So embarrassed 😩

[Dippypippy1980]

Daughter is with her dad, boyfriend at work, so was sitting alone next garden this morning enjoying the peace reading a good book.

Aunt and uncle arrived round for a quick visit and just as they sat down neighbours to the side of me started to pump out very loud rock music. High fences, but small gardens so we can all see but not hear each other,

My aunt began a very loud (fake posh😂) rant about bad manners, right to quiet enjoyment of ones home and the deterioration of society! the man of that house then started to sing along to the awful music and she ramped up her commentary on his absolute lack of manners! She was shouting over the music. music lasted about three songs then stopped - they heard her didn’t they??????

While I will never have to come face to face with these people, I am mortified and sitting very quietly in the garden hoping they don’t think it was me😂😂

While i agree it is rude to pump out music very loudly, particularly at 11am on a Sunday morning, there are ways to address it and my aunts impress ion of hyacinth bucket is not it😂😂😂😂

Enjoy it! Ask neighbours if they heard your aunt go off on one? My what Hyacinth she is... gets so het up about people being inconsiderate...

Why should you just roll over and accept it? He didn't think before inflicting his loud self on you and your visitors. So you may as well get a few more barbed giggles out of the situation he started!

Oh dear! I don't like confrontation and would not have liked this to happen to me either. No advice, I'm afraid, except you could mention to your aunt for next time that you have to live there and would rather keep things on an amicable level.

If I am honest I would prefer no one played music in their garden. I love reading quietly when I have the opportunity and resent having to listen to some ones taste in music, particularly in that tiny poor quality as it drifts (or thumper) across the gardens. But I am working on being more tolerant!

My exception is my Greek neighbours who play amazing music at a pretty low volume, I can close my eye and whisk myself away to a beautiful veranda!! I also love hearing him chat to each other in their native tongue. They must be out today - disappointing😊

Sorry I had to laugh! Similar thing happened to me.

Moved into new house with a proper garden. My green thumbed dad came around to tackle it and tell me what I needed to do to maintain it (never had a garden in the old flat). He’s in his 70s, quite deaf and very opinionated.

New neighbour was a bit put out that I was trimming a tree in my garden as she felt it was a nice privacy screen (never mind that it blocked out all the light to our patio). Dad proceeded to tell me all about my rights as to what I could trim on the property, to ignore the neighbours etc very loudly while she was obviously in her garden. In his defence he couldn’t hear her there and thought she’d gone but he’s also at an age where he thinks he can say what he likes.

Things got worse a few hours later when he trimmed a section of my very overgrown tree and I heard glass smashing. Turns out she’d hung a load of little lanterns from the overhanging branches and didn’t take them down. Not the best start! (I did apologise to her after he left and bought her a large fancy lantern so she didn’t think we were complete savages!)

7years later and I think it’s (mostly) been forgiven and forgotten!

This too shall pass OP

Thanks flamingo!

I actually had the same with my dad. Neighbour yelled at me last year for trimming an overhanging branch - I was quite ill at the Time and it really upset me. He now has very loud conversations about overhanging branches, rights and how if we are too scared to trim them he will - he won’t be intimidated by some silly woman who has no grasp of basic laws😂😩

Ha! Sounds exactly like mine! It’s funny but at the same time I could cringe so hard I turn inside out .

FIL has recently started getting more ‘vocal’ and DH was embarrassed when they went out together. I then reminded him of what I’d been dealing with for years. Not so funny when it’s your dad apparently!

Could be worse.
I have a neighbor who will lean out of a window and bellow "AW SHUT UP!" if he thinks people are being noisy at unsuitable times.
Funnily enough, people tend to listen a d actually shut up because he sounds terrifying.
The worst occasion was when a new family moved in and the son used the garage block for football practice. Not during the day, but regularly in the middle of the night you'd hear the BOOM BOOM of a football hitting a metal garage door.
My neighbor was so angry about this he actually got up at 3am and cornered the boy screaming "I've caught you, you little shit!" so loud I think everyone in a mile radius heard.
No more middle of the night football practice after that though. It's a mixed blessing having him next door.

But they do care😊. My dad gets very worked up if he thinks anyone is taking advantage of us - and he wants to confront it.

While he always stood up for himself, he now can’t let anything go and want ‘to have a word’ over he slightest little thing😊.

Another neighbour is now blasting the radio. Hopefully none of my relatives visit🤣