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Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd

Hey, all, I'm just hours away from getting back on a plane to the USA.  It was a frustrating visit here to Mexico.  It would have been easier on me if I'd just broken my stupid ankle.  Bones heal faster than soft tissue.  So I never could get around town here in San Cristobal, even though the hotel staff was super nice to me and ordered out for crutches.  


Crutches or not, I'll be back in Mexico for Christmas.  Hopefully, in 2 years, for good.  Allow me to vent for a moment, though.


VENT WARNING


During this, my 6th visit to the same hotel here in San Cristobal, everything was wonderful except for one thing.  Some kid on the block bought a lifetime supply of bottle rockets.  So this trip, he was setting off bottle rockets the whole time I was here.  Like all day, and then during the night, too.  He woke me up at 6am with one.


Don't mean to actually be violent, but I must confess that I wanted to find that guy and give him a good whack with one of my crutches.  Of course, I never went looking for him, but his bottle rockets were hard to take.  I'm a civilian war veteran, and as I've written many times and wrote about here again today, I survived a car bombing when I was 9 years old.  So BOOM BOOM is not my favorite sound.


OK, VENT OVER


People at my hotel were really nice to me, and they couldn't help what went on off of their hotel's property.  The constant bottle rockets bugged them too, and they said so to me.  So I wasn't alone, and as I learned here, knowing that's always half the battle.  


Anybody else have a neighbor who triggers you?


silverlight
silverlight
Dear muji,

Oh,so sorry you had to endure that,and that it triggered you so badly....

i have a neighbour who had been sexually harassing me for a long time,until i finally complained.

i still hate it when i happen to see him in the hallway...
BlueSky
BlueSky
Ugh, so sorry, Muji. Maybe next time anything triggers you like that again, ask to switch rooms away from the noise? I don't know how big or small the hotel was.

Right now my PTSD is flaring due to a peeping tom at this new cottage we've been moving into.... ughhhh. &%@#!&*%$#*^$%@#!%^$*%^%$#+_~@&$
Community LeaderLeo
Leo
Hugs, Muji.

I've had neighbors who can trigger me. I've had to sometimes live a few years next to them, and ... Yeah. I get it.
arfie
arfie
The damned cows keep pooping out calves. The birth bellowing, usually in the middle of the nights, is fearsome and the next week or three, the newborn calves are small enough to fit through the barbed wire strands on the fence. There's no telling where them over-sized pups are gonna turn up. You can trust them to stay within bellow distance of their mamas, but allot of the passers-by don't know that. There's never any telling when a stranger is gonna come barreling up the driveway to let me know another calf is on the loose.

Oh bother. . .
SimpsonsOK
SimpsonsOK
Muji, comforting hugs. I have learned to anticipate the various holidays where folks may set off (illegal) fireworks. They sound like guns to me also. I don't do well with voices in the night close by, nor close neighbors who slam the wooden fences we have here. I'm in a townhome community with bedrooms in back of house (alley) so my neighbors are very close. Arfie, bother, but nice to know so many folks are looking out for the babies. Hugs to all.
LillyPotter
LillyPotter
AH, i have a sort of a hate for bottle rockets and even more for m80s. in the area i live? they don't need a holiday - they do them for no reason at all, tuesday works. and then? many times when i've thought they were fire works, they were gunshots or the other way round :( often in the park beside my house too. it isn't as bad in the park lately. this year they stopped doing fireworks at the fair right near my house - it is such a relief. they do em on sat and sun night for only five minutes - i can handle it. even the dogs don't seem to mind it.

i'm so sorry this kid did this and so much during your whole time there :(

gentle hugs xo
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
Sorry (((Mujica))))
Yea, all the many places I’ve lived, different apartment complexs & stuff definitely had more than fair share of triggering neighbors. Fireworks trigger me because they remind me of gun shots & aggravate my migraines

Sending you lots of support & gentle hugs <3
kaisad
kaisad
You couldn't see who the boy was? maybe you could have told the cops and they would have told him to stop it.
I hate loud noises too. When i was living in Hawaii Chinese New Year and other holidays was a real trigger i get very angry with loud noises.
As you know i am in Mexico too right now. They party till the cows come down around where i stay on weekends
. I have called the cops and sometimes they do shut them up others they try and IF they don't then they have told me there is nothing more they can do. To make a complaint to some offices..blah..blah.I never tried it but maybe for a few bucks they make sure they shut the F up....but is "iffy" always to offer money, it depends on the cops.
Some seem very professional by the book. Others seem like AH like "why are you bothering me?".....

If when you go back happens again try the cops. Once i did explain to the cops in Mex that i suffer from severe insomnia they seemed very understanding and tried to shut the people up.
EvergreenDreamer
EvergreenDreamer
Hi muji, Vent away my friend, that particular topic has much support even from none ptsd afflicted. I mean yada yada freedom to blah blah blah, i get that but really round the clock for days , well now you are infringing on everybody elses right to peace and tranquility. Total support triple hugs
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Thanks, y'all, I am at the Mexico CIty airport gate for my flight back to the USA. Had a peaceful rocket free night last night, so it was great. Thanks for validating my vent. Hasta pronto, amigos!
kaisad
kaisad
Yeah you are totaly not alone. Noise is a huge trigger for a lot of us also wouldn't having PTSD make our senses more awake? I know i hear noises louder than regular people.
kaisad
kaisad
Also you are not alone in that maybe it doesn't you so much but A LOT about the Mexican culture triggers me. Some of those things we are doing a service by bringing to their attention and one of them is being so loud...

Partying in residential areas with music blasting, screaming, ect after 2 am should be banned, people blasting rockets too.

Its called consideration of others and frankly they lack it. But IF brought to their attention in a very nice way (I tried others ways and it did not turn good for me, they get very nationalistic and defensive of their traditions) they do need to change some things about their traditions like all countries.

Not all traditions are good and should be kept. That is a prob i have in Mexico that they do not get.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
Safe flight back sweetie...… That would have been sooooooo annoying and I'm sorry you were repeatedly triggered

You sure have had a rough few weeks.... Gentle hug...….xo
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