to approach my neighbour for the sake of a few extra minutes of sleep

[dunsborough]

Or am I a grump?

Neighbour across the road drives one of those trucks that beeps as it reverses. It is annoying as fuck quite loud and he leaves every day between 6.15 and 6.30am.
It wakes me every morning.

DH thinks I am being unreasonable as it is close to 7am and I should just ignore it.
The thing is, after over a decade of being up at the crack of dawn, including a time when I had 3 children under the age of 4, and got very little sleep at all, I am very, very grateful to finally be able to sleep in until 7am.

I would like to ask him if he would mind reversing his truck in his driveway in the afternoon when he gets home, and thereforebe able drive straight out in the morning without beeping.
DH thinks I shouldn't.

Back story so as not to drip feed: we have had a few incidents with them over the years, including their dogs (sadly, unwalked and untrained - I don't blame the dogs at all) escaping the house and attacking our dog twice.
Their daughter let herself into our back garden to 'see what DH was working on'.
We didn't complain on those occasions. However, they often have parties and their guests park on our lawn. This would be ok, but we asked them (nicely) to try to avoid driving over our garden sprinklers as they can snap. They got quite aggressive and threw alcohol bottles and cigarette butts in our garden.

So MN ... Should I forgo the extra half an hour or so of sleep, and grit my teeth and keep quiet for the sake of neighbourly relations?
Or would it be ok to politely ask?

Cake is good .

Would have to buy one though. If I presented them with one of mine, they would think it was some kind of pisstake.

So

Aargh. Clearly I am being unreasonable for posting from my phone.

My neighbour asked me to do this- it had never crossed my mind that the beeping might disturb anyone .

But why do they park on your lawn?????????

You could perhaps ask if he means to beep so loudly..

They sounds like moronic chavs who don't give a shit to me.

If they are parking on your lawn then I'd put up a fence around it to stop them.

ciderbomb.

Just to clarify, it's their guests who park on our lawn. To be fair it is not that often.
And it is probably is safer to park on our lawn than on the quite bendy street.

Blimey you're very understanding duns I wouldn't give a fig about them parking on a bendy street safe or otherwise. They sound ghastly

It would be easier all round if you could persuade him to reverse in but think it was his idea.
I live in a very narrow road, and I always reverse in because I cannot guarentee who will be parked across the road and either side of my drive.
And if I wake up to ice/snow, I don't want to risk sliding across the road with nowhere to slide to.
(Eyes up neighbours behemoth caravan across the road )

As it's a bendy road, I'd 'invite' as many people as possible to park legally but really inconveniently to make it difficult to reverse out (but only if you can be sure he won't just bump his way out)

And I read somewhere it's better for the engine to go into 1st rather than reverse when you start (not sure if that's true)

I'm amazed you haven't already rung the police to report all of the previous behaviour. They sound like a nightmare. Is it a rented property? I'd be looking into getting them evicted.

Unfortunately it is not a rental.

The joys of living in a boomtown.

I have tried to be patient as they are a young family, but that beeping is not a nice way to wake up. Every. Bloody. Day.

Slash his tyres?

yanbu but he sounds like a git.

triple glazing? ear plugs?

sympathy

Contact Environmental Health perhaps? I thought it was an offense to make disturbing noise between 11pm and 7am, or am i completely wrong What he's effectively doing is being the neighbourhood alarm clock!