Fucking barbecues...

[Hellbentwellwent]

The weather is gorgeous where we are, it’s been beautiful all week, perfect for line drying washing... except it’s not. Every last bastard on our road has decided to have a barbecue, pretty much Midday straight through to the evening there’s a bbq going somewhere. It’s driving me mad having to tumble dry our washing in this weather! I thought we were in luck earlier and put out my sheets... I’ve just had to go out to retrieve them as there’s at least two bbqs on the go now and my sheets now honk

Does anyone else think bbqs are antisocial or is it just me?

Our neighbours are from New Zealand, their BBQ's always smell amazing!

Our neighbours and us always text each other to give warning in case you want to take washing in

My neighbour will BBQ every evening from March till about late September if its not raining. If it is raining he's been known to erect a gazebo to do it.

I can deal with the BBQs now he's got a gas one and doesn't use the lighter fluid that stank the house house - the garden noise and evening drinking almost break me on a normal summer - in lockdown it broke me weeks ago.

YABU having a BBQ any weekend in summer especially a bank holiday weekend is absolutely normal behaviour and I really wouldn't expect anyone to notify anyone else of such a normal activity. it is nothing like pre- lockdown telling your neighbours you're having a late night party a week on saturday to celebrate son's 21st so it might be noisy

BBQ's are wanky, my neighbours love them, they are also WANKY

@Frlrlrubert

I'm with you - contemplating with awe and horror the idea of putting SUCH a priority on laundry. There's a woman a work obsessed with it to the point of being teased whenever she's in a mood at unexpected rain, because she just starts grumbling about her washing line.

I can tolerate doing my laundry, but I refuse to give it heads pace or priority in my life, let alone be so fucking tedious as to think it should affect other people's.

I am on the fence. It's perfectly possible to have a bbq without being anti-social. I am not sure what people use if they need to smoke the neighbourhood, I don't even close my own windows when we have bbq.

If your neighbours produce somehow that much smoke and stench that you have to close windows and put the laundry inside, YANBU.
Most of my neighbours are considerate, and whilst you can smell them a little bit, there bbq are no bother, neither are mine.

You can get the smell of BBQ as an air freshener

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Stop complaining, don't do any washing, and have a barbie yourself.
Get some sausages and some wine and beer, and have yourself a lovely time. !!

If BBQs were banned, what would MNetters moan about?

Bonfires, all of them, EVER, even on Guy Fawkes day
Smokers, all of them, ANYWHERE
Trampolines in gardens, all of them
Hot tubs/chavvy sex ponds, all of them

You are supposed to use your garden to read philosophy in silence only, and never if there's ever a chance you can overlook your neighbours in their gardens.

@AvonCallingBarksdale it’s lovely but also not at the same time. Also means we’re miles away from the nearest shops and no takeaways deliver here so every day things are a bit more of a chore, but no neighbours moaning about bbqs, bonfires, barking dogs or sex noises

If I ever get to the point where I see lovely weather and think 'ooo, I could wash the sheets' I know I'll have reached peak boring

this^

If BBQs were banned, what would MNetters moan about?

Fireworks. It's always fireworks.

YABU. I love a barbecue and I care not a jot when our neighbours have one either. One of the joys of having your own garden over summer! Afraid your sheets will always lose v delicious barbecued meat and veg and cold beer

Early morning wash? It'll be dry before lunch

I always get my washing out by 9am. By lunchtime its dry or would be dry enough to finish off inside. yabu.

Just tumble dry them. I haven’t line dried in years.

Anti-social having a bbq in your own garden? We are doomed as a species.

You wouldn't have an issue if you put the washing out earlier and took it in sooner.

Then everyone would be content.

I love the smell of a BBQ. My washing is still out, my neighbours are having a BBQ right now. It's not wafting over so I reckon the washing will be ok

Bbq food is so massively overrated. Why not just cook it inside and eat it outside. YANBU

Why not just cook it inside and eat it outside.

because it tastes better on the bbq..

It’s not just you, OP.

I hate barbecues. It baffles me how they became a symbol of English summer. Picnics,yes. Barbecues? Only if you are Boy Scouts on a camp site!

The stench of meat at various stages of cooking, the smoke, the poor hygiene. Yuck.

We are definitely in a minority though, there is no going back.

We don’t bbq much but I love the smell of them. Never lingers on my washing either.

I have asthma and so does my son - usually smoke is a trigger but luckily bbq smoke isn’t

Don’t mind bbq smell. It’s the wood burners and bonfires that are driving me potty

Another YABU. It's the smell of summer. Embrace it. I bet you don't like the smell of cut grass