Any more NDN Cf

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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....

I wish I’d been on Mumsnet a few years ago because I would have had an absolutely brilliant parking thread for you all!

The short version is that there was a patch of road around the back of our apartment building which some residents believed to be a private car park, even though the council confirmed (repeatedly) that it was no such thing. The busybodies with too much time on their hands residents’ association put up three different types of ‘no parking’ signs all over the walls and fences, including one that made excellent use of Comic Sans and rainbow colours. Very professional. Any time an unknown car parked there, they would go and put these laminated notes on their windscreens informing them that their car’s details had been ‘logged’ (for what, I will never know).

The best part was that one of my neighbours actually procured himself a hi-vis vest with ‘parking attendant’ printed on the back, and he would go storming out there and glare suspiciously at people’s cars on a regular basis.

It culminated in the police coming round and knocking on every single door to tell us, yet again, that the ‘car park’ was not ours and that if we didn’t stop fiddling with people’s windscreens then we could get arrested criminal damage.

The hilarious thing is that I don’t even think most of the neighbours had cars. The ‘car park’ was half empty nearly all the time.

Some people have FAR too much time on their hands.

My new upstairs neighbours (3rd floor, I'm ground floor) are a bunch of CFs. There are probably around 12 of them in a 2-bedroom flat, and only the husband can speak a bit of English, so you can't talk to them. The DC go around hitting other people's DC on a daily basis. They throw rubbish into my garden on a daily basis - the outside of the entire block is littered with their fag butts, they seem to be running a chop shop and take up half the parking spaces with the cars they chop and change around, they fly tip whatever (including car bumpers) on the pavement outside. They treat the communal garden/park area as their own personal garden, even having bbqs in the car park and shouting at the tops of their voices late into the night. They toss rubbish (including dirty smelly nappies) into the communal bin without it being in black bags, or any sort of bag (in an enclosed area right next to my front door). It seems they have now started urinating in that area as well. I'm too scared to go out my front door because the smell nearly knocks me over. They go through other people's bins, keep what they want and fly tip the rest on the pavement. They keep jamming open the secure doors with sticks, stones and even bricks.

But the really really weird thing? She cleans and sweeps two flights of stairs and the entire communal hallway twice a week. It's always spotless. Nobody can figure it out. Very very odd.

Recently my ndn told me he would hit my dog with a hammer if it barked at him. OH went mental, I had to stop him from going to ndn door.

I see my OH point though as I'm 5 months pregnant and was standing in my own fenced back garden and the ndn had come to his window to tell me this.

@woshambo what a tw*t your neighbour is! We have the opposite problem that two little girls in the street love our puppy and knock constantly ‘to see’ him. It’s cute but now it’s half term they are knocking twice or thrice a day 🤦🏽‍♀️ Their garden backs into ours so the other day I told them I’d leave him in the garden (he likes sunbathing) and they could bounce on their trampoline any time they liked to see him 🙈😂

Lovely ex-neighbours put their house up for sale and had always made it known how beautiful they thought our front garden was.
One night we answered a knock at the door - it was our neighbour asking if we would mind if they dug up some of our plants and trees to give their garden kerb appeal.
Our garden had mature shrubs in it, and there was no way they were getting their hands on anything that we'd had planted for years - they even brought buckets and shovels as they assumed we'd say yes, and never thought that any potential buyers might question where the front garden they thought they were buying had disappeared to

I forgot to mention the part where there was some minor kerfuffle within the residents’ association (about something other than parking) and the aforementioned neighbour wrote a huffy letter to all residents, which included a mention of how underappreciated he felt after all the time and effort he had spent acting as our voluntary (self-appointed) ‘parking attendant’!

Seeing as it was mainly his actions which had brought the police to everyone’s door, I’m not sure many people were particularly grateful!

Not anywhere near as good as some others here, but posting anyway. My NDNs are obsessed with parking in front of their house, the wife especially. She's so obsessed with it that she saw my friends pull up in their car to drop me off, and tried to move to block them from parking. Except that I was trying to exit the car at the time, and she nearly drove into their open car door.

She must have seen the open car door, as she was looking right at me , but her need to make sure nobody other than them parks in front of their house overrode any common sense.

We lived next door to an old man who stole plants and trees from our garden and planted them in his own. One year whilst on holiday, we came back to find he had moved the garden fence a few metres over into our garden to make his side bigger. The cement was still wet.

@saucyjackfan
We've got one of those, too! He actually has a drive but parks his car on the road outside all day and then around 8pm he moves it on to his drive! Nowt as queer as folk!

Old NDN was constantly asking us to pay for a tree to be taken out of the garden the other side of them, on the grounds that if it blew over in a storm it would fall into and damage our garden. We refused NDNs got quite pissed off, I think they wanted it gone because it blocked some of the light from their garden. The council were refusing to take it down anyway. NDN and lady on other side were council tenants and we were owners so they kept saying we could afford it and they couldn't. We couldn't really and anyway didn't want to. Lady on other side of NDN was also very annoying with her dog which was never on a lead and used to run into our house if had the front door open and freak out our cat.

Anyway the problem resolved itself when the tree did blow down in a storm but stopped about a foot from our fence. It damaged their fences though.

It was years ago but I once came home to a scene from Groundforce, my back garden had around 4 men and a cut down tree in it! Ndn didn't think I'd mind! My washing line had been knocked down too,I told her she would need to replace it in no uncertain terms!

My neighbour out the back waited till the house next door to them was sold, then climbed the fence and cut down a tree to the ground because it dared to drop leaves in their hot tub. I was massively annoyed because while it wasn't my tree, it was located in an ideal position to screen my garden. So I've planted a fast growing tree in the same line of sight to replace the screening, close enough to my fence that it will (in a couple of years) shed its leaves into their hot tub!

Used to be friendly with a couple of neighbours up the road who had kids same age as mine.

When one was at work she would drop her daughter off at her grandads house.

The other neighbour called round one morning and asked if I would like to go out for a few hours with our kids,so off we went.

Next day the working mum phoned me up and asked how my day out with neighbour and kids had been.I said we had a great time thanks.....she then says she had been at work the previous day but hadn't dropped her kid with her grandad so the child was home alone all day and we should have checked before leaving the street.

Realised after that conversation how she really took me for granted over the years and how entitled she was...….keep her at arms length now

Oh my goodness I can't believe the CF-ness of some people! I am so thankful that we don't have immediate neighbours any more, don't think I could cope with any of this!

My next door neighbour knocked and asked if I would look after her babies as they cannot be left alone for even a minute, and she wanted to go and collect a new car with her partner from a dealership in town, ten mins away. There was no real reason for them both to go, they had already chosen the car previously, it was just to collect it from the dealer. I was up to my eyeballs in paperwork working from home as I had dance exam entries to submit that morning before I went out to teach later that day, and she gave me all of ten minutes notice.
Just to point out that her babies, are in fact two very spoilt small dogs. Fool that I am, I told her that it really wasn't very convenient as I had exam entries to do, but agreed to pop next door to watch the dogs as long as I brought my laptop with me so that I could continue working, and as long as it wouldn't take much longer than an hour or so.

Two hours passed and I got very little work done, the dogs are used to having 100% of her attention all of the time, and kept jumping up and laying on my keyboard to stop me working, then barking when I returned them back down again. I fussed and petted them took them out into the garden for a while etc but the minute the laptop came out they went nuts. I messaged asking how much longer as I needed to get back home to finish my work and she was all apologetic saying that it had taken longer than expected (fair enough).
They eventually arrived back after nearly 3 hours, and I went home to get on with my work. A few mins later I heard them out front and realised that I hadn't even remarked on their new car (because I was a bit fed up when I left their house) so popped my head out of the front door to compliment them on it, and there the CFs were, unloading a boot full of shopping. They had taken advantage of their dog free time to go do a big supermarket shop on the way home, even though they knew that it was inconvenient for me and that I needed to get back ASAP. They just presumed that working from home = nothing better to do.
Needless to say, I refused to dog sit for them again.

My ex NDN dog used to jump over the 3ft fence in our front garden and shit everywhere. I had to go round every day to make them pick it up as the reason I don't have a dog myself is because I don't want to be picking up shit everyday. It would also escape via my gate as it wasn't always shut and people who would knock on my door telling me off for letting 'my' big dog loose

Just had this, this week my CF NDN banged on front door to tell my carer to move her car over as he couldn’t get his 3rd car onto his drive!!! Blah blah if only I parked more considerately and it is a shared drive etc when my carer having enough of his drivel said that the only reason that she had parked that way was because my own driveway was full of his bins and recycling (which he puts on mine so that his remains accessible!!!)
Turned out my car wasn’t blocking him it was his own sons car! They’ve all recently upgraded to suvs!!! What do they expect.

My garden backs onto a strip of common land. On the other side is another garden. This family have occaisionally thrown things over their fence like plant pots etc, we have ignored it. However, we got up last weekend and there was rubble, fence posts, all sorts! Added to that the same Adele song played at top volume 12 times in a row the previous day we snapped and reported them for fly tipping.

It was fun watching the whole family out there with bin bags yesterday. I gather its a £200 fine as well.

I loves parking!