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.

My old neighbour used to accuse me of locking a stray cat in her shed so that it would cry all day when she had been on nightshift.

I never saw or heard this cat so don't know if she was making it up or was genuinely a bit mad

My neighbour took down the wired fence and posts between our gardens one week while I was away. They now insist that I replace them with wooden fences as I have children and they are adults. When I asked why they took down the wired fence their response was that I'm a good neighbour better than the previous ones and that they lost garden space due to fencing posts and wired fencing. There are no documents which show who is responsible for the boundary as the landlord checked

My neighbour thinks we are unreasonable for not allowing him to extend into our attic, or as we call it our DC’s bedrooms.

I moved, on my own, into a 1930s semi, solid brick. I took the disgusting oilcloth up from the kitchen floor to find a perfect quarry tile floor. Elderly neighbour saw me throwing away the oilcloth and then complained that she could hear my kitchen chairs on the floor. But she couldn’t hear her dog barking all day.The dog barking was the fault of my cat because it sat in a tree in my garden. I sold the house to a very loud voiced woman with two small but equally loud children.

I sold the house to a very loud voiced woman with two small but equally loud children.
On purpose, or just serendipity?

That my baby doesn’t smile at her but does smile at other neighbours. He’s 8 months old. Not joking.

Years ago when I lived in my first flat, my neighbour called round to tell me off for sneezing too much. Not too loud, mind you, but too often. I had hayfever.

Back in the day when i lived in my first flat, neibour and i shared a landing, she used to leave very early for work and her milk was delivered after she left, so it sat out all day.
Her complaint was that by having my heating on in my flat in the daytime i was souring her milk

That my dog barks at her son (when he's calling her over and banging on the fence)

That my dog doesn't like her husband (my dog has great taste)

I put my bin to close to her car when it's parked 3 inches over my drive.

The neighbours who lived in the flat downstairs from me complained that my cough was disturbing them at night. Well pardon me for breathing! Thankfully,they've now moved and the new neighbours are lovely.

Our neighbour complained

1. that we left our bins where she could see them.
2. There were rats in her garden which were coming from ours (or maybe the fields behind our house??)
3. That we removed bush out of our own hedge leaving a gap
4. That we wouldn't let her bring someone in to shoot magpies with a shotgun from her garden. It was illegal anyway as the gun was too near the road.

My neighbour complained my washing flapped in the wind and was an irritating distraction. He told me to check the deeds to my house because he was sure it wasn’t allowed. I responded that I was a lawyer, and as we’d only just bought the house, I had recently read through the title documents, and I could confirm there was nothing about my washing in there.

He threatened to build a 20ft fence so he couldn’t see it from his raised ground floor windows. My husband intervened as I was about to lose my shit and we ended up buying one of those whirligig things and putting it at the far end of our garden.

Still don’t know if it was the garish colours or the presence of underwear which bothered him the most.

OP, since the neighbour is a vegetarian she should not have a dog, because dogs eat meat.

I’ve got a good one from friends down the road: their neighbours complained they fed the birds and the birds were too squawky.

We have a neighbour who once told me she'd had a tradesman in to do some jobs while they were on hols and she'd complained to whichever company he worked for because he'd used every one of their four toilets. She apparently knew this because the blue loo block things had dissolved.

Imagine being on the receiving end of that..

My neighbour once texted me moaning because i had a shower at 11.45 pm. I wasn’t singing or shagging in there, just showering. But apparently because her child was ill and they had chosen to arrange the room that adjoins my bathroom with the bed head right up against the party wall, and then both sleep in that room, me having a shower at NEARLY MIDNIGHT in my own house was unreasonable. I’d worked 13 hours running a christmas market in an industrial building that day and was knackered and freezing my tits off. So i had a hot shower when i got in. But even if I hadn’t done all that - i can have a fucking shower in my own fucking home right? Can you tell i am still not over this?

Our neighbours put a snotty note through our door saying our dogs had woken them up at 9am by barking.

I'd been out with the dogs for half an hour by then, and would have been a good mile away, so the neighbours must have had bloody good hearing - and this was during term time and they were both teachers, so what were they doing still in bed then anyway?

My dson's neighbours complained that my 1 year old dgc was making too much noise in the bath and started banging on the wall. It was 9 o clock in the morning and because they work nights and sleep in the day they expected no one else to live during the day. Though they had no problem coming and going at all hours banging doors.

I once had a neighbour who told us not to sit in our garden in the summer as her windows were open and her parrot could hear us and it was upsetting him (parrot). She also told me once to move my car from outside of my house because there was nowhere for her daughter to park when she visited.

On purpose, or just serendipity?

House for Sale - to LOUD family only

We had one that complained that because we had a rabbit, she was dragging hay and sawdust into her house on her slippers when she went into her garden She wanted us to move him to the other side of the garden. I don't know how she thought the hay and sawdust were getting into her garden, because there was quite a high wall between the rabbit hutch and her - and our own garden didn't have any hay or sawdust in it!

Next door neighbour complained we woke him by starting the car and driving off at 2am.

I was in labour and heading to hospital

A downstairs neighbour once banged on our door and demanded that I come and look at her flat because she'd had burglars. I suggested she call the police but in the end she was so insistent I capitulated and went to make sympathetic noises. Her flat was a bit messy but fine, and when I asked what had been taken she told me they'd stolen her knitting patterns.

Apparently our cat winds her dog up on purpose. Or maybe it's just a yappy little bugger.