Comments on: A Warning Chime

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:45:30 +0000

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.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:29:34 +0000

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.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:59:47 +0000

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.

By: Kore

Kore — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:20:48 +0000

Sadly, my neighbors with the screaming children/honking car are also the ones with the windchimes. They suck.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:13:30 +0000

I do.

By: Bruce MacFarlane

Bruce MacFarlane — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:09:58 +0000

I have to agree.I hate windchimes.

By: waker

waker — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:37:29 +0000

Maybe the wind chimes are cheap and loud, and close to their bedroom window. Of course other neighbors all the way at the other end of the floor, or several floors up, can’t hear them as loudly. I don’t understand why it makes a difference if others care about them — if you lived in an apartment adjacent to someone who was loud all night, and you were the only one who was bothered (because it was right next to you and you only), wouldn’t you still think your neighbor should cut it out? As a courtesy to you? So you could sleep?

By: waker

waker — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:31:24 +0000

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.

By: Ivona

Ivona — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:20:43 +0000

Windchimes can be very annoying, especially in very windy weather. They’re not unlike music playing constantly within earshot. I disagree with the way these people conveyed their message, but the request itself is entirely reasonable.

By: kermit

kermit — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:36:09 +0000

Interestingly enough, I have yet to encounter ONE wind chime owner that actually hangs around their wind chimes to “enjoy” them.

By: shepd

shepd — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:28:49 +0000

One person’s shrill, shrieking children honking the horn are another person’s special windchime (sorry–snowflake).

By: shepd

shepd — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:22:02 +0000

I ya’ll think windchimes sound awesome, then you won’t mind my outdoor speakers playing dubstep all night long.

Don’t worry, I love the sound of dubstep, so I’m sure you will too. With my electronics skills I’ll make sure to exactly match the SPL of your windchimes so we can be fair to each other and we can both get identical fines.

If you happen to be under 25, I can be nicer to myself and just install a mosquito device.

(Don’t worry, I start off a lot nicer than the notewriter did)

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:24:23 +0000

I bet every neighbor that has EVER lived next to my grandpa has the same complaint about Frank. Boy, does he love himself some Frank.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:37:21 +0000

I assume ordinary “tinkle in the wind” chimes, not the huge basso-profundo chimes that stand 14 feet tall with a 5″ diameter pipe. I just can’t imagine those in an apartment setting.

Like these: http://www.musicofspheres.com/products/?tuningid=3