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To shove a potato in my neighbours exhaust...

16 replies

milf90 · 26/06/2013 14:27

Ok so I am only joking (I think!) but my neighbour is really starting to pee me off.

He leaves for work around 5.45 in the morning, he has always been quite noisy when leaving for work (going in and out slamming doors for 5-10 mins) but noe he has fixed his subaru its a million times worse.

This morning he was actually jangling his keys for a few minutes before he eventually decided to get in the car, sat on the drive for 5 minutes revving his car then eventually left. He does this every morning (bar the keys) which means I am wide awake at 6 every morning, as I now get so wound up and it goes on for so long I can't get back to sleep after (plus on 3 days a week I am up at 6.50 so if I do drift back off I feel awful when I wake up)

I know he has to go to work, but surely if you are up that early you would have some curtesy for others and try and be as quiet as possible??

Sorry for such a mundane post but I needed to rant at somebody ;)

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MaxPepsi · 26/06/2013 14:34

Tell him!

My lovely neighbour across the road is self employed. He sets off very early to get his work done.

His van is bloody noisy, it's old and getting on for the wreckers yard. It wakes me every morning.

I once told him, in general conversation about recognising different cars from the noise they make, that his woke me up.

He was mortified as he just didn't realise it was so loud.

We laughed and joked about him making even more noise to wind me up, however in all seriousness he has actually done something about it as I only hear it now if i'm already awake, rather than it being my alarm.

Thurlow · 26/06/2013 14:35

YANBU. We have a motorcylist near me who does this every morning. In fact, I don't think I've ever lived near a motorcyclist who doesn't rev their engine for about 5 minutes before heading off.

This morning I was walking past a queue of traffic that included a young lad in a souped up classic mini and he kept making it rev all the time, but he was fiddling with something on the dashboard to do this (the choke? I don't know, I don't drive). After a few minutes of the car crawling along side me in the traffic it was pretty hard to resist the temptation to knock on his window and say, "do you know what help? how about you get a car that actually works?"

SugarMouse1 · 26/06/2013 14:54

YABU

Don't be so childish. Be the bigger person. Have you tried asking him nicely to make less noise?

You probably do some things that irritate him without realising too!

CunningAtBothEnds · 26/06/2013 15:05

Do you live in my street?! Im moving soon so may do the potato thing! There is also a man with a massive motorbike, he is a total revving cock.
I dont care if it makes me petty. He is a cock.

Although my street has more pricks than a fucking rosebush... Hence moving soon (halleluja!)

jojane · 26/06/2013 15:21

I thought this was going to me about me! My exhaust is in its last legs but car is being scrapped on the weekend so if you are one of my nieghbours really sorry but only a couple of days left!

Madratlady · 26/06/2013 15:24

Do you live on my street? We have a neighbour who drives a subaru and revs it for ages at about 6am. He sits in his car revving and messing about on his phone. I leave for work around the same time some days and he always waits for me to drive past then pulls away and drives practically in my boot until he can overtake about 3 miles down the road.

I've hear gossip from our very gossipy neighbour about him threatening neighbours for doing things he dislikes.

Milf90 Do you live in a village near york and is the subaru in question blue? If it is the same guy I'll happily give you a potato!

squoosh · 26/06/2013 15:28

There's a man on my street who does the same but worse than this, what really, really pisses me off is that he does the most massive phlegmy throat clearing hacking noise too. Every single day. And he promptly spits said phlegm out making a vomiting sound in the process.

Oh he's just lovely.

VodkaJelly · 26/06/2013 15:41

I have a subaru and it has a big exhaust Blush, but in my defence it is a weekend car and we dont really drive it in the week. On the occasion we do take it to work we dont start it up till gone 8am and then I never ever rev it up. I start it up then drive out of the estate on low boost so it doesnt make a lot of noise, I only give it some revs when on the main road.

Had the car for over 6 years and no complaints of the neighbours and we are approachable!

But agree with what everone else says. We have a boy racer who visits his girlfriend and he revs his VW polo all the time. It really pisses me off as it is so uncalled for

Damnautocorrect · 26/06/2013 15:47

Ahhh I was your neighbour in a scooby, but I never revved it at 5am, it was always a crawl past the neighbours houses with the clutch down so I didn't annoy anyone (or make their alarms go off)

Tell him whilst you appreciate his burble, its not on in the early hours

Fenton · 26/06/2013 15:53

He drives a Subaru... (one of those ugly boy racer Impreza things it take it?)

you needn't have said another word.

YANBU

(don't actually do it though)

ExitPursuedByABear · 26/06/2013 16:04

There was a nightwatchman on a property across the road from me and he would let his engine run for half an hour from 5.30am. Used to drive me fucking nuts. I eventually flounced over early one morning and remonstrated with him. He claimed he had to have the engine running for so long to make sure his engine was warm when he drove home. Twat. I used to day dream about following him home and sitting outside his house all day with blaring music whilst he tried to get some sleep.

And the early bus used to stop at the bus stop outside my house with its engine running at 4am.

We moved.

YANBU

NinaHeart · 26/06/2013 16:13

It isn't that early (in my world anyway).
Earplugs may be your friends.

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milf90 · 26/06/2013 18:09

Thank you, your posts have cheered me up :) he is actually out there right now messing around with his motorbike ( which definitely sounds on his last legs!) yes he has a Subaru and a motorbike -_-

I live in Staffordshire for the people who asked. I'm beginning to think they just have some year in a Subaru living on every estate ;). (Sorry to the people who actually have one and are considerate, I don't mean you!)

Unfortunately I have very sensitive ears so i struggle to use ear plugs as they give me ear ache.

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LastTangoInDevonshire · 26/06/2013 18:24

My neighbour does this with his coal fire. At 5 am for 7 months of the Winter he wakes us up. Every morning it's bang bang bang bang bang bang riddle riddle riddle. Then he goes out and shovels the coal into a metal coal hod, then bangs the lid of the coal bunker. I hate him !

RedHelenB · 26/06/2013 19:28

YABU -I find it all quite cosy & reassuring when my NDN opens his garage & gets his car out at 3 am in thee morning, love being able to turn over & go back to sleep knowing the routine is as it should be! But then I love the church clock too!

Glittertwins · 26/06/2013 19:33

I used to have a decatted Scooby but I never ever revved it up near home and never at 5am anywhere!

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