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.

@ScottChegg

My mum's NDN, who is a somewhat larger lady, is a complete busybody. My dad calls her the Fat Controller.

My mother has an extremely nosey neighbour and she marvels in peoples misery, my stepdad can’t stand her and she came to the door one day for my mum, and my stepdad was in the kitchen whilst NN was walking down the path and he shouted out to my mum “here’s nosey” and she heard him!

I'd like to park this on my drive.

Please, PLEASE stack shit up on your drive so she can't see anything

I would definitely do this.

Let me know if you want some help with the 3-piece and the dining table.

Silly woman. I'd have not choice but to give my garage a bit of a sort out and place objects at random along the whole length of my drive for the rest of the day.

Some very sad stories on this thread through. Some of the more extreme behaviour must be due to mental health problems but that doesn't make it any less difficult to live next and affect your own quality of life.

Your neighbour is off her head.

@Mydogisagentleman

My NDN asked me not to let my dog into the garden because his wife doesn’t like the look of him. She would need to be upstairs in order to see himself we have 7 feet walls. AND he is bloody gorgeous

I'd point out that the dog doesn't like the look of his wife, and could she please put a bag over her head when she leaves and re-enters the house.

Cheeky buggers!

There is no such thing as an ugly dog.

@Bobbiebigbum

Here's a picture. You may have to zoom in. I've taken it from just in front of her house for scale. It's the small blue collapsible bike carriage you can hardly see

Are you kidding me?!?!! Your property, her problem! You can put whatever you like on your driveway and she can do one!!!

@MrsBarnstable

Get your deckchair out, wrap some sandwiches in tin foil, make a flask and settle yourself down with a book for the afternoon Handkerchief on your head is optional

The your DH gets back make him sit out, too. He will need a string vest and should roll his trouser legs up.

@Whammyyammy

YANBU, we live in a row of 8 cottages in a row on a narrow lane. There is a track round the back where people park their cars at the end of the garden's. Our house is the only one where the front has been converted into a drive, been like it for 12 years. Had a new neighbour move in 6 months ago, after about 2 weeks she knocked on our door and asked us to turn the drive back into a garden and park round the back so its uniform and no cars in view as she likes to sit in her front garden and view just greenery.... we declined.

I feel her pain. It would really irritate me. But I'd never dream of asking you to change it🤣.

I wish there was a name for it, other than 'anal'. Before I knew better I'd have said 'a bit OCD' (but know better now! ) but things like that really bother me.

She's bloody unreasonable for asking you to change it though, even more so as it was like that when she bought her house. Batshit.

I think you need a large inflatable something, which faces her drive and sways backwards and forwards (like the jack in the box clown in Harry Potter when they are facing the Boggart) menacingly at her. Like this (don't click if you don't like clowns) www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/k3n10/parvati_this_is_not_funny/

@castemary

What amazes me is that 4% of MN things YABU.

I generally hope it's people who hit the wrong button by mistake @ don't know they can change their vote! Otherwise MN really has gone to the dogs!

One of my neighours put a bench out on her front lawn, and another neighbour said that it was "common and trashy". She told the rest of us, so now 6/10 houses now all have a bench out the front

@FedNlanders

Definitely my neighbour...she called our estate agent to complain i left aldi bags on drive while cleaning car. yes, she specified aldi

I'm envious of your reporter!!

I wish I knew where they got their energy from!!
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@halfhope

DH has just suggested that you buy the biggest ugliest garden gnome you can find and place it there...

Get one of those "mooning" ones.

Place it with its shiney little bum towards her window.

Add more things daily, Frank the Christmas Gargoyle style

I've spent some happy time reading this link BunnyEars - many thanks

If you're in anyway crafty or artistic OP, look up the Calvin and Hobbes snowmen and make these on the drive.

@halfhope

DH has just suggested that you buy the biggest ugliest garden gnome you can find and place it there...

I may have one going spare.......😁

We are convinced he has done a course/read a book about how to encourage people to do what you want as he never actually says anything to us about our less-perfect garden/drive but comes out to praise us every time we do the 'right' thing. Eg. Oh, wingsofsteel, aren't you doing a good job of weeding! Isn't you car looking lovely!

That sounds hopeful. Does he throw you a chocolate when you have been especially well-behaved? I would wash the car for chocolate.

@thepeopleversuswork

Jesus you should meet my neighbour. Every time a stray bin bag makes its way into her wheelie bin she writes to her MP claiming I am to blame. Literally.

Why do people like this live in busy areas? If you hate other people that much you owe it to society to take yourself away from them. Just get a life.

Are they your bin bags??

@TheFnozwhowasmirage

I too wouldn't be able to resist adding random items to your collection. The person who owns the field next to one of ours,got the legal dept of his insurers,to write to us: to complain that our sheep were looking at him through the hedge,and would we please stop them. It was summer,they hadn't been shorn yet and they were lying in the shade of the hedge,to get out of the sun. My horses are in there now. They do far worse things than look at people, particularly the gelding who thinks that he's a stallion.....

I hope you had a word with your nosy sheep!!!

I'm astounded the insurers humoured the fucking idiot.

Love the funny suggestions but the best thing to do is to ignore her and carry on as usual.

@ScottChegg

My mum's NDN, who is a somewhat larger lady, is a complete busybody. My dad calls her the Fat Controller.

Brilliant

Reminds my of my grandmother's neighbours who told us if we were good enough to pay them they would remove all of the horrible gnomes from her garden, word spread amongst the family and there was a huge increase in gnome population along with a zoo of every animal state known to man, it actually got to the point where my uncle had to build shelves to make more room as her garden was tiny, I do believe her pride and joy was the rather large mankini gnome with pride right outside her front window and was named Nigel.
My gran passed over a year ago but she would be pleased to know that her beloved garden gnomes now live in my garden, including dear Nigel.😆

She is a weirdo.

Our neighbours are weirdos. They regularly call the council on us for various things like "our front lawn is too long" (we don't have one - just some shrubbery), "we made noise late at night" (we go to bed at half nine because our three year old needs about four hours sleep), we once had a car parked outside their house (it was somebody down the road who was having their driveway done and it was outside our house), our bathroom light is too bright (standard led bulbs), I once burnt toast and opened to back door and they could smell it (this is true). There have been dozens of complaints. We only know this as my partner has the portfolio for Environmental Health and the team mock her for our bohemian lifestyle.

I wouldn't mind but they have seven cars, six barky dogs, five shitting cats, two motorbikes and a sunblocking conifer tree. We have never once complained!

I wouldn't tell her to 'feck off' or be rude, maybe just quote John Cleese from Fawlty Towers when he asks the old bag if she expects a view of Sydney Opera House or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Build an overly large wall of various tat out of your garage, to obstruct her view of the dog blanket. I'm sure she'll be grateful x