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New neighbours renting next door I hate them already.

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 19:26

He has a great big lorry which is bright yellow and about 10 feet long and twice as high parked across the road. His son drives one of those boy racer cars with the fat noisy exhaust and black tinted windows and pulls up with loud music blasting.

I am furious with the couple who used to live next door for renting their house to these people - because she herself would not have liked to have to live with this. She is such a hypocrite.

We heard he is a lorry driver - and DH and I are hoping that he only borrowed the lorry from his work to move some stuff, because he also has a car. I just hate having this big fing shting lorry outside my house. This is a quiet residential road not a lorry park. I'm so and upset.

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notnowbernard · 01/06/2008 19:28

Not sure why you are furious with ex-neighbours?

fishie · 01/06/2008 19:30

a bit much to write them off straight away because you don't like their vehicles.

did they seem nice when you went to welcome them to your street?

lljkk · 01/06/2008 19:31

YABU, It's a public road, they could park a frigging tractor over there if they wanted to (they do in my area).

cupsoftea · 01/06/2008 19:31

Are they ok to speak to?

poppy34 · 01/06/2008 19:31

does lorry have any details of whose it is? old neighbours near my mum used to park his supermarket lorry for lunch - call to the supermarket stopped that as not meant to be doing that kind of thing
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also if the lorry is obscuring entrance/exit to road could also be council matter.

jajas · 01/06/2008 19:32

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 19:34

It's a looong story. We lived next door for six years and considered them to be our friends. Then they inherited a big house nearby and went all funny. Particularly when they put the next door house up for sale (it didn't sell despite being on market for six months which I assume is why they are renting) and I asked her to replace the fence that was falling down in the back garden (I think she was planning on leaving without doing this - despite the fact she knows it needed doing as she herself had moaned about it for the past six years). She always used to moan and moan about her opposite neighbour's large transit van and how she felt it was a big fat eyesore. She moaned about the guy two doors down who rents his property and his tenants cars parked outside her house. She knows that I would not like a 10 foot F*ing lorry outside my house. That is why I am furious with her.

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 19:35

Not spoken to them yet. And I am not going to. I don't think it is reasonable to park such a big truck on such a small road personally.

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thelittlestbadger · 01/06/2008 19:36

Did she choose the people who moved in? Many people use lettings agents to get them tenants and don't actually have any involvement themselves so it might be a bit unfair to be at your ex-neighbour

cupsoftea · 01/06/2008 19:37

could you ask them about the lorry? they might be ok.

NotQuiteCockney · 01/06/2008 19:40

Maybe she didn't know about the lorry - it's hardly something someone would be eager to talk about when arranging to rent somewhere, is it?

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 19:41

I know it seems unfair littlestbadger - but I just feel she has done this to stick two fingers up to us. SHe did not come and say "bye" when she left during her trips back and forth between nest door house and the other house. She did not even come and tell me that she was renting - she told one of our across the road neighbours who then told me. I feel betrayed because she seemed like a good friend who we got on well with. WHen DS was tiny and I needed a break I used to pass him over the fence in his nappy so I could have a cup of tea in peace. She was so thrilled that DS was born on her birthday. She was kind of like a surrogate mum to us. Now this.

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thelittlestbadger · 01/06/2008 19:47

Sorry! We're about to let out our flat as DH is moving jobs) and I know that our neighbours (who are also quite good friends) are a bit upset about it so I'm just trying to avoid discussing it with them although I've given them a brief overview... Your ex-neighbour might have just been a bit embarrassed about moving away and not really know what to say - particularly if she knew the tenant was into monster trucks!

notnowbernard · 01/06/2008 19:48

This is evidently more about the issues between you and your old neighbour

I feel it would be fair to give the new lot next door a chance, at least

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 19:49

Perhaps you are right littlestbadger, perhaps you are right. I just don't like the thought that someone whom I trusted to look after DS could apparently have so little regard for us.

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LyraSilvertongue · 01/06/2008 19:53

She probably didn't know about the truck. It's not the sort of thing a landlord asks when vetting potential tenants.

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 19:54

Old neighbour has gone and there is nothing I can do about that. My issue is about what has taken her place and how this came about -given that on Friday she was in her garden giving it a tidy up and said nothing about someone moving in the next day. And perhaps littlestbadger is right - she was too embarassed - especially as she must have known that there was no way shape or form anyone around here would want a giant yellow truck stuck outside our houses.

I don't want to speak to the new next door. Alll I want to know is when they are going.

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TheFallenMadonna · 01/06/2008 19:59

You should go and say hello. Big yellow truck or not they may be lovely people.

Our neighbours used to complain about my dad parking his gas board van outside our house. They said (cliche alert) that it "lowered the tone"...

They were snobs. We were lovely

Their loss...

WonderingWhy · 01/06/2008 20:02

Don't jump to conclusions yet - they might be Ok, son might not live there, the lorry is prob temporary.

Our neighbours moved in last year, all we heard were boy racers with beatboxes for a few days, kicking cans around the street - I was terrified - when the family moved in the daughters' boyfriends disappeared and they are very quiet.

they are still annoying at times and we're not really friends but at least they keep themselves to themselves.

Surfermum · 01/06/2008 20:09

Blimey! You haven't even given them a chance. Dh used to deliver brand new lorries. We'd have one parked outside one night - the next day it was delivered to the customer and it would be months before he brought another home. It was just the way the job worked out.

fishie · 01/06/2008 20:12

a family is a million times better than sharers too.

next door to us was housing association, prob short term lets while they found other places, as there was a very fast turnover. some of them were awful and some lovely.

anyway it is now owned by buy-to-let young man who has made very sure to never meet us. current tenants are ok apart from constant smoking outside front door.

i am telling you all this just to show that even when it is bad is only temporary and i've found that dodgy people move on more quickly.

piratecat · 01/06/2008 20:15

how long have they been there?

Maybe the lorryi s one used for moving gear, and won't be there all the time.

Maybe you weren't as good a friends with your former neighbours as you thought, it sounds very nitpicky.

give them a chance fgs.

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TheSweetLittleBunny · 01/06/2008 20:23

Why give them a chance? Why don't they give us a chance. DO you really think it is reasonable to come on to a street where you know nobody - blare you music really loud outside people's houses and reverse at speed down to the end the road every time you leave instead of simply turning the car around or driving round the block? When that arsehole knocks someone's child over with his stupid driving will you say give them a chance then. I would cringe if I thought that when DS grows up he would behave like that.

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SmallShips · 26/01/2009 15:23

I know this is old, but what happended? Is the lorry still there?

Ewe · 26/01/2009 15:45

He sounds like a fairly normal teenage boy tbh, maybe just explain to him that he shouldn't drive like that on a road where kids play out? Pre-children (and especially as a teenager) I was just too selfish to think about things like that.

You sound like you're being a real snob tbh. The neighbours are not at fault for your ex neighbours now snubbing you. You are behaving towards your new neighbours like your ex ones sound like they are behaving towards you.