Busybody neighbour asked me to move stuff off my drive as its in her line of sight

[Bobbiebigbum]

Silly cow. It's a kids bike, a carriage and a dog blanket. They were out as I was cleaning the boot of the car. IABU to tell her to feck off? We're in a cul de sac. She has nothing better to do than look out of her window. Clearly.

@Supergirl1958 it had been there approximately 48 hrs. Cleaned my car Sunday and she knocked on my door Tuesday morning.

I am still so angry about it. I know I should let it go but I really want her to know its not OK to behave like that. She's appointed herself cul de sac chief.

I'm gleeful to see two camper vans have parked themselves in front of her line of sight today.

I live on a huge ex-council estate in Essex, we are possibly the only garden without a fridge, sofa or skip, she should think her self very lucky

Put more stuff out there.... really ugly things 😂😂

Hahah janj2301 I also live on a council in Essex some is x some is not people love a sofa out the front and when it’s nice out they sit out there on them Evan thou we all have back gardens 😂😂

I like the suggestions of putting more stuff out there. Maybe have a look on Etsy to see if you can get a 6ft concrete statue of a hand with a stuck up middle finger.

@thenewduchessofhastings

My NDN stalks us.

If we're doing anything whatsoever on the front even mundane stuff like getting into the car she hides behind the door in the front bedroom so she can watch out the window;she thinks we can't see her.......

She likes to patrol her front and back garden and have a good stare into our windows to see what we're doing.

If we're in the back garden she stands in the back bedroom trying to hide behind her curtains with the window slightly open to listen in to our conversations.

And if she's out in her garden when I am she'll made passive aggressive comments about me to her husband that are uncalled for.

Even my kids are fed up of her.

Yesterday when myself and my 15 year old daughter were sitting outside together chatting about her day at school as she'd had an important exam the NDN remarked to her husband "wouldn't it be nice if we could sit on our bums outside when we wanted to" (she can,she's 83) to which my daughters snapped back "wouldn't it nice if we could all sit out in the garden without our creepy ass neighbours watching us again".

Honestly the woman is absolutely batshit and due to some recent behaviour I think she has dementia setting in :(

Sounds like she does have dementia! Still all uncalled for, I hope she stops soon

@Bobbiebigbum

I am still so angry about it. I know I should let it go but I really want her to know its not OK to behave like that. She's appointed herself cul de sac chief.

I'm gleeful to see two camper vans have parked themselves in front of her line of sight today.

Clearly the camper vans belong to mumsnetters who have discovered your location from Google Maps and driven 300 miles to piss your neighbour off

[quote Bobbiebigbum]@Supergirl1958 it had been there approximately 48 hrs. Cleaned my car Sunday and she knocked on my door Tuesday morning.[/quote]
In fairness I expected you to say you’d just taken them out of your boot that day. Perhaps she likes a clean and tidy neighbourhood. 48 hours is a little bit more than just taking them out of your boot whilst you tidied the car! Having said that if it was my neighbour it’s just not worth the hassle to say anything!

@Supergirl1958 my mortgage, my driveway, my perogative...

[quote Bobbiebigbum]@Supergirl1958 my mortgage, my driveway, my perogative...[/quote]
Woah! Not saying it isn’t. Absolutely your prerogative! Just saying I can see why your neighbour is a little bit hacked off!

As for the comments about dementia some people need to show a little decorum...if she does have dementia and that is why she is behaving in this way it absolutely cannot be helped! My grandad god rest his soul died from dementia and he walked out into the street on a busy road in the middle of the night with no shoes on before his diagnoses (so dangerous!). One of neighbours god rest her soul hid her husbands shoes behind an electricity box over the road from our house. Things cannot be helped so I think some of the comments about her potentially having dementia are shocking!!

@Supergirl1958 I think you're in a minority of one in thinking her being hacked off for this is justified.

I would definitely be putting more "stuff" on my drive. My neighbour has well and truly annoyed me so any passive retaliation where a neighbour is concerned is OK with me. I've given up trying to please her (no probs with any other neighbours at all) so am now not worrying. If she doesn't like where I put my bins, which plants I've put in my garden or anything else I don't care. Disappointed it's not a pumpkin carriage though 🎃😂

Carriage? What’s that? Maybe the stuff in your your drive looks worse than you think it does?
Just wondering.

She sounds like my old neighbour. She complained we’d built a summer house at the end of the garden and she could see my husband standing in there as it was ‘in her line of sight’. DH just said well you could see me standing down there before the summer house was built as well then as the floor is lower than before ?!

And our new neighbour. We built a bin storage area at the front of one side of our drive for our bins, so they’re hidden away. It’s nice, grey stone on top and rendered in white. It matches the neighbours, in fact, and is right next to their wall/bin storage area. He came out and complained though that we were putting our bins on ‘his side’ next to his bins rather than on the other side of our front drive where we drive our cars in and out as that’s where the dropped kerb is?! Insane!

[quote Bobbiebigbum]@Supergirl1958 I think you're in a minority of one in thinking her being hacked off for this is justified.[/quote]
I didn’t say it was justified, and I said a bit hacked off!! Not ‘hacked off’ fully. Are you only allowed to comment if you agree with the OP??? You asked for opinions, I gave you mine! If you had gotten it out of your boot to tidy your car, and then messed up your drive with it, then I don’t see what you achieved to be honest! Fair enough if you are going to do something with it but to leave it on your drive for two days...I can see why that’s a bit annoying for your neighbour!

I’m sorry you’re offended by me not agreeing with you, but we live in a country where you asked for people’s opinions and I gave you mine!

I bloody love being in a minority me, makes me unique 😘😘

Okkkay then 🙄

I think it’s time for a yard sale

I would have thrown my head back laughing! What a d*ck

My neighbour came round a few months ago to complain that the 'poison' ivy growing on our side of her fence had killed three trees she planted a few weeks before.

I pointed out that it was OUR fence not hers and we actually dug up the 'ordinary' ivy five years ago when she first complained about it. The massive tantrum she threw on our doorstep has me seriously considering planting virginia creeper along whole 100 foot fence just so her garden gets covered in red leaves come the autumn.

But I'm petty.

Oh I would be having a big sort out of the garage bad or shes this weekend.then I would be sorting the house out and having a massive yard sale. All within your neighbours line of sight. She is batshit YANBU

I had a very odd neighbour once.

She complained that reversing my car into one of my parking spaces meant exhaust fumes would blow into her garden. She's dead now.

Our neighbour complained about our campervan being on the drive whilst we were loading it to go away and it usually lived in storage anyway

So we very kindly obeyed and parked it on the road outside their house to load it instead, right infront of their lounge window.

Sorry can't read all 250 messages- but is there something more to this.......?

REALLY give her something to look at.

Go out there every 15 minutes and dance a jig.