To wonder why people seem to forget that if they're sitting talking in their gardens, WE CAN HEAR YOU!

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I'm sitting open mouthed listening to the personal details of the life of our next-door but one neighbour. Does she think no-one else might be sitting in their gardens on this gorgeous sunny day.

And yesterday, I was waiting in the car with the windows open waiting to pick up DS1, and had to endure a racist rant from the man in the garden of a nearby house.

incredible!

My neighbour's sit out for hours in complete silence. I find it quite unnerving and wish they would chat or play music. I swear they could hear my stomach making noises the other day (tiny terrace gardens).
Anyway my mum was round at the weekend so now they know all about her various health complaints, am surprised it didn't drive them indoors.

You really need to start a thread about this. Why does he want your 1 metre strip of land? How did he threaten you?

We need details!

I'm a bit prissy about it as it's been dinned into me all my working life that there are things that shouldn't be said or done on a work basis ( not that I was ever important enough!).

Also, as a woman of a certain age too, my tolerance levels for that sort of twattishness are quite low these days.

Bah humbug!

I was just on holiday and staying in a small boutique hotel in a mountain top town. My DD and I were sitting at one end of the pool and heard the whole life stories of two American women at the other end. Literally the death of parents, relationships and divorces, love lives - the whole shebang. We laughed afterwards about every full on detail. They were only in their 20s.

I used to have an office with a full length window onto a pavement. It's was mirror used but people seemed to forget that someone could be sitting two feet away on the other side. I saw women stop to do their make up and men adjust their balls right next to me. Sometimes I'd bang on the window to make them jump.

I thought if this thread earlier on. There was a crash/sound of something smashing from nextdoor, swiftly followed by an "Ah fuck!". Which was itself followed by and exclamation of "Grandad!! That's a Bad Word!" (Pooh bear capitals were audible ).

This proper made me chuckle

My DH used to be a bus driver. The stories he came home with of phone conversations, really intimate details, he'd overheard on a shift. People seem very blinkered when on the phone.

It's not just what people say but what they do. Some years ago I worked in a town centre office block and when doing some Sunday morning OT there was a bit of a commotion coming from one side of the floor, being nosey a few of us got up to see what was happening and on the flat roof of the multi-storey car park opposite there was a semi-naked couple having sex. They had a blanket on the ground next to their car and were really going for it. This led to banging on the windows and shouts of encouragement from our office. The couple obviously heard and quickly scooped up their things and beat a hasty retreat. As this was early 90s there was no social media etc so people had to make their own entertainment. If they had been on top of our building there wouldn't have any taller buildings to look down on them, you'd think people would be more aware of their surroundings!!!!!!!!!!! Still it livened up an otherwise rather dull day.

"You've torn that...you'll have to pay for it."

Maybe people should be glad is just neighbour's conversation they can hear in their rear gardens, 30 odd years ago a former neighbour set up an engineering works in his garage, which adjoined ours and was in the garden, I put up with the racket of machinery at first, but after a while it became audible torture, asked them just give it a rest a weekends, that lasted about two weeks, I had a breakdown, stood screaming in the garden, and begged the Council to do something about it, they told him to shut up shop, they moved shortly after, the day they did, as I was going to work he came up to me and said "today is just the start of your troubles, I've paid two blokes two have your legs broken", still in same house, lovely neighbours since, but I've never really been able to shrug off (mentally) all the upset and trauma of the time.

Do you know what I really dislike? Hypocrisy, when people complain about noise even though they are super noisy themselves.

This.

Wow WTF that's really bad!!!

I don't talk about anything private outside, & don't listen to neighbours either, boring, nothing to do with me. However, all the damn Ring doorbells & security cameras get RIGHT on my nerves. I feel as though I'm being watched / recorded 24 / 7.

Unfortunately some people only have one volume setting - 11 and it is impossible to not hear what is being said, however much you don't want to. Most conversations are totally boring and of no interest to any one else but we get dragged into them whether we like it or not. It's a shame humans aren't fitted with a mute button.

You'd be amazed how far voices travel.

When our neighbours five doors up sit out at night in the summer, they talk pretty loudly after a few drinks and we can hear snippets of their conversations when the window is open.

My neighbour is always talking on the speakerphone in her car and I'm not sure if she's aware that everyone in the cul-de-sac can hear both sides of the conversation. Her husband is a convicted criminal serving time!