Help me annoy our neighbours

[NeighbourTrouble63]

Lighthearted (ish!)

I don’t say this lightly but we have the most truly horrible couple (‘young professionals’, although they don’t act like it) that I have ever met living beside us - even since the day that we moved in they have completely blanked us, anytime I have simply waved over or said ‘good morning’ I get ignored. In the 4 years that we have lived here neither of them have ever even made eye contact with me. It is bizarre and I have no idea what their problem is. I feel like they automatically see us as below them since we are renting (I have just gotten through a messy divorce, it is only my very sensible teen DD and I living here)

They have constant, wild parties going on into the small hours. It’s a 1930s semi so very poor sound insulation - we hear everything. I went round and politely knocked their door one Friday party night as DD had just had an operation and really needed her sleep - the door was slammed in my face. Their Range Rover (definitely heavily financed) is constantly parked right over the pavement, forcing buggies and wheelchair users onto the busy road.

They are vile people and I want a petty yet harmless way to get my own back when we move out in a few months. Any ideas?

😂😂😂

We have a great deli at the bottom of the street which the PSNI are very frequent customers of. There’s police cars driving past all day everyday - they couldn’t care less!

My next door neighbour has a bamboo wind chime that sounds like there’s a Peruvian pipes band in my back garden, so I suggest that particularly if you live in a windy place.

I'm not living in NI @NeighbourTrouble63 although my DM was born and bred. The stories they could tell. Both humorous and bleak. It's not like that anymore and it's a real testament to the people who strive to never go back there.

My DD went to a well known Belfast grammar that happens to be the most diverse school in the entirety of Ireland - it’ll be news to the 1500 pupils (of all faiths) that it’s actually segregated! Stop trying to comment on things which you clearly know nothing about. You scream blatant ignorance.

Oh do bore off FFS

It's a thread about neighbours, off you fuck to the politics section please

I’ve had some success with “re-educating” a neighbour similar to the ones you describe OP, (people who refuse to engage or respond to a perfectly reasonable and kind request).

If there are 2 consecutive days of being woken early at silly-o’clock - then my glass recycling then goes out at midnight.

If the partying goes on consecutively until 2 a.m. - my petrol mower comes out early.

Only had to do it once - and it’s worked. (after 5 wasted years of hoping reasonableness would prevail)

I think your daughter might have went to my sons school! Does it begin with B?

And yes there's all faiths welcome there.

I used to have a neighbour that hung her washing over our shared fence, so it hung down on my side. Drove me bananas - you could try that for a bit of passive-aggressive revenge

Nope - we’re more south Belfast! I think I know what school you’re talking about though - it is fantastic too.

Hang a bit of wood on the shared wall and drill into it. The reverberations will drive them mad.

I can lend you a donkey that brays at any passing cars like a guard dog. He'll also scratch his head off the wing mirrors of their car and break them so they hang like a pair of spaniels ears bitter experience . He's lovely but has zero cop on and in all honesty is a bit of a liability if he gets loose.

Also, put a pair of trainers in a tumble dryer up against the shared wall, with some tumble dryer balls.

Recorder?

Get online quotes for solar panels and put their details in. They will NEVER stop the cold calls.

Ok I didn't know that as you didn't mention it.You implied that you were there first.

Whatever you do will confirm their opinion of you. 😁

These guys are the MOST annoying! I used them for anyone who pisses me off! Stick in their mobile number and off you go!
Honest Quotes

How does one know a 'heavily financed Range Rover' when they see it? Genuinely curious

Bamboo wind chimes? You don’t know you’re born. My neighbours, who I really like, have metal wind chimes- 2, if you please, - and it’s like being mugged by fairies. Plus, I work from home most days, whilst they’re out all day, so it’s me who has to listen to them.

Baby shark

What does a financed Range Rover look like?
im sure its the same as one that’s been paid for outright when I last looked!

Post them a raw fish. Second class.

@NeighbourTrouble63 Northern Irish too, now very firmly a Londoner, having lived here over 20 years and have to say this whole thread makes me glad I don’t live there any more.

People drive their Range Rovers over here like fucking maniacs: you’re so busy just staying out of their lane, you wouldn’t have time to worry about whether it’s “heavily financed”. That and the “nouveau riche” comment: who are you, the Marchioness of Donegal?

Jesus wept.