Night-time Disturbances

 and it wasn't me this time.

At 2am we were woken by someone screaming abuse at Ioannis.  Fortunately for the screamer, who sounded like he was immediately below our aft balcony, Yianni didn't take the bait.  After two attempts to get a rise, the screamer gave up and left.  He was clearly unaware when he embarked on his rant that he was at serious risk of being drop-kicked.  F did get up to try and find out where his noise was coming from.....and possibly to tell him where to take it to

...or maybe just to drop-kick him.

I lay still and pretended to be asleep throughout.

At 0315 we were woken again, this time by a dumper truck and a tractor thing with hydraulic arms front and back.  The pair were in front of the apartment and the tractor thing was loading rubble into the truck and smashing it down with the bucket on the front hydraulic arm.  Quite apart from the noise its unmuffled engine was making, and its screaming reversing siren, its bucket was being operated with all the finesse of a sledge hammer, making for lots of heavy metal clanking.

F got up to inspect (and I lay still and pretended to be asleep throughout - I sensed another drop-kick moment). 

 The tractor roared away off up the street and for a while all we could hear were the sounds of the blokes in hi-vis vests standing in the dark talking, interrupted briefly by the passing of a single mobile night club.  The tractor returned roaring like a stag in the rut, with its bucket full of what F confirmed were large sheets of glass (like shop window glass) and proceeded to smash those up in the back of the truck as well.

Goodness knows where all this deconstruction material was coming from but why they had to collect it at 3am on a Monday morning was beyond all of us.  Just because 5 blokes in hi-vis vests weren't asleep at that time of day doesn't mean the rest of us have to be awake too.

We get reminded from time to time, because we foreigners tend to forget, that 'quiet time'  late in the afternoons has to be respected, but no one seems to give a tinkers for peace and quiet at 3 in the morning.


(Least of all me 😁.... but at least it wasn't me being threatened with being drop-kicked this time!)

Comments

  1. Yamini MacLean14 September 2020 at 08:45

    Hari OM
    Crikey... F has my sympawthees; as one whose nights are frequently disturbed I quite understand the drop-kick mentality. How I would love to snuggle as you are in that last picture, Mr T! Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx

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  2. Cathy14 September 2020 at 12:11

    Hello Tigger (and T). Haven’t been to see you for a while and what do I find but you (well you Tigger) asleep on the job.
    Good job there aren’t any ‘night crews’ working round here.....it’s bad enough the bin men come around to empty the darlek exterminator things at 6am on a Monday morning. My thoughts exactly on them being awake at that time of the morning. Bet their ears burn each time they stop outside our place.

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    1. Tigger's Mum14 September 2020 at 14:44

      F might have threatened them with being drop-kicked into last week, but being Greek they probably wouldn't have known what a decent drop-kick was anyway.
      So what's a darlek exterminator anyway? I mean in the sense that it needs emptying...

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  3. At Home In New Zealand14 September 2020 at 20:14

    Great thinking, Tigger, in pretending to stay asleep! I can easily imagine how irate F was with those interruptions and no self-respecting cat would want to be anywhere near her :))

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  4. angela15 September 2020 at 22:08

    How very rude!

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