[scottmandue]

I have an even worse situation... I like my neighbor... they invite me over for dinner/BBQ around once a month, we share an ally with our garages facing each other and when I come home from work and he and his buddies are having beers in the driveway (construction workers) he offers me a beer. Real nice guy.

I got my house as part of my inheritance (plus I paid my dad some cash) and his significant other was a director for TV/HBO so we have done quite well and houses in the area run from $500K to $1-2M... read a very very very quite neighborhood... birds singing... kids playing in the street and stuff like that.

Well my buddy likes to have poker game in his garage... my bedroom is above my garage facing the ally... these games usually happen Friday nights... I work Saturdays... games sometimes run until two or three AM... he and his friends are very vocal and as the night goes on they get drunk and more vocal... and the play with the garage door open.

And they don't notice or care that while they are screaming at each other at the top of their lungs the rest of the neighborhood is a quite as a church. His girlfriend sleeps over at a friends house when he has these parties.

I have come up with system where piping the classical music radio station off my satellite receiver into my bedroom at a moderate level and having about three fingers of good whiskey allow me to ignore his poker parties. He's a nice guy but he has a short fuse (especially when drunk) so I figure this is not worth the battle that might ensue.

I have thought of emailing his girlfriend "it's nice that you can get away from his poker parties, but have you considered that the rest of the neighborhood doesn't have that luxury?"