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Am I being a sad, pathetic, childish b*tch?

30 replies

GarfieldsGirl · 07/05/2006 20:12

I'll try and keep this short.

I've comlpained that my neighbour has no tax on his car. This is because:

  • Before we moved in they stole the washing line. I wouldn't have known, but we bought the house from my parents, and my mum noticed it was gone, and then saw that they had it.
  • They complained to council that our green bin was left out on street. It was tucked up close to wall, and was left out there as dp cannot walk, so therefore can't carry it through house. I was pregnant, plus bin is almost as big as me there's no way i could even lift it. We had to have it taken away so can no longer recycle.
  • They ordered a green bin (little boxes as standard in these houses) and leave it in middle of pavement for days after collection.
  • They keep throwing bread into my garden!!!!! (please don't ask, I don't understand, but have been through all other explanations, e.g. cats, birds etc).

He hits my car regularly. Litle touches when parking I can accept, but he rams into it when reversing (also does this to other neighbours car), he has dented it a few times, and the one that really pisses me off was on christmas day when he took a big chunk out of my wing and they don't ever knock to apologise, but unfortunately I have no evidence, or other witnessses when they've done it.

We haev a disabled bay outside teh house. he often parks deliberately close so that we cannot park there, or parks so that his car is partly in the bay. I know the bay is just courtesy, but he does it even when the street is empty, and where is his fking courtesy?

When ds2 was a few weeks old, they complained bout him crying. 1) babies cry! 2) he started teething at 2 wks.

I found out his tax ran out in Feb, but its still on the road and being driven. I complained to DVLA last month, but he still hasn't got tax, so phoned local police today.

They've really wound me up, but I just wonder what the people on the other end of the phone must think of me! They probably think I'm some saddo who got nothing beter to do than check tax discs!!

I fear this is probably far longer than intended. Sorry, just needed a whinge!

OP posts:
Enid · 07/05/2006 20:13

sorry but I would probably do the same in your position

in fact I would be taking a hit out on them I think Wink

thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 07/05/2006 20:16

I'd do it too. and I wouldn;t care what the people on the end of the phone thought. they sound like rather grim neighbours

expatinscotland · 07/05/2006 20:17

I'd have done worse, like film all those things he did to my car and parking bay.

dancingscream · 07/05/2006 20:19

Agree with Enid.

I would be thinking up frightfully childish things to do to really pee him off anonymously
(err maybe i shouldn't have admitted to that Grin

alex8 · 07/05/2006 20:22

I would have phoned about the car tax on the 1st March.

SaintGeorge · 07/05/2006 20:29

Tip re the car tax. The DVLA are probably already on to it, they send out automatic £80 fines after a certain number of weeks purely for lack of tax.

However, if you make sure it is reported at least one day in each month, an amount for each month will be added to the fine as the DVLA then treat it as evidence that the car was actually used and not just parked up somewhere.

expatinscotland · 07/05/2006 20:31

I'd have filmed him and the sent the tapes to the council and the police, to get harrassment and ASBO machinations on him and make his life a PITA.

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GarfieldsGirl · 07/05/2006 20:41

Oooh, now I feel like i've let them off really lightly.

Remind me to never to get on the wrong side of any of you ladies! Grin

Will be putting a new tape in the camcorder tomorrow, and have it at the ready all the time.

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Caligula · 07/05/2006 20:48

God no, you're not being nearly pathetic, sad or childish enough.

I'd throw the bread back over the fence
I'd phone the police to report him being parked illegally in a disabled bay
I'd phone the council to say his green bin has been left out and also to ask what provisions they make for householders who cannot lift the bin due to either disability or pregnancy (or just plain frailty in the case of elderly occupants)

And if he has a dog, I'd call the council and tell them that he regularly leaves shit in the street, even if he doesn't! Grin

7up · 07/05/2006 21:11

what terrible neighbours!poor you, id definitely be really childish and think of something to really piss them off. he sounds a real nuisance neighbour, get that camcorder going. good luck

chubbleigh · 07/05/2006 21:44

A friend of my mums fell out with the neighbours, her husband waited until he knew they would be out all day and fed their alsation dog a large bar of ex-lax chocolate through the letterbox... revenge is a dish.... it's really wicked but it always makes me laugh, you've got to feel sorry for the poor dog though

Beauregard · 07/05/2006 21:49

Good on you ,they sound like a bunch of low lifes .I know what its like to have horrid neighbours ,ive had a few myself and they need standing up too.

fattiemumma · 07/05/2006 21:56

NOOO i agree with caligula. i'd go all out to irrtitate the shite out of him.

i'd keep complaining about all these things that cant be proven but that he keeps getting visits about. like banging on the walls or drilling at 10pm.

then next time they put there rubbish out for the dustmen i would take some out and spill it all over a field, the environmetal officers will colect it, trace it back to him and he will get in trouble for fly tipping.

I would find out their phone number and keep caling pizza/cabs/mobile masseurs etc etc giving them his phone number.

advertise in a local shop window using his phone number that your selling something fantastic for pratically nothing, he will get inundated with phone calls about something he hasnt got

park so close that he cant get out of his parking bay, who can he complain to? his car is illegal anyway

ooh i could go on for hours. petty vendeta's really get me going lol

fattiemumma · 07/05/2006 21:57

pmsl...i am loving the ex lax and the dog Grin brill

Beauregard · 07/05/2006 22:16

Try ordering a skip to his house (to keep his bread in)or failing that pray that a chuffin bloody great big bird swoops down on him and his bread fetish and

gobbles his pathetic arse upGrin

Tortington · 07/05/2006 22:27

you should go on freebie sites.

and order everything you can - brochures and everything. to get delivered to his house.

Tortington · 07/05/2006 22:28

if i absolutely knew he was doing my car in. i would absolutley key his.

thats cos i'm a mean fucker - howver i would have to be 100% sure.

hovely · 07/05/2006 22:30

or you could
contact your local neighbourhood mediation service and see if it's possible to get to the bottom of what his problem is
then you can get back to the ex-lax and the junk mail if he won't co-operate

nursetigger6 · 07/05/2006 22:32

I've reported someone fr having an out of date tax disc. The trollop was a sister of someone living accross the road who had a driveway and plenty of room to take her car whilst she worked in town, but no she had to park right in front of my flat leaving no room for me at all (had to park half way down the hill so with bags of heavy shopping I was naturally not amused!). I phoned the DVLA snd the Police and eventually after repeated phone calls because she kept naffing me off parking outside, the Police eventually came over when she was in work and stuck a big "Police Aware" sticker on her windscreen!! Oddly enough she hasn't been back since!!

WWWontSlagOffAnyone · 07/05/2006 22:33

Can you move? I know how annoying these things can be, I screamed 'I DO NOT NEED THIS, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?' when I was 8.5 months pregnant and new neighbour woke me up to ask me to move my car because it was half a centimetre into his disabled space. I know I over reacted but I know how these things can get to you. I think calling the DVLA was pretty minor in retaliation actually. The baby thing is outrageous. They clamp cars in Bristol for no tax, is there someone in your area who does the same?

7up · 08/05/2006 07:41

get the sunday paper magazine and send off for all the gifts in his name, its no pay till after you receive them or it used to be. i did it to an exboss of mine, he got handbags, ornaments etc etc and i heard was totally and utterly pissed off about ifGrin

suzywong · 08/05/2006 07:43

good for you
I've done the same Blush

Caligula · 08/05/2006 11:31

I once sent naff John Wayne commemorative plates to an ex landlord of mine. He was a really cultured, refined architect who loved opera and had a beautifully designed, screamingly tastful house, so the sheer de-cultured-ness of it would have been so, so painful for him.

Grin
Freckle · 08/05/2006 12:40

Put a card in all the local phone boxes advertising gay sex with his number on it.

wannaBe1974 · 08/05/2006 12:41

I would take out an advert in your local newspaper advertising the fantastic garage sale that will be held at his address next Sunday, everything must go, books, CD's, furniture, computer/games console, and greatest of all, the car, of which you will provide a photo (assuming it's not some crappy heap of metal that he couldn't give away). And watch the punters arrive in their droves as you chuckle to yourself behind the net curtain.

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