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What's the most ridiculous reason a neighbour has got mardy with you?

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NoEffingWay · 31/08/2021 20:00

I once was accused of not saying hello to a neighbour and he told my parents I was rude (I was about 20!). In reality I had said 'hello' but he was totally deaf and didn't hear me Hmm. No amount of explanation would suffice and he spent the next few years staring me down and huffing whenever he saw me.

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Inthesameboatatmo · 31/08/2021 20:02

Because I had a go at her for running my cat over and flat out denying it until her husband checked under the car and there was cat fur everywhere.

ReeseWitherfork · 31/08/2021 20:04

Crikey @Inthesameboatatmo that's traumatic.

My NDN once accused DH of scratching his car by opening our car door onto it. We don't park anywhere near him, never had, and when he showed us the scratch WE LITERALLY COULDNT SEE ANYTHING. He's pointing at the car saying there and I swear to god there wasn't even a pinprick of a mark.

3GreenPullups · 31/08/2021 20:05

My neighbour got blind drunk and could not work the lock on his garden gate. So he went into my garden and climbed over my fence. Got thorned by my rose bushes and was genuinely outraged.

Same neighbour got annoyed with my DM who was visiting with me for the weekend. neighbour;'s wife was bedridden, my mother used to be a nurse and he came around and asked her to sit with his wife while he fucked off to the pub. My mother said no. (please note, was second time neighbour had met my mother).

neighbour on the other side has refused to acknowledge me in any way shape or form because she was friends with DH;'s first wife. DH;s first wife left DH and then got married to her OM. This happened before we ever met. 4 years later I married DH. We have been together 18 years but I am persona non grata. despite the fact the Ex left DH.Hmm I get pleasure out of saying good morning every day and sending cristmas cards. We get chriostmas cards addressed to DH only in return.

orangejuicer · 31/08/2021 20:07

Objecting to the weed smell in my house coming from theirs.

Catnuzzle · 31/08/2021 20:07

When we had our extension built, that the windows didn't line up (1st floor and loft room and on the gable end) and that we dared to have an external soil pipe.

TheGriffle · 31/08/2021 20:08

We asked them (very nicely) to stop their son kicking his ball against (our) fence at 7.30am which was just below our bedroom window.

They took against us and we haven’t spoken since!

ProfYaffle · 31/08/2021 20:09

I told her that she couldn't store her bins in my parking spot. Apparently that was 'arrogant' and 'anyone would do it'. I told her to feel free to try all the other neighbours til she found one who'd allow it Hmm

Artichokeleaves · 31/08/2021 20:10

Suggesting that my neighbour's visitor, who was standing at the doorstep nattering with her, might want to move her car which was parked across the entrance to my drive, while I was waiting on the road, indicators going, to turn in.

Apparently expecting me to park somewhere up the street and come back and move my car later to suit their convenience was entirely reasonable.

Mind you, this was the same one who used to run around the garden in the early hours of the morning, shouting "yoo hoo! Boring people!" with absolutely no sense of irony, so it's not that surprising.

ComtesseDeSpair · 31/08/2021 20:11

One of my shopping bags split and a tub of table salt fell onto our shared front path. It burst open and went everywhere - but it was raining pretty steadily and so I reasoned that salt is pretty harmless and it would be washed away within an hour or so tops. She knocked on the front door and asked if I was going to sweep it up. I did my best, but it was an impossible task and made more of a mess than had it just dissolved in the rain.

In fairness, she’s a pretty good neighbour. House proud and likes our patch to look nice which is essentially a good quality to have in those you share a neighbourhood with.

Northernsoullover · 31/08/2021 20:13

I was a single parent. They were bullies.

dannydyerismydad · 31/08/2021 20:14

I had plants in my garden.

I told her that if anything was overhanging or too tall she was welcome to chop it back or I was happy to come round her side and do it.

Apparently my solution was "unneighbourly, because plants grow back and might drop leaves".

Ruined her zen apparently.

SunbathingDragon · 31/08/2021 20:20

One of my neighbours used to get really annoyed if I parked on the bit of (completely unrestricted) road closest to my house because she liked to park there and had three cars so couldn’t get all on her drive at once.

Nat6999 · 31/08/2021 20:25

My mum's NDN blocked me on Facebook because my mum asked them not to park their cars on the communal path between the houses. It represented a trip hazard & she is 83.

TSSDNCOP · 31/08/2021 20:28

A neighbours unlicensed and uninsured daughter nicked the car keys whilst she was out and pranged my car, lots of damage and undrivable. There were bits of the daughters car under mine that she hadn't seen when she tried to cover her tracks.

Neighbour denied, daughter denied. I walked hone and said you have until I get indoors to get your story sorted or I'll call the police.

Phone was ringing when I got in. No apology, but paid cash for the very expensive repair.

Entire family has sent me to Coventry for the last 15 years.

PlanDeRaccordement · 31/08/2021 20:31

I spotted neighbour chasing my cat with their lawnmower, intent on running her over. I ran outside and shouted at them to stop. They then denied it and said they hadn’t even seen the cat. Which was a lie because they’d mowed a squiggly diagonal line across their lawn to try and kill her. They then told me it’s my responsibility to keep the cat off their property.

Lettitbee · 31/08/2021 20:31

For moving the broken bricks and building waste that he dumped in my garden back to his. Apparently this was unreasonable as he had just left it on my gravel, where as we put it on his lawn. He was by far the worst neighbour I've ever had, I still feel anxious thinking about the time we lived there. I'm so grateful that we were able to move, despite losing money as a consequence.

2manyusernames · 31/08/2021 20:35

For asking her to not park in our parking space. We were renting and the house next door had some kind of agreement with the previous tenants that no one told us about.

I asked her to move her car and that it was ready our space so could she ask if she wanted to use it instead (if it was free).

Well - she absolutely lost it! Started screaming at me that we were 'only renters' and that she 'had good working class values' and I didn't, that she was going to send her husband round to 'sort me out' - I just stared at her slackjawed I had no idea what to say.

She brought her son and husband over later to shout more, but really she was just shouting at me again about my parking space while they stood behind her looking sheepish.

So weird. It was my parking space. Still don't know why she thought she had the right to be so angry 😂

2manyusernames · 31/08/2021 20:37

^'really our space' it should say in the second paragraph

dunkaccino · 31/08/2021 20:38

@ComtesseDeSpair I understand your neighbour's concern. Salt is really toxic to plants - if it had washed onto the lawn/plants there could have been a dead patch there for years - it doesn't just kill people, it's a plant killer too (and everything living in the soil) - proper nasty stuff.

crowsfeet57 · 31/08/2021 20:38

Neighbour 1 - We had moved into a 4 bedroomed house with a child and that attracted other children to the area, which he found annoying. (He had 3 teenaged children)

Neighbour 2 - Our 6 year old had school friends round to play which upset her 4 year old and we shouldn't allow our 6 year old to play with anyone apart from her son.

Neighbour 3 - Two days after they moved in, we made her sister move the car she had parked right across our drive at 11pm. It was Christmas Eve and we wanted to go to midnight mass.

Neighbour 4 - I was friendly with her husband's first wife - fifteen years ago when they were married and she lived here!

Neighbour 5 - There was a little bit of 'poisoned' ivy growing on our fence in the dark spot between the two houses. It was 'killing her plants;' 'spoiling the soil;' 'damaging her fence.' It was our fence but we dug it up anyway. Five years after we dug it up it apparently managed to kill some trees she planted against our fence in darkness due to her new extension.

We refused to let her take down our fence and replace it with a new one that we would not be allowed to have any plants touching. Even after I gave her a copy of the deeds to prove it was ours, I had to confront people she had employed to attach things to the fence and cut bits off the fence. They totally ignored our requests to stop and short of physically attacking them we had no option apart from letting them do it. When we complained to her she screamed on our doorstep for 20 minutes.

WillYouDoTheFandango · 31/08/2021 20:40

We were lifting weights inside the house til 9pm every night and the banging was driving her mad. I am not Arnold Schwarzenegger nor do I own any weights.

Turned out her sister and sister in law had both just died and the grief did funny things. She came and apologised a few months later which was very big of her and she’s friendly again.

NewlySingle2021 · 31/08/2021 20:40

Asked one of their regular visitors to please stop parking across our (dropped kerb) driveway. According to the gobby visitor if I was not able to manoeuvre my 7 seater around her car to back out then I needed to retake my driving test. So somehow her shitty parking was my own fault 😂 the neighbour just stood there giving me dirty looks and refuses to speak to us nowadays.

shockedNeighbour · 31/08/2021 20:43

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Harlequin1088 · 31/08/2021 20:48

Next door neighbour once had a go at me as I pegged my washing on the line because I had the audacity to hang up my now ex-husband's shirts with PINK pegs and he found this clearly deliberate affront to my husband's masculinity a genuine outrage.

LER83 · 31/08/2021 20:49

Ndn neighbour wasn't happy with our landlord over some building work, they wanted us to stop paying him rent until he sorted it, which we refused to do. They've not talked to us since!