To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?

[alwwyd]

My next door neighbours are just very inconsiderate people. They need their own thread.

Our houses are attached but we have separated driveways with a clear line of gravel between them and a partial hedge.

We both keep our bins on the driveway and today I’ve gone out to put my bin back and they’ve shoved my (different) bin and placed their bin on my driveway. I moved it back and it’s heavy so it didn’t blow across.

I know this is a none thread, but it does annoy me how petty some people are. Like just why do it? 🙄 anyone have other petty neighbour stories?

(yes I’ve been sad enough to go a diagram)

From the diagram it’s fully on OP’s drive, not slightly! Why should OP end up with 4 bins on her drive, just so neighbour can have 2 and extra room?

The level of pettiness that involves starting a thread online complete with 2 diagrams about bin placement?

That's pretty petty, yeah.

I liked it too. A friendly alien/casper watching over them both. Or maybe Casper did it? 🤔

My milkman mixed up my delivery with next doors, I had ordered some lovely fresh soft cheese from a local farm along with my usual 2 bottles of organic milk (with the cream on top for my morning coffee). Neighbour gets 1 bottle of bog standard green top.

Just as I was about to go knock on the door I saw my neighbour leaving in her car. She came back 10 mins later having apparently just nipped to the shop to get a nice French Stick (presumably to spread my lovely cheese onto). I cancelled the milkman in a petty huff and have never told my neighbour I know she nicked my stuff.

I think you've answered your own question. Probably moved it so they can get off their drive more easily. If it's a one off occurrence then let it go. If they were doing it every day then that's a bit odd.

It was definitely Casper the Petty Ghost (there's no way normal living people would be that petty)

You have to be kidding me!

I think you're the petty one here!

May I ask why? Brambles spread like mad unless kept back properly and they can be very sharp, so why would this lady be the petty one?

Only hoping the poster got some free fruit before cutting away lol!

Not the cutting, the returning of the cuttings (with extra petty points for the neatness - very PA).

But that's what the law requires. You are allowed to trim any plants belonging to your neighbour that encroach on your own garden, but you must return all the trimmings since they belong to the owner of the plant.

I don’t care … ❤️

I did my diagram wrong! Well I didn’t make it obvious. I’ve updated it now.

It’s nothing to do with access, they’ve just purposely pushed my bin out the way randomly to place their bin on my driveway (a bin that doesn’t get collected for another week)

😂😂 he actually looks so cute too.

As pp have said, the law says you can trim overhanging trees or shrubs but you must return cuttings to the owner.

i mean it’s pretty petty to just repeat what I said myself but ok.

Well, I like your style OP.

However, in your position I would have kicked the bins over, used them to form a barricade and barred the neighbours from their house forever more while waving an eight foot flag and shouting 'Excelsior!'.

A little tip to help you level up.

How would you pronounce the two words differently from each other? I'd say non for both.

@5128gap Without derailt -
None is pronounced nun
Non is pronounced non

I think your real problem is that your houses are both clearly upside down...

I don't mean to alarm you but your house is upside down, it might be related to the ghost/alien

No explanation offered but enjoyed the diagrams

Well Well. Like done and some. Who knew. (Presumably every- wun(?) but me and those local to me!)

It's ok OP I get it. Used to live in a new build where all the driveways were a stretch of tarmac across the fronts with no demarcation lines. Anyway my ndn decided to keep her bins on the bit of path in front of her window. Everyone else kept their bins in the back garden. So apart from having her stinky bins right next to our front door she also tried to get away with shoving them over onto our side so she could fit them all in. Which resulted in her regularly knocking over my garden ornaments. She wasn't easy to talk to so on binman day I would move my ornaments along a couple of inches to claw back my space. Yes petty of me, but very entitled of her. I was glad to move.

whats the drip feed? what's the history with these neighbours? because this incident as a one off really is nothing?

we have an ongoing issue with our neighbour, he's reported us to the police for stealing his bin (the wind blew it down the street), he's reported us to the police for damaging his grass (he's elderly, and very ill and when we cut our grass we did his for him at the same time). he walks round our car at 3am in the morning looking at our car because he doesn't like where its parked. and when he puts his bins out he makes sure his bins are on his grass, we share a path and if we even put our bin an inch onto his side of the path then we will get a call from the local bobby!