To be annoyed at my neighbours?

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I told them two weeks ago that we were having a big skip delivered today and that we would be parked on the road outside our house due to the skip being on the drive.
Got up at 7.30 to move the cars off and one of their cars was already in front of ours right up to the gate post 😡 not only that but low and behold a skip wagon turned up and backed on their bloody drive with a skip!
So that’s going to be their 2 cars and our two in the road in our small avenue, if they’d have shifted all their pots to behind their gate they could have got one car in front of their skip, like I’ve planned to have mine, if the wagon can manage to get back far enough.
It also seems like every time we start something in the garden they have to do the same and he’s got a loud booming voice that grates when we’re just sat in the garden and a dog that barks if a blade of grass moves. Anyway, I just need a rant, our skip still hasn’t turned up so we can’t do any more work until it comes 🙄

I think I'm going to like this thread

For some reason the thought of being angry at a skip which is actually possibly yours is giving me a good laugh !!

Stop telling them what you’re doing if you don’t like them doing the same?

We have had skip arrive at 5.30 am before. Definitely sensible to move your car the night before...

I can see skipgate in the distance.

It's probably your skip OP. Why would the neighbours order a skip when they don't need one ?

Posting to see when it's revealed whether this is actually OP's skip or not

Not my skip, ours is twice the size.
Ours came at 12.00 - my annoyance was that they parked in front of ours when they knew full well we would need to park there, if you could see our tiny avenue you would understand.
I’m suitably chastised about the ‘low’ and behold mistake, being a fellow grammar pedant 😉
Oh well, my pent up rage has abated thanks to shoving stuff into the skip, it was 1/3 full when DH was called into work for a meeting, I’ve almost filled it and there is a desk, a carpet and several bin bags of assorted crap to go in yet! 😱

Got up at 7.30 to move the cars off and one of their cars was already in front of ours right up to the gate post

The early bird gets the worm - and the parking space!

I wish I’d have filmed our skip being put on the drive, talk about threading a needle 😮 I think half my neighbours came out to watch.
My car does fit in front of it with no overhang onto the pavement though, so that’s a relief.
My back is well and truly knackered 😢

What a waste of money you could have gone halves and got a huge skip between you.

Not really, mine’s the biggest that
would fit on the drive , a bigger one would have needed a bigger lorry and it was awkward enough with the one that came - it wouldn’t have been fair to block half the street off with a 16ft skip on the road .

Don't worry OP - if you have too much stuff for your skip, just pop the rest in your neighbours

That should keep this thread going for a bit!

As you have not done a diagram I cannot tell you if they were unreasonable or not to park where they did. From your description it sounds like they parked in the street so not unreasonable of them. I stand to be corrected by a diagram!

I do feel sorry for you with a loud and brash neighbour. My brother lives next door to one who competitively parents (amongst other things) and is most odd, what is normally just annoying behaviour is sending my brother up the wall in lockdown.

I guess they parked on the road so the skip could go on their drive. I am not sure why that arrangement is OK for you but not for them?

It must be some ongoing issue for then to book a skip at the same time.
When I last had a skip it was £250 and there's no way I'd care enough about a neighbour to drop hundreds out of spite.