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in wanting to jump over nextdoors fence with a huge knife and chop down their fucking windchime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

125 replies

copingvquietly · 05/07/2008 22:34

its driving me nuts.it appeared today.why????why does anyone want to listen to tinkle tinkle all day long aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.and its windy so now its all i can focus on.i think im getting a twitch!!

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hf128219 · 05/07/2008 22:37

I would like to jump over my fence and strangle my neighbour's dogs that are outside all night -and bark, and bark, and bark.

Yep, why do people have windchimes??

evenhope · 05/07/2008 22:39

No YANBU. Our old neighbours had 3 windchimes in their tree- I could hear it every night

copingvquietly · 05/07/2008 22:41

ive no idea
wooden ones i can cope with.they are quite relaxing BUT this noise is ting ting tinkle ting aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhh

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LuckySalem · 05/07/2008 22:42

YANBU cvq or hf.

Our neighbours dogs bark all day and night. I mean fair enough if there are people walking past or something but they barked the other day when I was in my bathroom window Grrr

Doodle2U · 05/07/2008 22:43

I'd do it, TBH!

Blu · 05/07/2008 22:44

I HATE windchimes.

What the hell are they for?

They sell 3in1 and WD40 for other irritating random chinking, tinklling squeaks why go out and pay for somethng to make a tuneless, rythmless noise?

I hate those bloody peruvian panpipes and every other wafty hippy source of unnecssary noise, too!

Over the fence, cvq - it's dark now

copingvquietly · 05/07/2008 22:48

im considering dangling j over the fence.hes good at grabbing

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callmeovercautious · 05/07/2008 22:49

CVQ - are they approachable? Can you mention to them that J could not sleep because of it in the strong winds?

Otherwise do what we did. Sneak out at 3am and rough up the cord holding it. The strong winds a few days later took it down and they never bothered putting it back

hf128219 · 05/07/2008 22:50

Go on, tear it down....

piratecat · 05/07/2008 22:50

those metal ones are a nightmare, must be pretty horrible, if the wind's up like it is here.

how easy would it be to get to them unnoticed/

are they out the back?

Blu · 05/07/2008 22:52

smear the string with peanut butter - a squirrel will gnaw through it!

expatinscotland · 05/07/2008 22:52

it's blowing a gale up here.

having lived with other peoples' fucking noise all around me for most of my life, i no longer notice most of it except for stereo bass.

that makes me wax medieval.

so if your version of stereo bass is a metal windchime, i think you should go over there in the wee hours of teh night and get rid of the fucking windchime.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 05/07/2008 22:52

You joyless bunch

expatinscotland · 05/07/2008 22:53

great idea, blu!

StressTeddy · 05/07/2008 22:54

Oh my word - I love my windchimes

(ST runs off to bubblewrap offending articles in case the neighbours get feisty)

copingvquietly · 05/07/2008 22:54

honestly if i wasnt shit scared of the dark id be out there right now with a carving knife sellotaped onto a broom handle lol.its hanging from a hanging basket hook outside their back door.maybe i should buy them a bloody hanging basket

i have wine now

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expatinscotland · 05/07/2008 22:56

drink some more wine. you need a little courage in a bottle to get you over that fence. let the hatred of the windchime overcome your fear of the night.

PussinJimmyChoos · 05/07/2008 22:57

What you all need is to be deaf like me....I tell you, its a very peaceful life when a noise bugs me....I can just turn hearing aid off...

Not that I'm rubbing it in or anything...

expatinscotland · 05/07/2008 22:58

Puss, I had a deaf climbing partner who lived down the road from a nightclub who would do that.

He could sometimes feel the vibrations in the ground, but he slept like a log.

Great for camping, too.

copingvquietly · 05/07/2008 23:00

bloody hell.ive shut the window and i can still hear the frigging thing
HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PussinJimmyChoos · 05/07/2008 23:01

Vibrations....

That reminds me actually, I want a vibrator...am cheesed of with DH and his porn sites..am going to go to bed with one modelled on the biggest cock ever and then when he moans, I'll say well you watch porn honey...

Rant over....back to windchimes....

callmeovercautious · 05/07/2008 23:01

CVQ - I am listening to an insessent bass atm. There is a music festival going on 2 miles away. It is a Dance music thing. I quite like Dance music but on my own time IYKWIM. If I could cut the power lines down now I would Perhaps I am wishing I was 10 years younger!

Wait until sun up, it will be light but they will be asleep.

MmeLindt · 05/07/2008 23:02

My Mum's neighbour has a wind chime and a bloody yappy yorkshire terrier.

Or some peanut butter

If I smear the yorkie with peanut butter, do you think that the squirrel would eat it too?

expatinscotland · 05/07/2008 23:04

i'd relocate the dog and put an end to the windchime.

themoon66 · 05/07/2008 23:04

I feel your pain. Cut it down. Now. You know you want to.

[evil grin]

Agree with blu about hippy dippy noises