To ask about your petty neighbour experiences

[Dotty1219]

Kind of lighthearted because its so ridiculous, but also not because the cheek has actually annoyed me 😂

Backstory: DP and I live on a row of 5 houses, with a shared yard (but everyone has their own parking spaces). The house we live in used to belong to my grandparents. On the end there's another couple (I'm guessing around 60 and 80 years old) who are not very nice people. Constantly trying to control what other neighbours do, where they can park, harassing them, reporting them for silly things like kids playing in the yard, they've had issues with every single neighbour. I'm sure you know the sort. Weve never had any issues with them really as we've kept our heads down, until now when we committed the ultimate sin of using the outdoor tap to wash the dogs muddy feet. 😂
This tap is communal, we all pay a share of the water, it doesn't belong to anybody. Weve used it about 3 times in 4 years, but the nasty neighbour uses it all the time.
He told me we couldn't use it as it was broken (but I've seen him using it after this) and I've notice this week he's put a bag over it and tied it up so nobody else can use it 😂 I can't get over the pettiness. Half of me is tempted to go and take it off and use it everyday to make a point. The other half of my brain is telling me to leave it, I don't really use it anyway and not to make trouble.
I'm just absolutely gobsmacked by the audacity. Can anyone else top my petty neighbour? Would I be unreasonable to start using the tap daily to have a wash 😂 should I surrender in the tap war?

We have a neighborhood Facebook group for the street. Neighbours are frequently posting photos of dogs shitting on the grass that theyv taken from their cctv and while I detest people letting their dogs shit on that grass and not picking it up, I can’t get on board with having the time to conduct cctv surveillance of dogs shitting activity, or trying to post zoomed in photos of peoples faces so we can identify them. I just can’t.

This week one of them posted several photos of a McDonalds container lying on the road and they were all frothing at the mouth over who could possibly have left it there, pledging to all check their cctv and catch the culprit.

It’s very unlikely anyone on this street just tossed a McDonald’s bag on the ground. It’s likely blown out of a wheelie bin or off the main road. Would have taken less time to just stick it in the bin. Which I’d have done if I’d seen it. But they really enjoy their little rage fests and comparing of ‘footage’. Lots of retired and very bored people live here I guess. I just don’t have the time or energy to care THAT much about a paper bag on a road.

Oh god
We have a neighbour on our street.

I really cannot think of any better term to call him than a wanker.
He thinks because his family don't celebrate Christmas, or Halloween, that none of our street should, especially houses like mine opposite, or around him.

Anyway, about 5 years ago, I put a happy Christmas sign in my bay window, and some small fairy lights. Nothing annoying at all. You could barely see them.
I was coming out the house to pick DD up from an after school club and he was washing his car. He turned round and said "oi" at me.
Now he's a big, ripped guy. You wouldn't want to piss him off. So I politely asked what was wrong.
He entered into a shouty diatribe about my lights and banner, it was deliberately offensive, and I should take it down. I wasn't sure what to say so just said, well no. I don't want to. Then I walked away.
He did the same to another neighbour as well. Threatening police and to report to our landlord. Daftest thing ever. Another, older neighbour explained that was why people didn't join in with a local Christmas trail that other streets did.

The next year. And every year since. I've put up more, and more, Christmas decorations, and outdoor lights. And Halloween too. And slowly, so have other neighbours. He gets the right arse every year. But to our knowledge has never successfully called in police. Or my landlord (who knows I put them up and says as long as I pay the electric bill fine by him).

Probably makes me the petty neighbour but what a bully! On what do you need to be high from to think you can dictate to others what they will and won't put in their own windows or front garden?

Miserable sod. His poor kids are the only ones who don't go out with the others for Halloween. No one dares knock either as he screams at kids to f off.

Ps I didn’t mean to imply that retired people are all so pathetic as the ones we live beside! Hopefully didn’t come across that way

We live in an end terrace with a lane down the side. Neighbours on other side of lane were infuriating. On bin day they’d put their bin over in our side of the lane where mine was meant to go. I had to move their bin back or put ours on their side. They did this due to parking across this drive rather than on the drive and didn’t want the bin to be too close to the car in case it fell over in wind etc. It didn’t really work as we had to shove their bin bs m or put ours next to their car. She also put out all sorts of stuff that I was actually surprised her bin was lifted as the lid was at a 45 degree angle. They filled our bin once before it got lifted, fair enough it was put but as they didn’t collect it till about 4pm I thought I’d just get one last bag out but it was full of their shite! The weekend before they left they again had a 45degree angle lid on her bin so they put extra rubbish on top of my bin. I though this might stop my bin being emptied so I threw her crap back into her garden. The best of it is we live 5 minutes from the local tip, the both had cars, their sons had cars and vans (that were always parked outside our house and yes I know we don’t own the road but it was annoying). We now have a lovely couple there with a young baby.

I had the most horrendous neighbours living below me for years in a cottage flat. We eventually moved as they were complete cunts and scary nutters to boot. But before we moved they used to leave their puppy in all day long on its own. It grew up howling constantly. I nearly lost my mind with the stress of it as I was at home often studying part time for university.

We had a sound system with big speakers and I bought a cd that played a high pitched noise at a frequency that people can't hear but that pisses dogs right off. Every time the dog barked I whacked the sound system up full for a couple of seconds. It made a low hum in our flat and the dog shut up straight away. Kept the remote in my pocket and did it every single time that fucking dog barked.

After less than a week. No barking.

Poor dog but my nerves were ruined. Eventually the police were involved on numerous occasions due to much worse behaviour from them.

Cunts.

Oh God how long have you got.

My upstairs neighbour has tried to control every aspect of the way I live.

No using my hairdryer after 10.30pm. No barbecues in the back garden. She has complained to the freeholder about the noise made by people closing doors in my house. She called me at work one day to ask me to remove an empty bin liner which had found its way into her wheelie bin (she was wrongly convinced it was mine). She threatened me with legal action because I refused to shell out to fix a problem with her boiler.

Honestly its the most draining thing and I have completely run out of patience.

Our neighbour had a go at us for parking on our own drive. Apparently he can't reverse his massive 4x4 out of his drive without coming over on to ours. We've politely suggested he buys a smaller car, extends his driveway or learns to drive properly (previous owner never had an issue). He's not spoken to us since.

Go for it.

There's a weird little man next door but one. We have street parking and hes the sort who, if he doesnt get a space right outside his house, must spend the whole time peering out in the hope that someone leaves.
One day I was parked outside his house and remembered I had left something in the car. He was clearly watching as I spotted him opening the front door as I walked past. It was so-o-o-o satisfying to grab whatever it was and then walk off.

I had a batshit downstairs neighbour who complained to the housing committee (it was a housing co-operative) about my running water, opening and closing drawers, boiling the kettle and flushing the toilet late at night (ie after 11pm) She said that she could not get to sleep or relax until she knew I had gone to bed because she was lying there scared unless I made a noise and woke her.

At the meeting I said "Im so sorry but I havnt mastered the art of levitation yet!"

The committee, finding it difficult to keep straight faces, said that they were sorry there was nothing they could do as I was not breaking my lease. These were "lifestyle" differences.

One of our neighbours thinks he's the self appointed neighbourhood police. He is always telling people off for something or another.

During the first lockdown he stood in the street monitoring people coming and going. He reported us to the police several times for having "children's parties". Even after it was explained to him by the community bobby that the three extra children (we live in a detatched house so the reports weren't because he could hear noise, he just seen them if they were in the garden) were staying with us because SIL was working in ICU and this was allowed he reported us several more times. He ended up getting in bother because the community bobbies got fed up with him and when he reported that on his "five checks" of the walking/park area behind our houses he spotted one of our neighbours out with their child they bluntly pointed out to him that if he wanted them to start issuing fines to people being out more than the guidelines suggested then they'd have to start with him since they had reams of reports for him of his four/five/six trips out each day

He's hated me ever since the council laughed at him (the woman actually laughed because she couldn't help it) when he phoned to complain that my cat made his dog bark and he wanted to make a noise complaint against me. He still tells people the story in an outraged tone.

The woman opposite us often used to pull up behind our car (or space, if DH was out in the car) and literally inch her way forward until she was exactly on the beginning of our dropped kerb. She would open the car door and stick her head out just to check she was as close as physically possible.

Never said anything to her about it because you know you’ll never get a reasonable response from somebody who does that but it really did make parking unnecessarily difficult. People are batshit crazy.

My son and two other children were playing acorn tennis (using acorns instead of tennis balls) one afternoon when one acorn went astray and hit a neighbour's roof. It must have been a massive hit because our houses are pretty far apart. The neighbour,a man in his late-60s, went to the fence and yelled at the children that he'd "smash them" if another acorn hit his roof.

Only one week later there was a huge storm, terrifying actually, and the oak tree crashed into his house crushing half of it. Quite beautiful poetic justice.

Once got a note through the door to complain that my black bin (it was flats at the time so they were all in one area) smelled. Erm, it's a bin

Oh and in my current house I have a neighbour at the back who, when I first moved in, knocked on the door and asked if my husband was home because he wanted to talk about a tree in my garden I said no husband, just me and the kids. Apparently a tree hangs over into his garden and he wanted me to pay to have it felled. I said you're more than welcome to trim what hangs over but I'm not felling anything. He wanted to come in and go through to show me and was very offended when I said no.

Anyway it turns out he knocked on the wrong house 🙄 I don't even have an overhanging tree (didn't realise at the time as I'd just moved in and had barely been in the garden), it was my neighbours' garden. Neighbours then caved and forked out £500 to get it felled! Fools.

Our driveway is quite long and you can't see the house at all from the road but a twatty neighbour loves walking all the way to our house to stand on the driveway and shake his head at our unmown lawn. It gets mown regularly but at the moment it's so damp we don't bother- it's only grass and we're surrounded by fields. DH and I love looking at our security camera to see him trudging down the driveway. He also puts letters through our door saying we let down the whole neighbourhood with our laziness!

@LookingForSalt

My son and two other children were playing acorn tennis (using acorns instead of tennis balls) one afternoon when one acorn went astray and hit a neighbour's roof. It must have been a massive hit because our houses are pretty far apart. The neighbour,a man in his late-60s, went to the fence and yelled at the children that he'd "smash them" if another acorn hit his roof.

Only one week later there was a huge storm, terrifying actually, and the oak tree crashed into his house crushing half of it. Quite beautiful poetic justice.

Oh that's karma on a grand scale isn't it?

I'm now hoping my offended by Christmas neighbour has a Christmas decoration truck write his car off or some such other justice

Its reassuring to know my neighbour isn't the only one who is a complete arse 😂 Next door to me have some workmen in at the moment, and they've had the audacity to park on the communal yard, so no doubt next door will be getting an earful today 😂

Anyway, this has massively cheered me up. Currently waiting on some news about a poorly relative in hospital (it won't be good news 😔) and this thread has been a welcome distraction. Thank you ❤

@JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows

Once got a note through the door to complain that my black bin (it was flats at the time so they were all in one area) smelled. Erm, it's a bin

Oh you have reminded me kf kiving in fkats. We had the old fashioned steel dustbins with lids. I put a bag of rubbish in the bin with my number in the lid and got a "note". Apparently it was "my" lid on someobe elses's bin. Id moved from ab area thatbused wheelie bins and had no idea that the bin men just shoved lids back on randomly.

If we're going for poetic justice, the neighbour who wants to use our drive for reversing onto has just reversed into his own gatepost. You couldn't write it.

Someone in the flat one storey below, and to the left of ours, who acquired a dog some time after we’d bought the place.

She let the dog crap all over the balcony and only cleared it up about once a fortnight. It was utterly disgusting - smell and flies.

The woman in question was young, perfectly pleasant to speak to, not apparently at all disabled either mentally or physically, had one baby and wasn’t working. What’s more, there was loads of open space very close by, ideal for dog walking.
I was at a loss to understand how she could do it - to me there was absolutely no excuse.
I dare say some MNer will probably tell me she must have had MH ishoos though.

One of our neighbours reported us for illegal building work. We weren’t doing anything illegal - just diy - and we weren’t doing it at unsociable hours. We still have no idea who it was!

There's a young lad up the road who lives at his parents' place.

He drives his car down the road a bit, then parks outside a random house to light up and smoke weed. He's been doing it for months.
Why can't the CF do it in (or outside) his parents' place?

The Police couldn't care less btw - others have reported him multiple times but they are just not interested.

I lived in the upstairs of maisonette in London. The tenant below was a bad tempered Irish woman who had a ton of kids and a seriously drunken husband who mostly stayed away. One night she knocked him out cold with a frying pan and I had to call an ambulance. I never saw him again but she started to drink herself stupid and swore at us daily.
She painted her entire back garden area green and orange and half of the front path. If either my housemate or I were caught with a foot on her "Ireland" path we were for it.

We moved asap.

@Dotty1219

Sorry to hear about your relative in hospital
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