Adriana in Playa Del Rey, California said her husband found this note from a non-wind chime enthusiast taped to their outside of their condo building. “I personally love all the exclamation points,” Adriana says — “especially the cheery ‘thanks!’ at the bottom.”
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#1
ckk66
Ugh. I think I would buy 5 more chimes just for them threatening legal action instead of just asking.
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:40 pm rating: 91
#2
Ash
You know, I’d be more apt to take them down if someone came over and asked nicely. This would tempt me to go out and buy nine more. I feel like sucking up your pride/dickery and asking is significantly cheaper than court fees, but hey, that’s just me.
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:42 pm rating: 91
#3
m9
you know what this note needs? it needs MORE COWBE… err.. i mean, CHIMES!!!
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:45 pm rating: 91
#4
LC6
Why does everyone threaten lawsuits today?? What’s wrong with asking nicely? Just to be a bitch, I’d add a few more windchimes, too, and make certain they were the long, loud ones. Or cowbells like the PP suggested, lol
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:50 pm rating: 91
#5
bmack
Mt neighbor has a backyard filled with wind-chimes, most of them pretty loud and annoying. I didn’t bother asking her to muffle them, I just went out and found the BIGGEST one I could, and hung it from a tree closest to the deck she sits on every morning for breakfast.
If I’m annoyed, the entire neighborhood will be annoyed
Feb 6, 2013 at 2:24 pm rating: 91
#6
me
Ugh — I am Team Note Writer, wind chimes are the ABSOLUTE WORST!
Feb 6, 2013 at 2:28 pm rating: 90
#7
Lisa
I don’t mind my neighbor’s chimes, usually, but when it’s crazy windy (as it tends to be this time of year), I do wish they’d take them down. What is usually a pleasant sound (these are the big, expensive “tuned” chimes) becomes downright cacophonous.
Feb 6, 2013 at 2:57 pm rating: 90
#8
cowsaysmeow
Heh…this reminds me of when I was a teenager living in L.A., and one of our neighbors asked my mother to “Please turn down your wind cylinders!!!” In fairness to him, the Santa Ana winds were in full effect…putting a rubber band around the chimes didn’t stop him from blasting Frank Sinatra on Sunday mornings though. :/ Then again, we never asked him to turn it down. Oh well, we still get a laugh out of it.
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:15 pm rating: 91
#9
KittenPlaysTheViolin
I’m on team notewriter. What’s the point of windchimes? Unnecessary noise is just that – unnecessary. I get that other people might like it, but go get a windchime mp3 instead of torturing everyone around you. Windchimes are simply obnoxious and rude unless you live in the country. Personally, I would have just smashed it on the ground and left no note whatsoever.
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:26 pm rating: 91
#10
pooham
One set of windchimes? Chill out. It could be worse: barking dog, booming bass from a stereo, loud rumbling of a “Pay Attention To Me!” Harley, my mother repeating the same story about the price of chicken every 8 minutes…
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:27 pm rating: 90
#11
fuzzbutt
I have 2 sets of chimes. I am libel to hang 4 more sets now.
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:35 pm rating: 90
#12
Would Prefer Chimes
I would welcome the chimes! In the park across the street from my window the city has built an “art installation” that consists of several massive organ style pipes…Every time so much as a breeze blows through the park it sounds like eight tubas engaged in an epic civil war!
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:47 pm rating: 90
#13
ninjaduck
HOA does not have the authority to a “Class Action Lawsuit” over wind chimes. If the recipient of this note threw wild loud orgies every day of the week, the police had been contacted each time, and several complaints filed, that would be a different story. But this complainer has no authority what-so-ever to DEMAND the removal of the wind chimes, they have every right to confront the offender or complain to the authorities.
Feb 6, 2013 at 3:52 pm rating: 90
#14
George Marasco
This could have been written by me, I’m sorry to say. I loathe the sound of wind chimes with a white-hot passion.
Feb 6, 2013 at 4:57 pm rating: 90
#15
Ely North
Couldn’t agree more with the note-writer. Wind chimes sound like angels retching.
Feb 6, 2013 at 5:07 pm rating: 90
#16
Teri
I’m on team windchime. I like the way they sound, and quite frankly the cars and kids in my neighborhood make much more unpleasant and unnecessary noise than they do. For example – just a few houses down the street from me, the parents of some of those shrill, shrieking children think nothing at all of letting their kids sit in their car in front of the house and honk the horn incessantly. They think it’s cute and have been doing it long before I hung my windchime. These same people are incapable of coming or going anywhere in their car without honking the horn for the length of the block themselves. I dare them to say one word about my chimes.
Feb 6, 2013 at 6:01 pm rating: 90
#17
scott hall
Is this guy joking or just American?
Feb 6, 2013 at 6:10 pm rating: 90
#18
Poltergeist
What kind of giant pussy threatens a class action lawsuit over wind chimes. America’s legal system already has enough problems without people making a mockery of it.
Maybe I’ll sue my neighbors because their dog sometimes barks, or I’ll sue the people down the street because I think their garden gnomes are ugly. Then they can sue me back because my statue of the lady with the exposed breasts is damaging to the fragile psyches of small children.
Feb 6, 2013 at 6:33 pm rating: 90
#19
Lauri
One of the main reasons I bought a house was that I could not stand the inconsiderate noises of other people while living in an apartment. Doesn’t matter what the noise is, it’s the fact that you put your enjoyment of stuff you could easily do quieter above my right to quiet enjoyment of my home. Right up there with having to breathe in someone else’s cigarette smoke. People doing nothing wrong being abused by inconsiderate people will never make sense to me.
Feb 6, 2013 at 6:48 pm rating: 90
#20
anotherfool
Some people have high sensitivity to noises. Migraineurs, autistics, people with various other brain differences feel noise like an icepick driven into the forehead (and are among the least likely to able to afford 10 acres in the country, where drunk ATVers would probably circle the property all day anyway). Pro-windchime people, or “let’s play music loud enough for strangers to hear” or “it’s a nice day so I’ll make all my shouting cell phone calls out on the deck” types making needless noise is the equivalent to smoking in public or pouring on the cologne if you’re an elevator operator. Alternatively, you could develop some sensitivity to other people, who may not be exactly like you, have exactly your tastes, or exactly your brain structure, or enjoy the noises you enjoy, who in fact may be worse than “irritated,” may end up sick in bed or have to take dangerous drugs or experience a violent outburst or epileptic seizure because of your noisiness. Google health effects of noise pollution for more.
Feb 6, 2013 at 7:10 pm rating: 90
#21
ZB
Why would they not just chop the wind chimes down in the night like ordinary disgruntled and self righteous people? Obviously these are some class A(ction) weirdos.
Feb 6, 2013 at 8:02 pm rating: 90
#22
katie
I always found wind chimes to have a very soothing, pretty, delicate-like ringing sound. They’re like the occasional ring of a triangle. As someone who lives across the street from a family whose son plays drums in the garage with the garage door open, I would be delighted to hear something like wind chimes. Obviously, they should be taken in when it’s too windy out, but when there’s a slight breeze or a calm day with the occasional chiming sound, it’s great. I think you would also have to be careful about the type of chime you had, some make loud cowbell like noises, and some have like ten chimes on a metal loop and can sound more like metal clinking than music. So there are certainly things to consider, but they’re still great to me.
Feb 6, 2013 at 9:09 pm rating: 90
#23
Jami
I’m team wind chime. The good ones sound pretty. Like fairy music. Or Rufus Sewell’s voice.
But seriously, I’m mostly team wind chime because the note writer is an immature buttmunch that reminds me of our neighborhood trouble maker. I think I’ve mentioned him before. He’s the one who’s a contractor that hates that no one in the neighborhood hires him. So he goes around and reports people for untrue violations. Like the guy who had a couple of bikes he was going to repair next to his garage for a couple of days. This putz told the code department he was “storing broken bikes in his front yard for a month.”
Feb 6, 2013 at 9:41 pm rating: 90
#24
Jomba
Everyone should just toss the windchimes. At least a third of the people here saying they like wind chimes only profess to “liking” windchimes because they make “less noise” than something obnoxiously loud they put up with currently. That’s like saying you like a headache because it’s not a migraine. It is random noise, in my opinion unecessary, and by the very nature of what it is, must be outdoors to function properly. Outdoors in public space where it may bother others. Writing a shitty note about the windchimes isn’t the answer, but if I asked someone nicely to take them down because I didn’t want to have to choose between living stuffily in my house with every window nailed shut or going bonkers with the windows open, and they decided “nahhh let’s bother this person some more” instead….
Well all your windchimes are now marked. Marked!
Thankfully I have never lived near anyone that has windchimes, or at least windchimes that were noisy enough to hear. I put one outside once, and promptly took it in and nailed it to the wall after a couple days. Learned that lesson.
Feb 6, 2013 at 9:45 pm rating: 90
#25
tch tch
If people like the sound of wind chimes so much, why not bring them inside and hang them in front of a pedestal fan?
Feb 6, 2013 at 10:00 pm rating: 90
#26
jonesy
I’m on team wind chime, the note writer sounds like a nicer version of a crazy downstairs neighbor I used to have. There was a nice, large tree that shaded the back of the property and overhung my deck, so I put out a bird feeder. Some of the feed spilled onto her (junky) patio area and she left me a note, so I moved the feeder as far over as I could. I got another note threatening to scoop up the spilled seed and dump it in front of my door. The manager got involved and settled her down, though she later accused me of having a dog (I did not & it was a no pets property) and told me I was a fibber when I said I didn’t. She was a true piece of work and I don’t miss her at all.
Feb 7, 2013 at 2:36 am rating: 90
#27
redheadwglasses
Team note writer, only because I’ve had enough sleepless summer nights because of the windchimes on the deck above my unit. They do not belong where others can hear them. I think windchimes are lovely (especially the very low-tones ones), but I don’t want to hear your wind chimes at 2 a.m. when it’s 75 degrees out and my windows are open.
Feb 7, 2013 at 9:04 am rating: 90
#28
miguel
And this is why I live out in the countryside.
Heck, I can shoot a gun in my backyard and no one out here would mind. One neighbor rebuilds stock cars and the engine test runs are pretty loud, but brief. #cityfolkproblems
Feb 7, 2013 at 10:25 am rating: 90
#29
Silence
Such vehemence over windchimes! Gods above, you’d think we were talking about indoor/outdoor cats eating vegan diets, or something.
Feb 7, 2013 at 11:09 am rating: 90
#30
Joe Blow
If you hang windchimes in an apartment, you are an asshole.
Feb 7, 2013 at 11:17 am rating: 90
#31
Kris
Sorry as much as some cheap windchimes can be annoying I cannot side with team asshat. Why? Mostly because if they have an HOA all it would take is a few complaints. Or you know talking to the note submitter. there is nothing PA about this. Its all A and completely batshit.
Odds are good only the note writer has a problem with the windchime vs ALL of the neighbors having a problem.
Feb 7, 2013 at 12:21 pm rating: 90
#32
The Elf
Didn’t Beach Boys do a song about that?
Feb 7, 2013 at 1:49 pm rating: 90
#33
Escapist83
I own windchimes, I have them hung up, I enjoy the sound they make, but if my neighbor (duplex) asked nicely, I’d probably take them down without a fuss.
Feb 7, 2013 at 2:21 pm rating: 90
#34
ClearlyDemented
Three things:
1) I read through all 3,000 comments and no one has mentioned the completely undecipherable beginning of this note. There is absolutely no way you can put those words together to form a legitimate thought.
2) They are going to file a class-action suit against the owner AND the HOA, which leads me to believe the HOA already blew the complainant off.
3) Why do people think the amount of time they’ve lived somewhere gives them the ability to dictate how newer neighbors live? That’s like saying the person who goes to the bathroom the most gets to sprinkle fecal mist on the rest of the employees as they leave for the day.
Feb 7, 2013 at 3:52 pm rating: 90
#35
Fifi
If wind chimes are the worst thing going on in your life, then you’re pretty lucky. Sounds like a First World problem to me.
Feb 7, 2013 at 9:05 pm rating: 90
#36
Melisa
I’m curious as to what kind of wind chimes we are dealing with here. I’ve seen everything from “tinkle in the wind” that are nice and even soothing to “war zone in the wind” that pull more decibels than a jackhammer. Wind chimes can be a serious nuisance.
Feb 7, 2013 at 9:14 pm rating: 90
#37
Kathlen
I’ll take windchimes over your outdoor cat any day.
Feb 7, 2013 at 10:40 pm rating: 90
#38
waker
No one should be suing anyone over wind chimes. But, while no one is “entitled to quiet” every second of everyday, if the wind chimes are at all loud (i.e., not tingling like angels’ wings), it is rude to leave them chiming all night when it is windy. Not everyone sleeps like hibernating bears and to expect a potentially lighter-sleeping neighbor to wear earplugs every night so that your inanimate wind chimes can chime away to their hearts’ content at 3am is inconsiderate. Especially if they are located right near a neighbor’s bedroom.
I can’t believe the rude MFers saying they’d leave them up even if they’d asked nicely.
Feb 11, 2013 at 10:31 am rating: 90
#39
Bruce MacFarlane
I have to agree.I hate windchimes.
Feb 11, 2013 at 2:09 pm rating: 90
#40
Gary
I’m on Team: Chimes Are Annoying
The note is out of line but I’m willing to bet that the chimes are located closer to the note writers bedroom than the chime hangers bedroom.
Reminds me of a camping trip. Neighbor fires up his generator to charge his batteries and says to me “Where going into town to go shopping, be back in a couple hours”. After a few minutes of listening to that motor I walked over and shut it off.
Feb 13, 2013 at 3:59 pm rating: 90
#41
Jenni
Wind chimes suck. They do not relax me. They sound like a shitty new-age group rehearsing for the first time. If you’re going to thrust your own personal preferred method of calming yourself down upon ME, then I shall return the favor by exercising MY relaxation ritual, which is blasting gangsta rap and setting fire to stuff.
Feb 16, 2013 at 6:29 pm rating: 90
#42
Meg
I don’t advocate a lawsuit, but DAMN windchimes suck. My husband and I lived in a rented townhouse that shared a wall with a couple with a chime COLLECTION right outside our bedroom window (they weren’t near THEIR bedroom). It was impossible to fall asleep. I never said anything (or wrote a note), but it was a serious pain in the ass, so I don’t get all the people coming out in defense of chimes, even one is annoying if you don’t like them and you’re trying to sleep. Did I mention the chimes were in a windy alley, and at least 5 other townhouses must have been able to hear them all night. Of course, we also had screaming neighbors, loud sex neighbors, dog neighbors and kid neighbors, and fire trucks because we were near the station. The chimes were the worst, because they were constant. Just because there are other irritating noises doesn’t mean windchimes are nice. So glad we bought a house with some land. Now the only noises are ours, and we aren’t bugging anyone else, either.
Feb 19, 2013 at 7:45 pm rating: 91
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