Antisocial new neighbour

[DaisyDonut53]

Our new neighbours who don't celebrate Christmas have decided it's ok to start jet washing the front of their house on Boxing Day! My family does celebrate Christmas and think this is really disrespectful.. does anyone agree?

Not getting why jet washing is anti-social or anti-Christmas.

Well as a pp pointed out the jet washing will be finishing about now. Funny time of year to jet wash though. A few weeks of crap winter weather and all the good work will be undone.

If your new neighbours did celebrate Christmas, would that make the jet washing OK @DaisyDonut53 ?

Unless you also respectfully pause all such activity for every religious/cultural holiday you don’t celebrate, and unless you’d be as militant about the no DIY on the MayDay bank holiday, then your issue, whether or not you’re conscious of it, isn’t the jetwashing, and it might be good to sit with that for a while.

So, does OP have to be quiet when it’s a holiday for their religion and all religions just in case someone on her street celebrates?

It’s a little bit of noise. If you were trying to get children to sleep, or relaxing in the evening or revising for an exam, then maybe you’d have a point. But this is during the day, when loads of people who do celebrate are spending the day in shopping centres up and down the country. You have family around; I doubt very much your conversation is being drowned out.

If they knock at your door at some point during this year and tell you that they’re trying to celebrate a, b or c and the noise of your day to day living is disturbing them, then you’d have every right to have a full and frank exchange of views with them. But until then, let it go. It’s not like it’s something they’ll be doing on a weekly basis.

Are they........IMMIGRANTS 😱 Coming over here, jet washing their houses. I bet they don't even believe in Santa 😱

The noise would be a tad annoying but wont last all day surely.
Its not like theres a funeral going on I assum e 🤣

Were they shouting “ Take that, you bastards!”whilst doing it?! If so, I think you may have a point .

There’s a big difference between being quiet and jet washing. You can use your brain and be respectful. Just like I wouldn’t go and mow my grass if I knew next door had family around for a BBQ.
I assume the OP is referring to immediate neighbours, so if I knew my next door neighbour was celebrating a special date, yeah, I’d be respectful.
Maybe the world needs more of that?

TBH, your comment made me laugh ...

but of all the saints not to like masonry, I think St Stephen would be one since he was stoned to death ...

also … maybe i am affected by living in the city where since the days of Thucydides this has been the attitude to noise.. but if it’s honestly that noisy / has been going on so long it’s honestly wrecking your day, what happened when you went to explain this, OP, and politely asked them to stop?

What's a respectful jet washer? One with a crucifix air freshener?

Would you be less bothered with the twitching net curtains if it was a long term resident?

I would be putting my oven pans on the drive and ask them to give them a good jet wash too,

God works in mysterious ways.

He maybe heard you as you struggled to get your turkey pan gleaming after soaking in fairy all night.

:-)

You’ve just said it yourself - it’s a bank holiday. Any other bank holiday and would you be so bothered?

St Stephen was one of the first Christian Martyrs.

So maybe it's appropriate to be suffering from jet wash envy today.

You need to move to Grmany. No noise allowed on Bank holidays

If the worst my neighbours had ever done was jet wash ona bank holiday I would be delighted. Live next door to the entitled twats I am stuck beside then you will realise how luck you are.

If you've got a houseful of guests, then you're probably being pretty rowdy yourselves! Christmas was yesterday, it's done now, move on.

I'm so bleeping sick of Christmas being ever more drawn out, from multitudes of consumer-industry-invented present events in the run up, to days and weeks of special food and drinks, all because some people think they're entitled to have exactly what they want at all times. It's been utterly stripped of any real meaning, not just religious, but even the secular welcoming and thankfulness for family and community. MN threads are an absolute shocker.

How lovely that your neighbours have a day off to catch up with caring for their hearth and home. Why not invite them to have a break and visit with you and your wider family?

Don't know what our neighbours were doing but it sounded like a sledge hammer! And as far as I'm aware they are nominally Christians.

Flagellation ?

Good lord. I took some rubbish out to the bins in full view of all my neighbours this morning.

Will there be a backlash?

the responses on here have been really funny, couldnt get home for christmas this year and am unwell, and they cheered my ill self right up, thank you

You know such a post is going to get a barrage of questions :-)

I will start.

Did you make sure the empty bottles went in the correct bin ?

Do you live nextdoor to a bank? If not then you're def being unreasonable. Hth.

Get a goddamn grip! I nearly eye rolled into another universe.