I don’t think it is too much to ask for a quiet nights
sleep. It is something that is becoming ever further out of my reach, and it
seems that unless I resort to sleeping pills and ear plugs it will remain
unreachable.
The RTA seems to take a great delight in going silent around
5pm, the monotonous drilling noise that I am ever so attached to grinds to a
halt, and normal everyday noise (noise that can be tuned out) commences. This,
at a time when the radio is on, the TV is on, you are chatting with your loved
ones, is nice. Not necessary at all though. However, the moment, and I mean the
moment your little head touches the nearest pillow, they begin drilling. Not
quiet drills. Not slightly in the background and can get used to them
eventually drills, and not drills they may just have on for an hour at most.
No, major, huge, beyond loud, drills. Drills that sound like they have taken up
residence on your balcony if not inside your ear drum. They sound like they
have brought some crystal tipped behemoth to drill through a mountain. On the
Sheikh Zayed Road. They carry on this wonderful performance until you are so
out of your mind that you are tempted to commit a murder. Then abruptly around
5am. Peace. Just in time for you to go to sleep and get little enough sleep
that you then feel like a zombie all day long.
I appreciate that this work needs to be done. I accept that
in order for me to get home 30 minutes quicker it’s a price I have to pay. I
understand that they work all the hours that god sends, and I empathise with
those that have to do it. What I don’t understand is a tiny little thing called
humanity. It is a heavily residential area, why can’t you drill from 6am til
10pm, surely the project (and I know all your project planners will start
whining about timelines at this point) wouldn’t fall behind that much if the
noisy work is restricted during the hours of the night that are required by me
to sleep in order to not murder anyone. Also, the Emirates girls live next to
me, no-one needs a grouchy airhostess, they are too damn important to be tired,
its tiring enough doing what they do, without you lot keeping them up all
night. Me ? I have to drive up the long road to Abu Dhabi, as do countless
other morons and tired people. The less people who are slightly tired and not
at 100% the better as far as my safety goes.
It’s a boring moan, its nothing new, but its what’s making
me grouchy this week, along with my event report, but I know we are all very
sick of hearing about this, almost as sick as I am of writing the damn thing.
Back to work it is, then back to the long road back to the long
night of noise and pursuit of sleep. Ear plugs tonight.
