To be annoyed that my washing will be ruined

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Just opened all the windows in the house and realised that our next door neighbours are having a BBQ...At 9am.
It’s onviously the first time they’ve used it this year as it’s bellowing smelly smoke, that I initially thought was a bonfire.
I have two loads of washing on the line.
I actually quite like the smell of bonfires (although in this case it’s a BBQ) so wouldn’t normally be bothered but I’m a bit pissed off that the two loads I was up early to do will be ruined!

They are really horrible anyway, nothing for veggies/vegans bar warm salads and having to sit there smelling stinking meat.

Christ - sounds like you have rubbish BBQs (and salads) - I'm a meat-eater, but can produce plenty of stuff for veggies both on and off a BBQ - in fact, we had people round yesterday, and now I think of it dinner and snacks were entirely veggie (vegans more challenging, but possible)

I so wish I’d had a BBQ breakfast now.

Shock horror: we have lovely weather on a BH weekend and people want to enjoy it by having breakfast in their own garden!

The world doesn’t revolve around your washing, sorry

Did you have the washing out overnight? If so, bad news, it's been darked on.

I think it's rude of them not to knock and say they were having a barbeque because at least then you could get the washing in. In fact, they could have told you yesterday. I think it's fair game to have barbeques in good weather, but for most people that's lunchtime onwards.

If you have a gas bbq you may as well cook indoors on an oven, imo.

I love a good bbq but 9am would be a bit early for me as well as I like to get my washing out too. By dinner time on a day like this (where I am anyway), Washing would be dry so fetched in anyway in the premise that many people would likely want a bbq

I think it's a really selfish thing to do. YANBU.

I love a veggie bbq. Halloumi bbqs beautifully, as do veggie burgers and veg kebabs. I don’t think these smell as much as animal flesh? My neighbours cook bacon for breakfast and open their windows to let the smell out. It’s really disgusting.

Also morning is when most insects and birds feed. Your neighbours are not only contributing to climate change but also to the 6th world extinction.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

They are really horrible anyway, nothing for veggies/vegans bar warm salads and having to sit there smelling stinking meat.

Go to some better barbecues

Our friends (1 vegan, 1 meat-eater) recently hosted a barbecue. About half of us there were either veggie or vegan, and we had loads of different veggie burgers, veggie sausages, kebabs, etc as well as vegan sides!

They're probably cooking breakfast on it, getting it ready for later maybe? It's tricky, I don't think there are laws on BBQs, are there? 9am seems a bit keen though! Can you move your washing line so that it's not so close?

A bq at 9.00am is early

However, I’ve had washing on the line before, done a bbd myself in my own garden and never had any issue about ‘the washing being ruined’. Even though bbq and washing have just a couple of meters apart.
I think you are over the top tbh.

I fucking hate BBQs, they’re so anti-social. Just fuck off, the whole world doesn’t want to smell your disgusting charcoal meat feast and overhear your dumbass conversations. Cook your tea inside you selfish cunts so that your neighbours can have their washing out or windows open or sit in their gardens in peace

Christ almighty. Why do the Brits even bother having gardens? According to MN you're an uber cunt if you use them: if you have a bbq, or mow your lawn outside the hours of 2-3 every 5th Saturday, if you have a trampoline, if you listen to the radio, if you have children who arent silent, if you ever have people over, if you play football.....

fucking hell folks, unclench. Maybe try to have a vaguely interesting life of your own, then other peoples might not get so you bilious and angry?

I'd have taken a BBQ over listening to my male neighbours hacking up phlegm for 10 minutes solid as I attempted to eat my breakfast outside for the first time this year. Why oh why do they open the fucking windows to do this, it wasn't even one neighbour, 2 of them were at this morning. Even the birds fucked off in disgust.

AIBU I suffer badly from hayfever and my NDN insist on growing flowers, trees and grass in their garden every year and this just aggravates my conditionr.AIBU to think they are being very selfish and should just pave their garden over?
Should i put a note through their door?

@Undercoverbanana
My neighbours cook bacon for breakfast and open their windows to let the smell out. It’s really disgusting.

So people can't even open a window now to let occasional food smells escape? Wtf? Are we all supposed to be living in hermetically sealed chambers or something? As someone said upthread, unclench.

ZX81user Why don't you write to your local council and ask them to cut down all the trees - it's tree pollen that is the issue at this time of year. Good luck with that btw.

There is medication readily available for people like you and me. I love my garden, but very little is in bloom this time of year due to a very late spring.

ourkidmolly - no I don’t think I said that.

I don’t like smell of meat cooking. That’s all.

@AlleyG not quite as antisocial as your comment. Get a grip. Conversation is conversation, it being situated around a BBQ doesn't make it dumbass.

Am I the only person in the world who has never thought of a BBQ breakfast we don't have any close neighbours though to annoy with it

I'm off to BBQ our lunch now, I've got some washing out but it isn't an issue. Let's all get out enjoy the sun and quit the moaning it will probably rain on Tuesday 🤣

Its all swings and roundabouts. I dont like blaring music from peoples gardens when I’m trying to watch TV or relax with a book. I do like a BBQ, though I’m not even out of bed at 9 on a Sunday so it wouldnt be a breakfast one! Neighbours are annoying, but we all just have to deal with it.

Here here AlleyGwe are crap as a nation at barbecues. Cheap, fatty meat, inability to barbecue adequately and a smell that is only produced by UK barbecues.

Ours goes on at 7am sometimes if we are smoking a whole joint of meat. We don’t just do it in summer though our bbq is an extension of our kitchen really w even cooked the Christmas turkey on it.

Oh dear Elendon I am embarrassed for you!

@AlleyG 100% agree.

Both of my next door neighbours have BBqs going and are playing music, 90's trance one side and hip hop/rap the other. Everyone's shouting over the music, it's a fucking nightmare.