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To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?

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alwwyd · 03/09/2024 15:19

My next door neighbours are just very inconsiderate people. They need their own thread.

Our houses are attached but we have separated driveways with a clear line of gravel between them and a partial hedge.

We both keep our bins on the driveway and today I’ve gone out to put my bin back and they’ve shoved my (different) bin and placed their bin on my driveway. I moved it back and it’s heavy so it didn’t blow across.

I know this is a none thread, but it does annoy me how petty some people are. Like just why do it? 🙄 anyone have other petty neighbour stories?

(yes I’ve been sad enough to go a diagram)

To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?
To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?
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Justcallmebebes · 03/09/2024 21:43

takealettermsjones · 03/09/2024 16:22

That is odd. Your hedge looks like Casper the Friendly Ghost. I like it. 😊🤣

I don't understand any of this thread, but thanks for pointing out that's a hedge as I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was

Still none the wiser about the rest of it. The neighbour put her bin on the OP's drive but it was very heavy?

carrotcard · 03/09/2024 21:31

alwwyd · 03/09/2024 18:32

I did my diagram wrong! Well I didn’t make it obvious. I’ve updated it now.

It’s nothing to do with access, they’ve just purposely pushed my bin out the way randomly to place their bin on my driveway (a bin that doesn’t get collected for another week)

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I liked your first diagrams. When you clicked between them the boxes moved into place.

This updated one makes it look like they don't like how their bin smells so they've put it in front of your front door?

OurFlossy · 03/09/2024 21:26

Hey up, I’m in the frozen north and about to go to the foot of our stairs because of ‘nun’ and ‘non’? Who knew?
Here ‘non’ and ‘none’ both rhyme with ‘gone’ (and ‘scone’).
OP, the bin is on your land and has adopted you. Enjoy. Sneak another until your neighbour has none (non/nun).

MasterBeth · 03/09/2024 21:00

5128gap · 03/09/2024 18:54

How would you pronounce the two words differently from each other? I'd say non for both.

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Yes, this is the northern English (and presumably other places) way. I'm originally from the South and they sound like done/don.

MasterBeth · 03/09/2024 20:57

PuddlesPityParty · 03/09/2024 16:47

for the record… no one actually cares.

do you feel like a smarty pants now?

OP there must be a back story because it does seem rather petty but I can relate, I use to have nightmare neighbours!

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For the record, some people were confused by what the OP meant.

So I feel helpful, not smart.

Autumnismyfavouritetimeofyear · 03/09/2024 20:39

Maybe they moved it to do something and forgot to move it back. But yes, it is a dick thing to do. BTW - best diagram ever!

YourSnugHazelTraybake · 03/09/2024 20:21

stealthsquirrelnutkin · 03/09/2024 18:13

But that's what the law requires. You are allowed to trim any plants belonging to your neighbour that encroach on your own garden, but you must return all the trimmings since they belong to the owner of the plant.

Thats not the law. You have to OFFER the cuttings back, but just putting them back without offering is actually fly tipping.

thursdaymurderclub · 03/09/2024 20:16

whats the drip feed? what's the history with these neighbours? because this incident as a one off really is nothing?

we have an ongoing issue with our neighbour, he's reported us to the police for stealing his bin (the wind blew it down the street), he's reported us to the police for damaging his grass (he's elderly, and very ill and when we cut our grass we did his for him at the same time). he walks round our car at 3am in the morning looking at our car because he doesn't like where its parked. and when he puts his bins out he makes sure his bins are on his grass, we share a path and if we even put our bin an inch onto his side of the path then we will get a call from the local bobby!

Theotherone234 · 03/09/2024 20:01

It's ok OP I get it. Used to live in a new build where all the driveways were a stretch of tarmac across the fronts with no demarcation lines. Anyway my ndn decided to keep her bins on the bit of path in front of her window. Everyone else kept their bins in the back garden. So apart from having her stinky bins right next to our front door she also tried to get away with shoving them over onto our side so she could fit them all in. Which resulted in her regularly knocking over my garden ornaments. She wasn't easy to talk to so on binman day I would move my ornaments along a couple of inches to claw back my space. Yes petty of me, but very entitled of her. I was glad to move.

5128gap · 03/09/2024 19:06

herecomesautumn · 03/09/2024 18:55

@5128gap Without derailt -
None is pronounced nun
Non is pronounced non

Well Well. Like done and some. Who knew. (Presumably every- wun(?) but me and those local to me!)

OneTC · 03/09/2024 19:04

No explanation offered but enjoyed the diagrams

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 03/09/2024 18:59

I don't mean to alarm you but your house is upside down, it might be related to the ghost/alien

GlasgowGal82 · 03/09/2024 18:59

alwwyd · 03/09/2024 18:32

I did my diagram wrong! Well I didn’t make it obvious. I’ve updated it now.

It’s nothing to do with access, they’ve just purposely pushed my bin out the way randomly to place their bin on my driveway (a bin that doesn’t get collected for another week)

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I think your real problem is that your houses are both clearly upside down...

herecomesautumn · 03/09/2024 18:55

@5128gap Without derailt -
None is pronounced nun
Non is pronounced non

5128gap · 03/09/2024 18:54

MasterBeth · 03/09/2024 16:24

For the record...

The prefix "non-" means "not" or "the opposite of."

The word "none" means "not any".

It's on Mumsnet that I first saw this confusion and I guess it comes from people who pronounce these two words the same.

How would you pronounce the two words differently from each other? I'd say non for both.

JennyForeigner · 03/09/2024 18:46

Well, I like your style OP.

However, in your position I would have kicked the bins over, used them to form a barricade and barred the neighbours from their house forever more while waving an eight foot flag and shouting 'Excelsior!'.

A little tip to help you level up.

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alwwyd · 03/09/2024 18:34

RwcieptDilema · 03/09/2024 17:00

The level of pettiness that involves starting a thread online complete with 2 diagrams about bin placement?

That's pretty petty, yeah.

i mean it’s pretty petty to just repeat what I said myself but ok.

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Sexyshrek · 03/09/2024 18:34

McT123 · 03/09/2024 17:36

I think you're the petty one here!

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As pp have said, the law says you can trim overhanging trees or shrubs but you must return cuttings to the owner.

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alwwyd · 03/09/2024 18:33

takealettermsjones · 03/09/2024 16:22

That is odd. Your hedge looks like Casper the Friendly Ghost. I like it. 😊🤣

😂😂 he actually looks so cute too.

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alwwyd · 03/09/2024 18:32

Evo20 · 03/09/2024 16:27

Do you actually think it’s intentional to annoy you, or just that they are careless where you are more exact?

Maybe they needed to move it for access and forgot to move it back?

I did my diagram wrong! Well I didn’t make it obvious. I’ve updated it now.

It’s nothing to do with access, they’ve just purposely pushed my bin out the way randomly to place their bin on my driveway (a bin that doesn’t get collected for another week)

To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?
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Original poster
alwwyd · 03/09/2024 18:25

MasterBeth · 03/09/2024 16:24

For the record...

The prefix "non-" means "not" or "the opposite of."

The word "none" means "not any".

It's on Mumsnet that I first saw this confusion and I guess it comes from people who pronounce these two words the same.

I don’t care … ❤️

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stealthsquirrelnutkin · 03/09/2024 18:13

But that's what the law requires. You are allowed to trim any plants belonging to your neighbour that encroach on your own garden, but you must return all the trimmings since they belong to the owner of the plant.

McT123 · 03/09/2024 17:57

Haveacuppaandwaitforthistoblowover · 03/09/2024 17:41

May I ask why? Brambles spread like mad unless kept back properly and they can be very sharp, so why would this lady be the petty one?

Only hoping the poster got some free fruit before cutting away lol!

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Not the cutting, the returning of the cuttings (with extra petty points for the neatness - very PA).

Haveacuppaandwaitforthistoblowover · 03/09/2024 17:41

McT123 · 03/09/2024 17:36

I think you're the petty one here!

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May I ask why? Brambles spread like mad unless kept back properly and they can be very sharp, so why would this lady be the petty one?

Only hoping the poster got some free fruit before cutting away lol!

McT123 · 03/09/2024 17:36

Sexyshrek · 03/09/2024 16:54

I cut back all the brambles that are creeping into my garden from the neighbours side and placed the cuttings neatly on her side next to the fence. She then went out and pulled the heads off all the dandelions in her grass and checked them into the middle of my garden 🤨 Incredibly petty but it did make me laugh.

I think you're the petty one here!

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