Bang, Bang, Hammer, Bang, Crash, More Bang

Okay China. I’m sure its really important for your “development” and all but this endless construction outside of my apartment has gots to stop. A playa’z gotta sleep! I can’t get no rest up in here.
So every day this past week I have been awakened at 6am to the sound of sledge hammers, chisels, and large piece of falling concrete. Apparently they are ripping up the street… again. Its amazing how the sound never stops too. Its not like they are using power tools. Why use tools when you have an endless supply of slave ameh, cheap labor? Seriously, its like 15 guys just hammering away non stop. There is not one second the sounds stops from the time I am awakened to the time I decide I cant take it any longer and leave to go to my haven McDonalds or something. Twice a week I am awakened by my upstairs neighbors having sex at six in the morning. But I think the joke is on them though because it never lasts long and it only seems to be one speed. Rabbit. Hey, they got to 1.3 billion somehow, right? Weeks prior I was awakened at an asinine hour be the sound of my neighbor next to me ripping out her entire bathroom because the pipes were bad or something. On my friendly enquiry to here of “when the fuck are you going to be done?” Her friendly response was, “three days.”
I don’t even know what they are doing. The street was fine. Just like the sidewalk down the street was fine. I honestly think its just busy work or something. So they can give a mass force of labor something to do. In the two months I have lived here they have replaced the sidewalk down the street THREE times. On the plus side the sidewalks and streets are always nice and smooth but on the down side I have to listen to them pound it smooth every time. And closing the door or shutting the window is about as effective as raising an 8 ½ by 11 sheet of legal white to block your face while someone yells at you. See, China has not quite discovered the miracle of insulation as of yet. Sometimes you will get up at night to close the window because of a draft only to your horror to realize that the window is already shut.
So I’m up now. As I was up the day before and the day before that. However, perhaps I should be thankful. I am awake. I am up and ready to take on the day. To do something. I wont sleep it away just because I can. So perhaps today instead of yelling at the peasant construction workers as I pass by 你的妈妈比臭豆腐很臭！(your mother smells worse than stinky tofu) I will instead say, thank you. Thank you for getting me up to enjoy this lovely day. My god, is beau danner learning patience!? Hard to believe that I could be brought out of my wicked ways… but this country has a way of doing that.
Off to greet the peasants.