To think 2pm on a Sunday is an anti-social time to barbeque?

[BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot]

One of my sets of neighbours are an obnoxious couple in the early throes of retirement. They have children my age and grandchildren who are toddlers. This time of the year until October now they will be barbequeing almost daily and twice daily on a weekend with the kids and grandkids noisily "enjoying" The garden.

We work full time. The only time we can feasibly peg out washing is the weekends but with this good weather every weekend from 1pm 2pmish their barbeque is fired up and doesn't go off until dinner.

I freely admit I don't like them as it is but this just tips the balance. Do tell me I'm being unreasonable...ill just ignore you keep seething while they stink my washing out.

[MissMary0fSweden]

Have you tried reporting to the LA?

[BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot]

Not in the slightest bit jealous of them. I can't see them making it to late retirement given their lifestyle...

I'm not sure if I like or dislike the idea of a factory mass producing obnoxious neighbours! It's got to be the only logical explanation for how many are dotted round the country!

[lardymclardy]

Some people hate to watch/hear/smell families enjoying themselves. You fall into this category OP. Loved the drip feed too. Go out, get your own BBQ talk to them, have fun!

[ThisCannotBe]

Are you my next door neighbour? She's a miserable so and so as well.

Don't worry OP. Blink and summer will be over so everyone can scurry back inside to their slow cookers.

[MyOtherUsernameisaPun]

YABU, sorry. It's a really normal time for a barbecue. That said if they do it all the time I do understand why you're annoyed about your washing. It's just one of those very annoying things unfortunately!

[user1483387154]

Yabvu

[dragonwarrior]

YABU..... it's an ideal time to BBQ on a sunday

[TittyGolightly]

However, Yabu about them bbqing and we both work 49 hours each a week and I hang out another ad if eashing each morning then take it in when I get home. What stops you doing that?

In my case the neighbours who set their wood burners off before I get home from work. 😡

[BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot]

Funnily I have no issue with the other families and their children in their gardens that are around our house. I'm not miserable or spiteful just this one family really have wound me up after years of not being able to enjoy my garden due to them!

My other neighbours seem to manage to enjoy their gardens with the kids and families and even have parties and bouncy castles without being like this family.

[DarlingNikita]

Well, the loudness, messiness, swearing etc sounds unpleasant, but of course YABU about the BBQ.

[Hellsbellscockleshells]

Hang washing out earlier and in the week bbq’s are the norm for many people on a weekend during any nice weather.
One of our neighbours used to BBQ most nights during the week close to our side and on a weekend they would start bbq early evening and regularly had about 20-30 noisy people on ‘their decking’ which is within about 6 inches of our garden and almost directly below my daughters bedroom. They had a blasted patio heater so the noise carried on until wel after midnight on a regular basis. It was worse when the children were younger and couldn’t sleep for the noise.

[ZanyMobster]

I would expect that 2pm is a normal time for BBQing so YABmassivelyU about that but they do sound like awful neighbours with the rest of it

[RomeoBunny]

Get a dryer. You're a crank. And yabu.

[kaytee87]

Of course you're being unreasonable. You're right to hang out washing doesn't trump their right to have a bbq surely?
Hang it out before bed and bring it in before lunch?

[kaytee87]

Your*

[TittyGolightly]

Get a dryer.

Ah, great idea. Pay though the nose for something that runs off fossil fuels rather than hanging stuff for free outdoors and letting nature do its thing. Genius idea.

No wonder the human race is fucked with that sort of thinking.

[MiggeldyHiggins]

There really couldn't be a less reasonable time to barbeque, 2pm Sunday of the June bank holiday.

[BakedBeans47]

BBQing at 2pm on a Sunday is fine. You’re obviously letting the other issues you have with them cloud your judgement

[River93]

Perfect time and actually I’ve got a BBQ just starting now

[Fatted]

I don't think this is about the BBQ at all really is it?! You don't like the neighbours do you?! Unfortunately in the summer, people will come outside in their gardens and if you don't get along you have to decide if you want to go outside as well when they're there or just go somewhere else!

I live in a terrace. Everyone's garden is on top of every one else's. There's no getting away from a BBQ if someone half way down the street has one! I just hang my washing up outside and deal with it.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

Hang it out early or hang it out the evening before if you don’t want to get up early. Either way will be dry by lunchtime. Or get up ten minutes earlier and peg it out during the week before work.

BBQs twice daily would be annoying too but nothing you can do apart from organise yourself better.

[Bigkingdom]

My partner works Sunday nights so we have done BBQs at around 2-3pm before he leaves at 4:30pm. Don’t see the issue. My neighbour does them at any time from lunchtime onwards.

[TheStoic]

Oh god you sound awful!! I would watch a reality show of you and your neighbours though.

[ToadOfSadness]

You can hang your washing out any time. What a weird, self-centred gripe. That is the whole point of an outdoor space, to socialise and enjoy, not merely a place to hang laundry.

Not entirely. There is another point to outside space, fresh air and peace and quiet to enjoy your own garden, sadly that is becoming a thing of the past, even in detached houses and semi rural or rural areas where there are neighbours because then they have children that ride on mini tractors and mopeds right by your house rather than in the field out of the way but that is used for testing bike engines and repairing old cars.

A BBQ is an unpleasant thing to smell but it happens, however all day every day is selfish and inconsiderate, along with the yelling and screaming that goes with it. Unfortunately people don't give a stuff any more about anyone else.