To think that my neighbour should of warned me they were sandblasting?

[Ohbollocksandballs]

Come home from a day out with 6mo DS to find that my neighbour has sandblasted, without warning us. Had she warned us I would of moved the car, and shut the windows.

Wibu to say something? And what would I say?

I'm a bit of a wuss in these situations but I can't help but feel she's a bit in the wrong here!

Good luck with your insurers, Ohbollocks. Hope they can advise you.

Has your neighbour shown face yet? He/she must have heard about this by now.

Sorry for the late update. Haven't had chance to speak to the insurers yet, will call first thing. However, came back and neighbours were outside, claiming they'd posted a letter through everyone's door. Followed this up with another neighbour and it seems they didn't get the memo either.

Very apologetic and they've been out and cleaned my windows/door/steps, and hosed the car down. Still pissed off though! Inside the house isn't too bad, was just the one room.

Someone down the street is now having a garden fire for the 3rd day running, seriously what are my neighbours!

On a different note, I didn't realise that it was so offensive to correct someone's grammar.

pumpkin love your advice, but there is no flower pots yet, they're new!

You know what, I saw this thread in the early stages, and thought that the people who just couldn't bear the sight of "should of" had dealt with it really gracefully.

And then the sad twats thread police came on solely for the purpose of attacking those people, turned it into a bunfight, and did their best to divert the thread by exercising their very own brand of self-righteousness.

Oh God, and now I've perpetuated it.

It's a high pressured jet of sand blasted usually at a building. And it makes a right fucking mess.

at 'thread police'

but what does the sand do? Is it for cleaning?

One thing it does is clean off stones. I used to live on a street where all the houses were stone terraced. Due to age and pollution, most of the previously light coloured stone houses had gone blackish.

Some people has their houses sand blasted to make them look like new and clean again. I remember when one house was done (several tens of houses up the street so not directly affecting mine) they covered all their windows with thick polythene sheeting while the work was done. Stuck out like a sore thumb against the non treated houses afterwards mind.

The saddest twats on the internet are the ones who correct other posters grammar.

The OP made a grammatical error, some people pointed it out politely, OP took it with good grace. I think the sad twats are those trying to start a bunfight

No one is trying to start a bun fight.

It is generally accepted that it is rude and unnecessary to point out a grammatical error on the internet.

We have literally hundreds of threads on here complaining about it. I could link 50+ for you if you'd like evidence.

It is really awful to see when loads of people pile on to make the same point. It just isn't necessary!

Good on the op for taking it in good grace, but she actually had a real problem on her hands, she wasn't at that particular moment asking for a spag lesson.

They should of just hidden the thread if they couldn't bear it.

A spag lesson, Mintyy?

I normally don't like would of... but was so shocked at the thought of neighbours sandblasting and all the sodding dust, that I missed it completely...

sandblasting... oh my... nightmare!

Somewhere - it should be 'other posters' grammar'. Just saying..

ohbollocks, some councils consider bonfires are unnecessary and a nuisance, so give yours a call if your neighbours' are affecting you at all.

Hope the clean-up does the trick..

This happened to my parents 35 years ago - they had to completely renovate an old house, were not living in it at the time and the contractors brought the sandblasting forward by a couple of days. Our neighbours windows were open so they immediately offered and paid for specialist cleaning. They still get on very well with the neighbours despite this bad start!

It might be helpful to any poster to have unknown mistakes politely pointed out. With such help, the poster would not look unknowing again.

minty I am glad your logic has me as the least twatty amongst twats...

Might right that on my tombstone...

I'm glad to hear you got it sorted OP, sandblasting sounds mildly terrifying!

Also if we're being really pedantic, the first poster to point out the OP's grammatical error has made two errors of their own... I like grammar but I don't know what the etiquette is for correcting it. I usually silently do it in my head, unless someone has asked for something to be proofread, or they're making a speech... something important like that.

I miss studying it now. :(

at grammar twat

You're right, numanoid - I correct in my head too. If someone posted a letter here that they were planning to send to, say, their employer, or an important document, and asked for comments, I would point out errors, but not in an ordinary post.

To be honest, I can see why the could/would/should have/could/would/should of thing has arisen. In speech, could have is shortened to could've - which does sound a lot like could of. It's an easy mistake to make.

Exactly, SDTG. :) I used to do it when I tutored as a student, and used to apologise when I did it! Although in a teaching situation, or in the situations you mentioned, I think it's fine if the person is looking for feedback.

I guess it depends if you take a prescriptive or descriptive approach. I used to be adamant that I had a prescriptive approach to grammar, that rules were rules and should be obeyed. But I think the right attitude is somewhere in the middle - there are key grammar rules that should stay, but language evolves, and when someone say 'should/could/would of', we know what they mean, so it isn't a big issue.