46.

i should have figured that the rude kids in the neighborhood who scream and yell outdoors in the middle of the week at 11pm would belong to the rude neighbors who do loud mowing and weed whacking at barely 8am, revv their crotch rockets for 5min in the driveway at midnight on a wednesday/thursday, and go tearing through the neighborhood at ridiculously unsafe speeds on the same crotch rocket. (and in their cars too)

there is a fine line between common curtosy and close knit neighborhood.
you can be a close knit neighborhood where everyone is friendly and knows everyone elses kids, without those kids trampling through yards, screaming and yelling in the middle of the night, and making out on the street.
and where people dont start loud yardwork until 10am.
and the neighbors with the fancy expensive corvettes dont burn out and speed through the neighborhood while there are kids playing on the street.

maybe its the southern polite extreme i was raised in.
but it bugs the crap out of me.
its not controlling
is common freaking curtosy.