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Things your neighbours do which are reasonable but irritate the bejesus out of you

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nibdedibble · 03/12/2019 11:30

Mine trundle their bins out at 11pm. Under my bedroom window. Wakes me up every week.

He has a banjo which he plays badly. He's playing it now. At least he practices?

Not the crimes of the century but I do want to give them the stink eye.

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mbosnz · 03/12/2019 12:06

We're the bbq neighbours from hell. We do try to make sure we position it as far away from the neighbours and so the wind won't carry it into their open windows, but sorry, we do bbq!

Does anyone ever wonder what their neighbours complain about with them?

I've got teenaged daughters that can be a mite loud, and possibly youtube is a bit loud of a Friday night...

On the other hand, my daughters complain about some of our neighbours nocturnal habits being a mite loud. . . and the way they park their second car can make parking ours a bit of a bitch!

thecatsthecats · 03/12/2019 12:07

Bring us lots of food.

Honestly, it's delicious, and it's really kind of them. But I'm on a diet, have been for two years so it messes with my meal plans, and we're also too busy to reciprocate in kind beyond giving them something shop-bought occasionally.

I didn't really plan for endlessly swapping food with friendly neighbours.

Skittlesandbeer · 03/12/2019 12:08

Mine smokes weed all the live long day and night. Right next to the fence. Reckon his wife sends him as far from herself and their kids as possible. Which means two feet from mine.

He’s a friendly enough chap, keen to chat anytime we catch his eye or he hears us and pops his head over. Not much he says makes any sense after about midday, but my 9yo thinks he’s hilarious. Now that I think on it, she’s probably standing too close.

It’s annoying to harp on about the ‘don’t do drugs’ message, when the nearest other grownup is creating a cloud over our property.

cantfindname · 03/12/2019 12:14

Bloody bloody wind chimes. Plus solar lights when she never, ever goes in the garden after dark.

Across the road leaves kitchen light on 24/7 which lights up my bedroom a treat!

Other side is too numerous to list. Maybe I am a cranky old mare.

fanniboz · 03/12/2019 12:15

DIY. Everybody has some DIY to do but they've been doing random bits of DIY for years now. There's often drilling at 10pm or later. I'd be losing the rag with them if they weren't otherwise the best neighbours ever and a really nice family but it's wearing very thin now and doing everyone's head in. Another neighbour has even mentioned almost going round to complain as they are sick of the drilling at night. They also never close their back gate properly so every day when there's just slightly more than a gentle breeze the gate bangs all day until someone's had enough and go close it themselves

ginghamstarfish · 03/12/2019 12:15

Regarding some neighbours I've had in the past, I would answer ... breathe. Thankfully I now have no neighbours and it's wonderful (house is old and a bit crap but hey, worth it to be on our own!)

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nibdedibble · 03/12/2019 12:16

I dream of being on my own
In a house in a field in a wood
Just a couple of owls and foxes for neighbours
Lovely

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Helpel · 03/12/2019 12:18

Refuses to trim the most ridiculously large tree for a normal suburban garden. so the bastard thing blocks our sun/light every summer evening from about 4pm and they don't care because the shadow casts the opposite way to their garden.

Blippolbblopp · 03/12/2019 12:20

Has loads of windchimes out front and back, easily 4 out front and 5+ out back. Theres too many and they sound horrible together

The other side have a teenage son who has all his friends round constantly, their loud but they dont cause trouble or anything but i just dont like it when theres nearly 30 teemagers out front or back

But on the same hand ive no doubt i annoy the neighbours because my cats refuse to shit in my garden but happily use both neighbours,

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 03/12/2019 12:20

I sit next to a window at my home office. A neighbour across the back comes outside every bloody hour for a cigarette and every single time she is glued to her phone the whole time.

I just want her to look at something - anything - other than a tiddly screen for once and tell her smoking outside doesn't stop her stinking when she goes back in

Blippolbblopp · 03/12/2019 12:21

Ah actually and windchime neighbour, every night without fail they slam a bottle of lambrini or 2 into the bottle bin, it always makes a loud crash and always scares me

Icanttakethiscrapanymore · 03/12/2019 12:23

Never has a top on. He parades on the front shirtless, fixes his car shirtless, mows the grass shirtless, puts the bins out shirtless. Only in the last week or so has it been too cold for him to have his nips out BUT he’s swapped that annoying habit for fast, flashing Christmas lights. Came home from work last night thinking there were police on my street. Nope just nosy Norris’s Christmas lights.

God I’m a grump Grin

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nibdedibble · 03/12/2019 12:24

The message is clear
If you are reading this and you have wind chimes: please please for all our sakes get rid! Thank you

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timeforawine · 03/12/2019 12:27

@f00k couldn't that damage your fence it's absorbing the moisture? I would throw it back over too, we dry ours on the washing line so not to annoy anyone.

TheHuntingOfTheSarky · 03/12/2019 12:27

Ours have contract gardeners who come once a week and use two ridiculously loud leaf blowers for about 45 minutes. They don't even have any trees! I'm convinced that the gardeners are charging them an hourly rate so they just wander about with these bloody machines to make it seem like they're working. If it was a regular slot I might arrange to go out while they're here but they come on different days each week. When it's summer and the doors are open to the garden it's horrendous, and I get the proper rage AngryAngryAngry

mbosnz · 03/12/2019 12:28

I had a neighbour that played Ace of Bass (showing my age) on loop, top volume for 24 hours once.

Other neighbour snapped and went and stabbed him to death.

This was when provocation was still allowed as a defence. Although I don't think he got off!

TheQueef · 03/12/2019 12:28

I must confess.
When my old dog went blind I hung windchimes Blush so he could find the back door.
I did take them down when he passed but I never gave a thought to the clunky chime sounds, even tested them for loudness!
This is why I will never have the relief of knowing who/what/why that summer day in 2016 Sad the universe is punishing me.

Simkin · 03/12/2019 12:28

My next door neighbour got her son to hack half of my camellia down. It was in her side, was probably affecting the light to her house and she had every right to do it but I'm not sure it will survive. I would've told her I was upset but her husband had just died so they had better things to worry about. But it makes me sad every time I look at it.

Somanysocks · 03/12/2019 12:29

Mine put their new fence panels the wrong way round. I like the horizontal bits to slope down on my side.

OverthinkingThis · 03/12/2019 12:30

We're really lucky with neighbours, they are all very inoffensive! If I had to niggle:

Neighbours behind our house BBQ in the middle of the day on summer weekends instead of in the evening, in fact normally about 15 minutes after I've hung the washing out.

Neighbours opposite have more cars than driveway space so park opposite the end of our drive (across the end of their own drive), making the angle for us reversing onto our drive quite tight.

In terms of us as neighbours, we are semi-detached and have an excitable toddler, guy next door lives alone and always insists he can't hear any noise from us (I always ask when I bump into him). It can't be true but its sweet of him to say it...

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nibdedibble · 03/12/2019 12:31

Grin TheQueef
It's only fair

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MoiraRose · 03/12/2019 12:33

Lives next door to me

mrssoap · 03/12/2019 12:33

My neighbors now are great. Only complaint is their dog is a bit noisy at times but it's not constant and not at night so 🤷‍♀️.

However my previous neighbor pissed me off, she had a massive wind chime in her garden, right under my kids bedroom window. Could hear it with the doors and windows shut it was infuriating. I have 4 noisy kids though so didn't wanna say anything!

Nonnymum · 03/12/2019 12:35

Has their phone on vibrate at night time and I can hear it through the wall. Sometimes the messages are constant, then the alarm goes off early in the morning. Perfectly reasonable behaviour and they have the right to have their phone on vibrate if they want but very unreasonable that we can hear it through the wall!

simplekindoflife · 03/12/2019 12:35

Smoking weed. It stinks!

They also have a large driveway but prefer to park all of their four cars on the road?!

My other neighbours say goodbye to their guests on their doorstep. It might not even be that late sometimes but they all say goodbye loudly, hugging and kissing. Goes on for about 20 mins?! Do it inside people, we don't want to hear it!