Alcohol Abuse Advice

Random Things that Wake Me Up at Night

My roommate’s snoring.

My roommate is one of those people who only snores when he is drunk. The bad thing is that he drunk very often. Another bad thing is that my bed butts right up to the wall between our rooms and our walls are very thin. Sometimes he does that funny snore sound where he sort of wakes himself up from his own snoring and makes a loud noise that is half snore/half night terror scream. You know what I am talking about right? That’s common, right…? Anyone, that usually wakes me up, but I usually just have a quick laugh in my head, picturing him lying on his back, belly in the air, snoring away the cares of the world.

Car alarm beeping.

I live on the fourth floor of an apartment building and my bedroom window faces our apartment complexes large parking lot. There are a lot of dumb people in my apartment complex and many of them probably don’t have jobs so they are coming and going at odd hours of the night and morning and every time they enter or exit their car they have to use the car’s automatic car alarm beeper. Did I mention that my apartment complex is designed in a large open U-shape, so that every sound bounced off around the complex like a proton laser? Well, it does. Every sound coming from the parking lot below me is amplified, especially electronic, chirping car alarms.

Police lights.

There is an elderly persons home across the street from my building and about every other night there is a paramedic and two cop cars (why do they need police) parked outside the entrance with their red and blue emergency lights on. Even with the blinds closed and the shades drawn, a little bit of that spiraling red and blue manages to squeeze through and create odd little dancing silhouettes in my bedroom. I imagine the silhouettes are the souls of the people in the old folks home trying to pass through to the next life so I close my blinds a little tighter and let them continue on their way.

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