How can this be allowed?

Not to mention... tow trucks are themselves extremely noisy!

Surely you're not daft enough to not know that a flat tyre is an emergency? In so much as it needs fixing otherwise the driver is going nowhere?🙄

Whats with all the 😂emojis? Own your comments, don't try and make yourself out to be funny, you mean what you say so don't try and down okay your annoyance.

Also they could be going anywhere. I’m driving 200 miles for work tomorrow morning 😭 some people think everyone’s life is like theirs

The AA recovered a large boat to our quiet (very inland) cul de sac at 2am once. It took them two hours with lights flashing, engines on, and all the noise that taking a boat off a recovery vehicle takes. The boat then sat opposite our house for six months until it was removed by the council.

Consider yourself lucky!

Yep- obviously they could get a 50 quid taxi to work in the morning and another home in the evening to spare you a noisy 10 minutes.

Absolutely, and he will totally be convinced that he was ever so quiet! 🥴🥴😆

Also you seem to be suggesting they should have taken the car to a garage instead of fixing it where it was..... a tow truck would cost a hell of a lot more than a guy with an electric pump on a van. Plus garages are closed at night so not sure how you think taking the car to a garage would have helped the poor guy.

This, live in a small village with no local taxi. Youngest is not a very well child and in and 13 2/3 night admissions in last year including recent sepsis, was a 2 hr wait last time we had to wait for an ambulance, so I we now won't wait, it's an anxiety thing i know, but I can't relax unless I know my car is absolutely ready to go always. And like pp above, nope, no spare in car.

I don't think it was a neighbour just someone broke down in the street

To me, this is why most neighbours spend the majority of the time being considerate to each other. There might be the odd one off that calls for a bit of understanding in an emergency situation. 11pm isn't all that late, and it's a one off so just move on. It would be a different story if they made a habit of disturbing people in the night.

An emergency is an emergency.

Do not move to somewhere like Germany though - machines are on till really late on longer days. Workmen don't stop working at 4pm there, would you believe it.

Hardly any modern cars have a spare tyre, and a large proportion of drivers, including me, wouldn't know how to change it if it did. Of course getting someone out to fix it was necessary so the guy could get home. He probably called for assistance from a breakdown service several hours earlier but a man being broken down on a residential street would be very low priority so he could have been waiting for 6 hours! As pp said this incident was definitely much more annoying for him than for you.

Are you Mrs Paddington “”Hard Stare” Brown? 🤣

Yip be a case of , come here see the nut from no9 staring at the repair bloke.

Annoying yes, but you definitely are being unreasonable. Giving him a “hard stare” for 10 minutes! OMG, the curtain twitchers you refer to were watching YOU OP. They were saying “Omg, she’s still there, staring “. That would have been pretty entertaining.

It was a one off and it didn’t wake you. So yes, YABU. I have hardly any neighbours. One however has a son who has just turned 18. He occasionally (maybe once every 3 months) comes home in the early hours, obviously steaming, judging by the awful singing and noisy falling down. That does wake me but it just makes me smile - oh to be 18 again!

“Well given that there are noise laws in the UK and restrictions on how late noisy work can be done, no, the OP wasn’t being unreasonable”

it always makes me laugh a bit when people say this. What difference does it make if there are noise laws? Laws just mean you can be prosecuted. Noise laws are civil law. They obviously don’t stop anyone making noise in the moment😂

of course, should the OP be minded she could complain to the council today but we all know that will be futile.

It sounds like the man whose tyre was being repaired was not a neighbour, unless I’ve misunderstood when you said ‘he’ drove off.

so, as a one off Yabu. Bloke broke down. Might have been driving 100 miles home or to work at that time for all I know.

if the repair man is a neighbour and people are driving to him for late night repairs Yanbu.

either way, at that time of night, I would have expected him to turn off machinery when not in use. DH and I both get up about half 4/5 for work weekdays and would not appreciate a prolonged noise for no good reason.

It’s just a one off, and they likely need the car the next day.
annoying but no worse than other one offs

i can’t change a tyre and wouldn’t learn just to keep the peace at 11pm so a spare tyre isn’t useful to everyone!

Did the car owner immediately drive off somewhere? If so it could possibly have been an emergency but if they all went to bed and will drive later today then no, not an emergency.

Yeah yabu he broke down what did you expect him to do sleep in his car all night until you woke up before it could be fixed. Im sure it was a lot more annoying for him then it was for you. I remember breaking down once and the people in the street couldn't of been nicer they brought me drinks and offered for me to use their toilet it was just so nice to have the kindness of strangers about when something crappy happens.

Men need to get home (or wherever they're going) too, not just lone women.

Sometimes these things happen, its unlikely to happen again, is it? Im sure the man didnt want the agrro either! The recovery service man should have been more considerate of cutting down unneccessary noise levels where he could, but having said that, on a silent street at night, noise can travel and seem louder because everything is so quiet.

Yes it would be annoying but I can only assume it was an emergency to do it at that time. I think YABU to go out there for 10 minutes to stare at them. Surely you’d of been more comfortable sat in your own home?

A one off thing? Thats just life isn’t it.

What does ‘as posed’ mean?