A thread to moan about neighbours who don't merit a whole thread to themselves

[Clymene]

Here's my moan. Bin day is Thursday and it alternates between recycling and rubbish. Yesterday was recycling. In our recycling bins, we can put cans, glass, cartons, plastic trays and bottles. We cannot put in paper/card (separate container for that) or polystyrene.

My neighbours put their bin out and I could see some polystyrene sticking out the top and the bin men didn't take it. Any normal person would surely find out why their bin hadn't been taken and sort out the stuff that shouldn't have been in there, surely (well most people who have lived in the same area for as long as they have already know what the rules are but anyway). Not these people. What they did was pile even more stuff on top of the already full bin so now the lid doesn't shut and push it right out onto the pavement.

Tomorrow we are forecast 45mph winds and we live at the top of a hill.
I can predict exactly what is going to happen to the contents of their bin.

Why do you hate your neighbours today?

Oh and the other thing I forgot about was some neighbours who don’t even live next door to me but a few houses down.
They always manage to intercept our parcels, even when we’re at home
They are always sitting in their front room and are friends with the delivery guys.
They just say to him to leave it with them as we won’t be in (to be fair, we are usually out at work). Then he doesn’t leave a card and we don’t know it’s been delivered. A couple of times they’ve come with a parcel in the evening and are almost a bit put out that we didn’t come immediately and collect it.
I’ve asked them politely before just to send us a text if they’ve taken anything in for us because I ended up in a row with some company’s customer service before when they assured me it was delivered and I’m telling them it bloody well wasn’t that was an awkward phone call back to apologise...
Last week they took a delivery in for me that had been left BEHIND my gate - they had seen the guy deliver it to my safe place and decided they didn’t think it was safe enough.
They even intercept our deliveries if we are in at the weekends! They have way too much time on their hands!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan I doubt it, it's a really old car! It's been modified I think!

Mine are lovely but are the most selfish people on earth - loud music, dogs barking, mad parking, and endless, endless house improvements, done by their pals who just endlessly troop past my windows. They also are in the habit of sourcing stuff for us without being asked - so bits to fix the shed roof, concrete for loose slabs and so on - which they come and fix when we’re out without telling us. They mean well but it absolutely drives me bonkers. I think they see themselves as our landlords or something, it’s really weird.

Mine are a bit strange. He cleans his car at the same time every week. Even if it’s pouring with rain. They are very tidy in the garden. But their children are screaming and crying morning and evening and scraping furniture over the wooden floors. On the face of it they look like the perfect family. But there was a lot of lockdown angst.

I live on a shared driveway... sooo annoying. 4 houses and the neighbours are all lovely people, they just park like absolute twats!!!

Next door was advertised recently (rented) with a very clear description that there is ONE space plus a garage. They have 4 cars between the two of them, and regularly have a few visitors. Opposite has 2 off road spaces, but regularly have 3 cars squeezed in. Next door to them has one space, but 2 cars.

We feel like absolute saints with our 2 spaces plus garage and our TWO cars 😇

It is so bad we want to move but part of me would feel awkward facing the neighbours should they ask... which they would because we’re all friendly/socialise together. I’m so pathetic, but glad to have had this rant - thanks OP!

Finally, my neighbours bin has gone over with a massive smash - broken glass everywhere, shit blowing down the street. I hope they get a flat tyre driving over it tomorrow morning

Mine, the woman, I actually think there is something wrong with her mentally. The husband is fine, nice normal bloke, but she is what you’d describe as “highly strung” .

She complains about random shit. But random shit she’s made up in her head and then she cries. She will have guests over, and be loudl but if we do it, she gets really upset and will make sure we know it. They are incredibly noisy, cars, garden shit etc, and we are very quiet. It’s like we should never been seen or heard. Anything goes wrong she blames us. It never is us. It’s usually her husband moved something or other, but she texts and asks if it was us and how wrong it was to move It.

She also sometimes is friendly. Then she just ignores you. Like you’ll say hi and wave and she will just nod once and not look at you and walk away. So you kinda stand there feeling weird.

But she doesn’t like her husband to know she’s doing it. So if he’s there she’s all lovely. Even if you see her when you’re out, Ie at the shops, and you say hi, she will ignore you. It’s so awkward.

We are both quite flummoxed by it. She had a terrible relationship with the previous owners of our house, she had told us it was them. We are starting to think maybe it was her.

We chat away to him, and we pretend it’s all jolly when we see her, but honestly we both just feel really uncomfortable round her. My husband who is the least aware person ever, often comes in and says “god Jane is so odd, she just did x” .

We used to socialise with them, but honestly I now just don’t want them in my home, and I don’t want to be in theirs. It’s our turn to invite, and obvs lock down has given an excuse all year, but I honestly don’t intend to invite them round and I’d need to find a reason to decline if they invited us.

As said though he’s great, she is just so so odd.

@QueenOfCatan

Mine has installed a weird noise to his car so every time he touches the accelerator it makes this noise, I can't even describe it, it's like a high pitched whoosh noise if anything. Annoying. His partner gets noisy during sex, they have a toddler who visits grandma so this is often during the middle of the day.

If it’s quite a sporty car it will be a dump valve, kind of sounds like bus doors opening.

I wish mine would just fucking move. They've had the house up for sale about four times in the few years we've lived here but they've never made it to an actual sale. We cheered when we saw "Under Offer" in Rightmove but now... it's stalled again.

They're pretty tame compared to most but if I have to spend another summer listening to their shite music and their kids kicking balls against the fence I'll scream. Not to mention the times I've had to tell their kids not to come into my garden to retrieve the eleventy squillion balls they've kicked over today (my rule is you get each ball back once a day and you wait until I'm ready to throw it back).

Before we moved we lived next to an absolute pothead who was doped up enough to expect us to believe he had been prescribed marijuana. The stench would come through the walls regularly. The only thing that stopped me from lodging a formal complaint/ calling the police was the fact that it never got into my child's bedroom. He somehow acquired a girlfriend and they would enjoy loud daytime sex, spanking and all

Their new guest, last weekend and this, giggles roughly once every 2 minutes, till 3am. Can I ask him to be less amusing?

@QueenOfCatan I wonder if you live near me. There's a car running round the place here with a stupid sounding modded engine. It's like a whizz noise, the sound of a hydraulics hiss mixed with a jet engine every time he puts his foot down or changes gear etc. It's ridiculous and sounds so stupid. It actually makes me think of a cartoon futuristic car. And he's not the only one. There's another bloody one running round!

Mine are an old couple who live across the street, when they first moved in thenwoman was overly friendly. Told us that we could use her parking spot whenever we liked as they didn't drive. We'll... one day I parked there for 10 minutes! While I ran in the house to collect something. I came back to a full A4 page rant about how dare I use her spot and that she should have died and no one could have got to her.

Her and her husband spent their shielding period staring out of their window and whispering whenever she saw me. Guess who didn't get any offers help. Stupid petty old witch.

God that was cathartic.

@LemmysAceCard I've had a google and I think it's a dump valve.

The car is far from sporty though. Just a crappy family size runaround that's been modded and driven by a numpty who speeds. The other one is an older Corsa or similar.