What Distractions Can You Not Write With?

Everyone has things that irritate them. Some, like me, more than others. But what distractions prevent you from writing altogether or abruptly interrupt your writing noticeably enough? For example, if someone has the TV on downstairs loud enough that I can hear it upstairs, there's no way I can write unless the fan can drown the noise out (and it's not too cold in the house to cool it down more by turning a fan on). Same goes for conversations. My attention shifts to listening to both and I can't help it. Maybe it's because I, as a writer, want to hear as many conversations as possible to allow me to write more natural dialogue, or maybe not. I'm posting this because I've wanted to work on revising my novel for about a week now, but one particularly bad irritance has been around the whole time, preventing me from getting anything done.

scarletpeaches said:

Children being anywhere in the vicinity.

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Children can be a joy when you want to deal with them and when you're familiar with them, but when you can't put names to their faces and when you to be left alone, especially by them, they're definitely a deterrence. The neighbors, whose yard starts where our "yard" (a small patch of land barely big enough to fit a casket under, that ends at the bottom of the small slope where their yard begins) ends, has a trampoline in that yard and their kids, as well as multiple other kids, join in to make a racket on the trampoline quite often. All of this happens more or less right outside my window, too. Good thing it's getting too cold and snowy for that now.

October said:

I also can't work in complete silence, so I have the radio on low, too, but, if one of my favorites songs is on, I can't work either, because I get distracted.

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I'm kind of like that, but it depends on if there's any additional noise that could be potentially distracting. Though my fan or air conditioner (in the summer) are often on when I'm reading or sleeping, because I like a nice, consistent noise, not silence or anything that's too up-and-down, like the radio you use. Quite alike and quite different, we are, eh, October?