Our neighbour did this to me once - at 6AM.
I’d actually injured my foot not long before and was in so much pain it was keeping me awake all night, every night. I had finally just passed out around 5am after my husband had left for work.
At 6am my neighbour decided it was an appropriate time of day to knock. He did it a couple of times before I stirred properly (I was vaguely aware of it as I slept). I ignored it for a couple of minutes thinking it was an over-zealous delivery driver or postman who would surely go away. But no, neighbour then started pounding on the door and wouldn’t stop.
Took me ages to get out of bed and downstairs as I was extremely tired, in pain and still getting used to crutches. I opened the door, hair wild, in my pyjamas and probably doing my best impression of a zombie, and my neighbour just looked me up and down, clocked the crutches, and said “you need to move your car.”
No please, not even a question. I just looked at him for a second and then said, “I can’t drive at the moment….” and indicated my crutches. My brain was still trying to catch up to the situation.
Turns out he was getting a delivery of fence panels, posts, concrete etc as the builders were coming to put a fence up in his back garden. And I heard the guy shout that he could just deliver in the road but my neighbour was having none of it.
I said again that I can’t drive right now and went to close the door, which he BLOCKED and asked for my keys. I ended up giving them to him (he wasn’t someone we particularly liked - he would always stop us in the street to talk about his five different girlfriends and all the money he spent on them, that he’d gotten from both his mum’s and his wife’s deaths, which was honestly pretty boring!) but we did get on ok, as neighbours go, and he said he’d move it back again after. And I wasn’t really thinking straight on an hour’s sleep and really just wanted to go back to bed.
He moved my car, and put it up on the pavement on the other side of the road further up the street, which I wasn’t happy about as people had been ticketed for that a week before. I’d assumed he would at least bring my keys back though, since my house keys were very clearly attached to them and I couldn’t lock my front door again without them so couldn’t even go back to bed! TWO HOURS LATER he finally reappeared with my keys and I was able to go and get some sleep again.
The builders had been working on his front driveway for about four months at that point, and took another three months to do the back garden. They were awful - they would kept right over into our garden (far beyond what they needed to) and trampled so many plants and I’d even find them sitting on the steps right outside my kitchen door when I opened it. They were rude to us all the time, they left food to go mouldy in our garden, and they always had a dog with them which they’d let poop in garden. They tried putting up an illegally high fence on our side and were horrible when I challenged them on it, and they undermined the fence of the neighbour on the other side and caused it to collapse. They then charged that neighbour to make sure the ‘good side’ of the replacement fence went up on their side, rather than just replacing it as it had been! Our neighbour also expected us to pay to have ‘our side’ of the wall for his driveway skimmed with concrete (the gardens slope on either side), which we refused.
The builders did such a bad job; everything was wonky, the fence had big gaps in it etc, and it was honestly ridiculous how much time it took them to complete everything. Our neighbour sheepishly admitted at one point that he’d hired them because they were cheap, but because they took so long so long to do everything he ended up having to pay them extra anyway. He’d go out all day to avoid the chaos (something I was unfortunately unable to do myself as I’m disabled and mostly housebound) so had no idea how much the builders were just sat around chatting and listening to loud music etc. We did try to tell him but what can you do. Apparently they also walked mud throughout his whole house as obviously they were using the bathroom, and there’s no alternative access to the back garden from the front so everything had to go through the house. They actually had the cheek to post us a business card, as if we’d ever hire them when we’d seen firsthand how bad they were haha.
But anyway. That neighbour would regularly knock at unreasonable hours because he thought the world revolved around him, and if you tried to ignore him he would simply continue. His lifestyle caught up with him as the pandemic loomed; all the girlfriends found out about each other and apparently only one of them was happy to keep seeing him. He eventually moved in with her and her daughter moved in next to use instead. She’s very quiet and polite and makes for a much better neighbour! Although her mum did once hit and damage our car and then pretended she hadn’t, but our CCTV had picked it up so she couldn’t dispute it any longer. 😂