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

[NoEffingWay]

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 . No amount of explanation would suffice and he spent the next few years staring me down and huffing whenever he saw me.

I have a standing bird feeder with three trays at different heights on it. My neighbour woman said I should not put bird food in the trays, as when several larger birds come to feed, they sometimes squabble and flap their wings about, and then fly off with food in their beaks, and drop stuff on her lawn, which she gets very annoyed about.

Neighbours seemed nice if slightly over invested. Told me off for driving while 8 months pregnant (genuinely seemed to think it was illegal, wasn't a mean telling off but more a shocked 'you'll get arrested if you're caught!') Hovered around when we finally brought baby DS home and clicked over how worried they'd been because they'd heard 'every bit' of me in labour (not cringeworthy for me, nope not at all) and then hadn't seen us or a baby (DS had been unexpectedly very ill at birth and had to be admitted to NICU and I stayed in with him)

DS was not a sleeper and there were many many long tortourous nights. Whenever I saw them I apologised but they always waved it off saying how lovely it was to hear a baby's healthy lungs. So...you know. Sweet if slightly odd knowing they could hear pretty much everything.

That is until bonfire night. The back of our house (and, crucially, DS's bedroom, where he was sleeping by that point as he was old enough) formed their garden boundary. They mounted a very large Catherine wheel firework directly underneath DS's wide open window and lit the fucker, sending sparks across his room. Apparently he 'would have been fine' and 'maybe it would have finally scared him into being quiet HA HA'.

To this day I can't work out if they were playing an extremely long passive aggressive game or they were just a bit thick.

Was accused of being French and not in a good way apparently by bonkers ex neighbour. New neighbour told me this (he is actually French but she didn't realize!)

It all went downhill when who I thought her son was actually her husband. He was away a lot and had a young child over to stay.

Said husband could not understand why our bigger car could fit in our garage but his smaller car would not fit in his. I pointed out we had a wider garage and checked measurements before buying house
Baffling!

I love the word mardy!

Our old neighbour was angry that we had play equipment in our garden that wasn’t accessible to her dc. She even arranged a meeting to tell me how awful I was.

One neighbour got annoyed with me and NDN for putting notes on her car asking her to stop parking where she was as the space belonged to our plot.

She worked odd hours and use to get home about 3am and would reverse into our other neighbours space. It wouldn't have been so bad if she didn't have a huge 4 x 4 she couldn't park straight.

There was a path between the space she parked on and my other ndn space.

We'd both go down to work in the morning and her rear would be all but touching my passenger side and her front would be right across the path and almost touching the front of neighbours car.

She got really artsy saying our ndn had given her permission.

She wasn't happy when I asked if he'd refused her permission to park like someone who could drive in the process? (Ok I was a git for that one).

This went on for a few weeks before we heard a commotion one mid morning whilst I was on leave. Her car was being wheel clamped because she had 5 in paid parking tickets.

I can't say I was surprised 🤣

We had a neighbour once who didn't like flowers and used to very loudly moan about our front garden

Once our neighbours wrote to our (in common) landlord to complain about the unreasonable levels of noise coming from our house in the evenings. Which turned out to be our kids singing in the bath at 7.30pm.

I love this thread. Some proper weirdo neighbours!

I had a neighbour who hated that my bins were in front of my house on our small street of about nine houses. She’d tut at me, come and stand on her doorstep anytime she spotted me putting rubbish in them or, my favourite, sit in her car in the car park glaring at me and revving the engine over and over. When I declined to move them to the back garden to please her, she screamed at me that I was the worst neighbour she’d ever had and threatened that she would call the police on me.

The thing that makes it weird is that every single house on the street bar hers had their bins in front of their house in the exact same place as I did in front of mine and she never once bothered them about theirs apart from one neighbour. I don’t believe it was a coincidence that the other neighbour she bothered was the only other single mum on the street.

In a previous house. Took against me because my garden was "Nicer than mine." Well, I spent a lot of time tending my garden unlike her as it took up too much of her "Wine O'Clock" time. So obviously, I did this to annoy her. In the end I took to looking after her garden as well as it made it easier to keep the weeds at bay and there was only a 2 foot high wall between us. Mind you, that didn't stop her having a go at me because she had a dream where I said something rude to her so she stopped speaking to me for weeks afterwards.

In my current house. Himself nextdoor took against me because I objected to his proposed extension. I didn't officially lodge an objection though. What I did do was refuse to allow him to install three very big steel posts in my yard so he could build a sort 'glass box' on top of his kitchen extension. He tried to have me sent to coventry but all our neighbours refused to join in. It's been nigh-on ten years ago and there's still a frostiness between us.

New neighbours bought the next door house for an absolute song because it was looking a bit scruffy and previous owners were splitting up and couldn’t/wouldn’t tart it up before putting it on the market

When they moved in, we put a card through their door introducing ourselves and giving our contact details in case they needed anything

A few weeks later, they sent us a very snotty and formal email saying their survey had picked up damp, and we we are semi detached with a shared roof, shared front garden and some bits of shared guttering, water from our house must have been draining from our house onto theirs and contributing to the damp, so we need to pay half of the repair costs

We politely said no, and then received 4 or 5 follow up emails with them arguing why we were wrong and should contribute

We had moved into our house 5 years earlier and had to remedy damp issues. It’s just routine maintenance in Victorian houses, and they had got a MASSIVE discount on the house because of its condition but were (and probably still are) convinced it was for us to pay

Absolutely insane

That I wouldn’t cut down my perfectly good tree because it blocked their light. It didn’t, I took regular pictures to show the tree shaded my garden most of the day and showed them. They haven’t spoken to me since.

Turns out they wanted a ‘view’ into my bedrooms or the top of the roof would be the only view they have as they live a few meters higher on the hill.

I still get the odd comment about ‘trees being in the right place’ and I’m a sarky mare when I need to be and often reply ‘I’m still perfecting the sky trees Sharon, give me time!’

Wow, undecided2022, your husband is fuming! That changes everything.

I parked my car in her way so it way my fault she crashed into it and damaged her car.

We had a really horrible neighbour a few doors down a few years ago. She would drive into our little estate at ridiculous speeds and if anyone was in her way - other neighbours pulling onto their drives, someone putting their bins out, etc, she wouldn’t slow down or stop and wait, she would just drive round them over everyone’s front gardens without slowing down.

One day she followed my opposite neighbour into our estate and instead of waiting for opposite neighbour to pull into her drive, she just drove round her, over my front garden, into the side of my car - parked on my own drive.

She was the most unpleasant person I’ve ever met and when she was arrested and had her house raided for large scale fraud, we all had a bit of a giggle

One neighbour complained to my landlord that the bushes outside my living room window impeded her view and access to light. Landlord came to see as was confused as to what she meant. She slipped a note into my letterbox saying it was all sorted, and that NO ONE had permission to cut the bushes.
Turned out the neighbour was complaining that the bushes had grown, so she could no longer see into my house and monitor what we were doing.

@Mintjulia

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

Same but with a different neighbour over dandelions. I actually have a pot with dandelions growing in it as food for the rodents I keep and it sits on my doorstep. Still the flowers come off as soon as they’re yellow and the rodents eat them so no chance that pot is seeding anywhere 🤣

I parked my car in her way so it way my fault she crashed into it and damaged her car. Remembering this for future incidents

@Nat6999

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.

Ha ha ha! Funniest thing ever! Made me laugh out loud!

For not going to bingo with her.

We had spoken once. She issued an invitation. I was working (thankfully!)

Ignored me ever since.

Moaned about the unsightly gates at the front of our house (this was the day after we'd moved in and they were horrible and agreed her point and told her our plan was always to replace them).

Two weeks later came round screaming like a mad woman as we were removing said unsightly gates as the noise in her property was 'unbearable'

our dds were doing a project together, from school, my dd was not available one morning since she had just come back from camp and her dd was knocking early in the morning to complete the project . her dm, my neighbour was really cross and said she was going to tell the teacher her dd did most of the project
so silly in retrospect.

another neighbour's teenage dd gave me a load of crap from unwanted auction, teddies/clothes, but came round a few weeks later with more crap and i declined it!

My NDN kicked off about me having lights on in my house, early in the morning when I get ready for work. She can't see my house lights at all; her house is not at the right angle. The light that was bothering her was her own security light, triggered too easily by birds etc.

My neighbour across the road is currently not talking to me because I won’t loan her horses ( and give them free grazing , feed and water them for free no less)

She is a horse hoarder and has about a dozen horses on about 3 acres of land . She has more land than me , but she won’t fence it so the horses can use it , so they’re stuck on basically 3 acres of bare earth and ragwort in the summer , and a quagmire of mud in the winter. Whereas we had two ponies on about 5 acres which is properly maintained , until I lost my big horse about 18 months ago , leaving our 40 yr old pony alone , which she hated and so would jump out of our fields to go visiting my other neighbours horses . I decided to get another companion for her , and immediately neighbour 1 was offering me her horses to look after , knowing that I would have to feed them , worm them and look after them, directly out of my own pocket , and she’d always be coming over to visit (criticise) because no one is as much as expert as she is , and she did it to another neighbour she managed to persuade to look after another one of her animals , who found her sitting at their kitchen table one morning .. After all , I’ve only had horses for nearly 40 years , what would I know ?

In the end , I got one from a charity , and she hasn’t spoken to me since , but I hear from my farrier the source of all gossip , that I’m wasting my land and I’m just mean and she can’t understand why I didn’t want her horses .

We rent and before us apparently he always mowed the front lawn. I let him do it a few times then I just started doing it when it needed doing.
Hasn't spoken to us since, bliss.

The other neighbours round here are all weird and will speak to one another but completely blank us. The main issue is that they don't like that the house is rented as they all own. They're a bunch of weirdos and really weird with the bins. They will pull everyone else's in but mine is always left out. They think it's bothers me but I just find it funny.

Thankfully ours doesn't even speak to us on account of having issues with the previous owners.

Neighbours wanted to build an extension up to the boundary of the property, previous owners said no. Therefore we too are evil and worthy only of disdain and dirty looks .
They are fucking weirdos.