My home is near a local bar. I knew it was there when I bought the house. It is a nice bar with good food and beer, and lousy service. They have bands playing three or four times a night. I have had a nationally recognized rapper in my home because my partner brought him over from the bar to meet my underaged stepdaughter.
The owners make an effort to keep down the noise. They place sound proofing over the window behind the stage. Even the loudest bands are no louder than a conversation outside the building.
For years it has been a happy coexistence. Until smoking was banned in bars.
I am not a smoker and have never been. I love being able to go to a bar and not come home with my clothes stinking of smoke.
The unanticipated consequence is, the smokers now stand outside the bar smoking and talking and yelling loudly until two in the morning. This I can hear. It is extremely annoying to have a bunch of babbling drunks holding a cocktail party outside our bedroom window.
I am not certain what to do about it. Talk to the owner? Ask the cops to cruise by every night? Wander over in nothing more than my boxers and ask them to keep it down? The boxers are probably the best choice. It would likely scare half of them away. Maybe I would get stunned silence. Silence followed by histerical laughter.
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