BBQ etiquettes

[welshcath]

Anyone else remember a time when if you were having a bbq you'd let your neighbours know if they had washing on the line.
Boiling hot day here and neighbour has lit bbq right by our fence using what must be a whole bottle of lighter fluid.
I have a full line of washing and all the windows open.
Aibu to expect them to have just shouted over so I could have got the washing in?

I feel your pain except I came home from work to see the BBQ going right next to our fence. Husband was getting the toddler down for a nap so hadn't noticed so didn't get the washing in. Very frustrating

Its the done thing these days to be selfish and do what you like as only your happiness is important. So you can have as many parties as you like, sit in the garden laughing all night, put music on in the house with hour windows open so as you can hear it at the end of the garden, leave dogs barking all day and night, play music at 8.15 in the morning and leave it on all day for the dog, get your kids to kick their football at the fence for hours on end, and have as many bbqs as you like. Didn't you know?

I agree with you @TabbyMumz, yet on a previous thread (also about smoke) you said an OP should just shut her windows to accommodate an idiot with a daytime bonfire, so which is it?

OP I sympathise. We all know it's "the season" for chimneas/BBQs etc, but a little consideration if you can see someone's washing is out, goes a long way.

Wink.....i just think sometimes the people who moan about bonfire smoke are the ones who actually have bbqs most of the summer. Seems to be the case with my neighbours anyway. (I don't have bonfires by the way)