, dust mites, shoe laces, and charging cables at night.
And she’s pretty clumsy.
My list of approved house sounds is very long.That’s just my lovely GF watching me sleep ❤️
(she doesn’t like her dreams)
What, exactly, am I seeing?
Not really sure if you made a joke and this is a screenshot from some weird horror movie or you took your phone out to snap a picture of your actual girlfriend sleepwalking instead of helping or it’s just AI.
It’s a scene from the (very good) movie ‘Obsession’
Can your girlfriend defile me in my sleep. We’ll sign a contract beforehand, obviously
When i’m turdating in my bed I sure scare myself when I make a noise the house is physically incapable of producing
This has aroused me
Nah. I have a layer of abstraction. He will assess any aunauthorised house sounds. Harshly.
Listen, thst dog ain’t assing anything except a boot in the face. The average mall ninja has a machete that will corportulate that furry fuck in 1.87 seconds, flat. Even sound, because there are Buddhas who are fucking on your coffee table at .1 picometers and they WILL make a noise when they want to teach you how to perceive n undo the karmic fetters that bind one to the existence-illusion complex, obviously.
Are…are you okay?
Woof.
That’s nice, dear.
He looks loud.
Yup. And once you experience a breakin, you will suffer this forever…
Wife coming to bed? Nope. Clearly must be another break in. Obvious wind? Grab the pepper spray you keep under the bed and scan the room as your heart pounds. Literally nothing? Let’s wake up in a start and double check that the doors are double locked and barred.
Yeah, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
This has to qualify as PTSD.
I just suffered childhood trauma involving my narcissistic father always knowing what floortile of the kitchen I was standing on.
Or an earthquake. You will have fear every time it happens, for the rest of your life
Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!
I CAN’T HEEEAR YOOOOU!
Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me very often.
I one hundred percent have it. Like you, infrequent, but it’s either a bang or a crack, and sometimes a horn. Was so glad to learn they’ve got a name for it, because now I just chalk my waking up to a noise to it.
Wow that really sucks! I’m sorry you go through this
