At 12:01 a.m., the Banging Brood wanted to get started again with the harassment. Now granted, for some reason unbeknownst to me, I decided to wear earplugs. And unfortunately, my manic insomnia kicked in and I was busy imagining arts and crafts projects when they banged hard on the wall for about a minute. With the earplugs, I could just hear them. But it was the vibration through the mattress that disturbed me more than the sound. Still, they only banged for about a minute and stopped for the rest of the morning.
So I'm guessing that "Mommy" sort of learned to keep an eye on her brood. Now if she'd teach them how to tell time and realize that 12 a.m. is way too early to disturb someone. Seriously, is it natural for little 4- and 5-year-olds to want to raise Cain throughout the night, when others in their age group are in bed at a normal hour like normal children? What's wrong with the parents here? Can they not tell the difference between day and night?
It doesn't take any matter of a braniac to figure out that the Banging Brood do their banging on the wall deliberately. Normal apartment living has the truly random thump, bang, plop, thud. The accidental noises--that's the norm. You do NOT deliberately hammer on the wall with your fist, especially at 12 a.m. and call that accidental. Who in the blazes punches the wall half a dozen times over the span of a minute, hard enough to vibrate a mattress and then says "oops"?
