God, I don't think I've ever been a more obnoxious situation.

I'm staying in a hotel and apparently a multi-family group of Koreans have reservations for today. Every twenty seconds three or four more seem to show up out of nowhere and as soon as the others see then they all start hollering at each other in their native tongue.

Guess who's floor they're staying on? I wouldn't care less if they weren't so damned loud. And I'm here for at least another two days.

Anyone else been in a situation like this?

Camping grounds are often worse, because it's outdoors, and people aren't considerate.

Well, not to sound racist, but on a recent vacation to Europe I couldn't enter a museum or visit a cathedral without having a minor horde of Asian families talking loudly and photographing the damn floor tiles. Rather obnoxious.

Like I said, it's just because they're so damn loud. About five conversations seem to occur at a time and it's like they're trying to ensure they're heard first.

I think I can one-up you in terms of sheer obnoxiousness. The other day, my neighbor woke me up at five am because he was having a rather loud phone conversation about how much he loved Facebook. I don't know how he went on as long as he did.

You guys seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZA8GrRmOaA

I got a call from someone at 2:30 in the AM yesterday from someone who said he wanted to sell me three babies for the price of one.

How much was one baby?

I didn't bother to stay on the line long enough to find out. And it was a restricted number, so I guess I'll never know.

Must've been a sweet deal though. I wonder whose babies they were.

I am now picturing some crook making random calls trying to sell babies.

I'm not sure if it's utterly disgusting and depressing or just completely hilarious once you give the crook a goofy accent.

Maybe ask them nicely to quiet down?

Or tell the hotel staff?

edited 16th Jul '12 11:06:57 PM by Bookyangel2438

@Frogger: I've seen kids more obnoxious than that.

Eh, it was more like some bored teenager who isn't good at prank calling people.

Kind of like this (skip to a minute and a half in if it doesn't work), only dumber.

edited 16th Jul '12 11:36:42 PM by 0dd1

No, I can't say I have ever been a situation as obnoxious as that. Hopefully I've never been an obnoxious situation at all, but you never know.

Last semester I was staying at a dorm that wanted me to move out within 24 hours of my last final. So I had to clean my room and pack everything while at the same time studying for the final, and the dorm's vacuum cleaner was only borrowable at certain times, so in order to clean my room I actually had to borrow the vacuum cleaner in the middle of the final (luckily we were given some extra time), and apparently I didn't have enough space to pack everything I owned so I had to overstuff the bags and leave other things behind and then it turned out that the bookstore was closed on the day of and the day after the final, so I couldn't return the textbook that I needed to study with and had rented from the bookstore because those things are way too expensive so I had to take the book home and get charged the full textbook price, and adding the book to my luggage apparently made it go over the weight limit for the airplane so I had pay extra for that.

At least I got an A though.

edited 17th Jul '12 12:59:29 AM by Clarste

Supermarket. Three year old in front of me, wearing a vest, tracksuit and diamond stud earring (at three years old. Maybe six if you want to push it.) pocketing a packet of sweets in front of me.

Then at the self-service checkout, his mom walked away and he scanned a previously scanned item.

One time I was staying in a hotel in Finland, and apparently it was high school graduation day. People say that Americans are rude, well these Finnish kids apparently had got a hotel room, and were running through the hallway drunkenly yelling. At like 3 in the morning.

That's retarded. They didn't expect students to study up till the actual exam?

Well, the whole thing was retarded (or rather, obnoxious), but I think they expected me to have a calendar-year contract rather than an academic-year contract.

I was thinking the bookstore. From your post it sounds like they close on the day when students would return their book and then charge them a full book price because they could not return it through no fault of their own.

It was just closed for the weekend. I could have returned it the next Monday if I wasn't on the other side of the country.

Ok, not so retarded then.

Still, even the library near my place allows me to return books when it's closed. A bookstore offering similar service should do the same I reckon.

Yeah, that's really weird. Some libraries allow you to push books through their letterbox (or similar receptacle) out-of-hours.

@OP: It was like that for quite often for me in school during my last year in it.

edited 25th Jul '12 6:06:57 AM by ThatHuman

There were some real idiots in the upstairs apartment a few years ago (No, I no longer live in that apartment complex or even that town).

Some highlights include:

• Playing some game (presumably when they were drunk) that involved things crashing to the floor hard enough to shake things in my apartment so hard that items were falling off of shelves. I'm just glad the items were not breakable, and that when I went up to tell them to cut it out before they broke my stuff they cut it out.
• Playing exceedingly loud hard rock and heavy metal music at 3 AM*
  I have nothing against hard rock or heavy metal normally if I'm in the same room and listening to it when I am awake
  when I'd been asleep for a while because the family had plans early the next day. This time my dad was the one to tell them off and try to make them promise to turn the volume down by midnight in the future.
• Standing on the balcony of their apartment and throwing things off. I don't even remember what these things were any more.

I was so glad to move.

edited 25th Jul '12 6:22:22 AM by Ozbourne