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

249 replies

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 Hmm

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

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LoveMySituation · 31/08/2019 21:19

My ex neighbour used to have a wank early on Sunday mornings. Loudly. Must have been his weekly treat Grin Elderly man, lived alone, so I assume he was on his own..

LondonNQT · 31/08/2019 21:33

We had a lengthy email from our party wall neighbours telling asking us to delay the prospective building works on our house.

The reason being that their (second) child was due imminently and she didn’t want, and I quote, the newborns lungs to be polluted by the dust. We live in London. And we’d need a party wall agreement for said works which we hadn’t yet applied for...

She also told asked us to give her at least 24 hours notice of any loud works and the builders were not to work at all between midday and 14:00 as that’s when PFB would be sleeping. Hmm

When I failed to roll over she tried to make a spurious comment on our planning application, which was thankfully ignored.

Iamthewombat · 31/08/2019 21:36

Tomorrow, a physalis. Then a cherry. Then a kumquat. Build up slowly (stealth)

mylifestory · 31/08/2019 21:40

If anything growing in our garden overhangs our neighbours by even an inch he calls his gardener and the police!! And i am not joking ....

Iamthewombat · 31/08/2019 21:41

Really, you should have started with a redcurrant but I won’t split hairs.

Dippypippy1980 · 31/08/2019 21:43

I have to admit, my neighbours have a really loud bathroom fan, that regularly wakes me up, he motor most be faulty.

It’s really annoying. But I would never say anything.

rainbowsandrage · 31/08/2019 21:47

Our next door but one neighbour complained to our immediate neighbour that our DC’s use our garden too much! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Apparently there’s too many children in our street now so they’re moving. My two DC’s were the straw that broke the camels back apparently 🙄

Fififerry1 · 31/08/2019 22:06

My neighbour objected to us cutting down the enormous and ugly Leylandii tree at the front of our house because then people would know we were semi-detached.

LadyRannaldini · 31/08/2019 22:11

If the apples are wayward again chuck a pack of pastry over with a note 'When you've a minute............!'.

Whatafackinliberty · 31/08/2019 22:18

Hmmyou didn't though did you.

Underconstruction · 31/08/2019 22:22

You need one of these.

To think that I have the most petty neighbours in the world?
Catsinthecupboard · 31/08/2019 22:57

My dc came running into our house bc new ndn's sons were throwing ROCKS at them over our garden fence.

I gathered the rocks (size of potatoes) and took them to their mother.

Her response,"MY son's would not do this! I am a TEACHER!"
Confused

I didn't really know how to respond. I said they did. Here are your rocks.

Thankfully we moved right after that.

Malbecqueen · 31/08/2019 22:58

A mate’s mum’s neighbour would complain that she was throwing snails over into her garden...

Original poster
Reallybadidea · 31/08/2019 22:58

If you're my neighbour Whatafackinliberty then you need to look harder

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IAmTheMumWhoKnocks · 31/08/2019 23:12

Place marking - throw the pineapple 🍍

MitziK · 31/08/2019 23:32

I had a downstairs neighbour try to have me evicted from my old flat for apparently standing in my hallway repeatedly throwing the contents of a tool box onto the floor for five hours.

When I pointed out that I wasn't in any position to do that as I was in hospital giving birth at the time, but her best friend/neighbour appeared to be redecorating again when I returned from hospital, going by the sound of her boyfriend sanding the walls at 12.30am, she made a further complaint demanding my eviction because I hadn't soundproofed the concrete floor enough to stop the noise from her next door neighbour coming through.

Then there was the complaint that I had been cooking in my kitchen at 5.30pm (the horror!) so she smelled food, the one for opening my fridge door twice (as if you don't open it to take the milk out, then put the milk back), the one for switching on my bathroom light at night and using my toilet and the one where my baby was apparently 'howling like a wolf'. No love - that was your six year old left unattended on your balcony whilst you were still in bed, playing at being doggies with your best mate's kid on his balcony.

I also had a complaint for walking up the external stairs to my flat whilst wearing shoes. I should have been barefoot and tiptoeing in November, apparently.

Anonmummyoftwo · 31/08/2019 23:38

My neighbour complained because the stray cat i took in and named fudge had the same name as her dog that had passed 20 years ago. I asked other neighbours was she ok and they said no she just loves to complain. That was two years ago and if im in the garden and call fudge or talk to him she still comes out and says i upset her. My mum is friendly with her sister, she never had a dog shes highly allergic to them.

LavaLamp5566 · 31/08/2019 23:43

I once had a neighbour who got mad because my niece was giggling in my back garden. So I kept my niece inside for a few days just to see what she said. Lo and Behold - my neighbour got mad because I wasn't letting her play outside. My partner said "Make up your effing mind or move, you're batcrap crazy"

Three weeks later she moved and now I have a lovely lady living next door to me. She has three grandsons and my niece and her grandbabies love their playdates

Toomuchtrouble4me · 31/08/2019 23:45

Mine complained that she could hear our kettle - and requested that we didn’t use it before 7am. She also ‘popped round’ when we were moving in to tell us where to put our TV ( not on the party wall with her flat)
The funniest was when we had a NYE supper party - she complained from about 9 ( there were only 10 of us - no music) and at 11 the door bell was constantly ringing but nobody there - then I realised that she’d stolen our flat bell and was sat in hers ringing the ball. It was hilarious.

PotterHead1985 · 31/08/2019 23:52

@spanglydangly sadly not. We couldn't proove it was him. Even with csi fingerprint and all

rollonoctober2019 · 01/09/2019 00:18

Someone on the street behind me, so a couple houses along and accross a path, phoned the council without letting us know to complain that our gutters needed cleared as the "dripping" was keeping them awake at night. Cue me sleeping naked getting the fright of my life at a rather embarrassed council man on a ladder outside 1st floor bedroom window at 7.30 am. When questioned said the complaint came under my name, so the neighbor had pretended to be me. To be told the gutter was fine in the first place. No surprises considering neither of us had ever heard any dripping from outside our own bedroom window but they had from about 60 feet away.. After a 3 month long war about wheelie bins and an argument about dog fouling. We never had a dog. They did.. sometimes we just get unlucky! Throw apples in their garden every day if you like!

Ohthatsfabulousdarling · 01/09/2019 00:19

Hehe, we have a few.
They went to their home country, for 3 months and a parcel arrived for them, from there a few says after theyd went. DH facebooked them a week later saying we must have missed them over the week! Pop round when you have a chance to collect please. They replied they would be away for 3 months,could we keep until then- of course no problem. When they arrived home we were out, they were furious that we had stolen their parcel!

Also furious that our dog doesnt like children, so their child isnt able to stoke him!

Also they're forever and always losing their credit cards and keys outside the house. She bollocked me for having her credit card and that she would tell the police (I've since learnt to ignore it when her credit card or keys are around outside. Maybe she will learn a lesson the hard way.

The absolute icing on the cake is they broke our fence making holes so they could feed our dog tid bits. No discussion, just took it upon themselves. We started using our garden recently, they approached us with a time table to use our garden. I said no. They soon covered the dog feeding holes up and were now ignored.

supermommyof4 · 01/09/2019 00:23

I had a neighbour once who seemed to think that I could stop a 3 year old making any noise at all. With the best will in the world how the hell do you make a 3year old sit down and make no noise, this was daytime so not during the evening. Just normal 3 year old noise, singing, playing etc. I got so fed up with it we ended up moving

PurpleViolin · 01/09/2019 00:55

OP that is brilliant

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 01/09/2019 02:07

DH and I used to live in a 2nd floor flat . (Rented)

Below us was a single male resident .(First floor)
Below him another single male resident .(Ground Floor)

One night they both turned up at our door "Water is leaking from your bathroom into mine" said Ground Floor .

I checked , no leaks .
"Have you checked First Floor" I asked ."Is there water running down the wall at all "
They both looked at each other ....."No, not checked there"

So just assumed water can jump a floor . And just decided that if there's a problem its the new young people
Nosey fuckers just wanted a gawp at us and poke their noses in.