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.

My neighbour complained about me to my letting agents. He stormed in and yelled at them about slugs and snails in his concrete back garden trespassing from my garden and me not letting him have free access to my garden to look at the joint drain (he has no actual need to look at it) I blocked his access by having a lock on my gate and he damaged his fence climbing into my garden. He also has a thing about ants.

The letting agents phoned me to tell me about his visit and they could hear shouting down the phone. It was my neighbour yelling at someone outside who'd parked in 'his' parking space. They advised me to talk to the police and said they'd back me up in any complaint against him.

@Melitza

Get some of that police aware tape and section it off as a crime scene!

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Obviously it is funny but I am really creeped out that she is staring at our driveway all the time. Feels horrible.

Thing is though, I still want to know what you said. Did you say "oh er well um yes I will move them". Or did you say "I beg your pardon? you must be kidding surely?"

Then I want to know if you have more things that you can put on your drive, because clearly that would be the only reasonable response.

@DishingOutDone

I said something like, what stuff? The car. Then she said no that stuff. I said I was just clearing up my car. Then I said that's life. Then she said, it's in my line of sight.
I was too stunned to say more. I ended up saying something noncommittal and shut the front door.

@ScottChegg

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

Aw, thank god she isn't black or disabled, have ginger hair etc otherwise you couldn't post this hilarious derogatory remark on MH for a cheap laugh! At least if someone is fat they're fair game.

(Completely off topic but FFS. As you were.)

[quote Bobbiebigbum]@DishingOutDone

I said something like, what stuff? The car. Then she said no that stuff. I said I was just clearing up my car. Then I said that's life. Then she said, it's in my line of sight.
I was too stunned to say more. I ended up saying something noncommittal and shut the front door.[/quote]
I'd definitely get more stuff out tomorrow and report back. Maybe a small drying rack with lacy underwear?

[quote Bobbiebigbum]@DishingOutDone

I said something like, what stuff? The car. Then she said no that stuff. I said I was just clearing up my car. Then I said that's life. Then she said, it's in my line of sight.
I was too stunned to say more. I ended up saying something noncommittal and shut the front door.[/quote]
She must've sprinted to your door as soon as those items hit the drive!

Draw a big willy on your drive / lawn
Hire a mannequin & dress it up in a different costume everyday
Draw the outline of a body on your drive
Place various random objects - a plate, clothes dryer, half a football. Move its position every hour.

“It’s in my line of sight.”
“And....?”

Would have been my response. The self-important knob would have been chased away with a flea in her ear if she’d persisted. Can’t bear a busybody.

Why don't you sit outside with beer and a packet of crisps in your hand?
Also, adding this for inspiration:

www.facebook.com/Frank-the-Christmas-Gargoyle-100433311957105

I don't understand why people think they have a right to control what they can see out of their windows unless they own a few acres of land!
One of our neighbours who lives across the road very kindly knocked the door once and asked if we minded them parking their caravan on the road outside our kitchen window for a few days, I was shocked they even asked lol, we don't own the road

@FadedRed

A carriage?

🤣🤣😂😆

@Tooshytoshine

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!

That sounds like a hippy version of the 12 days of Christmas song! ‘I think your grass looks like it’s ready for a cut’. "Are you offering?"

What a weird thing to complain about! She must have a very boring life or some serious problems, if that bothered her!

I'd ignore her... or possibly do things to intentionally wind her up.

@Heartofglass12345

I don't understand why people think they have a right to control what they can see out of their windows unless they own a few acres of land! One of our neighbours who lives across the road very kindly knocked the door once and asked if we minded them parking their caravan on the road outside our kitchen window for a few days, I was shocked they even asked lol, we don't own the road

Lucky you! We have to put up with next door’s tin tent parked in full sight from our entire garden and the windows of four rooms. It’s in their garden but not visible from their house due to L shape of garden. It does piss me off, to be honest. Us they only use it about six days a year.

Melitza Tue 18-May-21 12:10:29 Get some of that police aware tape and section it off as a crime scene!

lol

I think your installation would be enhanced by the addition of a string quartet.

Get an inflatable willy and put that in your drive, a great big pink one

I wouldn't be moving that. You're miles away from her, it doesn't appear to be causing an obstruction and it's an item meant for a drive!

seven cars, six barky dogs, five shitting cats, two motorbikes and a sunblocking conifer tree

@Heartofglass12345

I don't understand why people think they have a right to control what they can see out of their windows unless they own a few acres of land! One of our neighbours who lives across the road very kindly knocked the door once and asked if we minded them parking their caravan on the road outside our kitchen window for a few days, I was shocked they even asked lol, we don't own the road

I think it's really nice they asked because having a large vehicle parked outside your window can be quite irritating. I lived on a terraced street with a door that opened directly onto a very slim pavement. A neighbour didn't like parking his big van outside his house as it blocked all the light from his front window. So he parked outside of mine. My living room needed a light on all day long.

The neighbour at the bottom of me came round once to ask me to move a 6” plant pot which was under my thick conifer hedge, very much my side of the wire mesh at the base of the hedge.....because she didn’t like seeing it......

I’m dreading her reaction to the 3m wide shed I’m about to have erected!

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'm surely not the only one mentally singing this to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas"?

[quote Bobbiebigbum]@FatCatThinCat he's a close up for your delectation. Shocking I know.[/quote]
Oh my god that is absolutely horrifying. Your poor neighbour