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I am being completely U and I don't care

190 replies

HarkTEEHeraldAngelsSing · 02/12/2013 13:01

My next door neighbours are a lovely retired couple. They have an adult daughter who often comes to visit.

It totally gets on my wick that she parks her car in the road across the bottom of their drive, rather than pulling into their drive like a normal person would.

ARGH!!

No, it's none of my business. Yes, I have more important things to worry about. No, it doesn't affect my life at all.

It just makes me INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

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ViviPru · 04/12/2013 16:01

My favourite act of PA defiance was when my Dad visited having been well briefed on the situation. He delighted in informing me he had slowed to a crawl as he passed their house while the lady was hanging out her smalls (now in plain view of the whole village due to lack of foliage cover) and pulled his most Outraged-of-East-Sussex expression at her. He said she 'looked sheepish'.

I think I'd have to resort to performing a dirty protest on their exposed drive if they started flinging blue fairy lights about the place.

MightyMagnificentScarfaceClaw · 04/12/2013 16:04

My boss is making me go to a "round table" to do some "blue sky thinking" and "thought showering". FFS.

CosyTeaBags · 04/12/2013 16:12

I think I'd have to resort to performing a dirty protest on their exposed drive if they started flinging blue fairy lights about the place Xmas Grin not just me then.

Oh now if we're getting on to 'management speak' Mighty ... 'Do a round table' FFS... My company is like that. If I hear the phrase "A suite of options" one more time, I might bite right through my lower lip. I thought furniture came in 'suites'... what's wrong with 'a range of options' or just 'a few ideas'... why the fuck must they be arranged in 'suites'???!

FetchezLaVache · 04/12/2013 16:45

My favourite act of active aggression was my brother when some stockbrokers bought the old vicarage in our village and tarted it up. Having decided that three quarters of an acre of garden wasn't enough, they decided to move their fence three feet so they could steal the grass verge, dumping a load of soil in front of the newly moved fence to disguise the fact. My brother was so enraged by this that he drove down there in the early hours of the morning in his loader tractor and pushed all the new soil into their driveway, blocking them in and meaning that they would have to dig themselves out in their fancy-prancy business suits in order to get to work.

The fence got moved back to where it should be and they haven't tried any other shit on since.

sebsmummy1 · 04/12/2013 16:53

One day I will actually kill him and bury him under the patio, and I will be fine with it. Because it will have been his own annoying fault.

No no, you need to dig a hole for him under the patio but then leave him slumped half in, half out and just pour some soil over the top to disguise the hump. It will be fulfilling his destiny Grin

tinmug · 04/12/2013 17:07

((Virtual Hug for you Hun))

Xmas Angry
CosyTeaBags · 04/12/2013 17:20

I hope you know I was being ironic Tinmug Xmas Wink

Unless I am of course that insanely happy woman who wants to spread the love

DavenotChas · 04/12/2013 17:20

I can't be bothered to list the things that piss me off on a daily basis, so I won't. On the subject of Phil Spencer though, has anybody else noticed he's become increasingly pervy just lately? He just can't wait to fill a gap (so to speak, fnar, fnar) with some loaded comment.

Blueuggboots · 04/12/2013 17:49

I'm so glad there are so many of you on here that get annoyed by really odd things....thought it was just me!

Fog lights
People that wave emergency vehicles through gaps
People that say "he won't hurt you" when their mad dog is attempting to eat part of my body

On a car parking theme - used to live opposite a family who had 5 vehicles (yes, 5 including a big van!!)Their drive would fit two cars on it but they only ever parked one car on it at a jaunty angle like it was a car showroom. They would then park the other 4 cars in the rest of the room leaving no room for anyone else!

I have now moved and the NDN have 3 cars and insist on parking them outside my house meaning I have to park outside the other NDN's house. Fuck off!! 3 cars is just greedy!!

KeatsiePie · 04/12/2013 18:52

HAHAHA yes the mug-huggers and their unbearable aroma-savoring cardigan-wrapping behavior! Ffs., you are not an extra in a Christmas movie, stop flirting with yourself.

Doris your behavior is excepted, totally different if you are sick and cold, here Brew

I am ignoring the redefinition of "literally" and I will never, ever stop ignoring it.

FreeWee · 04/12/2013 18:54

TEE with you on the 'can't say anything bad about anything in case someone somewhere had something bad said about them' blah blah blah.

And getting annoyed at parking even when you don't want/need to park Grin I like doing this. I walk past cars badly parked and get annoyed on the other people who might be inconvenienced's behalf!

I also get annoyed about poor right turning road position in and used to regularly swear at the drivers. Now I have a baby in the car I feel I have to start behaving myself Grin

FreeWee · 04/12/2013 18:55

^positioning. And I hate iPad telling me what I meant to say!!!

RandallFloyd · 04/12/2013 19:44

I genuinely do hate her face though.
It's wrong I know, but I seriously struggle to contain my rage. I get flarey nostrils and everything.

She's not Al Cafuckingpone, she's Janet from accounts.

It's an anorak not a fur coat, put your stupid arms in the fucking sleeves and stop swanning around, you do not look like Liz fucking Taylor, you look a twat.

I'm going to be on the news one day Sad

RandallFloyd · 04/12/2013 19:48

I should also add that I'm pretty sure smiley bike lady is a complete wanker. Knock her off, do it. I'll bet she still smiles at you.

Overly smiley people piss me right off.

SirRaymondClench · 04/12/2013 20:28

My NDN has an actual leaf hoover, not a blower.
He hoovers the leaves, every fucking day.
Why, I have no idea because tomorrow there will be more leaves.
No fucker ever died from leaves.
He is an arse-wit.

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 04/12/2013 21:36

I've been enjoying a long-term ongoing rage at our new neighbors a few doors down who upon moving in proceeded to rip out the many beautiful mature orchard trees and magnolias from the perimeter of their front garden which had not only created a beautiful entrance to the street but obscured the view of their very average-looking house. It now resembles a barren waste-ground.

I think you've been extremely reserved. I'd have been putting a little note back through their letterbox explaining how the entire street had been utterly ruined by the murderous act of nature vandalism. Hmm

This is something that pisses me off no end. Hedges ripped to bits, usually when they're about to flower or are loaded with berries. There seem to be a couple of farmers near us who like nothing better than a short, neat, scalped hedge. With the branches torn and ripped, showing all the broken ends. Looks absolutely bloody awful and is nothing short of wanton vandalism. There was a lovely hedge of blackthorn and hawthorn which would usually be full of haws and sloes by this time of year but it all got hacked back at the end of the summer and is now totally barren. At least we got to see it all in flower. It looked beautiful. It was in no-ones way. Bastards.

ViviPru · 04/12/2013 22:11

I think you've been extremely reserved.

The first day it happened I was falling over myself with plans of vengeful acts. Many involving 'PruDog poo. And catapults. But in true English fashion my activism amounted to marching round a neighbour's house to have a jolly good bitch.

I was actually really sad, the previous residents were a very elderly couple who had struggled yet succeeded to maintain the trees without it all becoming to overpowering. And it's the corner plot at the entrance of our little cul-de-sac (clutches pearls) and the first thing you see as you turn in from the main road. There is literally NOTHING there now except an ugly post-war house which is about to receive an ugly twee extension.

I think I need a lie down.

ViviPru · 04/12/2013 22:11

*too (berates self)

McFox · 04/12/2013 22:15

It takes all my energy to not tell our elderly neighbour to FUCK RIGHT OFF!!

She looks down her nose at the renters in the building like us, and having lived here for 45 years, she thinks that she rules the roost. When it's our turn to put water out for the stair cleaning and we've missed it because we've been working away, we get aggressive notes through the door telling us off like we are children!!

I even caught her bitching about us to another neighbour once for 'not keeping on top of building maintenance' Arrgghhh!! She shut her pie hole when I said "So sorry but I've been really busy putting in 10 hours a day in cancer research, growing a fucking person inside me, and keeping my house in shape all while seeing my husband at weekends only due to his job. I'm sure that seeing as you are at home all day with your dog, you wouldn't mind helping us out once in a while?"

All hail the preggo rage, that shut her up!

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SirRaymondClench · 05/12/2013 11:47

Pru and Ilovemydog - I am absolutely with you, I absolutely love mature trees and always get sad when someone rips them down for...no good reason.
I see the same types of hedges decimated on my way to school in the mornings and have no idea why they do that.
I don't get this British obsession with neat hedges and manicured lawns, my NDN is obsessed and is constantly doing stuff to what was a beautiful garden next door before he moved in and removed the soul from it.
I think I am actually The Lorax - speaker for the trees Xmas Grin because when he chops trees down as he does it gives me the rage!

sebsmummy1 · 05/12/2013 12:37

OMG I've only just realised I have been irrationally angry with my neighbour for a few weeks since we've moved in, as he has three vehicles and only space for two, meaning one car is always parked in the road.

This has no impact on me whatsoever, the road is not particularly narrow, it does not block my vision, but I hate him for it!!

I can we e all his crappy cars from my window and I seethe a little bit every time my eye settles on this blue bastard glinting through my window. Be gone!!!!

WhenSarahAndStuckUpTheChimney · 05/12/2013 12:59

We walk to school and pass a house opposite the school playing field that has a driveway in place but no dropped kerb.

And it's not likely to get permission for one as there's a grass verge with a big grate in the way between the gate, pavement and road.

This hasn't stopped them from flattening and scraping away all the soil from the grass verge so they can advertise the house for sale with parking.

This affects me in now way whatsoever but it pisses me off every day when we walk passed all that scraped and flattened soil.

sebsmummy1 · 05/12/2013 13:03

Whensarah I can see why that would piss you off actually as they are flouting the system by refusing to pay for a dropped kerb yet destroying the grass to advertise the house with parking. That would annoy me too.

CosyTeaBags · 05/12/2013 16:03

Report it WhenSarah, then you can live in hope that the council will come and install bollards or something, preferably just as the first potential buyers come to view the house.... Oh how you will then laugh, and laugh...Xmas Grin

SlightlyDampWellies · 06/12/2013 08:45

Another thing about our neighbour that gives me the rage. They go away ALOT...... they are retired and go abroad probably about 12 weeks total a year, lucky things.

BUT - they do not have a security system or alarm system in their house. So what they do is call in favours, and they have various friends on rotation going in at night to turn a few lamps on, then go in again in the morning to turn them off. When we first moved here they asked us to do it too, and I did for the sake of neighbourly relations, but then DH put his foot down. I think that is such a massive imposition on people...... get a fucking alarm or failing that lights that are on timers!