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.

There are some bonkers people around!
She has been dead a few years but our upstairs neighbour was an odd one at times. She complained we were putting rubbish in the recycling boxes for their papers; it was the recycling. Our cooking smells made her hungry. She claimed a water leak wasn't coming from their roof terrace- said terrace is above room where water came in.
She was nice enough just a bit odd. After she died her husband said how fond she was of us!

Daft bat used to complain to anyone who would listen ( including me but she was 90 and deaf as a post so I couldn’t be arsed to argue) that my cat was always in her yard . Course he was. She used to put out roast chicken or Ham for him on a China plate twice a day!!!

Thanks for replies, enjoy reading some of them and to those who asked how I put up with it. Frankly I find it funny at times. Maybe I'd be more stressed if my landlord, council or police entertained her but they all find them so funny, at times. Expecially my housing officer who has offered good odds on what her next complaint will be.

DD used to go round and play with the boys next door starting when she was about 7 and they were 4 and 2. the frequency ramped up over a few years, mainly in the summer and she always agreed to go over when the parents asked. Then last year when she was 10 she was being minded by my 18 year old stepson at our house (we were working late) when next door asked her to go with them just to pick the younger one up from nursery (why?). DSS saw no harm in letting her go, then 90 mins later DSS was calling us at work panicking because she had not been returned. Turns out they had taken her to ‘mind the boys’ while they did the weekly shop in Tesco! DD then admitted that she had often had to watch next doors kids while the parents got on with other jobs round the house and she just felt obligated to do so!

Obviously we put a stop to it, and they now moan to other neighbours about DD not wanting to hang out with their sons anymore! She’s a growing 10 year old girl who has nothing in common with 7 and 5 year old boys.

I feel SO lucky that while our neighbours irritate by having a visitor who dares to park in front of my house, they are really fine.

The worst they’ve done is left a parcel we’ve taken in for them for over a week.

My ‘unmentionables ‘ on the line, made her husband ‘difficult to handle’.
Said unmentionables were black, cotton knickers that comein multipacks from Asda so hardly sexy.

When I refused to tumble dry my undies rather than hanging them out to dry, she said that she was going to speak to my husband and get him to ‘make (me) see sense’ because she was sure that he wouldn’t want me ‘flaunting’ myself at other men.

Nuts

The more I read these crazy neighbour threads, the more I love my wonderful, reasonable, friendly, helpful neighbours.

Our first neighbour was somewhat bonkers too.

Our houses were set away from the road, which had a long parking bay for everyone, council private whomever.
Except mr neighbour had decided as he owned his house he took priority over us council tenants.
So he would deliberately park all 4 of his family cars in such a way he took up all the space directly outside our houses, even moving them around when someone went out or was coming home!

Or the time we had a letter from the council housing team , saying he'd complained again that we didn't close the shared front gate and local cats and dogs were getting in his front garden and fouling it and it was our fault for leaving the gate open.

Now the front gardens were all open plan all the way down, probably 6 houses? He had walled his boundary with his adjoining neighbour but that was only 4ft high anyway and the rest of the fencing running down the gardens was 3ft chainlink!
Want to explain how that stops cats?

Anyway all his complaints backfired because he invited the council round and they discovered a massive (5ft?) Round satellite dish he had set up on the coal bunker roof, weighed down with breeze blocks .... they made him remove it.....that was our fault too....

Some of these are hilarious!

Our neighbour got annoyed and shouted at everyone because the neighbourhood children were chalking on the drives of their own houses, no one was chalking on their drive🤣

Was so glad my neighbours moved after 5 years
They were really quite unpleasant.
Only when they were gone did I feel like a black cloud had been lifted..never complained once about the stuff they did..but she came round yattering about every little thing
Like our window cleaner walking in front of their windows instead of going round the path..I know he shouldn’t have done it..so tell him

She was convinced we were blocking their drains and would come round every so often to see if ours were blocked..I smugly replied they weren’t...so she had to pay for dh o rod

They’ve moved not a million miles away and his van is a magnet for the local yobs..so they’ve had to install a camera
They didn’t need that when they were next door to us

There’s more but it might get very outing

Years ago I lived in a ground floor flat with a new born baby. I was a good quiet neighbour. I once emptied my babies few inches of bath water from his plastic baby bath out onto my front porch as a- It was raining anyway and b- my back was bad and it was hard work to carry it and empty it into the shower. (We had no bath. ) The next day I had someone from the council come round to complain. I laughed with them about it and I never did it again!

Dynorod

Oh and couldn’t wait to tell me about the rat she’d seen go u dear our decking..if she thought she was going to freak me out..she had another think coming.
She was the one freaking..anyway she called the council and I think they dealt with it free of charge..the rat was probably in the vicinity on account of the chickens next door the other way to me.

My neighbour complained she could see my laundry drying.....in an airer, INSIDE my house. More specifically, she could see my "smalls" and didnt like them. In order to achieve this view she had to climb over the plants, into my flowerbeds and quite literally stick her nose to the window pane .

My shoes clicked when I walked in the path as the heels were too high.

My skirts were too short (her husband liked them) 🤮hes an incredibly lechy elderly perv.

She doesnt like my front door colour.

She doesnt like that I now have a washing line in my garden (😈😈now I hang all my best smalls there😉😉😉😈)

My water makes too much noise.

Of course she doesnt like my roses.

She is so nuts I eventually reported her to the police for harassment (that is obviously the very short list). Shes on a formal warning.

We live on a rough estate. We keep the curtains shut most of the time in winter to keep the heat in, and Hyacinth Bucket neighbour complained with ''Please open your curtains at a reasonable time, it looks common to keep them drawn''.
A new neighbour told me not to hang underwear on the line as 'we don't do that round here'.

That our household waste bin smelled when they walked past it (this was back when I lived in flats and all bins were in the same place outside the back yards). It's a fucking bin away from the flats

Report her to rspca for animal cruelty. She shouldn't leave her little dog outside all day.

My neighbours complained to everyone that I had blocked up a footpath and not provided a stile when we put up new paddock fencing. There never was a footpath, there had never been a stile and they had no right to walk across my paddock. They just thought they should be able to. Saw that one off! They moved away to harass someone else!

We have a satellite dish and that is common and lowers the tone.

I was about 14, and there was a group of us from our street who hung about.

Over the road to my house were an OAP brother and sister, they’d moved from Germany as children and settled in the street and had been there as long as we can remember.

My sister (12 at the time), her best friend (still even now who was 12) and a young lad over the road who was 11, all of us were throwing snowballs in the street and at the phone box at the end of the street. The young lad went and threw one off this couples window as a joke and the man came running out. My sister and her friend legged it, and me and the boy tried the whole divide and conquer, he caught up with me and threw me against a 6ft hedge, and had hold of my collar like you see in fights! All over a snowball. Anyway, it was fun back in those days and we were always really friendly with them. I recovered and my sister, me and her best friend still talk about it to this day, how they left me to be thrown against a hedge by this man!

The woman died, and the brother died about half an hour later and we were always told it was of a broken heart :( My parents still live in the same house as back then and the house they lived in, it’s regularly rented out to this day. No people stay there longer than 6 months - were convinced the brother and sister haunt it. Not really a complaint but this was the first thing I thought of when I opened the thread!

My neighbour complains all the time about being able to smell my cooking. He's very happy now because I often do an extra couple of portions of lasagne for him and his daughter cos they're great neighbours and great friends. He does love my cooking

Oh and when my Gran had an extension built (like the other 90% of houses in her street), her next door neighbour posted a bill through Gran’s door for her satellite dish to be moved as it was ‘blocking it in’. It wasn’t. At all.

@Jeleste unfortunately I can well believe your downstairs neighbour can hear your dog, although they are totally unreasonable to ask you to put carpets down. I've got a 2.5kg chihuahua cross and he stomps around upstairs, I genuinely didn't know dogs could stomp, but he does 😂

One of my neighbours complained that I accepted their parcel even though they were home. The delivery driver wouldn't have knocked on my door and given it to me if they'd bothered to answer when he called...

Oh @TheTruthAbloutLove that’s a bit chilling.

That we fried onions and they could smell them ‘several times a week’ (whilst I was pregnant with a severe aversion to onions)
That our birds (budgies) we’re keeping them up late at night and early in the morning (they were covered and didn’t make a peep, it was the wild birds outside)
That our first baby was crying in the night, so they’d wait for her to stop, go to sleep, then hammer on the walls.
That we dared to have children, in a 3 bed semi detached house on an estate full of children, that they brought up their own kids long before in their house.
That our DC were shouting and swearing at video games late at night, nope all under 8, no consoles, in bed at 7 and definitely no swearing!
That We did DIY (at all, at any point ever)
That We hoovered (the stairs especially are a sticking point apparently)
We got a dog last year, in close proximity to the our back garden is around 14 houses, 9 of which have a minimum of 1 dog but it’s always ours that’s barking (even when he’s gone to my mums because we need a dog sitter)
They moved into their house when it was first built 60 years ago and behave awfully because they believe they have more right over living here how they want than anybody else, it’s exhausting but thankfully the rest of the neighbours are lovely!
(This has really helped getting it out )