So I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but the people who live above me like to fight - and loudly!!! We have been awoke at 3 a.m. to hear the sounds of furniture being shoved around, accompanied by shouting and yelling.
I think most of time time they are near the bathroom when the fighting starts up, as that is where it is the loudest - in my bathroom. Then sometimes they take it to the kitchen, and the balcony just off the kitchen. I have no clue what they are fighting about. However one time I did hear the woman yell a very bad word at the man. The only reason I know this word is because in English when you say 'pull-up' it sounds like this Romanian word for a mans 'member'.
So the other day, I'm in the bathroom, giving the girls their bath, and we hear the fighting, they've been going at it for a while now, and it had been one of those days, where EVERYTHING was getting on my last nerve. So after getting the girls dried off, dressed, and sent to get under the blankets to keep warm, I was picking up in the bathroom, and just got tired of hearing their yelling, so I looked up at my bathroom ceiling and yelled at the top of my lungs "TACI" (pronounced 'toch' [short 'o' sound])!
Taci, is romanian for shut up, Taci din gura, mean shut your mouth; gura means mouth....
...anyway, so after I yelled Taci as loudly as I could, the fighting stopped, at least we didn't hear it anymore. Not the rest of that day anyway.
Honestly, I have NO reason to be annoyed with the noise level coming from any of my neighbors, since my 3 monkeys make more noise than you find at a Metallica concert.....okay, not really, but it's close! I mean they play loudly, and they fight even louder! And of course I have to yell, so that they can hear me above their yelling, it's really quiet embarrassing, and I'm surprised none of our neighbors have ever said anything; in fact they usually stop my kids to talk to them, or will bring them treats from time to time.
So if you are ever in Romania, and someone is getting on your nerves just tell them 'Taci din gura'!
You are so sweet :))
ReplyDeletemade me laugh really - it;s good you learn the bad language though, it can prove very useful at times :)
else,I highly recommend you get a house instead of an apartment
iulia al abbas
LOL! I had a downstairs neighbor in BR who liked to play his stereo LOUDLY at 2 a.m. Went through a week there of Neil Young, every night, 2 a.m... One night I got out of bed and banged on the floor so hard with the handle of my broom, I broke it.
ReplyDeletehe cut off the stereo, though... :D lol! sigh. genetics~ <3