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To think that I have the most petty neighbours in the world?

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Reallybadidea · 29/08/2019 22:04

Previous complaints have included:

the sound of our bathroom extractor fan is annoying
our dogs look at their dogs through the fence (not barking, just looking)
our standard 6ft high fence causes too large a shadow
our visitors parking in front of our own house which is where the neighbours like to park

And the latest: there is an apple in their garden and they don't own an apple tree. We do, therefore we must have thrown this apple into her garden. Even if we did (which we didn't) it's just a fucking apple for Pete's sake

Has anyone got neighbours who have even more trivial complaints, or do I win some sort of prize?

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ChickenTikkaTellMeWhatsWrong · 30/08/2019 04:21

A list FfFfSSSS!!!!

Jesaminecollins · 30/08/2019 04:51

I rarely speak to my neighbours which suits me just fine. I can't see into their gardens because my garden is surrounded by high trees and bushes. The only time I see them is when I go onto to my front drive to get into my car. They also both work which is great because I work from home.

Just ignore them and they will get fed up of trying and leave you alone.

FlamingoQueen · 30/08/2019 06:43

My NDN in our previous house was lovely, but crazy too. She hated it when we put our house on the market and it sold in 4 days. She thought her house was much better than ours (it wasn’t!). She even came to look round the house that we were buying in the few days after we’d put our house on the market but before it was sold (so she acted pretty quickly). The owners of this house told me!

My NDBO neighbour here is obsessed by parking in our cul de sac. It is a lovely road and no one else has issues, but she’s knocked on my door several times to ask us to move our car. The last time she did this I said I didn’t like the fact that she always moaned at me and had actually waited until DH took the dog out before coming round. Her face told me that wasn’t the case, but I think it rattled her. She is known as a moaning Minnie by people in the surrounding streets too. She hates me and DH after I once shouted at her son from my bedroom window as he was effing and blinding at her and then shoved her. I just saw red and yelled at him! He was 18!
My NDN are actually lovely people. My other NDN are actually moving out today so hopefully the new neighbours will not report my dog for staring at them or moan about stray fruit!

walkinwar · 30/08/2019 07:10

We were doing a very large renovation- ok it was a knock down rebuild we had to submit our plans to council for approval, they were within the guidelines but they still go to neighbours while they are reviewing. When we initially talked to our neighbours they about our plans they said it was fabulous and would be great for the street etc however they sent a 10 page letter to the council requesting changes! We went back to our architect and made some major changes to the design to keep them happy, then resubmitted it delayed the build by 6mths (meanwhile we were living in the nearly condemned house with young children). Shortly after we changed the plans as per their request they put their house up for sale and moved!!

PutyourtoponTrevor · 30/08/2019 07:11

I wouldn't like the dog poo stink either, just because it's raining doesn't mean you can't pick up...you won't dissolve.

Our neighbours used to leave their dogs shit for days, was particularly bad in the summer. We pick up after every crap regardless of the weather

madcatladyforever · 30/08/2019 07:12

I really don't know how you bear it. I'd start going slowly insane. They would love my religious practices, I'm a pagan.
I suggest you start doing some rituals in the garden every full moon. Skyclad.

Drogosnextwife · 30/08/2019 07:22

@qwertyyuiop

Well it's a 4 in a block and we are bottom left. He is top left. The neighbours on the right agreed to split their garden and built fences years ago. Out my back door there is an area along the length of the house which belongs to me, then a shared "drying green", as they call it beyond that, then beyond that the garden is split into his side and my side. He won't let me build a fence over the shared drying green! Just won't come to an agreement of where to put the fence. I even offered to split it so that he ended up with more of the drying green than me, yet he still seems to think that I would have to purchase a bit of land off him .
My mum thinks we should just build the fence, she doesn't think they would be able to do anything about it. DP says he would be within his rights to tear it down.

BustedDreams · 30/08/2019 07:24

@madcatladyforever does Skyclad mean NAKED

Clutches pearls.

spanglydangly · 30/08/2019 07:36

Some of these are just hilarious, sone not so like the widowed woman and the hedge, that's nasty!

FattyPeddledFuriously999 · 30/08/2019 08:02

Does your dog have black curly hair around the eyes? If so this is their weapon of choice in winding up other dogs 'the stare'. It works so well cos dogs read each others eyes to assess but because the dark curly hair obscures this, they soon realise this and find it rather entertaining.... If this is the case then short back and sides for your dog should do the trick

I also have to take exception to the extractor fan.... The downstairs flat has one attached to their ceiling (my floor) and the loud hum if left on for yonks is really irritating.

I think the one about not putting flowers at the window so they can see your dog is soooo sweet!

Sara2117 · 30/08/2019 08:04

We live in a tiny village, people along the lane reported our dog to the council as she had terrorised them when they went past our house on their quad bike (from behind our field gate). She is a pug

Disfordarkchocolate · 30/08/2019 08:08

Pick it up as soon as he's pooped @AnnonniMoose, she wasn't unreasonable at all.

AnnonniMoose · 30/08/2019 08:18

@PutyourtoponTrevor and @Disfordarkchocolate

I did pick it up as soon as the dog pooped! The poop she was talking about was liquidised poo from the rain (and only a bit of it), that had soaked into the ground. It would've been like trying to pick up dog pee!

Legawein · 30/08/2019 08:34

NDN moaned that their kids had to wait until I was in to throw the ball back that they'd kicked into our garden. Then also moaned that because we'd put bamboo screening up when we moved in (because they refuse to replace their fence and its their boundary wall) that the kids couldn't climb over and get it themselves like they used to before we lived here.

CornishMaid1 · 30/08/2019 08:55

I will say that if you do decide to throw knickers over, you will have to keep a complete poker face when they come around to complain and you have to say 'they can't be mine - I don't wear knickers'.

practicallyperfectwithprosecco · 30/08/2019 09:02

Our crazy neighbours complained to DH regularly about me and Teen Dd wearing bikinis and shorts in our garden.

When they put their house up for sale we were asked if we could remove trampoline as they didn't want to advertise they lived next door to children and if we could remove our garden furniture in case anyone thought their neighbours might entertain people.

We ignored both requests.

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Reallybadidea · 30/08/2019 09:14

So many petty neighbours in the world Complaining about opening an imaginary GP surgery really takes the biscuit.

@Katzia No I don't give the plums back. Mostly they go in the compost heap because I'm not a massive fan of this variety of plum. Given their willingness to complain about other things though, I'm fairly confident that they would have no hesitation in letting me know if they wanted them back!

That reminds me of the neighbour on the other side who was also upset by our apples. The tree overhangs a field which runs along the back of her garden and the lower part of ours. I went into the field one year to pick the apples on that side of the tree and she complained that she had been planning to pick them herself Yes, she was annoyed by me picking my own apples from my own tree rather than letting her have them. Turned out she'd been helping herself for years without my knowledge.

@bornonasunday I'm really sorry that some of your neighbours were so unsupportive. What is wrong with some people?!

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BlooperReel · 30/08/2019 09:26

Buy googly eyes to put on your fruit and sit them on top of your fence

Please please please do this, and upload a photo here. Go one step further and buy googly eye sunglasses for your dogs too.

My neighbours are all pretty nice, the ones opposite are very put out that we won't let them use our driveway though (we have one car but its big enough for 2) Aside from the fact its directly under our bedroom window, and they often have their DIL and kids visiting until 11pm making all kinds of racket as they leave, it's our driveway and we aren't obliged to frigging share it

carlywurly · 30/08/2019 09:34

God I am so grateful for my lovely neighbours.

Absolutely do the fruit thing. I'm giggling like a loon just thinking about that. It's harmless and hilarious. Imagine them reporting it to the police

AngelOfDeathNix · 30/08/2019 09:58

My parents live in a cul-de-sac, they are one of two end houses, both with a drive, but due to the angle of their drive and the cars they have, they can't park both cars on the drive (visitors use it instead). Their neighbour has a straightforward drive with space for three cars (four if you block one in). Last week, my dad was told that he would have to park his car elsewhere and not in front of his own house (which causes no obstruction) because the neighbour's eldest son was learning to drive and therefore they would have two cars which they couldn't possibly fit on their drive. The same neighbours have also said that they are looking into buying some of my parents garden as they don't use it all (it's never been for sale!) and they are having building work which means that my parents will have to move a shed so they can have access (nope!) The woman is absolutely batshit, last week I pulled up to drop something off and she's outside complaining that I took too long to park on the drive!

TixieLix · 30/08/2019 10:04

Luckily the neighbours were reasonable human beans

@viques, please tell me that was autocorrect doing its worst

TixieLix · 30/08/2019 10:08

Go one step further and buy googly eye sunglasses for your dogs too

I did this to my dog once. I think you should try it OP.

To think that I have the most petty neighbours in the world?

ThirdAidKit · 30/08/2019 10:08

@OhTheRoses that is lovely. How wonderful.

Grambler · 30/08/2019 10:11

My neighbour is a nice bloke but is the King of petty comments - mainly over my DC if not my politics.

"It's so unusual to hear children playing so loudly in the garden, X (other NDN) never do" which apparently was a compliment because when their kids were little they were noisy buggers too and also he think X's kids are weird for never leaving the house.

"You must tell me where you got your new double glazing, you look so very middle class eating your dinner now" - meaning he can't hear me shouting at the DC anymore and also he spends a lot of time looking into the kitchen.

viques · 30/08/2019 10:25

Tixilix

Sorry, it was me, I did it on porpoise.

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