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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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TeaGinandFags · 31/07/2024 21:52

CosmicDaisyChain · 31/07/2024 21:37

If you do it with salt is will last forever.

My neighbour is vile and seems to hate every fibre of me for no apparent reason whatsoever. Every time I see him I look him straight in the eye and give a big beaming smile. He looks absolutely seething with rage lol

I do that.

Soooo satisfying.

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 31/07/2024 21:51

CosmicDaisyChain · 31/07/2024 21:37

If you do it with salt is will last forever.

My neighbour is vile and seems to hate every fibre of me for no apparent reason whatsoever. Every time I see him I look him straight in the eye and give a big beaming smile. He looks absolutely seething with rage lol

That’s just creepy! Serial killer alert 😳

VibeVanguard · 31/07/2024 21:50

Potato in the exhaust pipe 😊

TroysMammy · 31/07/2024 21:50

If they don't have cctv or a ring doorbell but they do have an outside light you could paint the word "cunts" on their front door in glow in the dark paint. They won't see it but eventually visitors or passers-by will.

Goldielocksisreal · 31/07/2024 21:50

Some superb ideas! I’m making notes! 😂

Mardyybum · 31/07/2024 21:50

We had a horrid neighbour when I first moved in with DH (then boyfriend) - we went out drinking one night in winter and the cars were iced over when we returned home. DH wrote ‘b!tch’ in huge letters in the ice on her bonnet and it showed back up every time we had a frost - it was months before she got rid of it 😂

NeighbourTrouble63 · 31/07/2024 21:49

TizerorFizz · 31/07/2024 21:43

@NeighbourTrouble63 Just in case history isn’t your strongest subject, the Troubles in NI with numerous murders and bombings didn’t indicate to many of that NI was a friendly place. Somewhere not to go for decades. No go areas etc. eg Shankill and Falls Road areas. International crime victimization survey finds most crime in NI is by local people on local people. So now we have this thread….! Says it all really.

One glance at your comment would say that you definitely do not live here. Don’t try and educate me on my own history - that is the height of arrogance. We’re a friendly bunch thanks to intergenerational trauma, maybe do some of your own research. As for your supposed ‘no go’ areas, open sectarianism isn’t a good look.

@RocketPanda I am quite speechless at the ignorance of the above comment 🙈

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Angrywife · 31/07/2024 21:47

Porridge oats on top of the car when it's raining.

Fermented cod liver oil down the vent at the bottom of the windshield. Fucker will stink like fish for months with no way to clean it.

Vaseline on the windshield wipers.

DreamyCyanFinch · 31/07/2024 21:47

Garden speakers on the border, of the garden.play white noise early morning.

swapcicles · 31/07/2024 21:47

When you depart your property leave an old fashioned radio that takes big old batteries tuned to classic FM or whatever you can get that's most annoying, pushed up against a wall.
Full volume of course and if you can, hide it on top or inside something and if you can set a timer, even better!

NotSoHotMess24 · 31/07/2024 21:46

SweetcornFritter · 31/07/2024 21:28

Get a yappy dog, that’s the most annoying thing any neighbour can do to another.

It totally is, but then you'd have to be the sort of person who inexplicably doesn't mind the sound. Or you'd just be punishing yourself!

Sugarsugarahhoneyhoney · 31/07/2024 21:46

If they don't talk to you how on earth do you know that their range rover is heavily financed?

WhereYouLeftIt · 31/07/2024 21:44

TheBossOfMe · 31/07/2024 21:38

😂

Are you an extra in The Truman Show?

I can’t even imagine having a life as small as yours must be to give a crap about this. Grow your horizons a bit.

Oh, unclench, FFS! Your life is small enough to respond to this thread!

Needablueskyholiday · 31/07/2024 21:43

I also like the idea of early Sat morning, especially the morning after a party, you and DD go out all day. Speaker pressed against the wall with barking and howling dog noises off YouTube on repeat. Whoopsie! Your DD forgot to turn YouTube off before you went out. How careless! lol

TizerorFizz · 31/07/2024 21:43

@NeighbourTrouble63 Just in case history isn’t your strongest subject, the Troubles in NI with numerous murders and bombings didn’t indicate to many of that NI was a friendly place. Somewhere not to go for decades. No go areas etc. eg Shankill and Falls Road areas. International crime victimization survey finds most crime in NI is by local people on local people. So now we have this thread….! Says it all really.

Duckmylife · 31/07/2024 21:43

Bluebirdover · 31/07/2024 20:57

Or crazy frog!

The Barney song on a loop! 😂

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 31/07/2024 21:41

ReadingSoManyThreads · 31/07/2024 21:31

You sound so immature and full of spite. It's better for your own health if you let go of these negative feelings, and let go, you're moving. You've no reason to feel so childishly bitter about these people.

Well done you - you’ve clearly achieved a Buddha-like level of zen where nothing phases you, even selfish twats blocking wheelchair users from using the pavement, keeping you awake all hours and waking your poorly child up. Maybe you’re lucky you haven’t lived next door to such twattery? Or maybe you’re just on a higher plane. Who knows.

Needablueskyholiday · 31/07/2024 21:41

Start hiding raw chicken in their wheely bin so it becomes crawling with maggots

NotSoHotMess24 · 31/07/2024 21:40

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 31/07/2024 21:33

I hear you OP, I’ve had some shockers on the neighbour front - playing really loud surround sound movies at 3am, the lot. I would go down the early morning noise route, especially morning after after the parties. Really ramp it up. Speaker next to wall, loud bass pumping. Go out ‘oops’! Or ring the doorbell at 7am for a realllllly long time and walk off. Fill their bin with your rubbish.

If they have a loud late night party the week before you leave, keep ringing the doorbell every 15 mins and shouting ‘turn it offfffffff’ - very cathartic and will embarrass them nicely (as well as you but who cares)

Is there a local area / neighbour group? Could call out the parking on there anonymously. Or leave a note to the front calling them selfish see you next Tuesdays

I did the doorbell one with some particularly horrendous downstairs neighbours, when we lived in a flat. Not sure whether or not they knew who it was, as everyone is the building absolutely hated them. It worked and they moved away!

splatmouse · 31/07/2024 21:40

OrigamiOwls · 31/07/2024 21:11

I'm not saying it is specifically an annoying instrument...but it is one that is annoying if playing very badly by a beginner

If we're going down this route may I suggest... violin. Sounds awful if not done well (eg, by a beginner.)

TheBossOfMe · 31/07/2024 21:38

NeighbourTrouble63 · 31/07/2024 21:21

A wave hello over the fence in the mornings when they’re leaving the house at the same time as me is creepy? It’s not. It’s called common courtesy and being friendly. I can assure you that I’m not a curtain twitcher, nor do I go anywhere near their door if I can avoid it.

Im in NI, we’re a friendly bunch. To not acknowledge someone would be considered rude.

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😂

Are you an extra in The Truman Show?

I can’t even imagine having a life as small as yours must be to give a crap about this. Grow your horizons a bit.

NotSoHotMess24 · 31/07/2024 21:38

Fleas through their letterbox / open windows?

Broken glass / tacks on their driveway? Awful how careless the binmen can be...

CosmicDaisyChain · 31/07/2024 21:37

Fireplacewatcher · 31/07/2024 21:08

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

If you do it with salt is will last forever.

My neighbour is vile and seems to hate every fibre of me for no apparent reason whatsoever. Every time I see him I look him straight in the eye and give a big beaming smile. He looks absolutely seething with rage lol

ReignOfError · 31/07/2024 21:36

Since they don’t use their drive, list it on a parking website

ReadingSoManyThreads · 31/07/2024 21:36

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