Sleep-Deprived Nurse Puts An End To 50-Year-Old College Tradition
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Most of us love listening to music a little bit louder than we should. Whether you’re running on the treadmill and want the volume up to motivate yourself or you’re fighting to get as close to the stage as you can at a concert, there’s something invigorating about loud music. But only when it’s music we want to hear.
One nurse recently shared on Reddit that she was tormented by a nearby college blasting annoying music all day long in their parking lot. So instead of staying silent, she got petty revenge and altered a longstanding tradition. Below, you’ll find the full story, as well as the song and some of the replies from amused readers!
This nurse was having a hard time sleeping due to loud music coming from a nearby college
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So she decided to make sure that the annoying song would never bother her again
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Later, the nurse added a couple updates with more details about the story and her response to readers
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Here’s the infamous song that the college was blasting
“If petty revenge is deserved, people should absolutely dish it”
To learn more about this specific situation, we reached out to the nurse who shared this story on Reddit, Glad-Ad-2032, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda. First, we wanted to know what inspired her to share this story now. “I was wondering if I should post in r/AITA or r/pettyrevenge. It’s been on my mind now and then, and I honestly just wanted to be able to coexist with the students having fun,” she explained.
We were also curious if she had heard anyone else complaining about the music before she decided to speak up. “We had just moved here, and I had no idea this was a thing or tradition until after I’d called the police (civil servant in the office), and he said he used to live on the same street and hated it,” she shared.
“After this incident, I heard of one other that hated it,” the OP added. “I don’t know if people just suffer through or enjoy it. So I felt bad the next year when the music was down to almost nothing because I was pleased when it was down to where I couldn’t hear it inside with closed windows.” And as far as her thoughts on petty revenge, the nurse says that if it’s deserved, “people should absolutely dish it. But classy, stay classy!”
She also shared her thoughts on the replies to her post. “I feel less crazy after reading the comments,” the OP says. “I’ve felt like I was the angry Karen that ruined all the funny-fun, but now I feel vindicated!” Finally she added, “College-kids, have fun! Just don’t piss off the night-nurses!”
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Noise pollution can take a serious toll on our health and wellbeing
No matter how much you love listening to music, you’re never going to love every single song, and you’re definitely not going to like any song that’s blasted at you to the point where it starts creating noise pollution. The European Environment Agency notes that noise pollution is a serious issue for both human health and the environment. Being constantly exposed to environmental noise, particularly sounds from traffic, has been found to negatively impact a person’s health and wellbeing.
In fact, 20% of residents in Europe are being exposed to long-term noise levels that are harmful to their health, the EEA says. These sounds can cause annoyance, sleep disturbance, negative impacts on our cardiovascular and metabolic systems and even cognitive impairment in youths. Environmental noise is estimated to have contributed to 48,000 new cases of coronary heart disease each year and 12,000 premature deaths.
The EEA also estimates that 22 million people are suffering from “chronic high annoyance,” and 6.5 million individuals suffer from chronic high sleep disturbance. At the same time, over 12,000 children are struggling with reading impairment in school due to the disturbing amount of noise they can hear from airplanes.
While noise pollution is often overlooked as a significant health issue, the World Health Organization actually found that it is the second largest environmental cause of health issues, behind only air pollution. It can have a significant impact on our mental and physical health, and it can do just as much damage to wildlife.
Animals are typically even more sensitive to sound than humans, and noise pollution from cities can cause species to be pushed out of their homes to try to relocate to quieter areas. It can also cause them significant stress and change their migration routes, which often leads to many deaths due to not having safe paths available.
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Sleep deprivation is extremely dangerous
The nurse in this story noted that the noise from the nearby college was contributing to her sleep deprivation, which can also lead to serious health issues as well. We all know we need our beauty sleep to feel our best, but according to Healthline, not getting enough sleep can cause memory issues, trouble thinking and concentrating, mood changes, a weakened immune system, high blood pressure, weight gain, risk of heart disease, poor balance and can cause accidents.
Nurses in particular are at high risk of becoming sleep deprived due to the nature of their job and the hours that they work. Amerisleep reports that a whopping 60% of nurses experience sleep issues, which can lead them to make preventable mistakes while on the job. Their physical exhaustion can also take a toll on their mental health, job satisfaction and cause them to drive impaired after shifts, putting themselves and others on the road at risk.
The idea that nurses, who work tirelessly every day to take care of patients’ health, don’t have the time or opportunity to care for their own health is incredibly unfair. Everyone deserves a good night’s sleep, especially nurses. We would love to hear your thoughts on this petty revenge in the comments below, pandas. Then, if you’re looking for another Bored Panda article discussing similar issues, look no further than right here!
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Readers applauded the nurse for her revenge, and she joined in on the conversation
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Don't you know this proverb in USA: "The freedom of some ends where that of others begins". ???
So "tradition" allows disrespect now? Sorry, OP did the right thing: have fun all you want but your fun mustn't stampede others' right to peacefulness.
Yep, they suffer gang violence on a scale they never experienced before.
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If that song was blasted at full volume ALL DAY and NIGHT for TEN DAYS near me, there would be blood.
Neighborhood Christmas light shows used to have a similar problem. Some people like to go overboard with their decorations, including choreographed lights and music. Obviously neighbors complained about music blaring all evening. So they eventually switched to broadcasting the music over a local FM radio transmitter. Anyone wanting to see their lights with music just had to park their car nearby, tune their radio to the proper FM channel, and they got the full show. Everyone else got blissful silence. Nowadays, you could just set up a website streaming the music, and tell anyone who wanted to hear the music for the full experience, to just go to that website on their phone and listen with earphones.
Don't mess with the sleep deprived. When I was in college (like 40 years ago) during finals week, when I was working full-time, cramming for finals, and trying to get some large projects done and getting by on about 2-3 hours sleep a night there were a couple of guys in the room across the hall from me who were blasting loud music at midnight or later. I complained to them and they turned it down... until I was back in my room, then it went right back up. I got the floor RA and he told them to turn it down (quiet hours were 10-8) and they did... until he went back to his room. I was getting a bit peeved by this point, as I not only had lost an hour or more of my already short sleep, but it was too loud and distracting to even study. Finally I cracked. I kicked their door open, stormed over to their stereo system, grabbed a handful of wires in the back, and ripped them all out and left with them. It was very quiet from then on - and everyone seemed to tread a bit cautiously around me.
I am a lifelong DJ and now I have bad hearing and I understand what sound does to people. It should be used for pleasure and dancing not to hurt people. When I became a DJ I moved to the boonies, so that I could have a balance of peace😉 I love loud music, and wanted to be the loudest DJ around, and because of it I still wear hearing aids to this day.
Wow. Totally s****y pay. Less than an American LPN (median pay = $56,000), let alone a Registered Nurse ($89,000). LPNs do work that is often unpleasant or difficult, so I don't mean to demean them by comparison (because if you're an LPN, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO), but they typically clean patients and their surroundings, monitor vital signs, and other tasks that require some demonstrated competency, but not a bachelor's or professional degree. THEY DEFINITELY DESERVE BETTER PAY than they get, even in the U.S. The field pretty much came about after WW2, when the nation recognized the need for more nurses, but also the fact that much of what nurses did did not require the significant college education that nurses were required to have.
Start a new "tradition" that works without annoying the whole neighborhood.
You just reminded me of the "I ain't get no sleep cause of y'all, y'all ain't get no sleep cause of me" lady.
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Sounds like you put an end to a toxic "tradition" good! To many people hide their s**te behavior behind those excuses.
I would like to add, probably don't f**k with *any* nurse! The good ones are getting harder to come by & they're literally holding lives in their underpaid hands!
10 nights of loud partying? That's way over the top. If it were one night maybe that would be okay but I'm amazed more people didn't complain about the noise.
Let them play their music into the night. I get up early the next day and at 6:59am i fire up the lawn mower and cur the grass….very, very slowly. I spend way too much time when i get next to their house. Then the leaf blower. And all the time i have (the greatest hits of the most annoying bands i can think of) blasting from the garage. Once, they were just getting ready for bed themselves.
10 days in a row is ridiculous and "tradition" isn't a good enough reason for that nonsense.
As a nurse, who is about to transfer on to night shifts, don't mess with us. In any situation, any place, any time, any weather. Do. Not. Mess. With. Us.
I live-in a catholic country where at this time of year, Easter is a big thing, some c**p about a guy getting nailed to a cross and then coming back, anyway, our local council has put speakers in the street, so we can hear mass for 3 hours, suppose they are trying to get us sinners to repent... I just turn the TV up so loud that I can't hear the speakers anymore. And don't get me started on the karaoke that happens in between the sermon .. whoa !!
Good for this nurse. Guess what, lots of things are funded by taxes and that doesn't give anyone the right to noise-torture someone. The "tradition" sounds super annoying, and I bet there are other people who are glad to be rid of it. Noise pollution is obnoxious and a lot of it is completely avoidable or can be reduced. People are just rude and inconsiderate. Also, big balls on this guy talking about how the nurse's salary is paid for by taxes when his salary is paid for with taxes too. He should be grateful to live in a country where a medical emergency doesn't mean bankruptcy. Nothing wrong with calling the non-emergency number for noise violations. I did that one time when one of the businesses next to my complex decided that having a big outdoor concert party after 10 pm on a weekday was a good idea. I'm sure they're still whining on Failbook about how "oppressed" they are. (Turns out they were violating the fire code too.)
Don't you know this proverb in USA: "The freedom of some ends where that of others begins". ???
So "tradition" allows disrespect now? Sorry, OP did the right thing: have fun all you want but your fun mustn't stampede others' right to peacefulness.
Yep, they suffer gang violence on a scale they never experienced before.
Load More Replies... If that song was blasted at full volume ALL DAY and NIGHT for TEN DAYS near me, there would be blood.
Neighborhood Christmas light shows used to have a similar problem. Some people like to go overboard with their decorations, including choreographed lights and music. Obviously neighbors complained about music blaring all evening. So they eventually switched to broadcasting the music over a local FM radio transmitter. Anyone wanting to see their lights with music just had to park their car nearby, tune their radio to the proper FM channel, and they got the full show. Everyone else got blissful silence. Nowadays, you could just set up a website streaming the music, and tell anyone who wanted to hear the music for the full experience, to just go to that website on their phone and listen with earphones.
Don't mess with the sleep deprived. When I was in college (like 40 years ago) during finals week, when I was working full-time, cramming for finals, and trying to get some large projects done and getting by on about 2-3 hours sleep a night there were a couple of guys in the room across the hall from me who were blasting loud music at midnight or later. I complained to them and they turned it down... until I was back in my room, then it went right back up. I got the floor RA and he told them to turn it down (quiet hours were 10-8) and they did... until he went back to his room. I was getting a bit peeved by this point, as I not only had lost an hour or more of my already short sleep, but it was too loud and distracting to even study. Finally I cracked. I kicked their door open, stormed over to their stereo system, grabbed a handful of wires in the back, and ripped them all out and left with them. It was very quiet from then on - and everyone seemed to tread a bit cautiously around me.
I am a lifelong DJ and now I have bad hearing and I understand what sound does to people. It should be used for pleasure and dancing not to hurt people. When I became a DJ I moved to the boonies, so that I could have a balance of peace😉 I love loud music, and wanted to be the loudest DJ around, and because of it I still wear hearing aids to this day.
Wow. Totally s****y pay. Less than an American LPN (median pay = $56,000), let alone a Registered Nurse ($89,000). LPNs do work that is often unpleasant or difficult, so I don't mean to demean them by comparison (because if you're an LPN, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO), but they typically clean patients and their surroundings, monitor vital signs, and other tasks that require some demonstrated competency, but not a bachelor's or professional degree. THEY DEFINITELY DESERVE BETTER PAY than they get, even in the U.S. The field pretty much came about after WW2, when the nation recognized the need for more nurses, but also the fact that much of what nurses did did not require the significant college education that nurses were required to have.
Start a new "tradition" that works without annoying the whole neighborhood.
You just reminded me of the "I ain't get no sleep cause of y'all, y'all ain't get no sleep cause of me" lady.
Load More Replies... Sounds like you put an end to a toxic "tradition" good! To many people hide their s**te behavior behind those excuses.
I would like to add, probably don't f**k with *any* nurse! The good ones are getting harder to come by & they're literally holding lives in their underpaid hands!
10 nights of loud partying? That's way over the top. If it were one night maybe that would be okay but I'm amazed more people didn't complain about the noise.
Let them play their music into the night. I get up early the next day and at 6:59am i fire up the lawn mower and cur the grass….very, very slowly. I spend way too much time when i get next to their house. Then the leaf blower. And all the time i have (the greatest hits of the most annoying bands i can think of) blasting from the garage. Once, they were just getting ready for bed themselves.
10 days in a row is ridiculous and "tradition" isn't a good enough reason for that nonsense.
As a nurse, who is about to transfer on to night shifts, don't mess with us. In any situation, any place, any time, any weather. Do. Not. Mess. With. Us.
I live-in a catholic country where at this time of year, Easter is a big thing, some c**p about a guy getting nailed to a cross and then coming back, anyway, our local council has put speakers in the street, so we can hear mass for 3 hours, suppose they are trying to get us sinners to repent... I just turn the TV up so loud that I can't hear the speakers anymore. And don't get me started on the karaoke that happens in between the sermon .. whoa !!
Good for this nurse. Guess what, lots of things are funded by taxes and that doesn't give anyone the right to noise-torture someone. The "tradition" sounds super annoying, and I bet there are other people who are glad to be rid of it. Noise pollution is obnoxious and a lot of it is completely avoidable or can be reduced. People are just rude and inconsiderate. Also, big balls on this guy talking about how the nurse's salary is paid for by taxes when his salary is paid for with taxes too. He should be grateful to live in a country where a medical emergency doesn't mean bankruptcy. Nothing wrong with calling the non-emergency number for noise violations. I did that one time when one of the businesses next to my complex decided that having a big outdoor concert party after 10 pm on a weekday was a good idea. I'm sure they're still whining on Failbook about how "oppressed" they are. (Turns out they were violating the fire code too.)
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