Disclaimer - this is a trivial matter, and it's been sorted, but just curious as to whether people think I was BU or not. I think I have been entirely reasonable but my neighbour's reaction has made me question that!
A fortnight ago we moved into a (rented) property. It's a house which has been converted into 2 - our neighbours occupy the ground floor and us the upper floors. The garden is split level and as such, the upper level is for our use and the lower level for our neighbours. Their part of the garden happens to be about twice the size of ours.
When we moved in there was only one washing line in the garden, the retractable type attached to the wall, and it is on our level. It was installed by the landlord. The neighbours have been in their flat for a year, and ours has been vacant whilst the LL did it up, so obviously they have been using the washing line - anybody would.
However once we moved in, they continued to use it. Day and night. They would put washing out at teatime, leave it up overnight and the whole of the following day whilst at work, then replace with new washing the following teatime. When the line is in situ it leaves very little space in our part of the garden, so there was no room for us to put an airer out there even. Very frustrating during the nice weather!
I contacted the letting agent to clarify that it was for our use, and the LL came out a few days later to install an identical washing line in our neighbours' part of the garden. Issue sorted, or so I thought.
Until I looked out of the window yesterday to see their washing on our line again! I could see that theirs wasn't full, so there was no reason to be using ours whatsoever. So I felt it needed to be nipped in the bud and went down to speak to them. (There is also no reason for their drying needs to be greater than ours - we have an identical set-up to them - 2 adults and 1 preschooler.)
I felt I was polite, but our neighbour was less than friendly. She looked very taken aback - apparently she wanted the sun, why, did I mind? So I said well yes, I did actually - this is why the LL installed a line for them. No ours wasn't in use but we may have wanted to use it - that's our part of the garden and we'd prefer it if they used theirs.
She stared at me, muttered okay, and then slammed the door agressively in my face.
So, MN jury, was I BU?