Things that irrationally irritate you about your neighbours

[Piemaster]

Neighbour across the street had his entire back garden concreted over and a drop kerb installed - not a leaf of greenery anywhere (his choice, but..) so he could park the chelsea tractor on it behind a big sliding gate (it's opposite my drive). He also has another car parked on his front drive, one next to the drop kerb, which has become 'his' parking spot and small liveried up works van down the street, again on 'his' spot.
None of this annoys me. What does annoy is despite of all the above he still regularly parks another vehicle opposite my drive making it very difficult to get out - something I've never done to him. Perhaps I should.

 

[Onthedrops]

No problems as such with our neighbours, we get along.
Saying that, there are a few down the road who park their cars fully on the pavement. Presume that's down to the guy opposite who parks his LWB van fully on the road.
It has to be said that we live on a narrow road, if everyone parked with all 4 wheels on the kerb it'd be a struggle to get past in a car, let alone an emergency vehicle.

 

[ColinJ]

Apart from wondering which neighbour will kill his/her spouse ... no problem! They have 5 or 6 VERY heated arguments most days. Screaming, swearing, things getting chucked about. It really stressed me out when I first moved here. I kept thinking that I would hear the sound of a murder being committed, followed by a deathly silence.

After 18 months in this house, I have got used to the racket and barely even notice it any more. When friends or family visit though they are very shocked when it all kicks off. Someone suggested that I should call the police ... And say what - "The couple next door argue a lot!"? Neither seems to be afraid of the other and the wife screams as much abuse as the husband. I don't know if 'love is blind' but in the case of my neighbours it appears to be profoundly deaf, given how loudly they shout at each other!

At my previous address, the couple next door neglected their baby. Apparently, it used to cry for hours at a time but didn't get any attention. I say 'apparently' because I am hard of hearing and could not hear it unless I stuck an ear against the dividing wall. Everybody else who came to my house could hear it though and found its distress very disturbing. In the end one of them rang social services to report the situation. They said that if the baby was that young then the mother and child would be getting regular visits from the district nurse. They would make sure that the nurse was notified and she would discreetly check for problems.

Oh, and I forgot ... there was the time that a new couple moved in a couple of houses away. They were clearly very keen to complete a thorough refurb of their new property; so keen in fact that they were doing major DIY work at 03:00! Even with my dodgy hearing, the noise of the hammering and drilling was enough to keep me awake ...

 

[gavgav]

My neighbours dog continually tries to dig a hole under the fence between mine and theirs, pushing soil and stones out onto my path. I keep moving them back and out they come again.

Petty, but ruddy annoying!!

Currently thinking of an ingenious way to prevent it.

 

[ColinJ]

My exact words about my neighbours' crying baby were "I can't hear it but from what you say, it sounds like the parents are leaving it to cry rather than doing horrid things to it. It isn't for us to tell other people how to look after their children. Maybe they are stressed out or just not very good at parenting? We do not have a clue what is going on next door but if it really bothers you that much then phone Social Services. Please don't spend the next 2 hours going on and on to me about it!"

 

[Oxo]

Our neighbours have gone on holiday again. The thing is, every time they go they come back.

 

[oldwheels]

Holiday houses which are let out on a weekly basis. The tenants neither know or care about parking, dustbin collection or even turning off the exterior searchlights which shine in my front windows 24/7.The bins are left to obstruct everyone's parking as they do not know when they are emptied and are ever retrieved.Grrr.

 

[keithmac]

I can imagine that's genuinely annoying!.

 

[Markymark]

My neighbour keeps hammering the walls at 3 in the morning. I wouldn't mind but it's never in time with my music.

 

[welsh dragon]

I don't have any problems with my neighbours.......i don't have any. Peace and joy.

 

[gavgav]

A concrete slab?

I have gravel boards and so slabs on the patio so far along, but then gravel section to boards. I think the board needs to be bigger, as fence slopes towards the house.

 

[r04DiE]

I must say that I wish I had so little of my own to worry about in life that I would even notice some of the things that you find irritiating.

Regarding this:

Third irritant, and I know this is a ridiculous one to complain about - has an ambulance in attendance at least three times a week. Sometimes twice in a day. And they either wake me in the middle of the night or block our driveway when we're trying to get in or out.

Why is the ambulance visiting, do you think it might be for something important, like something more important than you being woken in the night, or having your driveway blocked? Just a thought.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I'm not sure it's irrational, but a guy about 5 houses up at the top of our hill annoys me. He parks his big, tall 4WD right on the T junction (as his house is on the corner, and i guess he likes to have his car right outside his front door despite what the highway code says about parking near junctions). This completely blocks the view to the right as you're trying to get out onto the main road. Despite trying to creep out ever so carefully, I've had 4 near misses in 4 years.

 

[mickle]

That my neighbours started out with a perfectly lovely and presumably normal baby, and with a great deal of time and effort, shouting, hitting and neglect, have turned her into a vile, violent little person just like themselves.

 

[r04DiE]

That my neighbours started out with a perfectly lovely and presumably normal baby, and with a great deal of time and effort, shouting, hitting and neglect, have turned her into a vile, violent little person just like themselves.

Shame