Any more NDN Cf

[Ataloss2567]

Sooo I probably ABU but I love reading these CF threads 🙈 and they are definitely taking my mind off some crap in my life atm!

If anyone has any CFness let me know 😁😁

One of my worst has to be CF exNDN.
They used to park on our drive, regularly go into our garage to access our back garden (could walk right through) and the worst has to be when we moved out. We had a week of still having the old house and moving into the new. Went back to the old house on the day before we were due to hand in the keys to find CF had obviously thought we were gone so had been using our garden as an extension of their own. They had left a FULL PADDLING POOL in our garden and a load of rubbish. We had to quickly tidy it up as new tenants were due to get the keys the next day. I am ashamed to say I may have accidentally popped the paddling pool and thrown it back over their fence....

A while ago, we had just bought (and moved into) a new house but hadn't actually sold the old place yet. It was a stressful situation, to say the least. I was keen to sell the old place quickly so I was keeping it neat and tidy, allowing the Estate Agent to do viewings any time of day, and, at his advice I'd kept most of our furniture there - so that it was "dressed". I was putting fresh flowers in regularly, following all the tricks for a quick sale...

Over a weekend, I went back to the old place to ensure everything was in good order and grab a few bits we needed for our new home. When I walked in the door, I discovered someone had painted sample colour swatches all over the living room walls. Not just discrete patches in a hidden corner but huge 1 x 1 metres squares of different shades of red / burgundy / wine. (The room was originally painted cream).

Obviously I was mad as hell. I rang the estate agent who eventually admitted he'd lent my keys to a potential buyer. He hadn't actually accompanied this person to the viewing (OMG!) and clearly the CF had got a bit carried away. Unbelievable.

I couldn't believe how an Estate Agent who'd been trusted with my keys could then give them out to someone off the street willy nilly and for the "potential buyer" (who never actually an offer) to put swatches on the walls!

But I guess I was lucky I didn't get all my furniture nicked... or squatters... so small blessing!

I used to have a proper CF neighbour. Once I came home to find a bouncy castle in my front garden - my garden wasn't fenced in. He clearly thought I was going to be gone longer but said 'Oh yeah sorry, it's just your garden is flatter (we lived on a steep hill) and it wouldn't fit in ours'. They then said if we wanted our children could join in the birthday Party. So kind of them allowing my children to play in their own front yard!

Another time he put a skip at the back of my property where I parked my car. He didn't have any land at the back of his house and parked on the road. I probably wouldn't have minded if he had asked! I never even got an apology. It was there over three weeks!

I also used to get annoyed as there was a public footpath that ran along the side of my house and people would cut through my back garden as a short cut. It would freak me out sometimes if I was washing up as the route would take them right past my kitchen window.

Probably could've all been avoided if I had boundary fences. The LL said I could put up fences but I would have to pay for them myself. Thankfully don't live there anymore.

I've attempted to include a diagram for clarity...

Years ago I lived next door to a family with loooads of animals, which was worrying as we all had 2 up 2 down terraces. I lived with 2 other women in their 20s.
They also had horses and would regularly block our drive with their enormous horsebox, my housemate would drive home and have to block the street to stop and ask them to move the bloody thing as she couldn’t park on her own drive..
They also had 4 dogs they kept outside all the time in a sectioned off area in the garden. It was full of dog mess and the poor things would bark all night. I’m guessing they must’ve shed a lot of fur too as there was always hoovering at 6.30am every day!!
When we moved out I dobbed them into RSPCA. Hopefully the dogs got a nicer home…

These are all brilliant, shamelessly place-marking

@mrspannie 😮😮😮😮 what did the ea do? I hope they apologised profusely and fixed it!!!

@SurfingDogs best diagram I’ve seen in a while!!!! I’d have popped the bouncy castle (ah realistically I’m such a wuss I’d have probably ended up supervising it)

We used to love on flats that had a communal garden ground and a car park.
The grass has a fence made of brick pillars with chain swags between them.
Despite a public park literally two minutes away loads of lazy dog owners brought their dogs to shit there.
I confronted a few and was generally told to fuck off and no one sits out there (some residents did, me included) but one girl took the biscuit - excuses included that it didn't look like a garden, that she had picked up (there was no fouling signs and in any case it didn't matter as pee was burning the grass), that she couldn't take her dog to the park as it wasn't vaccinated, that she had seen me there with my own dog (sitting in the sun and why shouldn't I as I bloody part owned it).
As for the car parking, the access road was the only bit for miles around that didn't need a council permit so cheapskates fought to park there if they didn't have a permit - they also parked on our grass, and on several occasions wedged their cars on the pavement in between cars legally parked on the road and my car in my space.
On more than one occasion I had my driver side door blocked. Police told me to climb over from the passenger side, even when I was six months pregnant.
Glad we no longer live there and now have a private garden and drive.

@Ataloss2567 - yes - the Manager of the estate agents was seriously embarrassed, apologised and said he'd significantly reduce his commission on our sale. (It was a significant enough reduction that I'm not tempted to name which estate agents it was - but suffice to say that they're a big brand name.) I'm not sure what happened to the junior agent who lent my keys to the potential buyer.

I left the swatches up on the wall thinking that the potential buyer who'd painted them there would put in an offer on my flat imminently... but then another buyer stepped in and offered me the asking price. So that was that. Phew!

In hindsight, I was ridiculously stressed because I had two mortgages and didn't know how long it was going to go on for. (I also had 2 dc and a full time job.) So finding these darn swatches on the wall was my "last straw". In reality I could have arranged for a couple of coats of paint overnight and charged the handyman and materials into the Estate Agent. Instead I went nuclear and it still makes me mad thinking about it now. :-)

Loving this thread as it puts my little episode back into proportion!

Oh, and chicken neighbours decided to let them free range (aka crap) on our front lawn. A few neighbours hinted at saying something but I'd decided ,"It's not gonna be me moaning for everyone else, again". Other neighbour promptly stood in said poop and walked it into his house.... then right back to CFN to ensure the free ranging stopped!

My colleague proudly boasted on Facebook last night that in the 30 minutes since they'd been home the front grass had been mowed and some weeding completed. Also the car washed.

I instantly thought to myself that if they were my neighbour I'd be writing a thread about their insanity/cf'ness due to it being 10pm. No one wants to hear their neighbours cutting grass at 9.30pm on a school night.

My own neighbours used to do this at least once a year. Funnily enough now they have a 15 month old all grass cutting is done before 6.30pm.

A relative recently moved house. In between the vendors moving out and them moving in, the ndn came round and pruned to destruction three trees they objected to being there. Although they denied it and there is no proof, their denial is undermined by the fact that the wife had popped back to leave an extra set of keys, and caught the ndn in the garden with loppers. She asked permission to prune the trees and was clearly told she couldn't have it because they legally belonged to the new owners.

Relative has bought three times as many trees,and larger, and has sent the bill via solicitors.

Oh... there's the ex CF NDN who couldn't be arsed to open his front door for his cat that was too fat to climb their rear fence.... so they cut a big archway, (imagine a big mousehole) into the fence adjoining our drive so their cat could get out and poop by our cars... niiiice.

SurfingDogs - superb diagram

CFN cuts the hedge in a ridiculous fashion. It had a massive stupid dip in it for reasons only known to him and rather than letting it grow back to a proper hedge he keeps cutting the dip! I’ve had to put loads of bamboo sticks in as it looks utterly ridiculous. He also lets himself in my garden to paint the other side of his fence without bothering to ask. I asked him if he had knocked on the door first to ask if it was ok and he basically said ‘no, it’s my fence and it needs painted.’ I complained about him to the landlady as she knows him and he told her he had come round to ask permission. So he’s a liar as well. Can you tell he annoys me? I really don’t mind if he wanted in to paint the fence but ask first, surely? Not paint all the fences in the back garden, behind my shed and all the front too. I have a little baby and I don’t want to suddenly go outside and someone’s in my garden!
Neighbour at my parents house too, urgh. Every time it snows he sweeps the shared stairs to the pavement, but only one half of them... we laugh every time he does it, it’s so silly. Can’t stand this horrible, horrible man. Have a long history with him including calling the police for things that have happened. Why are some neighbours just utterly horrible?
Thanks everyone for your stories!

We used to live in a terraced house that had been converted into 2 flats. We had the ground and first floors, the basement was separate with a separate entrance and separate address (e.g. 12A and 12B). The guy downstairs had moved his girlfriend in but didn't want the landlord to know (for some reason she wasn't allowed to live there), so she just gave out our address to all the various companies. We got multiple visits from people wanting to install internet (and arguing with us because we didn't know anything about it) etc, and every week or so the girlfriend or the bloke would pop up to us with a cheery "hello, we've come to collect our mail!". It was only after they had a go at us for turning away their internet installer guy for the third time that they admitted what they'd been doing. When we politely but firmly objected to their using our address, the girlfriend screamed at me that I was a slut.

My next door neighbours have a football stadium standard floodlight on the back of their house with a motion detector. No problem, have what you like in your garden, but the sensor and the light are pointed into our garden, straight at our decking and table and chairs! On a nice evening we will be sitting at the table and chairs and all it takes is for our dog to walk up the path and we are all blinded by the frigging light. It takes about 5 minutes before it switches off again, by which point the dog is normally wandering about again! You can’t get in or out of our house without this ridiculous light coming on. 3 times OH has reached over the fence to turn the sensor and light back into their garden, only to get up the next day and find it’s been turned back again! So annoying!!

@Tistheseason17

I am sorry but this really made me laugh to imagine 😂😂

SurfingDogs

Professional level diagram!

Our new neighbours have a serious parking attitude. We live in a house divided into four flats. Each flat has a garage and one parking space in front of the garage. So 2 spaces really. Neighbours decided to come with 3 cars and NOT use their garage for parking but for something else. So they 1) force everyone to park sandwiched in which completely blocks access to bins, footpaths to front doors and garages and 2) park in front of one woman’s garage because she doesn’t have a car so they think they are entitled to. Although she often has visitors she would like to park there.

@Ataloss2567
I can laugh now! 🤣🤣

@Ataloss2567
Here's another for you....
Neighbours at old house were drug dealers and at first we did not know....
When I banged on the wall because of loud music at 2am the response was....."If you do that again, we'll come round and f-ing kill you" I retreated....

Same dealer used to forget his keys and then go through our house to climb into his house! 😲

Not a cheeky f'er but definitely a creepy f'er.

NDN used to ride a unicycle up and down our street at night. There were only a few houses and street is in the middle of nowhere so was deadly silent except for the squeak of his wheel as he rode past. There's something unnerving about looking out of your window and seeing a grown man ride past on a unicycle in the middle of the night.

Same guy seen walking around his house in his birthday suit a couple of times. I'm not one to judge what one likes to do in their own home but c'mon... close the curtains?!

CakeAndTea

Just the fact he rides a unicycle gives me the willies

My house is at the end of a longish driveway with another house and is clearly a no-through private cul-de-sac. A couple of months ago I was having a very important phone conversation when a woman with a toddler wandered up my driveway, walked over my lawn, into my front porch (no doors, it’s an open area) and I was then very distracted waiting for her to knock on the door. She didn’t knock and as she then stood immediately outside my front window, I figured she could easily see me and was waiting for me to finish my phone call. I finished the call as soon as I was able, but then I could see her walking away with the toddler. I ran and opened the door and said “sorry, I was on the phone, can I help you?” to which she replied “no, we’re just out for a walk”! I was gobsmacked and don’t know why I didn’t manage a cross word. But WTF??? I still don’t know who she is but I’ll be having a word if I ever see her. She might be the same person who covertly wanders down and let’s her dog poo along the driveway too.

@mrspannie Wow! That really takes the biscuit! I’d be completely disbelieving and completely fuming too!

I was approached by an elderly man in a car park, as I was about to pay for a ticket. He asked if I wanted his ticket as it still had time on it (45 minutes). Didn’t want to turn down his kind offer- even though I was going to buy a ticket for longer- so did the usual “yes please, thank you so much” and went to walk away with the ticket- except he then stopped me and said he wanted me to pay him for half he value of the ticket 😂

I was so shocked I paid up. I’m not sure if this is CF as such- maybe more just ignorance of car park etiquette?

😂😂😂😂 im so glad I now live in a semi normal street having read some of these !

@Patchworkelmer I love how you didn’t want to be rude 😂 I’d be the same! A woman once offered me her trolley in Sainsbury’s car park so I gave her a pound (to replace hers in the trolley). It was only when she disappeared and I walked up to the shop I realised she hadn’t paid for it!!! It had like a bit to pay for it but had been jammed with a bit of plastic! She just took my money and didn’t say a word! I spent the whole shop waiting to be stopped by customer services for essentially vandalising one of their trolleys 🙈🤦🏽‍♀️