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Neighbours are bloody annoying

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Sendhelppls · 02/06/2019 08:48

Hello, more of a rant than aibu but if anyone's got any advice that would be fab!
I live in a terraced house, each side of me are completely noise free (aside from the occasional row between mum and teenaged daughter on the left). There is a family two doors along and the dad is an alcoholic, nearly all day he stands in his front garden drinking cans of cheap beer and smoking. His friend lives around the bend in our road (it's a crescent shape). I know this is his friend as they often like to meet up outside my house and talk/laugh as loudly as they can while drinking at all hours. Today it was 7am (my baby wasn't even awake yet!) I actually had to get up and shut my window because it seemed to me that his friend was trying to laugh as loud as possible to wake people up!
Most evenings they will sit in the friends car with all the windows down under my bedroom window and have loud conversations until early hours. The other night I did call 101 as they were sat outside in the car drinking and making noise from about 8pm and were still there when I went out at 10am and I could actually see the driver swigging cans of beer.
Aibu to think that having extremely loud conversations at 7am on a Sunday and until the early hours most nights in a residential street is out of order? I feel like people will think I'm petty but I think this mans laughing and talking is ruining my sleep, I can hear him most nights while I'm laid in bed (windows closed) and now he's woken me up on my bloody lay in

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EnterUsernameHere · 02/06/2019 08:56

I can completely understand your frustration but I couldn't really get past that he is a father & lives there as part of a family. That's so incredibly sad for the other members of his household.

Sorry, no help but I sympathise.

Sendhelppls · 02/06/2019 09:00

EnterUsernameHere yes he has two young boys who play outside all day and a wife who stays indoors, I do feel for the boys as they are pretty much left to their own devices until the wife calls them in for dinner etc. My theory is that the wife doesn't let his friends in the house because of the drinking and noise and that's why they choose to sit outside.

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hazell42 · 02/06/2019 09:05

It is illegal to be in charge of a vehicle, (ie inside the vehicle with the keys), even if the engine is switched off, when you are over the limit.
Call the police and tell them you suspect him of drink driving
Or alternatively, and, let's be honest, more bravely, go outside, knock on the car window and ask him to park somewhere else.
Though not until he is sober enough to drive.
You might well find that, if you summon your bravery, he will just go away. Be polite. 'Sorry, chaps, do you mind just moving away from the house, my baby is asleep and your -ridiculously loud- laughing is disturbing her.'
If that fails, then call the police

HotChocolateLover · 02/06/2019 09:05

My DH had to go and ask our neighbours two doors down to turn their shit music down last night. I just think it’s so entitled of people to think that the who street wants to hear what they’re listening to for hours on end 😡 I don’t mind hearing a bit of a thump when it’s on low but blaring out, no, that’s not on and unfair. We can’t enjoy our garden.

Sendhelppls · 02/06/2019 09:42

I did call the police and say he was drunk in a car, gave them his reg number and location and they didn't turn up. It IS entitled of people to think they can make whatever noise they want at whatever time and everyone else wants to listen. I would never dream of standing outside someone's house making so much noise under an open window at 7am on a Sunday!

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