AIBU to ask what your silliest complaints from neighbours are

[Brockaslass]

We have had a load of complaints from one neighbour, her issue was originally boundary issues with our social housing landlord but then she started with us. But here is a few of the silliest.

1. That our rabbit is making her dog bark 24 hours a day. Even though he comes inside part of the day. Supposingly he stamps and makes her jack russel bark. Who is left outsdie all day.
2. That despite having a 3 bed property with room to expand and only 1 child, we had baby clothes on our washing line indicating I was pregnant and she rang the landlord to demand they move us if we are having a baby. "They were actually my DS' dolls clothes". Our housing officer supposingly offended her by telling her we could have 3 or 4 more in that property before we run short of room and didn't clarify that I wasn't pregnant.
3. That we watered her garden one hot summer while she was in hospital
4. That my then 2 year old had walked on the snow on her driveway as we walked him around the cul de sac stamping in fresh snow. (He was about a cm over the boundary, which couldnt be seen because of the snow)
5. That when we are away we allow workmen who work for landlord to park their van on our drive depot is too far away and workmen lives down road with no parking suitable.
6. That her cat likes to sit under the shelter our sons play house creates and wont come in when it rains if he is comfortable, she thinks we should go out and chase him.
7. That the mushrooms growing in her wooden bark border, must be coming off our concrete patch adjoining her garden. Despite the obvious lack of growing medium.
8. That in a meeting we has with housing officer about her complaints, we used sign language because my husband is deaf, she claimed we could be insulting her, despite our housing officer explaining that wasnt the case as he also signs, and us speaking at same time for her benefit. She then decided housing officer was in on it all too.
9. That her 32 year old son is always singing kids songs all day and annoys her because his bedroom is next to my 6 year olds who plays them on his xbox and they get stuck in his head. (Not sure why she can't just tell him to shut up)

10. Funniest of them all is todays, she has rang our emergency repairs line even though hers is private to complain that at dinner time we were cooking meat and she could smell it, and as she is a vegetarian (which I didn't know till now) we must be doing it delibrate. She then complained that the call handler wasn't taking her seriously when she was told that the repairs line is only open on a Sunday for valid emergencies. An inspector rang us shortley after to let us know another complaint had been made, and struggled to tell us for laughing about it.

So come on what's your funniest and silliest or prettiest complaints from neighbours or anyone in fact.

Laundry hanging out at weekwnds was unseemly. DH had trellising built around the rotary line so they couldn't see it. Fast forward 18/20 years and they were dear friends whom we lovedm

My husband had an office built in our garden and our neighbour over the road complained as we didn't consult them on the colour we painted it (they called it offensive).

Our neighbour asked us not to pile up our grass cuttings as it would attract snakes .-Just as well he didn’t know about Hissing Sid who lived under the shed next to his fence-

our Ukrainian neighbours told the royal mail driver not to park his van outside her house as it was difficult to reverse off. And asked us to do the same as it was awkward if on our side, they're only there about 30 minutes.

My ex-neighbour complained that my toy breed dog watched her deliberately while she was sunbathing and made her feel exposed.

She also made a complaint that my cat caught a mouse and left a tail on the pavement.

Strike through fail !

She sounds nice op

My grandmothers neighbor was incensed at the fact my boyfriend at the times car was white as it gave him a headache when parked outside his house.

Nothing as crazy as some, but ours did ask us to pay for a new fence as our tree had supposedly pushed it over. Said tree had been dead for years and we only left it there to support a rose, and there fenceposts had rotten from the ground up. As fenceposts do.

I'm creasing myself laughing at some of these!!!

Your neighbour sounds like one of my old neighbours! :O

We have cats, she was insistent they were solely responsible for the poop on her front garden. I knew they weren't as mostly they stayed indoors - but I'd clean it for her just because I didn't want to cause any trouble. Then when my twins were born and had just come home after a 4 month NICU stay, we decided to keep the cats indoors to stop me having to do it whilst recovering from a c-section.

She banged on my door every night for a week at around 10pm (she knew the babies were home as she'd seen them) and was shouting through the letterbox 'your cat's shit!' - even went so far as to get her 30 something year old son to drop a load of it on our doorstep :O

DH then succinctly told her where to go. In her ramble she told us that she had specifically asked the council to place her were there were no pets of any kind and no children - the area had SEVERAL of both. A family moved in next door to her when we were due to move out and the poor father had to put up with no end of HA complaints from her about his lovely DC.

She also once told me she could hear my twins crying from her house (it was about four doors down from us) and that if I didn't find a way to shut them up she'd have the council evict me for noise disturbance... we were private renters and told her this, didn't matter as far as she was concerned the council could still get rid of us for being a nuisance.

About 20 years ago we had a neighbour who didn't like cats and we had a cat. Trouble was he wasn't any old cat but a cat with real character. She knocked and complained a few times that he would sit staring in through her patio door or kitchen window and she didn't like it!

Best one was when she said that he kept ringing her doorbell or using the door knocker. He was a tall cat and would ring our doorbell all the time.

She said I had to make sure he stopped. A couple of weeks later she complained that he was still doing it. I said I had told him but he chose to ignore me.

Told me my kids (who were quietly playing in the garden making flower perfumes) had made so much noise that it caused her to think she was having a heart attack and so had called 999 and had an ambulance come out (she was fine).

Apparently we have, in the past, stolen the neighbour’s gas and electric, despite being on card meters. We also block her landline. Is that a thing? Can it even be done?

The neighbour before us (who should have, at least morally, told us that next door lady is fucking batshit) was accused of stealing her massive koi by climbing the wobbly 6 foot fence and putting them in the sink sized pond in our back garden. She must have folded them in bloody two to do so!!

Oh, we also broke in at 2am and laid all the fridge contents on the dining room table. Ok, then! The great thing is that when we spoke to her grown up daughter (lady is probably about 80), she said there’s always 2 sides to every story. Yeah, that’s right. 🤪

Love this. Makes my neighbours seem fairly normal for complaining that we pee too loudly

Same neighbourhood - we had a dog that climbed our big apple tree she phoned the police to say we had the dog spying on them and he was invading there privacy, bloody dog didn’t tell us any juicy gossip and the police come round and asked to see the dog climb the tree as they had never seen it and it sounded funny they promptly told the neighbour not to waste there time again.

Years ago when I was still living in my childhood home, a neighbour always complained when my DM washed her car as the soap suds dared to trickle onto the road outside her front garden.

Neighbor's complained to council because our farm cat was killing birds and vermin, its cats said job. Changed there attitude when they seen a huge rat running past their windows on barn convertion. Neighbor 2 adores her precious westy and had a go at me because our house cat which is a Maine coone was frightened her westy because apparently it was sitting on my daughter bedroom window staring at the westy that had been barking

Neighbor told me our hedges were breeding mosquitoes and insisted that I cut it down or she can arrange for someone to do it and send me the bill. I refused as her husband sits outsides smoking and likes to look over the the hedge at us

Neighbour downstairs asked us to put in carpet because apparently they can hear it when our 3kg dog walks around upstairs. His claws are making noise

How do we nominate this for classics?

"Your cat goes outside, it doesn't listen when we tell it to go away"

My neighbour complained that I reversed my car into their fence and knocked it down.

It was their son. His car had a massive dent in the back and mine had not a scratch. How they thought they could pull that one I do not know.

Please could you not leave your kids wellies on the door step it makes the street look common??

That I had the audacity to ask her (five) feral little darlings to get out of my garden after I caught them running around and jumping on the trampoline screaming their lungs out. Uninvited!

OP Your NDN might just have a great sense of humour and is only joking.