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.

Our house is a semi and the houses have an area of grass with a drive each either side of it. Instead of opening their door and walking straight up their drive to the road, my neighbour cuts across the grass diagonally and walks up MY drive! Why! I don’t get it and it gives me the right arse and sets off my camera.

Their dog sometimes gets in my house. My kids love it and chase him from room to room pissing themselves with delight but the poor cat freaks out.

My retired neighbours sit in their back garden and sunbathe all. day. long. If I take a break from what I’m doing and look outside my window, I sometimes inadvertently make eye contact with my male neighbour, who is wearing very little. I find myself embarrassed, so I avoid looking out/the awkwardness. When he sees me, does he think I’m watching him? Just did a sneaky look and he’s out there now.

My next door neighbour power washes his cars for hours and hours on end - and Im not exaggerating. He will even do it in the rain. In wintertime, the road outside our house is like an ice rink thanks to the gallons of water he sprays onto his cars.

Has two dogs that bark every time we open our front door or a delivery driver comes

Have people round every weekend - they’re not excessively noisy but there are cars everywhere

Were convinced they saw a rat in the garden so put an old school mouse trap on top of our shared garden wall. A bird got trapped in it and my poor kids found it mangled and half dead in our garden

My neighbour in my block whinges incessantly on LinkedIn of all places about road noise from both vehicles and people, other neighbours making noise, people having pets, our landlord taking too long to fix things, there being no parking spaces in our communal carpark (she doesn't even drive!) etc etc (it's endless and every day and she's now taken to tagging me 😳 - note - nobody ever likes her posts, maybe because they're completely irrelevant! She doesn't even work and never has so God knows why she's on there anyway)

She also added me when I'd just moved in and didn't realise how she is and lied that her dad (who lives in a different country and I have never even met let alone had any shared connections!) just 'came across' my profile and sent it to her?! I don't even know how he'd know my name!

None of it is harmful (although she did complain about me walking my very elderly dog, now passed, to the park through the communal gardens - who I had permission for from the landlord despite the tenancy saying no pets - which I struggled to forgive as what if I didn't have permission?! Move out leaving my husband or get her PTS?)

She's just generally a total busybody which I suppose isn't a crime but the LinkedIn tagging thing is starting to really annoy me! I have colleagues on there FFS and now I look as bad as her or like I'm agreeing. I would just delete her but she'd notice it and tbh she'd probably retaliate with a vexatious complaint. She's done it to others who she felt had wronged her... My other neighbour who is lovely and quiet as a mouse was told she'd complained of the constant screaming and shouted arguing coming from her flat. Our walls are thin and I know this not to be true! Turned out complaining neighbour was upset nice neighbour had stepped back from their initial friendship...

Actually given the dog complaint and the 'screaming' complaint I shouldn't class this as acceptable or harmless!

Phew, rant over haha

Have their driveway/side garden looking like a junk yard. A pile of sleepers presumably for a project but they have been sat there for years, an old trailer, various other sh*te dotted about. Combined with a lot of weeds and a scattering of self seeded trees. An eye sore compared to everyone elses nice tidy gardens/driveways. But, if I’m being reasonable- their garden, up to them. Still cheeses me off though 🤣

A whole collection of crappy wind chimes clanking about all day. Drives us mad as have to keep the windows shut to block out the sound.

Putting their glass recycling out in the bin that’s under my bedroom window at 10:30pm every single night. They are retired and know I work early shifts.

good that they recycle…. But dropping their empties from Mount Everest every night?!

We have two sets of neighbours who are friends (one to the side of us, one behind us) and their kids stand on their respective climbing frames and shout to each other to climb over at the shared corner. Unfortunately we are in the middle so it’s very intrusive as they shout and climb back and forth.

They are also just really loud generally.. partly because they’re often all round at one house, so 6 kids together. But also because one of the kids is the shouty type (and winds up his little brother) and nobody ever seems to tell him to pipe down.

Adults are loud too. One of the dads likes to play his guitar in the garden, and one of the mums shoots netball hoops so the ball bounces over and over on their paved garden. Both totally innocuous in a large garden but quite annoying when all the gardens are postage stamp size so everyone gets the benefit. Dad has been on a conference call all afternoon with the doors open, so we can all hear.

I think maybe they are unaware how loud they are… the other neighbours never make a peep so maybe they assume that since they can’t hear anyone else, noone else can hear them 😂

That was cathartic, thank you OP 😆

They go out in their car at 5.30 am every morning to walk the dog - they're mid 70's - retired.
The thing is we live in dorma bungalows and sleep downstairs at the front of the house (as do they) so their headlights shine in our window from their drive. every. damn. morning. even. sundays.

My neighbours let their child and dog play in the garden. I know I’m being very unreasonable, but I want to read my book and drink a glass of wine in peace.

This! I think my neighbours are like the neighbours on another thread who hate laundry being hung outside but they're passive aggressive about it and just start their bbq. Knowing I'm a vegetarian 😅

It’s more extreme than Sunday afternoon - it’s the whole of Sunday: no lawnmowers, no jetwashing, no power drills, no loud music. Non-mechanical noises are tolerated somewhat, for instance if you have friends round in the garden, your neighbours complaining about a bit of talking or laughing would not be regarded as acceptable, and children playing is explicitly permitted.

There are also, astonishingly, rules about not doing DIY from 1pm to 3pm on weekdays because they‘re regarded as the hours pensioners take a 😴 post-lunch. But since commercial building work IS permitted in those hours, that rule is generally ignored, at least in large cities.

But the Sunday quiet laws are rigidly adhered to. Sure it can be annoying when it’s one of my two days a week to get DIY work or gardening done, but OTOH Sundays are beautifully tranquil here.

Sit in their garden all day every day when the weather’s nice, chatting loudly and playing music. I have to admire their commitment to enjoying their outside space but it would be nice just occasionally to have some peace and quiet! (It’s a family with adult children so assuming some of them are retired / on study leave etc)

Do it anyway. That's definitely what our neighbours would do to us if we were bieng that annoying! Xx

They've built decking across the back of their house. Not a problem. But they've extended it down the path between our houses, so when they're going from their side door to their back garden which they do a lot, they're now able to see uninterrupted over the fence onto our patio. Not a big problem. Preferred it when they couldn't, but never mind.

But they speak to us every time if they spot us in the garden. If it were me and I had to take an elevated route past someone's patio that they're quietly enjoying, it'd be eyes down and leave them be. They're too bloody neighbourly.

Have noisy grandchildren round twice a week.

Let the garden overgrow so I get bindweed through my side.

Own a dog

Oh yes. Both of them, very slim and fit, the total buggers.

According to my German friends, you can do any leisure activity. You can’t do housework or DIY or wash your car. Pretty rubbish for anyone who’s at work Saturdays.

You have described my street perfectly, hi neighbour 😄

I would park your car outside your house just to stop this if I were you....through pure pettiness. No one wants to look out the window at a campervan, which is probably why they park outside your house instead of in their own driveway.

Lol do you live nextdoor to my mum and dad?😂

Exist, basically.

But the two main things are:

On Side A, Airbnb the place out. It’s really stressful not knowing what idiots are going to be there.

On Side B, not much really but own person likes to listen to podcasts quite loudly on her phone while pottering around the garden. It’s loud and tinny. HEADPHONES!!!!!

I have loads of these. I live on my own and have far too much time on my hands!

Have conversations in their own home. I can't hear them talking if I have the TV/radio on, but sometimes I just want to read in complete silence and on these occasions I always hear them talking through the wall.

Same neighbours had a full skip on their driveway for four months. They're perfectly entitled to, but it was so ugly to look at whenever I glanced out of my living room window.

I hate when anyone parks outside my house, even when they aren't blocking the driveway. I know they have every right to, but it still irks me.