My upstairs neighbor is an asshole. I may look into getting one of those.

they'll get sick of rewinding it daily after a few weeks.

Hubby gave me a black forest cuckoo clock back in '86 when we were dating..over time (LOL) the gears froze, the chains holding the weights wouldn't move..been sitting in a box since we moved in '06..cleaning out the garage last Dec. I came upon the box - nostalgia set in, fixing the clock was a Christmas gift all over again..what a guy...

I love clocks..now that we are in a smaller home we laugh about where to put the clock..although it does have a small latch that prevents the hourly cuckoo - seems the repair was extensive, and would take until April..Here we are in May..need to call..

This just took one word from you for this story..off to find the claim check..

The stress builds as the countdown begins around 4 minutes till the next hour.

We had one when I was about 14 & it wasn't a quiet cuckoo like the expensive one at my friend's house.

Ours had 1 volume. LOUD
Sometime well into the 1st year of its residence , some piece inside the mechanism got detached. No one ever knew how it happened & none of us, but my mom ever seemed to miss it.

I offer you my sympathy

the landlord. He hears this stuff all the time.

That was really funny.

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!! It was painful when living below them, but hindsight is a belly laugh.

Thank you!!

And the firewalls between the apartments are thick and eliminate almost all noise.

You have my sympathies.

Past problems for me usually involved young children upstairs who were already practicing for their future Marathon competitions.

Then maybe they'll want to negotiate.

I've heard from several Germans the clocks are a running joke among them of the stupid stuff tourists will buy there. They don't work for long.

Another option if you are upstairs from them. Is locate the approximate position of the clock underneath you and drop a set of barbells on the floor above it when it goes off.
200 lbs should do it.

This worked for really bad music below me in an apartment.

Pavlovian experiment.

Years ago, he'd pass a Viking Clock store between Lake Wales and Orlando on US 27. He finally stopped in and bought himself a clock kit. Their kits were really wood working projects with their relatively cheap clockworks to go inside. His kit was for a grandfather's clock, more accurately named a long case clock.

He had so much fun building it, he built one for each of his four daughters. I still have mine and it still works, but needs cleaning. Clocks like this should be cleaned about every 5 years.

Dad got into clocks when he was a kid. One day he was walking by the mine company office and they had thrown out their office clock. It's an Ithaca Clock Company Farmer's Calendar Clock. It not only keeps time, it keeps a calendar, including leap years. It had stopped working so Dad took it apart, figured out what was wrong, fixed and reassembled it. The top part had been broken and he researched what it was supposed to look like and reproduced it. I inherited it and will have it cleaned and repaired if need be and get it working again - I don't remember ever seeing Dad wind it.

Dad also had a clock that his grandfather made. He had been into cutting intricate patterns in thin wood and made this clock from a pattern - we recently found the pattern with other patterns and designs he had cut. The clock had stags jumping out of the sides and all sorts of woods designs. Problem was that the thin wood made a great sounding board. Dad wound it once when he first inherited it and Mom forbid him from winding again. The ticks reverberated and could be heard all over the house. When it chimed you could not have a conversation in the room with it. My nephew inherited it and I hope his wife likes it better than my mother did.

I also inherited an Atmos clock that runs on changes in air pressure. It dates to the 1940s and is a simple design but when I was a kid I was fascinated by it in my grandmother's house. That one will also be serviced soon since it probably has never seen a repairman. It does run, but the bellows that operates it is likely close to being worn out.

There were several other clocks that went to other family members - at one point there were three clocks on the mantle in the family room and two clocks in the living room!

the couple upstairs has a hyperactive 2 year old. He LOVES jumping on the bed, and he runs from room to room a lot. He never quiets down until after 11:30 pm

After a while, you can predict the little runner's path and your head sways along with it. Good luck!

Have you seen this Geico ad? It knocks me off the couch in laughter whenever it comes on.

I wish I had their (the couple upstairs) email address, I would send it to them. Great ad, can relate mightily!

But there isn't one.

This guy goes to his girlfriend's house for lunch and about 100 cuckoo clocks all go off at once.

Since I can't find the clip, this will have to do

they just play a recording of a loud CucKoo clock every 57 minutes.

...the guy upstairs used to have violent fights with his wife/girlfriend, the guy across the walkway used to get violent with his girlfriend, and where the guy in the next building used to get supremely drunk and play loud music at 2:00 am, four or five nights a week, usually work nights.

The worst part is that I'm a very light sleeper; a chronic insomniac.

My wife and I moved.

would get drunk and blast music late into the night. It was an old building and we basically shared a wall with these guys. We tried talking to them, the landlord, etc but they kept doing it.

Being a very early riser, I started blasting them out of bed in the morning. I think I only had to do it twice before they stopped. I guess they weren't morning people.

NASTY - instant migraine after 10 minutes of breathing that junk.