I live in a terraced house, on the kinds of Edwardian streets which were laid out with lots of them. So going back from the road we have our house, then garden, then drive, then the alleyway. Then other neighbours opposite have the same. Many people have garages, whereas we just have a drive so in effect our drive is almost like an indent or a layby in the layout, even though it's private land. It's a gap in a row of garages.
Neighbours across the alley way opposite to us are having work done. Looks fairly major, their fencing is up, the garden is dug up etc. I came back from holiday on Monday to find a number of fence posts and planks on our drive. Given they're not ours, and given the work the opposite neighbours are having, I assumed they were left there by contractors. Not a big deal but now we're all back from holiday we need the space, and the drive and alley are small enough as it is. We can only just get 2 small cars on the drive, it's not huge.
I've been round several times this week to knock, but no-one answered, so this afternoon I left a note. It was very polite, saying "Hi I'm X from no. X on X Road and I think we've got some of your planks on our drive - could you please move them ASAP? Many thanks."
Not 5 minutes after I left the note the lady who owns the house was banging on the door. She was furious that I'd dared to leave a note and that lots of people have been putting notes through her door (NB: I only put one through!) and she was sick of it, only just moved in and already hated the area, how dare we accuse her contractors etc etc. She was obviously very angry and upset. I apologised for upsetting her, of course, but I only got the note thrown back at me and told never to contact her again. A few minutes later her contractor came round (he was much calmer and seemed a bit sheepish, I think he knew she'd already been round to shout) and he also said that they genuinely weren't his.
She was angry enough that it genuinely shocked me to be honest, and it shook me up a little bit. I'm slightly worried for our cars which are out the back now, she was that angry. But was I in the wrong? Was I unreasonable to assume the scrap wood had something to do with them? It just seemed the most logical place for them to have come from.
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Was this an unreasonable assumption RE neighbour and rubbish on our drive?
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Lockheart · 06/01/2017 17:07
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