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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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Optionnumber2 · 31/08/2021 23:20

Neighbours opposite my mum. They moaned about me parking my car completely safely and legally outside my mum’s house because they used to do that thing where they sort of steered left briefly before swinging majestically right into their driveway. If they had just turned normally, or reversed in, they would still have had bags of room and my car would not have been in their way at all.

Nat6999 · 31/08/2021 23:22

My brother's NDN went ballistic because brother's dog "licked it's lips & gave us a dirty look" the dog was ancient & nearly blind.

WhatsTheEffingPoint · 31/08/2021 23:24

Doing the house up before we moved in, the oven timer hadn't been set so was flashing.....ndn could see it flashing through the frosted kitchen door, across the driveway and he would have had to be outside and shimmied down the side of his house to actually see said light as there were no windows facing our kitchen door 🙄 all replayed to me as I was handing over wine and flowers on the day we moved in as I thought it would be a nice gesture as we introduced ourselves, silent wtf have we done moving here moment ... he came round in the end.

Scbchl · 31/08/2021 23:26

Mine complained because I hadn't either alternated the colour of the clothes pegs I used in a repeat pattern or used the same two colours on each item of clothing.

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 31/08/2021 23:26

Adjoining house has complained to housing officer for the area .. That my cats were staring at him in an aggressive stance when he went outside and he felt intimidated. My cats were sitting in the window as I was waiting until they were neutered before letting them outside. Also I really doubt that the same person was intimidated by 2 cats behind glass as he has been in prison several times himself (GBH) so I don't believe that he is the type to scare easily

delilahbucket · 31/08/2021 23:31

Their plasterer left plaster all over over our driveway and garden and we asked for it to be cleaned after said plasterer refused. Their plumber was blocking our driveway and I asked them (very politely) to move so I could park.
To be fair the list goes on and on with our unreasonableness.

KatnissNeverdone · 31/08/2021 23:37

Stormed round shouting because we put a new fence up in the exact same place as the old one. She was angry because we wouldn't move the fence line back by half a foot into our garden (which would have completely obstructed access to the gas pipes at the side of our house) because she wants to see down the side of her garage, which has formed the boundary of our garden for the last 25 years. Bearing in mind she wouldn't have been able to get down there, she just wanted to be able to see it because it was "her property".

KintsugiCat · 31/08/2021 23:44

Someone’s else’s cat had gone into whir house through their open window and scared their dog.

They had paid a lot of money for special windows that open and they weren’t going to stand for a situation where they couldn’t have their windows open.

And they knew it was our cat because they had seen him outside our house, in our garden.

Bluenotgreenmilk · 31/08/2021 23:50

@putthetubeinthebin

Noisy sex. Which was not all that noisy
I used to have a neighbour that once screamed at me in the school playground for having noisy sex I was single,heavily pregnant and when she claimed I was hard at it,we where away on holiday Demented cow
TheChip · 31/08/2021 23:57

I was convinced my neighbour was possibly dead.

Hadn't seen her in a few weeks. No answer at the door the few times I knocked to check if she was OK. She wasn't putting her bins out. I spoke to my family to see if I was over the top with my thinking, or if it was a concern. My sister came and we peered through her kitchen window. I spotted a couple of flies on her counter, and well that was it. The flies = dead body to me at that moment and I called the police.

They kicked her door down to find she wasn't there.
She had been on holiday for 3 weeks.
The council replaced her door

She never spoke to me for about a year.

Throughabushbackwards · 01/09/2021 00:00

Because we don't tend our side of the flower bed that she has planted down the boundary line on our front lawns. She rage weeds it (from our side) on a periodic basis.

ANameChangeAgain · 01/09/2021 00:01

My DS complained to her neighbour that neighbour's ds was constantly hanging over the fence watching her. The neighbour's odd answer was to play the same Abba song on loop, full volume, against the party wall each time she left the house. This lasted several weeks.

ANameChangeAgain · 01/09/2021 00:02

That was confusing, I should have used DSis.

Screwyoularry · 01/09/2021 00:02

My across the street neighbours were going away for 2 wks &,asked if we would park one of our cars on their drive whilst they were away. My next door neightbour text them on the 1st night away to say Larry is parked on your drive. She said yes I know I asked them to. For some reason she took offense to that & hasn't spoken to either of us for 10yrs. She's an odd woman.

WithRosesAroundTheDoor · 01/09/2021 00:07

Similar to @OhGiveUp
I hung my (black, cotton, Asda multipack) knickers and (basic t shirt) bras on my washing line to dry. Apparently, it gave her husband 'thoughts'.
I was branded a hussy and she hasn't spoken to me since.

CheshireChat · 01/09/2021 00:11

TheChip this is hilarious to me for some reason, maybe because you spotted the flies and thought 'that's it, she's dead, she's definitely dead' Grin.

I wouldn't be massively excited about the broken door (who would?!) but I definitely wouldn't hold it against you.

undecided2022 · 01/09/2021 00:27

@TheChip

I was convinced my neighbour was possibly dead.

Hadn't seen her in a few weeks. No answer at the door the few times I knocked to check if she was OK. She wasn't putting her bins out. I spoke to my family to see if I was over the top with my thinking, or if it was a concern. My sister came and we peered through her kitchen window. I spotted a couple of flies on her counter, and well that was it. The flies = dead body to me at that moment and I called the police.

They kicked her door down to find she wasn't there.
She had been on holiday for 3 weeks.
The council replaced her door

She never spoke to me for about a year.

I just read this to my husband and he is fuming on this woman's behalf.
Ivalueloyaltyaboveallelse · 01/09/2021 00:36

Because we won’t allow their god awful children to kick balls at our windows, front door or against the side of our house and in our driveway (damaged my car before but denied it).

It is absolutely torture for our youngest Dc who has autism but as long as they don’t have to put up with their children they don’t care.

Also moaned like hell when we put up a front fence and a ring doorbell as we now have plenty of evidence (dw only looks onto our property)

TheChip · 01/09/2021 00:41

@CheshireChat @undecided2022
I hung my head in shame everytime I passed her lol. I was so relieved when she finally started talking to me again, but it was never ever mentioned by either of us.

I can see both sides, her side because she had just went on holiday and came home to that. But to me, there was a real possibility she was dead (she wasn't young), and what if I just shrugged off my concerns and she really was just laying there?
Thank god she wasn't, I wish I had just been more patient lol

WolfFleeceSpotter · 01/09/2021 01:27

Neighbour 1: complained that after we cut the front lawn some grass cuttings had blown across onto his drive and could we sweep them
up. Literally less than 5 very small blades of grass on his drive. His own drive was covered in leaves from his tree and weeds but he didn’t want the blades of grass there.

“Good Grief Keith with the Teef” - complained that our hedge was too high (7ft) when we moved in and could be cut it to 6ft. We agreed we would when we could afford it. We cut it back but also took down an old shed that the hedge had grown around. This meant that we could now see into his garden and he had enjoyed total privacy for 30 years. Ok Keith, we are putting in a new shed so it will be back up covering the boundary. New shed went in. He then decided we had cut the hedge too much (!) and he wanted it to grow back again to 7ft.Confused We went on holiday and we came back he had put up 8ft high posts with naff trellis on it to give him privacy. Keith mate, we aren’t looking at you in your garden ffs.

Good Grief Keith the the Teef again. He owns a side strip of land alongside one of the cottages. One day the bin men put the cottage owner’s bin on this land. Keith kicked off. Cottage owners were at work at the time, and weren’t responsible for putting the bin on his land. Keith then put up a scaffolding pole with cctv camera to monitor this strip of land day and night Grin no one went on it! But Keith’s home and land is his castle. What a prat.

Another neighbour complained that the magpies that flew from the direction of my garden to hers were giving her funny looks and could I have a word. 🤪

WithRosesAroundTheDoor · 01/09/2021 02:04

Just remembered another while DD2 refuses to sleep. .
Old nextdoor neighbour heard me on the phone to a new lady who lived down the road giving her my address and postcode so that she could have a parcel delivered to my address while she was on holiday.
She complained that I obviously didn't like her because I had never given her my address and postcode.
Erm,,, you live next door and have for 6 years. You know my address. Confused

Mintjulia · 01/09/2021 02:06

That seeds from my garden were blowing into his. Both our gardens backed onto the Lambourne downs Grin and acres of greenery

GreatBritishWineDrinker · 01/09/2021 02:08

We moved into a block of flats. On the day we moved in we met the elderly lady across the landing who asked my now DH (but then boyfriend) why he was letting his poor wife carry heavy boxes in. He cheerfully replied that I wasn't his wife but his girlfriend. She shut the door and barely said a word to us for three years until I knocked and left some wedding cake. By the time we had DC (9 months later!) we had a bag full of beautifully hand knitted clothes and a lovely relationship. We sold to another young unmarried couple, wonder if she was the same with them?

Soubriquet · 01/09/2021 03:28

Police did a raid on downstairs neighbours. Came in through our window by mistake.

All of a sudden we were the criminals. The scandal of the village. No amount of “no. They were looking for Mr X” would change their minds

LaBellina · 01/09/2021 03:58

Because they were bullies and after a certain point I stopped saying hello because I wanted nothing to do with them. Then she proceeded to scream at the top of her lungs to me every time she tried to talk to me and I ignored her. When my ex DP told her off she screamed at him as well and DEMANDED that I say hello to her whenever I saw her.
Needless to say that didn’t happen.