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what are the most irritating things your neighbours do?

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cocopops · 09/10/2007 20:56

Just wondered what the most annoying thing your neighbours have done to you?

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Califright · 09/10/2007 21:32

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saltire · 09/10/2007 21:39

In reference to my post, DS1 has just come downstairs and said "Why am I in bed, when x next door is up and she is younger than me"

gigglewitch · 09/10/2007 21:41

giraffe - LOL manicured lawn!

giraffeski · 09/10/2007 21:44

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SeaShells · 09/10/2007 22:01

Well I have had to endure living next to a woman I highly suspect is a prostitute for the past few months since I moved house, she has done a bunk now, and the hourly male visitors have ceased parking up outside my house. However it has been pure luxury having her as a neighbour after my previous neighbours who harrassed and verbally attacked me to the point of being scared to leave my house and basically bullied me out of my old home

Chilimama · 09/10/2007 22:47

Start working on their car at 10pm with power tools when they have been in all day!

Listen to evening football matches on car stereo at full blast on their drive - why? .

Scream and swear at children first thing in the morning til last thing at night.

Allow their children to climb over our wall and invite themselves in (Back door left open for the dog) and feign surprise when I politely return their children!

Let their children thrown toys, balls, rubbish over our wall and then allow them to knock on the door to ask for the return of toys and balls (not rubbish though!) up to 10 times a night.

Have weekly playstation night with friends and scream and shout until 4am in the morning.

Put a concrete block wall (classy) 2ft over our boundary without telling/asking us.

Thats just the neighbours on one side, if I went on about the one on the other side I would need my own thread.

Phew......that was therapeutic!

moondog · 09/10/2007 22:52

lol Policy at the scary van.
You are on good form tonight.

sKerryMum · 09/10/2007 22:56

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themoon66 · 09/10/2007 22:59

Kerrymum... and still we both have the yappy yappy dog..........

themoon66 · 09/10/2007 23:01

but the yappy dog is the neighbours over the back.

Direct neighbours - opposite my front door... never ever in living memory have they put ANYTHING in the recycle bin. But Mr Opposite Neighbour has such a full ordinary rubbish bin that he has to climb his step ladder to get in the top to stamp it all down every week.

SSSandy2 · 09/10/2007 23:04

no problems these days but I used to have an idiot bearded hippy neighbour who'd start playing the bongos when he came in at night.

Then I had this woman in an apartment upstairs groaning and moaning and putting on this amazing multiple orgasm sex special every day with the windows open. When she invited me round for coffee one day,she confided in me that sex with her dh bored her to tears and she had never once enjoyed it!

SSSandy2 · 09/10/2007 23:06

OMG just seen that calif has the bongo clan next door too!

well I had bongo man downstairs and the sex show going on upstairs. Those were the days alright.

Tommy · 09/10/2007 23:07

ours is knocking his house down and building 7 flats in its place - I'm assuming that will be noisy

charlieandlola · 09/10/2007 23:08

have matching cars - all 4 of them - same colour, just different consecutive number plates - WHY?? Obviously get a bulk discount. PMSL.

SSSandy2 · 09/10/2007 23:10

Have you never asked them why?

bubblepop · 09/10/2007 23:23

ours decided to turn his garden into a carpark,(their garden is right up to the side of our house) for 4 weeks around easter time we had the whole family riding around on mini diggers/huge roller machines,my house literally shook and trembled so much i thought it was going to fall down my nerves were in tatters..

kindersurprise · 09/10/2007 23:25

One neighbour drives into the courtyard really fast, even though we have all told him off about it. There are always children out playing.

He is a real boy racer, he crashed the car last week. He was not hurt but his audi is a write off.

sKerryMum · 09/10/2007 23:33

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Pixel · 10/10/2007 01:00

Well I've just written a long rant about my inconsiderate neighbours but deleted it just in case she is a mumsnetter. She would be sure to know it was me complaining from what I said! Suffice to say - noise, constant b**y noise. They have sent my blood-pressure soaring this summer.

Linnet · 10/10/2007 01:12

neighbour over the street is very very nosy. there is nothing she doesn't know. If a strange car comes into the street she always finds some excuse to come out and hang about outside so she can watch them to see where they go, what they do and if she's really lucky she will manage to interogate talk to them!

And she keeps her children in all day or takes them out for the day but then lets them out to play football after dinner where they run around screaming and shouting and kicking the ball into cars or off buildings, i.e my building as my house is next to the play area, just as I'm putting the dd's to bed. I've been out to them before and asked them to keep the noise down etc, don't mind them playing or a bit of noise but they can be excessive, now I think she tells them to go out and make as much noise as possible just to annoy me. Or maybe I'm just paranoid, either way I don't rise to the bait and turn the tv up.

bessmum · 10/10/2007 01:16

Its hard with neighbours like that. We live next door to a pub - great until we had a baby! tonight it sounded as if there was a singer in our baby's room. I sent DH to have a word....but he just stayed there enjoying a pint or two!

suzywong · 10/10/2007 01:35

how topical, I have a corker:

After careful consideration on my part in the design of the house extension and the impact it would have on my neigbhours (building 3m from boundary fence in stead of the allowed 90cm, no windows on the boundary side, showing neighbours plans when under no obliigation to do so, paying for cutting and removal of their over hanging pine tree) the neighbours call the council and accuse me of breaking a by-law and contravening planning permission by installing a new window in the house from which they fear we could and would have people peering in to their garden in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the ladies of the house without their hijabs thus making them prisoners in their own homes.

I carefully explained that the "new window" was infact a new window replacing a window that had been in situ since 1958.

that is the most annoying thing my neighbours have done to me.

saltire · 10/10/2007 12:35

So I take it you can still go ahead with the window Suzy?

I forgot to add singing along to the radio or Cds for my neighbour. Someone must have told her she can sing, and it's usually Bonnie Tyler she sings along to, but is currently in the garden, fag in hand screeching singing along to something from Phantom of the opera!

happystory · 10/10/2007 12:47

When they have visitors late in the evening (old folks) they always bloody toot their horns as they leave, just when I'm dropping off to sleep.

Am perhaps jealous that elderly neighbours have more social life than us.

goingfriggincrazy · 10/10/2007 13:34

Whistle EVERYTIME they go into their garden....yes, WE know you are out there hanging out your knickers-we aren't interested!