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Every weekend and holiday of the summer: neighbor's outdoor radio goes on at around 8:00 am.
And it's tuned to a commercial station, which means about 7 minutes of commercials to every 4 minutes of music.
Then he gets on his cell phone, and since the radio is blasting, he has to try to talk louder than the commercials - so he ends up screaming into his phone louder than the radio.
But it gets better: about 9:00 am the neighbor on the other side comes out and turns on their outdoor radio - which is tuned to a different radio station. Since the first neighbor's radio is already blasting and he's trying to talk into his cell phone louder than the radio, the other neighbor turns UP their radio volume (& commercials) to try to drown out the first neighbor.
Then the neighbor in the back comes out and decides they want to have their radio compete with the others.
In the middle of all this there is invariably other neighbors who start to mow lawns, get their leaf blowers out to chase 3 leaves for an hour, weed whackers, chain saws, etc.
It ends up just a cacophony of electronic noise, overlapping ads, announcers, station identifications, different music playing overtop other music or commercials, voices screaming, machines, etc.
There's no such thing as just relaxing in your backyard on a quiet afternoon - yet this is what they're all trying to achieve, but because none can appreciate silence or the sounds of nature, it turns into this war of noise which no one ever wins.