My baby and I live on the lower ground floor of a mansion block, and our kitchen door opens into a little walled courtyard. I have a bit of garden furniture out there, a barbecue, a sand/water table for the baby to use this summer, and I grow some kitchen herbs in a tub.
I am cross with the new-ish, French female tenants of a second floor flat in the building, whose windows look out onto the courtyard. They sit on their windowsills to smoke and then flick their ash and used cigarette butts into the courtyard. They go into the easigrass, onto our garden furniture, into the herbs, everywhere. It's going to be a nightmare when the baby's wandering around out there in summer.
So in my British way I have been out into the yard and stared very hard at them to let them know that I know it's them doing this, but they seem totally unbothered.
I then decided to be Euro-diplomatic and asked the building manager what he would advise. He said he'd report it to the managing agents who would write to the landlord who would have to tell his/her tenants to stop. That was about six weeks ago and it's still going on. The building manager also claims he's had a word directly with one of the tenants and asked them to use an ashtray but that doesn't seem to be working either.
What I really want to do is collect a pile of these disgusting fag butts up, put them in an envelope, and put it through their letterbox with the message "I believe these are yours. Next time I won't bother with the envelope."
That's what I WANT to do. Is this unreasonable and disproportionate? Am I likely to get them back at me, or worse? Are there any alternatives???
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To post their cigarette stubs back through their letterbox?
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stickystick · 27/01/2014 22:49
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