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Help me annoy our neighbours

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NeighbourTrouble63 · 31/07/2024 20:48

Lighthearted (ish!)

I don’t say this lightly but we have the most truly horrible couple (‘young professionals’, although they don’t act like it) that I have ever met living beside us - even since the day that we moved in they have completely blanked us, anytime I have simply waved over or said ‘good morning’ I get ignored. In the 4 years that we have lived here neither of them have ever even made eye contact with me. It is bizarre and I have no idea what their problem is. I feel like they automatically see us as below them since we are renting (I have just gotten through a messy divorce, it is only my very sensible teen DD and I living here)

They have constant, wild parties going on into the small hours. It’s a 1930s semi so very poor sound insulation - we hear everything. I went round and politely knocked their door one Friday party night as DD had just had an operation and really needed her sleep - the door was slammed in my face. Their Range Rover (definitely heavily financed) is constantly parked right over the pavement, forcing buggies and wheelchair users onto the busy road.

They are vile people and I want a petty yet harmless way to get my own back when we move out in a few months. Any ideas?

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Lampslights · 07/08/2024 06:37

Mikki77 · 02/08/2024 14:57

Banana up the exhaust pipe.
My favourite prank.

I’m hoping that’s just internet hyperbole, as everyone knows the danger associated with shoving things in an exhaust pipe. Unless you’re 5.

Newposter180 · 06/08/2024 12:54

HauntedbyMagpies · 02/08/2024 02:51

That's not what OP was doing. She's pointing out that if they have vehicles on finance then they're not of the wealth to be looking down on OP for renting!

They don’t sound like ideal neighbours, but there is zero evidence that they judge OP for renting (or anything else) - they’ve never even spoken to her! Also, IMO, even if they were “of the wealth” to own the car outright (which they may well be, OP has literally no idea), that still wouldn’t give them the right to judge someone for renting?! What a bizarre mindset. This seems far more likely to be the OP projecting than any actual thoughts of the neighbours who probably don’t spend any of their lives thinking about whether she owns her own home, because why would they?

Mikki77 · 02/08/2024 14:57

Banana up the exhaust pipe.
My favourite prank.

fetchacloth · 02/08/2024 14:36

Fireplacewatcher · 31/07/2024 21:08

Write CUNTS in their lawn with cress seeds. It will outgrow the lawn constantly.

LOL 😆 🤣

ReadingSoManyThreads · 02/08/2024 13:27

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 23:26

There have been 100s of great and hilarious ideas - trust me, I am reading and ‘thanking’ them all!

I won’t however sit here and allow people to criticise me and give nasty remarks for the crime of wanting to live in peace and be neighbourly

"I won’t however sit here and allow people to criticise me and give nasty remarks for the crime of wanting to live in peace and be neighbourly"

On a thread titled "help me annoy our neighbours". Can you not see the irony here?

Southener · 02/08/2024 11:14

PortiasBiscuit · 02/08/2024 06:31

Unless you also loathe your current land lord and the rest of your neighbours please don’t plant knotweed.

Of course I'm joking. I own my home, and the fact I'm even thinking it should give you a decent indication of exactly how bad my current neighbours are.

Beebopmoon · 02/08/2024 11:12

Fireplacewatcher · 31/07/2024 21:08

Write CUNTS in their lawn with cress seeds. It will outgrow the lawn constantly.

😂😂😂😂😂 I can't stop laughing

AllyArty · 02/08/2024 10:32

I would start keeping a note of their loud parties and bad parking.
They are never going to be civil so forget that!
We had similar neighbours once and it turned out they were massive cocaine users, hence the loudness and arrogance.

Werweisswohin · 02/08/2024 08:43

Muffit · 02/08/2024 08:13

I think you'll find you arr anti social.
You're not behaving in a way that is considered the norm by society.
If you look at what anti social means.
Dp you work, or have to interact with others? Are you not able tp even nod to someone, who saxs hello to you?
Anyway I'm glad I have neighbours who say hello and help me if I need somethiing., they don't jave long conversations with me, they just water my plants in summer when I'm not there.

They walked my dogs when I had coviid, just very nice.

I feel sorry for your neighbour.

My neighbour doesn't need your pity, trust me. Her overly chattiness includes statements like 'they said [insert place name where we live] was friendly but folk here aren't friendly', 'some of your plants are ugly', 'your child doesn't even acknowledge me', ''somebody' has complained about me hanging washing where I'm not supposed to but I'll do it anyway'. She tells me long winded details about their lives and her opinions. They've turned their tiny garden into a workshop for the male - he drills and hammers and makes a racket much more than anyone else in the area. I do acknowledge them if I have to, and some of my other neighbours, but why should I be forced to interact with someone I'd never normally be friends with? The only neighbour I'd chose to spend time with is a few doors down, because she's actually not a nosey, judgey pain in the bum!

Outofmydepth63 · 02/08/2024 08:43

A different angle than an instrument: practice with a ball. As someone whose neighbour is teaching ball bouncing and kicking too morning and night every day to their son/nephew I can honestly say hours of the dull "thump-thump" drive me insane and would probably annoy without hurting.

Muffit · 02/08/2024 08:13

Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 23:06

If you force people to interact with you then the feeling is mutual!

I'm not anti-social but I also don't want to have to deal with my overly chatty neighbour every single time I leave or enter my house. They're ok folk, I'm ok folk, but I'd rather not be too chummy with neighbours.

I think you'll find you arr anti social.
You're not behaving in a way that is considered the norm by society.
If you look at what anti social means.
Dp you work, or have to interact with others? Are you not able tp even nod to someone, who saxs hello to you?
Anyway I'm glad I have neighbours who say hello and help me if I need somethiing., they don't jave long conversations with me, they just water my plants in summer when I'm not there.

They walked my dogs when I had coviid, just very nice.

I feel sorry for your neighbour.

PortiasBiscuit · 02/08/2024 06:31

Southener · 01/08/2024 21:14

Love this, fuck shit right up, dark.
My neighbours are so bad at the moment, I suggested this to some friends. Plant knotweed in the garden where our houses join. Yeah, it'll take me down, but those fuckers will be coming down with me

Unless you also loathe your current land lord and the rest of your neighbours please don’t plant knotweed.

DreamTheMoors · 02/08/2024 06:25

FumingAintTheWord · 02/08/2024 04:12

You removed litter from the bin and filled up their parents driveway for them return home from holiday to as a way of responding because you were furious? Insane.

We returned their empty liquor bottles and beer cans.. Their kids were 15 and 16.
There must’ve been 200 kids at the party and 500 bottles and cans, enough to fill 3 neighbors’ bins.
We did not remove any “litter.”
It was the carport in the back of their house, but good on you for bending over backwards to misinterpret what I said.

FumingAintTheWord · 02/08/2024 04:12

HauntedbyMagpies · 02/08/2024 03:02

Chuck Surstromming in their garden. This will not only stink to the ISS and back but will also summon every cormorant on the British isles which in turn, means precision bombing raids of bird poo all over their garden. The benefits are two fold.

This is literally a crime.

FumingAintTheWord · 02/08/2024 04:12

DreamTheMoors · 02/08/2024 03:19

I remember once our “holier than thou” churchgoing neighbors left for a couple of days and their kids had a blowout party - huge, cars up & down the street, blaring music, trash everywhere.
The next morning I went into the alley (we have allies where we live) and those little shits had filled my 2 bns with liquor bottles & beer cans.
That, for some reason, made me furious. I took them all out and lined them up in their carport.
Then the other neighbor happened to come out. Same thing — so they lined up all their bottles & cans up in the carport.
Then a third neighbor arrived - same thing.
Before long, those bottles & cans filled their ENTIRE carport.
I knew exactly when the parents arrived home.
I heard the yelling from inside my house. lol

You removed litter from the bin and filled up their parents driveway for them return home from holiday to as a way of responding because you were furious? Insane.

FumingAintTheWord · 02/08/2024 04:10

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 07:51

Please enlighten me as to how exactly

Petty and nuts? Not everybody wants to talk to their neighbours, why you've mentioned that I do not know. Threads like this. Why would you want to annoy them if they've bothered you? You need to grow up and deal with it like an adult not start some neighbourhood war that you won't win and always I enviably escalates to actual crime being committed.

DreamTheMoors · 02/08/2024 03:19

I remember once our “holier than thou” churchgoing neighbors left for a couple of days and their kids had a blowout party - huge, cars up & down the street, blaring music, trash everywhere.
The next morning I went into the alley (we have allies where we live) and those little shits had filled my 2 bns with liquor bottles & beer cans.
That, for some reason, made me furious. I took them all out and lined them up in their carport.
Then the other neighbor happened to come out. Same thing — so they lined up all their bottles & cans up in the carport.
Then a third neighbor arrived - same thing.
Before long, those bottles & cans filled their ENTIRE carport.
I knew exactly when the parents arrived home.
I heard the yelling from inside my house. lol

HauntedbyMagpies · 02/08/2024 03:02

Chuck Surstromming in their garden. This will not only stink to the ISS and back but will also summon every cormorant on the British isles which in turn, means precision bombing raids of bird poo all over their garden. The benefits are two fold.

HauntedbyMagpies · 02/08/2024 02:51

Newposter180 · 31/07/2024 22:14

YABU for thinking they’re judging that you rent… whilst judging their car finance!

That's not what OP was doing. She's pointing out that if they have vehicles on finance then they're not of the wealth to be looking down on OP for renting!

HauntedbyMagpies · 02/08/2024 01:52

TheThreeCheesesOfTheApocalypse44 · 31/07/2024 21:26

I once podged an old mobile phone behind a chest of drawers against their bedroom wall with an alarm set to go off at 3am every morning.......then fucked off on holiday for two weeks.......we had extremely thin walls which those absolute dickheads had no respect for.

This. Is. GENIUS

NDNsBloodyCat · 02/08/2024 01:05

You’re leaving in a few months?
Don’t save and rinse out large plastic milk bottles.
Don’t pack those milk bottles with nettles, top up with water, then screw the lids on tightly.
Don’t leave this nettle stew to develop for some months until it is brown and smells strongly of cow manure.
Don’t empty those bottles as you leave, OP.

Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 23:36

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 23:26

There have been 100s of great and hilarious ideas - trust me, I am reading and ‘thanking’ them all!

I won’t however sit here and allow people to criticise me and give nasty remarks for the crime of wanting to live in peace and be neighbourly

You're allowed to criticise your neighbours though?
You have to accept that some folk don't really want to be neighbourly, and that's ok.

NeighbourTrouble63 · 01/08/2024 23:26

TinyDancer2323 · 01/08/2024 23:22

I’m really confused why you have only commented on the negative comments here. Lots of people have had some very funny and entertaining ideas yet you seem to have only commented on the posts criticising you. Very strange!

There have been 100s of great and hilarious ideas - trust me, I am reading and ‘thanking’ them all!

I won’t however sit here and allow people to criticise me and give nasty remarks for the crime of wanting to live in peace and be neighbourly

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TinyDancer2323 · 01/08/2024 23:22

I’m really confused why you have only commented on the negative comments here. Lots of people have had some very funny and entertaining ideas yet you seem to have only commented on the posts criticising you. Very strange!

Werweisswohin · 01/08/2024 23:06

Muffit · 01/08/2024 22:47

Good luck Op, tje posters pretending it's okay to be rude and ignore your neighbours,well I'm glad I don't have them as neighbours or have to have anything to do with them in real life.

I understand what you mean about these snooty types.I wonder which of these ideas you'lll choose.
Some of them made me roar with laughter, especially the music throat by Lirtle women, and it sending peiple out of the shop.

I might try that for my noisy neighbours.😂

If you force people to interact with you then the feeling is mutual!

I'm not anti-social but I also don't want to have to deal with my overly chatty neighbour every single time I leave or enter my house. They're ok folk, I'm ok folk, but I'd rather not be too chummy with neighbours.