Neighbours...is it just me with the neighbour from hell

[BextheBambi]

Just a thought and a bit of a rant about the worlds nost annoying neighbours.

We moved into our house 8 months ago and we went round and said hello to all the neighbours, warned them there may be a bit of noise as we get everything sorted, just a general how'd you do sort of thing.

The next door neighbour, a lady with a face like a slapped arse (not just me she gave "evils" to my mum for getting out of a car) just shut the door on our face. We thought it was very rude but decided to ignore her.

Our lanlord is fantastic and had previously warned us about her, said that he had to remove the side gate and board up the path, as she had a thing about trespassing on the property and having a nose round the garden and a good look through the conservatory windows.

Since then she has venbtured out the house most mornings after we've opened the curtains to see the state of the house, which isn't always in the best condition (hey im 8 months pregnant i need a break sometimes). We know this because she stands in her garden to bitch about us, so we can hear her.

A list of things she mentions:-

1. "the bitch next door is lazy, she satys at home and that house is a tip rubbish everywhere" I must mention i clean up almost everyday as im a bit of a clean freak.
   
2. "There were a group of hoodlums outside the house intimidating me", 3 of us were standing and looking at a good friends new car with our backs to her house.
   
3. "they gave a child a gun, they're pikeys" We gave DP neices a nerf gun to play in the garden with.
   

Anyone else have neighbours like this?

[BagofHolly]

Jon002, are you Yoda, or do you always post like that? Confused, am I.

[caramelwaffle]

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[AnxiousLand]

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[DingALongCow]

We had some awful neighbours when we lived in Scotland, who broke down our front door and threatened to kill us because we were fitting a new kitchen (in the middle of the day) and he objected to the noise.
There was also a gang of feral kids who were out all day from 7am until midnight in the park behind our house, 6-11 year olds mostly. When I was 41 weeks pregnant they pelted me with clots of earth and stones because DH told them to move out of our garden.

When we lived in Switzerland we lived in a huge development of flats, built at right angles to each other with big glassed in balconies. One of our neighbours liked to drink and then vomit over the side of their balcony.Once it went down the glass of the neighbour below and we had the pleasure of watching the neighbour wander out onto his balcony in the morning, discover the stain, investigate it with his finger, recoil in disgust, disappear, reappear with emphatic gestures accompanied by contrite upstairs neighbour


Then there was the bizarre man who would cycle home from work during his lunch hour, change into full lycra cycling gear including helmet, climb onto his exercise bike on his balcony, pedal furiously for exactly 23 minutes, before changing and cycling back to work. You could set your clock by him everyday.

I was so sad when he moved

[loveulotslikejellytots]

That is supposed to be there and had... sorry trying to type and eat at the same time!

[loveulotslikejellytots]

When I live with my Mum and Dad, any stray balls that went over the neighbours fence used to get returned, after the neighbour has slashed them with a knife... nice.

It wouldn't be so bad but we never did anything to them. We used to send Christmas cards, and take them round on xmas day. My Dad paved their entire front garden for nothing, fixed his fence, for nothing, has been round their twice in the early hours of the morning because the Neighbour has had a fall and his wife cant get him up. Yet it continues even now.

The last one aimed at me was when my Mum and Dad were on holiday (4 days away, I was 16). I was allowed to stay there during the day on my own but not at night. Apparently I have a party that went on until 4 in the morning, people in the back garden shouting abuse at them, bottles and food being thrown at their back doors.. I was at my Nan's for the weekend. And the garden was immaculate, just the way it had been when my Mum and Dad left.

There are some strange people on this planet.

[lovingmomof3]

Try living next door to your ex and the girlfriend he cheated on me with, as well as the ex in laws from hell. Ive lived there for last 13 years and received nothing but abuse, lives, domestic abuse and general snidey comments about my mothering skills its a nightmare. But there is one thing to be learned i guess never buy a house next door to your in laws xxxxx

[AnxiousLand]

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[ttalloo]

Lovedogs, I'm sure first meetings with neighbours are really important in getting things off to a good start, but if you're dealing with the totally irrational there's not much you can do.

On my first day in my first flat we'd barely parked the car on the drive before the downstairs neighbours shot out and told us we had no right to park there as the drive was all theirs - I said we had shared access, they demanded proof, so I presented them a couple of days later with the deeds, which confirmed that I was right.

After that I had constant complaints about footsteps and noise and visitors. It was only when they got drunk just before Christmas the following year, and she walked out, and he decided to hammer on his ceiling (i.e. our floor) to tell my sister to shut the fuck up because he could hear her, and then decided to try to kick our door down because he was going to fucking kill her, and she called the police, who gave him a caution, that they stopped bothering us. And sold their flat six months later.

The astonishing thing to me was that they seemed perfectly nice and respectable if you didn't know them - he was a primary school teacher and she was a social worker.

[Claw3]

Lovedogs, I did the same, introduced myself etc.

Whenever we have had building work going on, skip on the drive etc, i have knocked and apologised for inconvenience in advance. Thanked them with a box of chocolates when work is complete. Christmas i deliver box of biscuits and a card etc.

Neighbour one side is lovely. Neighbour the other side is one who complained that ds might throw stones (ds has SN's, but has never thrown a stone in his life and is very well behaved, polite. He never goes into the garden unsupervised and is a very quiet and shy boy.

[Lovesdogsandcats]

All you lot with bad neighbours! I must be lucky then as all mine are great. Both sides are lovely, we can pop to each other for loo roll, sugar etc any time. No nosiness, lots of respect and just a general feeling of friendliness.

Do you think its how things are handled when first moving in? Mine either side were here before me, when I moved in I went straight away and introduced myself to both neighbours. Whereas I know people who move in and wait for the neighbours to 'welcome' them which then usually never happens..could that be it?

[Claw3]

Not sure, i think the fence panels range from about 4 to 6 ft wide. Our garden isnt massive and looked even smaller with a 15ft pool and 15ft foot trampoline in it!

Previous owners must have spent thousands on the pool and the trampoline (not a penny on the house though!)

We need a trampoline for ds, part of his sensory therapy, although i would like to down size eventually.

[AlCrowley]

Gardens are only 3 and a bit fence panels wide so what's that? About 20ft? I'm sure they'd love a sunken pool but it'd never fit.

They're only 'chavpoline's when they're wedged into undersized gardens btw. If we actually had the space, I'd love a proper trampoline. My DC's are still pre-school though so are happy with the tiny square ones with the handle for now.

[Claw3]

Phew thank god for that, i was hiding in the kitchen just in case my neighbour was a mner.

Ours was a 15ft thing, sunken in the garden with decking around it. We have taken it out now, just have a 15ft hole to fill in!

[AlCrowley]

:) Claw, no I've never complained about possible thrown stones.

As I said, our gardens are tiny so the massive trampoline and the (inflatable I think, def not permanent but too big to fill everyday) pool fill their entire garden. They've paved the lot now as the two things kill all the grass every year.

[bruffin]

Our estate backs onto the school field, which also has a scout hut.
The old witch lady who lives in the house next to the field, regularly rings the police saying there are yobs running riot on the field

She also came storming round when we were having an end of year picnic on the school field as she claimed that the yobs were throwing things at her house. The fact there is a gully and two rows of trees bushes and a fence between her house and and the school field and it was impossible to throw things at her house seems to pass her by.

She told the scouts/beavers/cubs that she would get them banned off the field. The HM of the school grinned and said "we could use the field as much as we liked"
She just hates seeing children enjoying themselves and has been really evil to my DS who everyone else considers is a really lovely boy (has been given scout awards, been house captain at school and just generally harmless)

[EleFunTess]

I don't want to alarm you, but I would keep a diary of all the nasty things this nutjobber old dear says/does. It might come in handy one day....

[TheBeast]

We have really nice neighbours on either side and the people on the opposite side of the road are lovely, too.

Does that mean we are the weird neighbours?

[Claw3]

Alcrowley, you didnt knock and complain that my ds MIGHT throw stones and smash your windows did you!

We have a 'chavpoline' and did have one of those massive big pools that previous owners had installed!

[AlCrowley]

We have tiny gardens. The neighbours behind us have a 'chavpoline' shoved right up against our shared fence. Come the holidays, they add an oversized (10 foot) pool with a noisy pump and pretty much chuck the kids and their army of friends into the garden for 6 weeks straight.

I then get bouncing heads appearing over the fence asking me what I'm doing and calling me a bitch if I don't respond! Oh, and ice cream wrappers chucked over the fence too.

Still, at least it's better than the climbing frame they had before as bouncing up and down takes more effort than laying on the top of the frame looking at us so tends to bore them faster

Looking forward to when they become teenagers and spend the summer inside on games consoles and we can finally enjoy a summer in our garden! :)

Neighbour to one side is nice but her 40-odd year old Son is a grumpy sod. He lived there for a while while his divorce went through and decided that 11pm was the best time to start drilling holes in the garage wall for shelves even though the garage is physically attached to our house and the noise vibrated all the way through. He also moans about cars parking opposite their drive as he then can't pull off apparently. Probably because he is an awful driver. The drives are on a very slight slope but you'd think it was the foothills of Kilimanjaro the way he over-revs the engine to get off!!

The only neighbours we don't have problems with are the ones we are actually attached to on the other side!!!

[BextheBambi]

Wow, some of these are truely the weirdest neighbours i've ever heard of.

A friend of mines neighbour likes to invite himself round when they're in, as his lonely, he then proceeds to tell them all about the episode of Farscape his been watching. He's a very strange man but doesnt do any harm, i think he's just a tad lonely.