... to want to push my neighbours into oncoming traffic?

[katakuri]

My street really irritates me sometimes. Our bins are kept down an alleyway usually, but since it's sodding freezing and the alleyway is now full of cat sht (and I'm pregnant, so not going anywhere near it!) we've had it out the front of the house and somebody keeps moving it into the road (we live on a little Corrie-type cobbled street and everyone parks all over the pavement as there's no other option). We move it back, it's not in the way, and now some sanctimonious old TWT has pushed a letter through the door (these do the rounds everytime some old knob gets a bee in his/her bonnet about something really minor and has NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN SEND LETTERS ROUND!!), exactly the same as the last one (no mention who it's from, what a surprise), going on about how the street is small and 'there is such a thing as a small claims court' etc, WHAT A KNOB!!! Arrgh! I'm so annoyed, I want to hunt them down and craft an area of ice outside their house so they slip and piss off to the afterlife. AIBU? They chose to live on the street, so f*cking deal with the parking/bin situation! And if there's a problem, bloody well talk to your neighbours like actual civil human beings (I swear, despite my rant here, I'm actually nothing but polite and nice to everybody on the street) instead of posting cowardly little notes!

"I want to hunt them down and craft an area of ice outside their house so they slip and piss off to the afterlife"

YANBU
I have had one of those kind of notes (in a block of flats). I posted a reply in someone's mailbox and eventually found out who the culprit was.

Can you explain where the parking fits in to this scenario?

Merry f*cking Christmas, right? What happened to goodwill to all men (aware of the shadow of hypocrisy over my statement there! But still, I didn't start it and now they've annoyed me!)

Neighbours do have the power to really frustrate a person. Ours keeps parking over our driveway and when I asked him to move the other day acted all surprised that with 10 cm of snow I wasn't keen to attempt a complicated turn to get out of my driveway and avoid his car.

I feel your pain...... our neighbour(s) phoned the police, council and DHs employers when hubby parked 2 wheels of his works van on the pavement (at the side of their house and opposite ours). He brought the van home from work one weekend a month. If he had parked it fully on the road the whole street would have been blocked. Tossers.

It annoyed me more that the ignorant cow didnt knock the door and say that it was a problem as we could easily have parked it elsewhere. Now he parks it outside her house (as advised by the very lovely police officer who came and knocked rather than slap a fixed penalty notice on it).

The parking is what the letter related to last time, it bangs on about the street being 'unadopted' so that means that the council don't look after it, blah - it's just the last thing that it was sent round for, and because the street's so small the cars tend to get in the way (so our bin is right next to our car, which they obviously have an irrational problem with).

nineyearoldsarerude - what was yours about and what was your reply?

Thanks for the responses (and I'm aware that this may well be a bit of a pregnant hissy fit response, but still think it's beyond cheek!)

Meant to say YA-most-definitely-NBU....before I went into my own little rant there!!

Well the cat shit must be frozen by now. Can't you just shovel it up and give it to the owner of the note?

BTW, I think they're moaning because the bin and/or car are TOO CLOSE to the house, i.e. on the pavement ... the car is in as much as poss there because otherwise the bloke at the end can't get his car out (he's just moved in and it's a bit tricky til you get the hang of it) - HE came round to ASK us about moving it in a bit, so I know it's probably not him!

I think you'll be ok to go in the alleyway so why not just keep the bin there if it's the norm in the street?

I'm also 100% sure that this is not my actual next-door neighbours, who like me get on with their lives instead of thinking up ways to enrage other people. That somehow makes it feel worse!

Mine was about making loud noises in the middle of the night. In my defense I had come home after working late shift at work (just a call centre though-nothing important) and discovered an enormous cockroach on my wall (Australia). Proceeded to bash it to death with something as didn't have any spray to hand. Anyway, that's what I put in my note and the first person I posted it to gave it back to me and said it wasn't them and I must have reposted it till it got to the right person! Had a chat with her (young woman like me) and she was fine with it.
She did turn out to be insane though...

BodyofEeyore, it's not the norm on our side of the road as the alley is overgrown, about a foot wide and there are no lights (so bin out or bin in before or after work would mean walking in the dark on the shit and ice... it was ok in the summer before shitting cat moved in, and there was some light to actually see the ground)... the other side of the road keep theirs by their houses too. If it was the norm it wouldn't have annoyed me so much.

Well, your neighbour obviously thinks you're breaking the law, right? Why would he think that?

Is it blocking the pavement so a pram/wheelchair couldn't get past? If you've got a tenancy agreement, does it say anything about access outside the house?

I expect they're being twats but it would be good at least to know where you stand legally, so you could tell them it's ok.

(I kind of understand with snow/pregnancy, but in normal circumstances I'd think you were being rude, so I don't think they are being completely unreasonable to be upset even if you are within the law.)

They can't really complain if the bin isn't blocking the pavement. Maybe they just think it looks untidy.

Because he/she (not sure who yet!) has nothing better to do and is an idiot? Not breaking the law either, just trying to position car and bin so that people can walk past, and drive past. Also nothing in tenancy agreement about anything like that... it's not usually a massive deal, everybody else just gets on with things, there's clearly just one person who's got nothing better to do.

Can I also add that the people over the road have great big stone plant pots on the pavement to prevent anybody parking near their house, which I'm pretty sure they shouldn't leave there... and I get a snooty letter?

They sound the most likely offender!

Ha, you're probably right!

How odd.

Well, I'd be tempted to write a note in legalese about how you're not breaking any laws, you've checked carefully you're not blocking access, and you think they may be a little confused.

But I'm petty.
They do sound right whingers, I'll give you that.

and laminate it and stick it to the bin!

I'd write a letter adressed to "however sent the petty note to no.26" etc saying what you want to say and put it through every door.

Thanks for the stories and advice, and for letting me rant. I've come to the conclusion that whoever it was is probably insane or has nothing better to do (or possibly both - wait for the last bit!), and to bring the story to a highly comical conclusion, on returning from work today, the bin has been stolen! Ha! Seriously, they want it that much they can HAVE it! :-D

Is your car parked up on the pavement? If it is that could be what they are referring to. I am pretty sure it is illegal to park a car with any wheels on the pavement. Don't knowe about bins, maybe they are not meant to be left on public space once they have been collected?