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Do all neighbours turn into inconsiderate twats during hot weather?

69 replies

Neededastealthname · 09/07/2018 09:35

Why do they send their children out to play in the street right in front of my house every evening whilst I am trying to get my toddler to sleep? They have perfectly good gardens!

Why do they think chucking their dogs in the garden to bark at 4:20am is acceptable? Maybe if the dogs were walked the poor things wouldn't be so frustrated that all they do is bark!

Why do they think it's OK to be having parties until gone midnight in their gardens, rev engines, blare music, use power fucking tools to change alloys at 8pm right below my toddlers bedroom window!

I am so frustrated with the total lack of consideration!

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AnyFucker · 09/07/2018 09:36

Pretty much Angry

honeysucklejasmine · 09/07/2018 09:41

See also: driving around with windows down, music blaring, just as you've finally got a sweaty baby to sleep, at 10pm.

InCognitoZombie · 09/07/2018 09:53

Argh! My neighbours like to have a bonfire so I need to keep all windows closed in the hot weather.

Or let dogs bark constantly day and night.

Or shout and scream at each other at 2am waking me up.

Or play really loud (rock or, weirdly, spanish) music in their garden so I can't even hear what DDS are saying without shouting.

Or slam car/van doors at 6am and sit in an idling vehicle for ages (sometimes with music sometimes not)

I really wish I could afford to move somewhere isolated :(

InCognitoZombie · 09/07/2018 09:54

Those ^ are all different neighbours btw.

speakout · 09/07/2018 09:58

No sorry, I have very quiet neighbours- no louts, no children.

My neighbours 4 either side are all retired, use lawnmowers at civilised times.
I live a distance from a main road, the only noise I hear at night are owls.

Slartybartfast · 09/07/2018 10:01

and teenagers who play loud music, windows wide open, at 1.30 in the morning Angry

alittlequinnie · 09/07/2018 10:02

My husband and I were sat at the bottom of our garden last night at 10.30 at night to try and get cool.

We could see loads of the neighbours had the windows open so we were chatting really quietly and we turned our music right down and I went up to the top to make sure it couldn't be heard from there.

At that moment young man 4 doors up came out and started to kick his football up the shed and wall for 30 minutes - none stop - noise was incredible - wasn't too bad for us we were awake but there were obviously people sleeping in those bedrooms! :(

Xiaoxiong · 09/07/2018 10:05

Yes I think it's because nobody can sleep, everyone's got their windows wide open so you can hear everything more loudly than usual, and the weather makes a lot of people feel like they're on holiday so they can behave like louts.

We would never normally sit in the garden until midnight talking (just talking, no music, loud laughter etc), but it was so hot last night we couldn't bear to go to sleep until then - and I noticed my neighbours' windows open so they probably could hear us much more clearly than usual. For all I know they're fuming about us this morning.

On the car idling though - the shop next door is getting its super early morning deliveries from someone with an electric nissan van now, and it's amazing - you can hear the white noise of the tyres as it pulls up, but there's no idling or revving noise at all! I can't wait until the whole world is electric just for the quiet.

BillywigSting · 09/07/2018 10:05

Jet wash their flagging three times a week for two hours at a time. There'll be no sodding flagging left to jet wash soon.

Play football across the street, using my garden wall as a goal

And the weed. Oh my god so much weed. Makes my throat hurt.

It needs to be autumn again and soon.

CrabappleBiscuit · 09/07/2018 10:10

Hot tub in back yard of terraced houses. Very loud grandma babysitting. BBQ every night, loudly discussing std they had all had .... lots of swearing.

I like a good well used swear word as much as the next person but not punctuating normal convos.

Googling detached houses.

PhewNowIKnow · 09/07/2018 10:13

In what way are you an inconsiderate twat?

You are a neighbour too. Maybe there's stuff you do that irritates the shit out of them.

SlartiAardvark · 09/07/2018 10:13

Alternatively,

"Why do all MNers become such intolerant fun-leeches in hot weather?"

Slartybartfast · 09/07/2018 10:15

A & E are dealing with a lot of patients currently, what with the Sun, the alcohol and the Football

Tartsamazeballs · 09/07/2018 10:20

Yeh my neighbour put up a light that was on all night last night. Lucky for me it shines straight into my bedroom and is bright enough to read by. Had the option of roasting and closing my curtains (29 degrees according to judgey sad faced Gro Egg) or opening curtains and getting my retinas burnt.

I took the dog for a (quiet) angry walk at 2.30am. we saw lots of hedgehogs. It was kind of fun.

Bluelady · 09/07/2018 10:23

My lovely, lovely neighbour waters my garden for me when I'm not here. I love her to bits.

HoneyBloom · 09/07/2018 10:24

We live in a less affluent area of tenements. Little did I think about all our unemployed neighbours enjoying the good weather by sitting outside until 2am, when we have to get up at 5am to pay for their life style. I wouldn't mind a quiet conversation under my window, but they appear to think that shouting and throwing glass bottles is the only way forward.

Can't wait for the rain and cold to keep them off the streets at night...

susurration · 09/07/2018 10:31

Perhaps we could all move to the same street and be considerate and quiet?

Laiste · 09/07/2018 10:33

Screaming! Bloody screeching and screaming 20 something’s. Playing bloody croquet of all things in the garden over the road. You couldn’t make it up. The teens and little ones around here are fine.

JabberWabber · 09/07/2018 10:33

After hours and hours of shouting in and out of their flat the other day, one of our neighbours staggered out into the street because his girlfriend stabbed him in the neck.

So yeah...the hear has turned people into crazy assholes.

JabberWabber · 09/07/2018 10:34

*heat

KittyVonCatsington · 09/07/2018 10:35

Like you, OP I am absolutely exhausted today from at least two of your issues as well. Parties Sat and Sun night with loud music and shrieking, right outside my child's window and it's 28 degrees in the bedroom yet I couldn't open the window, so was up both nights multiple times to try and move my DC around, give them fresh ice packs etc. I don't mind parties but when it was 12pm last night, they were still playing loud music outside and shouting at each other outside (would have been better to move it inside) I was losing my patience.

In addition, three sets of households letting their barking dogs out beyond 10pm and all barking at each other for hours, so my efforts to soothe DC would be thwarted. I'm like a zombie today.

eyycarumba · 09/07/2018 10:38

I live in a family street with only open front gardens mostly full of benefit street esque parents who let their offspring run riot whilst they drink and smoke weed and I'm sick to death of hearing children as young as two screaming at 8/9/10 at night (not playing around or just being loud, literally just screaming at the top of their lungs) my DS5 is in bed at half 7 and you can hear it with the windows shut. I don't mind them playing out but surely they need to go to bed at a normal time on school nights? and why are the parents letting them run around shrieking? I also had the pleasure of seeing a 2/3 yr old run down our gritty, usually glass covered road yesterday to the ice cream van by himself, not a shred of clothing on or shoes. Of course, he came running freely out of an open garden whilst the mom sat drinking round the back with her feet in the pool.

BBQs and most music I don't mind, it's that the sun somehow stops some 'parents' from parenting.

PanGalaticGargleBlaster · 09/07/2018 10:39

My neighbours like to have a bonfire so I need to keep all windows closed in the hot weather.

Don't get me started. The shower of cunts who live next to me seem to run a small building practice and fill their garden with all the left over materials from their jobs which end up getting ritually burned every few months with accompanying loud music, barking dog and strong lager.

I thought I lived in a 'naice' area too.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 09/07/2018 10:39

My neighbour is reeeeallly fucking unreasonable.

Her toddler has been asked if he wants his slide in his pool and is now squealing and splashing about.

I have not been invited. How rude.

Clarabell33 · 09/07/2018 10:41

Starting to light their BBQ about ten minutes after I've gone out to hang up washing, which is clearly visible from their garden... I get it's BBQ weather but a shout over the fence or a text would save me hanging it up outside then taking it down ten minutes later and rehanging it indoors or having to rewash if I don't see/smell it before the washing absorbs it.

And having parties which involve hiring a bouncy castle which needs to be noisily inflated at 7:30am on a Saturday.

I get revenge by owning a toddler. It probably averages out in my favour tbh.