Friday, March 13, 2009

Noise Pollution

It is a Thursday night and my neighbour has decided to have a party, like every other week. Obviously they don't care much for their finals, not like I'm studying, but still..
And this noise pollution they are causing is a negative externality because it is hindering my television time, and later tonight, my sleep. If I was any more studious, this would be distracting to my studying session.
I could always call the security on them but I am not that mean. Everyone has got to have their fun, I just rather stay home, call in delivery and pig out.
On the brighter side, I won't have to put on my radio tonight. Usually I sleep with the music on but on nights like these, I get free tunes courtesy of my neighbour. So I guess I could call it a positive externality.

Not to toot my own horn but I wish all neighbours could be this tolerant. The other night my friends threw me a surprise birthday party over at their place and as it got closer to midnight, the neighbours called the police on us. They didn't even bother calling security, they went straight for the police. In the end, my friend had a citation for disrupting the peace. I thought it was really unnecessary given that my friend had notified all his neighbours about the party that afternoon. Also, his neighbours could have just knocked on the door to give us a heads up but nooo.. they had to call the police, 3 times.

1 comment:

  1. I to like to play my music loud at times especially if im going out, but i do think of others around me first asking them to let me know if it gets to loud. But insted of that happening some ppl gp straight to the RA or front desk to complain, so i can see it as more of a negative externality but only because others around make it that way.

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