Things that irrationally irritate you about your neighbours

[Mrs M]

We have good neighbours
There have been some minor annoyances over the years but we just ignore them as small things can blow up into huge issues
Plenty of parking on our street but someone visiting our previous next door neighbour decided to park right across our driveway. Mr M put a note on their windscreen that just said "selfish parker" . Never saw them again.

 

[NorthernDave]

We have good neighbours

Neighbours, Everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding
You can find the perfect blend
Neighbours...should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends
Ooh Neighbours, should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends.

 

[Dave 123]

Neighbours, Everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding
You can find the perfect blend
Neighbours...should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends
Ooh Neighbours, should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends.

 

[Andy_R]

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.

I believe that is reportable?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

We love our neighbours. They have strange tastes in finials though.

 

[gbb]

Left next door...never bother us but scruffy gits.
Right next door...nice woman but rabbits too much when you're busy.
To the rear, drink like fish, brew their own hooch, two blooming big brewing bins in the back garden...vodka maybe. Sit in the garden and yap all endlessly which can be a bit annoying at midnight. Never bother me otherwise so leave them to it.
Next to them, Dog occasionally barks too much.
Next to them, Dog never stops barking.

None of them bother me personally, could be worse.

Me ?...I'm perfect

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I believe that is reportable?

Probably is, although I'm sure the police have bigger fish to fry. You'd do well to get someone out to a burglary these days, never mind some inconsiderate parking where no one's been hurt and nothing's been damaged yet. I'm not sure I could be bothered with how frustrating it undoubtedly would be either.

 

[Saluki]

We have nice neighbour's all around. Upstairs has a few eccentricities but is generally lovely.

When we lived in Wymondham in Norfolk, we had the neighbour from hell who insisted the entire close was silent after 3pm as she worked nights. She made the year we had there an absolute misery. I ended up in hospital because of her bulling. In the end we decided not to give in to her irrational demands and live normally, she was furious. She reported us 372 times in a year for crimes such as gardening at 6pm on a summer evening. Mowing the lawn in the afternoon, flushing the loo after 4pm, walkin, talking, watching tv, cooking, using our stairs, parking in our private space, vacuuming and all sorts. Council ignored her and said she was a nutter.

 

[colly]

Good neighbours all in all. One annoyance is that one lot are forever driving over the grass outside their house and it looks like the Somme when it's wet. No big deal really.
I get on with the Muslim neighbours on the right and the Sikh neighbours on the left. They can't stand one another. Almost came to blows a year or two back.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have never

Some neighbour disputes make their way to the criminal court.

I recall one where the aggrieved party painted the other bloke's house black when he was away for the weekend.

Just the front, although he did include the windows.

Another dispute turned genuinely ugly when one man seriously assaulted another and, quite rightly, got a few years in prison for it.

That was over the neighbour's external light shining into thuggy man's window.

I ended up in court after a run in with a next door neighbour 18 years ago. A woman and her mother lived in the house. She decided to get herself a German Shepherd dog. The thing barked at anyone who walked past the house. I asked her to try and keep it quiet(it barked from 6am through to midnight),suggesting that she kept it out of the front room as it seeing people set it off barking. She told me she couldn't do that as she wanted people to know she had this dog so that it would deter potential burglars. After suffering endless barking i contacted the council. They did very little so i took things into my own hands. I went out in the middle of the night and painted the glass in the window with white emulsion paint.
The following day the police knocked on the door. They said someone had seen me do it and i was under arrest for criminal damage. Anyway, to cut a long story short i ended up with a caution. The copper who arrested me said he'd have let it go but he couldn't, as the women who's window i painted insisted on me being "done". She wanted a few hundred pounds in compensation for the damage but the court just ordered me to clean it off myself. I paid a friend to do it to save me the embarrassment. The woman and her dog moved out soon after.

 

[Lozz360]

Neighbours, Everybody needs good neighbours
With a little understanding
You can find the perfect blend
Neighbours...should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends
Ooh Neighbours, should be there for one another
That's when good neighbours become good friends.

I find that more irritating than any neighbours!

 

[lutonloony]

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

Mme are very similar, except I don't think they have a clock, as they keep asking me if I know what time it is?

 

[Dave 123]

I have never


I ended up in court after a run in with a next door neighbour 18 years ago. A woman and her mother lived in the house. She decided to get herself a German Shepherd dog. The thing barked at anyone who walked past the house. I asked her to try and keep it quiet(it barked from 6am through to midnight),suggesting that she kept it out of the front room as it seeing people set it off barking. She told me she couldn't do that as she wanted people to know she had this dog so that it would deter potential burglars. After suffering endless barking i contacted the council. They did very little so i took things into my own hands. I went out in the middle of the night and painted the glass in the window with white emulsion paint.
The following day the police knocked on the door. They said someone had seen me do it and i was under arrest for criminal damage. Anyway, to cut a long story short i ended up with a caution. The copper who arrested me said he'd have let it go but he couldn't, as the women who's window i painted insisted on me being "done". She wanted a few hundred pounds in compensation for the damage but the court just ordered me to clean it off myself. I paid a friend to do it to save me the embarrassment. The woman and her dog moved out soon after.

Really and truly the copper should have just glossed over it.

 

[Drago]

My immediate neighbours are fine. An elderly couple on one side, a 21st century George and Mildred, a young couple on the other. No problems whatsoever there.

However, my bugbear with the wider field of neighbours down our lane is parking. The road is never blocked, neither are the footpaths, but every house has a driveway for multiple cars so why in Earth do the lazy arsed bar stewards insist on dumping their cars at the kerbside? What's that all about?

 

[nickyboy]

Innit funny how we're all such nice neighbours and its only our neighbours that are the weirdo annoying ones?