So I'm in my hotel room tonight after a long day of auditing (ISO 9001 surveillance audit) and I'm tired. The neighbors next to me get in the room and the walls start rattling, then the OH MY GOD, and YES! YES! YES! starts....they are having *"wild and noisy amorous activity"!!! *

30 minutes later...here we go again.

1 hour later....again and this time it's louder.

I was sure it would go on all night and I would not get any sleep. I've got another full day with the registrar and I need my rest! I am now in an upgraded room (suite)....how nice of the hotel!

I have never experienced this before and it's just too funny! Has anyone else?

Oops, I didn't realize I made that much noise:o

Should you write yourself an NC for noise pollution or is it a CAR for complaints from neighbours. ;) ;)

Honeymooners!

Are you asking if we have ever been next to a room where someone made that much noise?

Or if we have been in a room, making that much noise?:lmao:

Honeymooners!

Hmmm...I am thinking that they are having an affair! :mg:

There is an old joke about a guy listening outside the door when he returned for a forgotten item after the room had been rerented:
After hearing "Whose little nose is this? Whose little lips? Whose . . ." he interrupted and shouted, "When you get to the umbrella, it's mine!"

Back in my teenage years I was sharing a flat with one of my friends. That was kind of nice, smoking, drinking and lots of ladies. Ahh, the days of yonder!! At one point he ran in to what was to become his girlfriend for five years, and boy, did she make a racket when they were at it. I have truly never heard anything like it. They kept going for hours and hours, and I wouldn't get a bit of sleep!! The neighbours all around the flat complained to me, like I was able to do something about it. To be quite honest, it is not funny to be in the room next door when theyve had a go at it for 4-5-6 hours on a normal weeknight!! I actually once took to pillows and fastened them on either side of my head with a belt in a desperate attempt to get just a little sleep, but to no use, the sound penetrates everything.:mg:

But, I sure had to admire their stamina.:applause: :applause:

:caution: Just a caution, folks. The general rule here in the Coffee Break section is to keep the language and the topic at a level that we won't "squirm" if the boss, spouse, or child reads over our shoulder. For a clever adult, the best part of the story is what he fills in with is own imagination and experience, like the pictures in his mind when listening to a story on radio.

Been there... We spent last years vacation in Tunisia. The midday temperature was blistering, and as a consequence most guests spent that time in their rooms. We know for a fact that at least one couple made good use of it... every day... They could be heard all over the hotel grounds. :lol:

/Claes

You must also consider that the couple next room could be sent by the auditee to distract the auditors sleep...

As you said you were “after a long day of auditing (ISO 9001 surveillance audit)” and as in Portugal, generally is the auditee that books and pays the auditors Hotel rooms, in that case I would have changed the report and wrote a Major nonconformance...
:lol:

There we were manning a "Centralized Give-up Point" late one evening. (Now a CGP is what you call the location where all the cops on duty sit around and BS instead of patrol. We called it that because we allowed society and the malcontents thereof to voluntarily (and on the honor system) come to us and give-up after they had committed an offense).

Anyway, I digress.

We were manning the CGP with the exception of one of the brethern when over the radio we hears sounds of a "struggle" and mighty that "struggle" was.

Well immediately, being the responsible public servants we were, a search for the "struggling" defender of the public ensued and radio communication was attempted (of course this was after we assurred ourselves that this was in fact "struggling" and not some knd of stray noise).

The "victim" wasn't located until contact was made and assistance was asked for. It seems that the "struggle" had caused the rear doors of the vehicle to close and of course this being a law enforcement vehicle there was no way self extracation could happen.

The rescue party rushed to the scene, assisted by the state and county, and a new CGP was established after the fanfair had ceased and the "strugglers" had regained their composure (and clothing):lmao: :lmao:

BTW....NO! It was not me. I was a rescuer

So I'm in my hotel room tonight after a long day of auditing (ISO 9001 surveillance audit) and I'm tired. The neighbors next to me get in the room and the walls start rattling, then the OH MY GOD, and YES! YES! YES! starts....they are having *"wild and noisy amorous activity"!!! *

30 minutes later...here we go again.

1 hour later....again and this time it's louder.

I was sure it would go on all night and I would not get any sleep. I've got another full day with the registrar and I need my rest! I am now in an upgraded room (suite)....how nice of the hotel!

I have never experienced this before and it's just too funny! Has anyone else?

Well I can't say I was in a similar situation but it does remind me of a story from when my wife and I were getting married.

Karol was living in the LA area and I was in Cincinnati. We planned to reside here in Cinci after the wedding and her sister offered her house in Colorado for the wedding.
Karol and her adult daughter drove up to Las Vegas where I was to meet them and we would drive to Colorado and so on. Well......

After I got to Vegas the three of us had dinner, and we went back to the hotel room. Karol's daughter obligingly decided to go back down to the cassino for a while - Which worked just fine for us.:notme: After a while as we were relaxing and talking we got the idea to play a joke on Dorth (Karol's daughter) by"trashing" the room. We proceeded around the room methodically tipping over furniture, tossing clothing (including undies on a lampshade) and generally making a mess. Then we crawled back into bed and waited. When we heard the key in the door we pulled up the blanket, feigned sleep and waited for Dorothy's reaction. The door opened and a light came on then - nothing - one beat - two beats - three beats - then, in a quiet low voice, but one word.
"Whoa!", and she turned and went into the bathroom. Our bed had to be shaking from our stiffled laughter. :lmao:

To this day we still crack up about it.

James

"There we were manning a "Centralized Give-up Point" late one evening. (Now a CGP is what you call the location where all the cops on duty sit around and BS instead of patrol. We called it that because we allowed society and the malcontents thereof to voluntarily (and on the honor system) come to us and give-up after they had committed an offense)."

:lmao: :lol:

Clear your conscience of a heinous offense, and get a cinnamon roll and coffee to boot! The System does work!

when over the radio we hears sounds of a "struggle" and mighty that "struggle" was.

I really had to laugh over this as it happened here recently. It was a quiet night (hot and sticky in the south in the summer) when all of a sudden throughout the county we hear someone key their mobile. Now this is not an unheard of occurrence by any means but most of the time if you are sitting on your Kenwood, you realize it fairly soon. Well the dead airspace turns to a running dialogue and then an explicit broadcast of things best not done in a patrol car.

A friend of mine from law enforcement told us later that the sheriff nearly popped a vein trying to overide the radio signal trying to get the offender to get off the air. They had to send units out to triangulate the signal and find the (now ex) officer.

Sure glad I was out on call that night, and not at home where my kids could have heard that! How do you explain that to your children?:mg:

How do you explain that to your children?:mg:


You call it a struggle.:lol:

How do you explain that to your children?:mg:You don't... They already know about it.... :notme:

/Claes

So I'm in my hotel room tonight after a long day of auditing (ISO 9001 surveillance audit) and I'm tired. The neighbors next to me get in the room and the walls start rattling, then the OH MY GOD, and YES! YES! YES! starts....they are having *"wild and noisy amorous activity"!!! *



Now wait a minute! Oh my God and YES! YES ! YES ! ??? are you sure this was not some sort of religious revival and the wall shaking was due to some high spirited gospel music????

How do you explain that to your children?:mg:

It's choir practice and a soprano is rehearsing a vocal rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee.

My husband is from the Bronx, and when we went back to visit we'd stay with his Mom in Co-Op City, a big Co-Op housing project in the very northeast part of the Bronx. But as she got older and our kids got bigger, we decided to stay at a hotel, so as not to inconvenience her.

Except...did you ever try to get a hotel room in the northern part of the Bronx? Everywhere we went they rented by the hour, sat behind bullet proof glass and had free "paraphenalia" on the counter. At one place my husband said he needed a room for four, and the guy said, "Two Women and Two Men, or same sex?" (Not the place for Mom, Dad and two tweenies)

Finally we found a semi-decent place, and got the "full night" rate, and the desk guy just about jumped for joy, because he got "A Family! a REAL Family!" I fully expected some night time "music" but didn't hear a thing. I just needed to change the channel on the TV real quick before the kids saw what it HAD been tuned to!

Ahhh, memories.

My husband is from the Bronx, and when we went back to visit we'd stay with his Mom in Co-Op City, a big Co-Op housing project in the very northeast part of the Bronx. But as she got older and our kids got bigger, we decided to stay at a hotel, so as not to inconvenience her.

Except...did you ever try to get a hotel room in the northern part of the Bronx? Everywhere we went they rented by the hour, sat behind bullet proof glass and had free "paraphenalia" on the counter. At one place my husband said he needed a room for four, and the guy said, "Two Women and Two Men, or same sex?" (Not the place for Mom, Dad and two tweenies)

Finally we found a semi-decent place, and got the "full night" rate, and the desk guy just about jumped for joy, because he got "A Family! a REAL Family!" I fully expected some night time "music" but didn't hear a thing. I just needed to change the channel on the TV real quick before the kids saw what it HAD been tuned to!

Ahhh, memories.I grew up in the Bronx and I wouldn't stay overnight there.

Ya, we stayed at a Ramada in New Rochelle after that experience! :mg:

I'm glad I got away from my noisy, wild and amorous neighbors - not that there is anything wrong with that.:lol: I was able to rest and work in the evenings without interruption. We did great and only had 2 action requests from the 3 day audit. Awesome! We're only audited once a year at this particluar site.
:applause: - This is for the people who made it happen and my internal audit team for doing a great job as well.

Several years ago, my husband and I were 'woken up' by the neighbors at about 3 AM. We actually were on a golf trip and had 'early' T-times. My husband went to get coffee in the AM and the 'guy next door' was leaving at the same time. He offered a 'high 5' and a 'you da man....' :o

He offered a 'high 5' and a 'you da man....' :o:lmao: What a polite way of telling him they were overheard. :lmao:

/Claes

Going back to the OP, I feel an overwhelming sense of both irony AND envy.

Irony, because Crusader spent the whole day performing an ISO9001 surveillance audit, then had to listen to someone doing something similar to someone else in the next room…:rolleyes:

Envy, because…well, 3 TIMES IN AN HOUR!!!!! :mg: That leaves hardly enough time for the pizza and the 40-minute nap.

I’ll have whatever they’re having…:)

Envy, because…well, 3 TIMES IN AN HOUR!!!!! :mg: That leaves hardly enough time for the pizza and the 40-minute nap.

I’ll have whatever they’re having…:)

To be exact:
1st occur: 5:15pm
2nd: 5:45pm
3rd 8:15pm

Still, it was amazing - the time between the first 2!!!

Still, it was amazing - the time between the first 2!!!


Not in my younger days;)
:uhoh:

There are a lot of old guys who complain it takes all night to do what they used to do all night! If you're having a problem, I could forward some of the email I get which purports to offer a solution!;)

8:45pm...I was in a new room. It was a bit larger, nice, and quiet!
There's no telling how many more times they went at it!:lol: But we can all imagine!!! ;)

I went on a long distance (900 klms) bicycle ride, for charity, with a bunch of guys and girls. Every night we would pull up to our designated stop over, put up our tents, have a meal and shower before usually crashing into our sleeping bags - All except for the token couple that had tagged along and had more energy than the rest of us combined. By the thrid night we had made them sleep in separate tents so the rest of us could get some sleep. :D
I don't know where they found the energy

I had to go to a training class in Tampa, FL back in 1999, for some lab equipment. I got settled in the hotel room the first evening, and was getting ready to call my wife, when I heard the door close in the room next door, and heard male/female conversation (rooms had an open balcony with sliding glass doors). About 10 minutes later, the conversation became pretty monosyllabic ("Yes", God", "Baby", "Faster", etc), and the wall starting shaking. They carried on for a good clip. I called my wife while they were into their second lap, and held the phone to the wall to let her hear :lol: :lol: .

When the 3rd round started, I seriously considered sticking my head around the balcony partition to see if there was something I could learn.:whip: :agree1:

My wife and I stayed at another hotel a few years ago and had something similar occur, but not like that night in Tampa.

To be exact:
1st occur: 5:15pm
2nd: 5:45pm
3rd 8:15pm

Still, it was amazing - the time between the first 2!!!

ha - I was under the impression they were keeping you up during the night. I would have been :lmao: at these hours. But good preventive action - finding another room.

ha - I was under the impression they were keeping you up during the night. I would have been :lmao: at these hours. But good preventive action - finding another room.

Is it Corrective or Preventive at that point? Both?:D