We wound up a big holiday week with a very chill Wednesday, sitting around the house doing paperwork, reading books, watching Lost (OK, that was just me) and then grilling some sausages for dinner.
Now that summer-like weather is upon us, the windows are open a lot more often, and yesterday we could once more experience Shrieking Boy Syndrome.
SBS? What does it mean? Before you ask your doctor if it is right for you, I’ll explain that it actually is just our neighbor’s teenage kid, who doesn’t seem to realize that their house’s windows are open. I think he gets overly excited playing video games, and he starts shrieking and yelling like a little girl. It’s not just him – sometimes his friends stop by and they shriek too. It is pretty loud, and I think the whole neighborhood can hear it.
Actually, we only hear it when we our windows are open, we are on holiday, and the kid is also on holiday. Which turns out to be a quite rare combination. Still, it is a little unsettling sometimes, and I feel the very non-Japanese urge to go over there and ask him to take a tranquilizer.
But there are distinct advantages to having a noisy neighbor in a quiet neighborhood – with the major one being that we don’t really have to worry about us being too noisy. We are known to have some parties now and then, and sometimes the music might get a little loud, but I don’t worry about it. We’ll never be as bad as our neighbors – call it a surplus of noise credit. I just wish it paid interest.
