to be pissed off with neighbour mowing grass today

[BarefootMe]

I will probably be shot down for this. First really sunny day for months when we could enjoy our garden. We have grass and were sitting out for first time this year, enjoying late breakfast and the papers - utter bliss. Then next door neighbour started his very noisy ride-on mower. Their garden is much bigger than hours and it took nearly an hour of noise, petrol fumes etc. Then a peaceful break, and just relaxing again this afternoon when he started up again, and then produced another mower for the edges - more noise, more fumes.
For context we have had a really difficult time since last summer, very stressful and this was literally the first day we could really let go and relax without pressures to think about. Neighbour does not know that, but I am annoyed because it is inconsiderate. He works from home a lot of the time, and could have done this on a weekday. Very old fashioned probably, but I was brought up not to create any disturbance on a Sunday which was regarded as a day or rest when your neighbours deserved peace and quiet. For that reason, I never use a mower on a Sunday, or do other noisy building work, etc. Just needed to express my annoyance and regret at the return of tension so soon.

Mowing the lawn is a necessary regular evil. Playing music is not. That would be the thing that would drive me mad. The same as on beaches.

DH started mowing this morning at 8:00. When he gets home Thursday after work he is getting the chainsaw out to cut down 12 trees.

Unreasonable to mow on a Sunday, we have retired the neighbours that do this. They are lovely people so I simply shout arsehole over the fence.

Sorry, but you are being unreasonable, OP.

Someone is ALWAYS going to be annoyed at 'when' someone mows their lawn; that doesn't mean mowing one's lawn on Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday Monday when a lot of people happen to be home is wrong. Nor is mowing it on a weekday morning, when some people might be sleeping, feeling unwell, working from home themselves.

My lawn is always too wet to cut at 8am. I tens to mow in the afternoon because a) it will be dry and b) My next door neighbour who often works nights will be up.

What an unbelievable shit. I can see the headlines now: "INCONSIDERATE BASTARD MOWS LAWN AT 2PM ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON SHOCKER!!!!" It's pulitzer winning stuff. The kind of high octane journalism that makes careers.

You will never please all the people, all the time. A good time for you (for neighbour to be mowing) may be a bad time for another neighbour.

seriously....

It's not often I can say this but I am feeling incredibly virtuous now as we no longer have a lawn and so can't offend or upset anyone with lawnmowing noises. This is doubly good as it'll mean that the neighbours (and most of the surrounding area ) will have had the uninterrupted pleasure of hearing my blacksmithing instead - the roar of the gas forge and the ring of steel upon anvil will have been like music to them.

Forgot to add that they'll have had the pleasure of my carefully curated Spotify play list too.

Our neighbours were also mowing, then strimming, then jet washing. It was pretty noisy, but they’re just doing their thing.

I’m sure they don’t like listening to my toddler having a tantrum, but that’s life when you all live so close to each other.

Now if it was music blaring out, or mowing the lawn at 2am...that’s a little different.

You have neighbours and you don't like it.

No need for an AIBU as you already know you are.

YABU

are you rural enough to be able to just nip for a walk and take a picnic rug to have a quick snooze on until they’re done?
Yeah enjoy that while you can: the first cut of silage will be ready in a few weeks. Those contractors work till the early hours of the morning :-)

You'd love us. No lawn but lots and lots of really filthy gravel to sift. The shakey sgakey noise is quite relaxing until the moment it gets on your wick.

Because it’s well known that people who work from home can pluck free time from their arses

YABU, of course but I understand how that could be annoying. I came inside at one point today because the bloke next door with his VERY LOUD VOICE decided that the whole street needed to hear his nasal Lancashire tones, and he obviously wants us all to know what a Great Dad he is by going "WHEEEEE" "WOOOOOHOOO" "HOOOORAY" and making crashing noises constantly. After the 400th "come on Ollie, kick the ball!" I'd had enough. Of course my neighbour is entitled to enjoy his time in his garden at his leisure, and it's more annoying than a nuisance, but by god it does my fucking head in.

I join the chorus of YABU.

If you worried about upsetting a MNer, you couldn't do anything outside on a nice day - cut the grass, let kids play, play music, have a BBQ, hang unsightly washing, DIY, hold a conversation that might include laughing, have friends round, oh the list goes on.

I'm confused over why you think your NDN could have cut his grass yesterday when it was sunny, but that you couldn't have sat outside in peace and quiet yesterday, when it was sunny

I'm pretty old (in MN terms) and certainly grew up in times when most places were shut on a Sunday and most people didn't work, but that made Sunday the day to cut the grass - er, as everyone was home and there was nowhere to go so people cut the grass and washed their cars.

I mowed my lawn this afternoon. I do the edges by hand and did them yesterday but couldn't mow yesterday as the grass was still very wet.

This probably why you neighbour mowed his today.

Oh and when I work from home I'm working. If I'm lucky and have a long enough break I can do some watering but normally the break is only long enough to nip to the loo or get a drink such are the powers of modern communications technology...

Our neighbours had a BBQ with one of their families asked. There were small children screaming and shrieking and running round like mad. Suddenly one of the women lost it, screamed at all the children to shut up and behave properly without breakng things, shouted at the adults that she was the only person there acting as a parent and she was cooking as well. One of them answered her back and she tore him to shreds. There was about 5 m8nutes of awkward silence and they all went home.
Peace restored....until DH came back with DS and DD. DD (13 months) spent the whole afternoon saying loudly 'Daddy....my Daddy' as she toddled round aftet DH. It was like the bloody Railway Children.

YAbu but I sympathise and am always thinking 'ugh is that so and so with the bloody mower out'

"AIBU?"
"Yes!"
"No I'm not!"

yabu, but it always feels that way.

we had a bbq the other week when it was nice, been lovely all day but my SIL had to work, so it was 7pm before we sat in the garden.

The NDN decided that was when he wanted to mow his lawn...

I live rurally but have neighbours. There is also an A road running alongside one end of our village. I was in the garden for the first time today, DH was gardening, dog was pottering, kids were variously indoors or lying on the grass revising. I had my book & a cuppa. I've had a shit year with an incurable cancer diagnosis so I was chilling on a sun lounger.

Today we had about 20 mins when it sounded like we lived in the middle of Brands Hatch with what must have been a massive group of bikers steaming up the main road on their way to the coast. Then someone at the back cut their grass. Then next door's little boys were charging about running away from 'terror-dactuls' in the garden.

Know what I did? I listened to it all. All life going on around me. The peaceful birdsong bits (to be fair - mostly that through the day) and the noisy, joyful or industrious bits and I was just.....glad. Blue sky, home, life. It's all good.

I can see most people disagree but I do find it antisocial. We have few lovely days each year and there are lots of mediocre ones. I think it’s poor form to make a ton of noise for appendix 2 hrs when you know all your neighbours are trying to enjoy the rare treat of beautiful day. I’m unsure why people have to wait until the prime time when people will be having lunches outside etc to do their noisy garden work.