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Original poster

Neighbours using our garden!!!

94 replies

SimplyPut · 09/09/2017 21:04

Arrived home 45min ago to find our next door neighbours, their dc and parents sat on our patio furniture drinking wine!!! Bold as flipping brass!!!

I went out to go to the bin, there they are. The wife looked slightly sheepish and said 'we thought you were away for the weekend, and the dc like your trampoline' Hmm. What the fuck???

In pathetic British fashion I found myself apologising and saying how I don't mind the kids playing with ours but we when we are home. I'm pathetic!

OP posts:
JennyOnAPlate · 09/09/2017 21:06

ShockShockShock

Ilovecoleslaw · 09/09/2017 21:06

The cheek of it!! Shock
Op you need to tell them to get the bloody hell out of your garden!!

KityGlitr · 09/09/2017 21:06

You know you're not unreasonable and that you're gonna get twenty pages of outraged posts confirming YANBU.

WhichJob · 09/09/2017 21:07

Wtf! How did they get into your garden? I have often wished I could use my NDN's washing line on good drying days when I have too much for my line but I didn't realise I could just go in and use it...

VeryCunningStunt · 09/09/2017 21:07

YABU to be surprised about this. It happens all the time on MN, apparently

BattleaxeGalactica · 09/09/2017 21:07

You apologised to them?!

silverbell64 · 09/09/2017 21:08

Hahaha, caught! Cheeky as fuck. You're a nice person though.

Supermagicsmile · 09/09/2017 21:08

Hope they apologized and left! And buy a lock for your gate!!!

silverbell64 · 09/09/2017 21:08

Yeah, how did they get into your garden?

cailisto · 09/09/2017 21:09

How the fuck did they get in your garden?
Tell them to fuck right off then lock your gate!

ShiftyLookingBadger · 09/09/2017 21:09

Waaaaahhh?!? Are they still there now OP? I'm a very private person so this would enrage me!

Rudedog · 09/09/2017 21:09
Shock
EyesUnderARock · 09/09/2017 21:10

Gosh, another set of criminal, middle class neighbours. It does seem positively common now. Never mind, Winter is Coming.

RaspberryOverload · 09/09/2017 21:10

I bet this isn't first time. I'd be very firmly telling them to get the fuck out of my garden.

It's one thing when you've said they can do this, but another when they decide to use your garden without permisssion.

Original poster
SimplyPut · 09/09/2017 21:11

We have a shared access lane for bins (new build houses) and we have never (or so we thought) needed to put a lock on the gate. They left quickly enough, but not before suggesting we join them as 'you never know when the good nights will be over!'.
Dh said they are over (its not that warm!!!).

OP posts:
NYConcreteJungle · 09/09/2017 21:11

Are they still there?

greendale17 · 09/09/2017 21:11

You apologised? You sound like a walk over. No wondered they take advantage

StarfishSeahorse · 09/09/2017 21:11

You apologised to them? That's not being British that's being a doormat.

mygrandchildrenrock · 09/09/2017 21:12

WhichJob I used to have lovely neighbours in the house opposite ours who used to let me use their washing line to dry my sheets, duvet covers etc. I have a rotary dryer and sheets don't fit on it so well.
They've now moved and while the new people seem friendly I haven't asked if I can use their line yet! Grin
OP, I can't believe they would just use your garden, that's unbelievable cheek!

EggysMom · 09/09/2017 21:12

I hope they drop a bottle of wine round to you along with their apologies for the presumption.

VeryCunningStunt · 09/09/2017 21:13

Gosh, another set of criminal, middle class neighbours. It does seem positively common now.

These threads always make me quite sad at the probable shitness of my own garden, as my neighbours never use it at will Sad

silverbell64 · 09/09/2017 21:13

Dont they have their own garden?

MyPatronusIsAUnicorn · 09/09/2017 21:13

Massive padlock for the gate methinks!

Cannot believe you apologised!

GoodMorning1 · 09/09/2017 21:14

Buy and fit a lock tomorrow!

silverbell64 · 09/09/2017 21:14

So it's not a garden then, its a front bit of your house?