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.

My neighbors are lovely and they are the only original neighbors left….but they have 5 adult children and mum came from a family of 8 and every single holiday from Easter to Labor Day they entertain family from sunup until sundown in their garden. I heard their dds voice at 0900 and I was still hearing it at 10 pm. Loud and continuous calling of dogs and children…here George here snoopy here sally here bowser. It’s relentless. It’s amazing to me they have 13 hrs of stuff to talk about. On my other side not so lovely. Cannot manage cutting grass or keeping up with yard maintenance so they put in a pool and a vegetable patch. The pool is green and never properly chlorinated and the vegetable patch is all weeds. And their 2 dd swim late at night in the green water with loud music. Only late. We call them the Trashes.

This thread has made me chuckle! I can see I am in good company with neighbours parking on space outside of my house rather than their own drive! It does drive me bonkers just because they can’t be bothered to move their cars around so it’s easier for them but not for me when I’m trying to reverse out of my drive in the morning - urgh.

Another set of neighbours (lovely retired couple) constantly ‘doing things’. Not a blade of grass is out of place nor a weed seen in their garden. Car is polished to within an inch of its life. Annoys me because on my non working day I would just like to sit and read my book in the garden sometimes without hearing neighbour constantly trotting from front garden to back, up a ladder, trimming topiary or window cleaning, You have 6 other days of the week to do it (and you do) but why oh why can’t you give it a rest on my day off!!!!’

Crikey, that felt good to get that off my chest.

Smoking in back garden that ends up wafting in my living room. As an ex smoker I get that they are allowed to smoke outside, but does annoy me especially if I’m ill with a cough

@NagathaCrispy I have driveway similar and they let there child play on my side as only have the one car. The drive allows for Three cars but all behind each other. I’ve seen that instead of taking the car off at the front they squeeze the second car through and drive onto mine driveway

Once a month there is Lange Samstag, the rules are relaxed so those that work mon-fri can get their jobs done. Also means the shops can open all day.

I've got one neighbour who seems to shout all the time. Not angrily, that's just her voice. During lockdown it did get a bit annoying. But she's lovely and it wasn't like it was late at night, but it was all day from about 10-8.

Mostly mine are fine though. My opposite neighbours bushes and tree are blocking out a lot of sunlight from our garden and house. Told the council but nothings happened. Again, lovely bloke, but eccentric. He has some kind of carer who helps in the garden but she hasn't touched this massive tree and bush.

My neighbours, a family of four, all drive but none of them can reverse park. They use far too many revs which makes the engine roar and it takes multiple attempts, usually with another family member giving them instructions, to reverse into what is quite a large space. I could understand if they were all new drivers but they've been 'driving' for years🤷‍♀️

My neighbour likes the sound of her own voice so much everyone else has to hear it as well.
They are nice people though.
We are lucky.

London terraced house, neighbour has a fire pit bowl thingy and insists on burning damp wood which makes my entire house reek. Isn’t London stinky enough without people doing this shit?

Ooh, I’ve just spotted that one of my neighbours has a pole in one of their bedrooms!!! Quite close to the window!

I’m in a block of flats that’s very tight, there’s only about a metre between my front door and the neighbours, the doors face each other. The hallway for the building is very narrow and crowded.

and he absolutely stinks… I feel so awful saying it. He doesn’t leave his flat unless he’s with his carer, and we can always smell when he’s been out. A really rancid smell, not sure if it’s necessarily him or the flat. When we first moved in I was so concerned that I wanted to call social services.

he is a really nice chap though and I know I’m completely unreasonable to be annoyed about the smell

Neighbours to the left are lovely. Don’t speak any English so no proper idea what they’re like but they are smily and quiet and never any bother. BUT they are obsessed with sweeping. The woman of the house sweeps several times a day. Outdoors.
She seems to have no job so is always home. Just sweeping. The whole driveway at least twice a day. The back garden more than that. They have it all paved and she just sweeeeeps. What can she be sweeping? There must be no dust in the entire garden. There was a rainy spell recently and it was pouring down and she was still sweeping!
Maybe she hates her husband and needs the escape? OCD? Does she judge me for never sweeping? Why do people sweep the outdoors?

Leave the house my the back door with the children dog and then walk up the side passage with lots of “shush people are still sleeping” at silly o’clock on a Sunday.

bless him he doesn’t go out the front door so as not to wake his wife who sleeps at the front of the house - I don’t think he realises that he is in fact clattering past our bedroom.

We have a neighbour at the back of us that does this! We have a lift extension, so do they and they're diagonal to us and a couple of houses across. In the winter they open their curtains in the morning, put the main light on and get undressed and dressed in front of the window! They must realise people can see them!

Have friends round most weekends for a piss up in the summer. Normally Friday AND Saturday. The noise does grind and sometimes it goes on past 2 am but in some ways I think lifes too short. We're all in our forties, I just want to know how they can piss it up 2 days in a row, I need at least a couple of weeks in between piss ups to recover 😂

I can’t have more than two drinks these days without needing a day off the next day! Lol

We have this with our neighbours it’s highly annoying.

Ugh ours do the exact same! Their drive is big enough for two cars, they don’t use it and park their two cars in front of their house and then their ugly big white van in front of my house. And whenever they park it they seem to leave it there for about ten days at a time, move it for a few hours and then back they are. I was very happy today when someone else was in the spot and they had to park down the road, although I’m sure it will be back by the morning. I don’t know why it annoys me so much but it does

Breathe. Seriously them breathing is enough to piss me off.

Seriously, my next door neighbours are so fucking annoying - all 3 of them.

1. They’re deeply hypocritical. They expect advance notice if we’re having any people in doing work and creating a noise or having a party - but they do not reciprocate! They had a gardener in last weekend at 7.30am using a chainsaw, and the mother regularly hosts gatherings in her back room and decking creating lots of chatter and noise.
2. All 2 of them are obsessed with the bins outside their house for recycling and rubbish. They sown ages carefully filling them - I genuinely don’t know what takes them so long.
3. Whispering. Constant whispering or talking in hushed tones in the garden - just talk properly for goodness sake!

Haven’t moved in yet but have been renovating for months. Smokes dope in the garden, then when told the stench was bothering us (they have tiny kids!) decided to stand in the street smoking! Luckily, we badgered the local council/police/mayor/housing association so much about the county lines being run (very blatant) around that corner, cctv was put up. Can’t wait to move out.

Our next door neighbours are so nice that I never want to live next door to anyone else. They are gold standard neighbours. We have each had an anxiety dream about the other one moving away so hopefully the feeling is mutual.

The ones two doors down though - also seem fairly nice people but at least one person in the family smokes weed in the garden every single bloody summer’s evening. Without fail. We only have small houses / gardens so it is very intrusive.

Better that than a child 'practicing' violin (with no discernable improvement) for at least an hour every day for coming up to two years now 🤣 honestly it's like nails on a blackboard!

He’s just always pottering outside. Tinkering with his work van, taking a phone call outside - just always there. Makes me so irrationally angry.

Oh I forgot a couple!

Another neighbour in our block has PDAs seemingly constantly with her partner in the communal garden any time the sun is out. It's so gross I now walk to the nearest park if I want to sit in the sun.

And this one I've mentioned before on other threads who is a trans woman (stereotype of a man in a dress with beard and obvious male genitals as the dresses are skin tight). Total sexual predator with any other neighbour or our visitors if they find they're bi/lesbian, but never quite crossing the line of what might be harassment... Also seems to wait by the French windows and runs out whenever I pass to discuss 'girly stuff' (apparently suffers badly from PMT and might be heading into perimenopause 🙄 plus comments about 'us girls', invitations for me to go for a 'girls night out' and wanting to lose weight due to their 'child bearing hips). They also now think I'm in love with them and my husband is just jealous which is why he ignores them?! No, he just thinks you're a dick and I will now be ignoring you too!

Oh and finally the neighbour who accuses us of saying he gave us COVID. We didn't at all, H just phoned him and said WE had COVID (probably from H's work - he was a key worker at the time with lots of contact with others) and as we'd had dinner at his (we were in a bubble with him - he used to be a very close friend of H) we suggested he gets a test. He then proceeded to come round regularly wearing a full PPE body suit thing and rant at us, and even brought a mutual friend round to shout at us about it from the street (we're on the second floor). Since then every time we see him he raises it, really angrily. Thankfully we don't see him deliberately any more as it was getting so annoying for H and me but he still does it if we happen to pass him in the street or the gardens!

I would park my car on the road in the campervan spot.