What perfectly acceptable but quite annoying things do your neighbours do that annoy you?

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What do your neighbours do that is perfectly acceptable behaviour but you find really annoying? As in, if you posted about it in AIBU you would be told that YABU but you still find it annoying?

Neighbours opposite have a campervan. They also have a drive. They do not park on the drive, they park their van outside my house instead. They've just come back from a few days away, parked across their own dropped kerb to empty the van, and then moved it to outside my house.

They're not blocking any drives, there's no restrictions on parking. But still, it's annoying me. I can't even explain why it's annoying me. It just is.

That would annoy me as well. Can you take to parking outside their house? I would be asking them why they can’t park on the driveway or outside their own home

Mowing the lawn, reasonable yes, but why everyday just when I start painting.

Play Wagner very loudly through the wall. Have a small yacht with a stupid name. Micromanage their unfortunate regular gardener by following him about pointing out individual blades of grass.

(On the other side we have a 3-bed rental in which about twenty Deliveroo riders appear to live (can only assume they sleep in shifts) who are without an exception, lovely.)

I live opposite a housing project for formerly homeless people. There is a lot of going out to beg on the high street, drinking at funny hours, arguing.

I'm generally not someone who moans about the welfare state etc but there's something about seeing this behaviour day to day which makes me alternately rage at the residents, and then at the organisation "helping" them and soliciting a lot of donations from the public in the process.

Definitely @DustyMaiden . Mine always seems to get the lawnmower going just as I've put my toddler to bed😡 surely they could do it earlier

Having a BBQ after I've hung my washing out.

Talking loudly in their garden. Both sides of us do it! I swear they think that, because they're in their own private garden, then nobody else can hear them!

We have a ground floor extension, neighbours don’t. They’ve put their children’s trampoline right at where our extension ends, so that when they’re on it they are looking directly into our house and we can hear every squeak, squeal and scream like it’s in Dolby audio. I know they’re within their rights to put it wherever they want in their garden but either right by their back door or at the end of the garden would be more sensible and courteous.

I could, but I have a perfectly good driveway to use (as do they!).

We are building up a collection of nerf bullets. I wouldn't mind if I knew which house it was so I could return them...

You would hate it where I live. Without fail, the moment it stops raining, someone somewhere close by is using a lawnmower, strimmer, hedge trimmer or pressure washer.

I think it's Germany where they have a law about not being able to make loud noise on a Sunday afternoon. I wish we had something similar!

Sneeze really loudly. No need to shout when you sneeze, come on.

Out the back - Wind chimes on one side, very tinkly so not the bamboo ones which would be worse, very nice woman who presumably gets pleasure from it so can’t ask her to get rid. On the other side an oldish chap, rebel without a clue, who thinks when he takes his motorcycle out of the shed (only on sunny days when I’m actually sitting in my garden) he needs to let it sit and run for a good few minutes before he goes out 🏍️ to stop it stalling apparently. Out the front, some silly selfish parking antics; and I’m not keen on mowing or strimming noises. Over the road people who allow their dog to do 10 minute stints of recreational barking at the gate, I don’t feel I can say anything because it’s been going on for at least a year so I’ve left it too late!

Giving me friendly advice about my garden. It is genuinely well-meaning but she has a very different style from me. Her garden is perfectly groomed, hedges have a sharp finish, trees are year-round and many of them are topiaried into perfect spheres, everything is slow growing. It all looks more or less the same year round. My garden, on the other hand, has a lot of flowering shrubs and deciduous trees and is much more barely-controlled chaos and changes appearance all the time. My gardener comes every 5 or 6 weeks so it's not as though it's a weedy mess but the lawn does get a little meadow-y and there is always something a bit untidy, hydrangeas waiting to be dead-headed or birch leaves needing to be swept up etc.

i read the opening para and was going to say almost the same as you have.
They don’t park on their drive, and use up the spare spaces on the street. They could park on their drive but it needs a bit more effort than just to park up on the street, so that’s what they do.

They inconvenience everyone else due to their own sheer laziness.

at the moment, another neighbour is doing much diy banging until about 10.30pm.

We have someone, presumably a neighbour, who parks a car outside our house and leaves it there for two or three weeks. Then it will disappear for a couple of days before returning and the cycle repeats.

It seems to come and go in the early hours of the morning.

Parking outside my house when they have a perfectly big drive …. Grinds my gears excuse the pun😁

Our neighbour used to go to bed quite late and she used to lock her internal doors and I hated the sound of those locks as I was falling asleep! The has just gone into a hospice though and, along with hearing Countdown as she had the volume so loud, I miss the lock sounds a little bit.

And also one chap who has loud whole conversations with people over two or three front gardens or across the road - he basically shouts his conversations. Again I can’t ever say anything because he’s a nice friendly bloke and I noticed he wears a hearing aid so he probably has no idea he’s shouting. But I do often wish he’d just move nearer to the person he’s chatting to. I can literally hear every word of his quite boring conversations, sometimes goes on for twenty minutes 😬

AND woman who has wind chimes also hums. Incessantly 😬

They have conversations that are loud enough to hear, yet too boring to bother listening to. I simply tune them out, but DH comes in and tells me everything anyway, as he's weirdly fascinated by the banality.
I park on the drive probably 362 days of the year, but occasionally need to leave it on the road instead, in front of my own gate if that space is free. That drives the people on the other side of me wild, as they think that bit of road should be exclusively for them and their visitors. We're a single car household, and as soon as anyone moves our car from outside the house, they rush out to fill the space with one of their four vehicles that were already parked, just to stop our car being left there when it gets back. It's all perfectly legal, and there are no parking restrictions or allocated spaces on our street, but it's utterly baffling yet mildly comical.

1. cutting their hedge and letting the debris fall into my garden so I have to clean it up.
2. Laugh. This one is highly unreasonable but my neighbour has a cackle that I think belongs on a witch! It is so loud (coming through the wall) and when she starts doing it I have to leave the room I’m in.

My partner's neighbour does this. Just bizarre isn't it.

I'd start parking on the road where they normally put their camper van. Just to annoy them.

Blood curdling screams from children on their trampoline (which they've positioned right next to my fence), especially in the afternoons when I wfh.
Lighting their (large) barbecue just when I hang my washing out (same neighbour).