Things that irrationally irritate you about your neighbours

[ianrauk]

The only annoying thing about one of my immediate neighbours is that they moved away. He's was my drinking buddy and excuse for us both to go to the pub to watch the footy.

 

[John the Monkey]

We're not overly precious about parking either.

We're not, and I sort of wonder if that's why people block our drive from time to time. It's a PITA when it means Mrs M can't set off for work in time, as she only gets paid for the hours she works.

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.

AirBnB will mean ever more of that, sadly.

 

[Drago]

The only annoying thing about one of my immediate neighbours is that they moved away. He's was my drinking buddy and excuse for us both to go to the pub to watch the footy.

people play football inside your pub?

 

[ianrauk]

people play football inside your pub?

No. They show it on the TV.

 

[MontyVeda]

Used to have a neighbour who constantly complained about other neighbours parking their cars outside her house. It was a terraced street with plenty of student houses, so some households could have four cars and spaces were few and far between. The complaining neighbour didn't even have a car.

My home is next to a student house so get new neighbours each year. The current ones are fine, I think they might actually be studying something instead of getting drunk every night. A few years ago we had 'ravers' next door. I don't mind hearing the occasional party but having thump-thump-thump-baddum-thump-thump-thump-paddish-thump-thump-thump coming through the walls every night got a bit boring. I knocked on the door and asked politely, i banged on the walls, I wrote them a 'polite' letter, spoke to their landlord but they didn't give a toss. One night, they're having yet another party and I'm banging on the walls again (this was around 1am, on a tuesday). My doorbell rang and some cheeky little fecker from next door asked me to stop banging because i was disturbing their party

 

[Bimble]

This thread instantly made me think of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue 'A Lady of Letters', beautifully performed by Patricia Routledge. It can't be linked to, as it belongs to the BBC, but here's a synopsis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lady_of_Letters

Absolutely brilliant, and you've got to listen keenly to get all of the jibes. Listened to the series on Radio 4 a few years ago.

 

[colly]

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.

Did it stop the dog barking though ?

 

[Bazzer]

Must admit generally our neighbours have been good wherever we have lived.
Our first house was a semi and the attached neighbours, who were also newly married, moved in very shortly after we did. They used to periodically have some tremendous blow ups. We would hear the shouting, the odd crash of something breakable, followed by the inevitable stomp up the stairs and then down again. We moved after 31/2 years (not because of them), and I believe they separated not long after.
We also lived for 4 months in a flat in between houses. The flat was one of several in a very large Victorian house, which had been converted to a HMO with the minimal possible cost. So for example internal doors separating rooms remained, even though the rooms themselves were now separate flats. (Albeit the doors were locked).
Our bedroom had such a door my wife insisted our bed be butted up against the door, just in case the occupant on the other side wanted to gain entry, as the door opened to our side. Disturbed nights were frequent despite polite requests, etc. So one evening, tired of wasting my knuckles on further entreaties, I took a 16oz claw hammer to bed. After yet more disturbances I sort of lost the plot, reached down and swung the hammer so that it lodged in the door, with head sticking out on the neighbour's side and the claw on ours. Weirdly that seemed to do trick. However the hammer had to remain lodged in the door until we left the flat, partly because my wife didn't want the neighbour to see into the room we used as a bedroom, but also it served as a visual reminder to said noisy neighbour.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Parking. All of the opposite neighbours park on the road, meaning all of us on the other side have to park half on the pavement otherwise there's no room in the road. There are no lines or anything, so someone at some point had to have started the trend. Our adjoining neighbour has two noisy girls but it doesn't bother me because my drill was noisy last night. Give and take.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

My neighbour knocked on my door at 2am the other morning!

Luckily, I was still up playing my bagpipes.

Graham

 

[Sandra6]

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: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.

Of course our first thoughts were concern for her - clearly thinking she must have taken ill. But I am struggling to think of an illness that would be left untreated and result in such regular visits from the paramedics. I am not annoyed by the neighbour as much as by the health service that are clearly not giving her whatever help she may need. But the blocking of the drive is completely unneccessary, the paramedics know it is not an emergency and could take a few minutes to park more considerately - perhaps in the driveway of her house which is always empty!

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.

That really is quite sad.

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

Trust me I am not blind to my faults as a neighbour. The number of times we open and shut our garage door annoys me so I expect the neighbours find it irritating.
And we make quite a racket in the summer in the garden, not to mention the smoke from the chimnea. And I know the chap over the road to the side of us hates the way we cut our grass verge because somebody told us!

 

[ColinJ]

A friend of mine lived next door to someone who really was a 'neighbour from hell' - Robert Hind.

Hind used to come home late at night the worse for wear and start playing music VERY loud. There were lots of arguments between him and the surrounding neighbours about it.

It turned out to be way more serious than just his annoyingly loud music. Hind was actually sexually abusing teenage boys in there at the time. He was eventually caught for it and sent to prison. Despite being deemed to be a serious danger to young people, he was released on licence after a fairly short period of time.

At the bail hostel, Hind started a relationship with man who had been released on licence after doing time for murdering his girlfriend. Soon afterwards, Hind disappeared. His body parts were found in a local canal ...

 

[ColinJ]

For some reason, I had overlooked the word 'irrationally'.

It makes perfect sense to be more than a little irritated with noisy, inconsiderate, criminal neighbours!

 

[r04DiE]

Of course our first thoughts were concern for her - clearly thinking she must have taken ill. But I am struggling to think of an illness that would be left untreated and result in such regular visits from the paramedics. I am not annoyed by the neighbour as much as by the health service that are clearly not giving her whatever help she may need. But the blocking of the drive is completely unneccessary, the paramedics know it is not an emergency and could take a few minutes to park more considerately - perhaps in the driveway of her house which is always empty!

My mate's 22 year old son is diabetic and has aspegers syndrome. These do not mix well together. He is a muscular lad, with not an ounce of fat on him.

The aspergers affects the way he administers his medication, if he goes high, it makes him pee, so he likes to keep it low, dangerously low, in fact. Its almost as if he is trying to play a game of Russian Roulette. His parents get very little sleep as they need to monitor him through the night, my mate is up at 5.00 to go to work, his wife cannnot work as she needs to be there for her son during the day. They have little money with 5 of them to support on one wage, life isn't easy.

When my mate's son goes low, he gets violent, he has punched my mate to the ground more than once, his Mother is scared to be left alone with him sometimes. He also fits when he's low, he bites through his tongue and can't eat properly for ages. One day it will kill him but his parents can only do what they can. The paramedics are regular visitors in the wee small hours, during the day, at different times. Nobody has ever complained to my mate that their drive is being obstructed so far though.

 

[Sandra6]

That must be very hard for your neighbours to cope with, but perhaps the ambulance driver is a more considerate parker.
Their circumstances, however, are vastly different to my neighbour.