Angry, noisy neighbour.

[Mette7]

We live in a terraced house. The walls are thick so there's usually no noise from either side, but one of our neighbours - who lives alone apart from his cat - regularly shouts FUCK OFF and growls SO loudly and angrily that it's genuinely scary! The anger in it makes your blood run cold and once I thought he might have been being attacked or something. I can't work out any explanation for it at all. It usually happens first thing in the morning, but can happen any time of day, most days.

It's not bothering us that much, except when it wakes up up at the weekend. It's just weird and makes me quite wary of him. He's not friendly - if we pass he'll grunt hello but hasn't ever seemed to want to chat, and I don't try now. He looks completely healthy and 'normal' and drives a vv expensive car so I assume he's got a good job. Any ideas what could be causing such violent anger on a regular basis and would you say anything?

Football, Xbox, Ps3, taking a phone call, talking to the cat?

I bet it's COD

Bet it's a computer game.

All these things are possible! He needs to relax. Still, he seems less scary now so thanks :)

My first thought was football or games but storming out of the house is a weird reaction for either of those things. Early in the morning (football or games would be evening, surely)? Now I'm very curious.

Maybe he really hates his job

Maybe it's cold callers!

I reckon work emails are the most likely cause - he wears a suit, works long hours and drives a Porsche so probably has a stressful job.

It is the cat. Sometimes I wonder if our neighbours hear me talking to ours and worry that I'm really awful to my children.

There's no excuse, but our cats can be really, really really annoying (don't flame me cat lovers, I'm just being honest).

yabu he can say and do what he likes in the privacy of his own home , if my neighbour poked their nose in why i was shouting they would get told to FUCK OFF as well .

I love our 3 cats, but I do shout at them sometimes, so could easily be the cat. Mine are awful in the mornings, if its not one thing its another.

I probably scream at DH like I want to kill him. Must sound awful from the outside but he's so deaf he doesn't hear me unless I really shout.

Work does sound likely. I have been known to argue back at the radio but I hope I'm a lot quieter and make better points than him.

Games used to wind me up when I was a teen I'll admit but not anymore (to the point of shouting anyway). Not sure if I've mellowed with age or if nothing surprises me any more.

We have a dog and it can be told to 'shut up' very loudly. She's a sweetie but it's a bit wearing when she simply must bark at and chase that bird out of the garden for the tenth time. Thankfully we don't have neighbours. I imagine cats do annoying things on purpose.

The alarm clock? I'd like to shout fuck off at mine

My cat jumps on me every morning, and then bats me in the face with his paw, then gets his claws out... sometimes it's not even 6am yet...

I won't lie. I tell him to Fuck Off.

TeWi

I second the alarm clock, if it weren't for my DD mine would get the same ear bashing every morning.
Does he do it on his day off?