Bloody neighbours...again

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Well, most of you know we moved out of our flat after our neighbour from hell. (Mrs Floodsusout).

Well tonight, I got a knock on the door from one of our new neighbours.

Apparently this is a problem.

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(You can see where she's washed infront of her house already).

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This is how the area is divided up.
1. Our garden
2. Hers
3. Another neighbour
Pathways and C = Communal.

She said to me "I dont want to seem like a moaner, but could you get your kids to chalk here" (pointing to the unwashed bit)

I just replie "Yeah I'd told em theyd done a bit much".
(Which I did think at the time)
The more I think of it though, the more Im getting annoyed.

How petty is that? I wouldn't mind if there was a legitimate reason. We all have to be tolerant towards each other, we have to live in the same area, but isn't that just petty?
Considering how tolerant we are when we turn a blind eye to this :

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and
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(Yes, her tyre marks...hers is the white and blue car on the right, and she sometimes drives over the green to park infront of her house).

Grrr, I'm annoyed now.
 
Stupid cow, if they were smashing her windows she would have something to complain about :shake:
Hope they ain't child haters.
 
heheh, as someone without kids I can see where she's coming from ;) All that chalk would annoy me too, just the same as chewing gum does. :p

Having said that she's well out of order driving over the grass, that would really annoy me :lol:
 
Dont you just love neighbours, had a few run in's with mine, mostly them parking across our drive whether or not my car was parked on it or not plus other things.
All I can say is kids will be kids and it can easily be washed away, its not like they are using spray paint to do it, or at least I hope they are not :lol:.
 
Well I have a funny feeling she's got a preconceived notion about us since we moved in. They haven't been very vocally friendly (like next door and next door but one have).
We've taken parcels in and got muttered thankyous.
Even one time a lad knocked on our door (he was doing door to door), and handed us a key, saying it was left in their lock. So we gave it them later than night to not even a thankyou, nor kiss me arse.

As for her being judgmental. We're on an ex-council estate (Housing Association), she lives here too :p

And technically she's a single mum (So I dont care if her daughters are in their 20's)..lol

Sod it, she can **** right off.
 
TBH I wouldnt mind if its ALL the time. It was just this once, and its going to rain tomorrow...lol If it was a frequent occurence, then yeah, I would agree with her...But a one off isnt going to hurt anyone.

I'll be using the same line next time I see her drive over the grass.
 
Ban your kids from ever using chalk and send them to bed without tea! Grafitti hooligans!



:D

serious bit: Probably best ignored at the moment but if she brings it up again explain how tolerance is a virtue and that you will turn a blind eye to her cross country adventures.
 
Blimmin heck Marcel ... you dont half pick your neighbours! ;)

Im not at all surprised that youre annoyed, I cant believe she drives her car over the communal grassed area, then has the cheek to moan about a bit of chalk!

Id be sure to get a snap of her actually driving over the grass... you never know, it may come in handy at a later date! ;)
 
Marcel said:
TBH I wouldnt mind if its ALL the time. It was just this once, and its going to rain tomorrow...lol If it was a frequent occurence, then yeah, I would agree with her...But a one off isnt going to hurt anyone.

I'll be using the same line next time I see her drive over the grass.
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I sounded like a right grumpy old b****r there :lol:

It would annoy me but being chalk I wouldn't bother to raise it unless it was right on my doorstep. As scraggs says, it's just kids and they've got to do something :)
 
Good advice HUN. I like that line / response.
Im kicking myself that I was so nice when she knocked on, and didnt at least ask her "why" and state my defense (so to speak).
I'm too nice like that.

I do wish she had an account on here, I'd give her a really embarassing title :p
 
Kids will be kids ... :shrug: ... 'n chalk is nowhere near as offensive as gum under foot ... :suspect: ... and it gets washed away with the next rains mostly ... :thinking: ... or by a wingeing neighbour who really should sort out her own anti-social behaviours before starting on others ... imgo ... :D ... I'm with you on this one Marcel ... ;)


FWIW ... :shrug:




:p
 
marcel you just lower the tone whereever you go. your a chav!
 
dod said:
I sounded like a right grumpy old b****r there :lol:

It would annoy me but being chalk I wouldn't bother to raise it unless it was right on my doorstep. As scraggs says, it's just kids and they've got to do something :)
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Hehe Seriously though mate, I do see your point. Because when they did it, I looked and thought "Thats actually quite alot of chalkin...lol"

To be fair though, the paths are communal.
To put it into perspective, my sons plastic trike (one of those tiny toddler things) had been left right on the corner of her grass one day (probably by my son), and one of the daughters was coming home, she literally picked it up, and moved it, less than a foot away, onto the path, and just walked off. I did shout sorry (See? I'm too polite), and was just ignored.

Snooty friggers.
 
LOL indeed I am.

Considering the previous tenants here, she should think herself lucky.
They used to have fires in the back garden (not burning rubbish, proper fires). Jump out of upstairs windows, leave rubbish strewn everywhere.

We're polite scallies, thankyouverymuch. We take our tea in non-chipped mugs.
 
See you're simmering now. Go round there now - knock the door - give her slap - job done! :shrug:
 
I think I would ask you to have the kids chalk outside their own door only but I would ask as a friend and a neighbour (I have my own kids albeit grown up now so I know what it's like) not like the **** that she is obviously being.
Oh and the next time she drove over the green I would have the photograph printed and in hand as I attended the police barracks to make my complaint.... That is bl@@dy dangerous.:nono:
Remember: Sneaky is best. :lol:

David.
 
I say post a cat toffee through her letter box.

Mind you, chalking on the floor annoys me when I see it......the yoof of today really must put more effort into spelling their swear words correctly.
 
digitalfailure said:
I say post a cat toffee through her letter box.

Mind you, chalking on the floor annoys me when I see it......the yoof of today really must put more effort into spelling their swear words correctly.
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Is that what I think it is? :lol::lol:
 
Marcel said:
To put it into perspective, etc
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I know where you're coming from totally.

Our ex-neighbour (HOOOOOORRRAAAAAHHHHHHH) woke up in the night (4.00 AM) a few months ago to find two of our other neighbours horses in his garden. We're in the middle of the countryside.

Now, he could have phoned us, our other neighbour, knocked either of us out of our beds but no, he got up and shooed them down the track. Next thing, I get a phone call at 5.30ish from the police, via the vet who had been called out, saying there are two horses on the main Aberdeen Inverness road and one of them's been killed by a vehicle. Road was closed for about an hour and by the time we got it picked up it took about 4 hours.

Richard Cranium then proceeded to announce he didn't know whose they were so didn't think to tell anyone, the truth was he was just pleased to get them away from his place. Least he should have done was phoned the police to report them. He also complained to the other neighbour about the noise his sheep made (think it was sheep, might have been the hens) :suspect:
 
That's terrible. Kids chalking the pavement? Whatever next.

If I were that neighbour, I'd sit in my garden chair with my shotgun and if I saw the little b
 
Is there a certain age when being obnoxious is a mandatory requirement...?? It seems the older people get, the more unreasonable they become.

I appreciate it is different strokes for different folks and all that, but come on.... chalk... yikes, like that's gonna ruin the neighborhood eh!

Marcel - I'd ignore totally. Let your kids play and have fun and enjoy themselves, and as long as they are polite, courteous and respectful - which I am sure they are after getting to know you a little on here - well then that's all that matters.
 
Wait till her car is covered in muck..and get your kids to draw 4 X 4 on the back of her car..she seems to think its one anyway..silly mare.
 
LOL

Actually I've just had a brainwave

Might get some yellow chalk and draw some double yellow lines outside her house.....mwahaha
 
Grr... I hate neighbours!

A middle-aged couple moved in next to us (in a terraced house) around December last year, apparently renovating the house to rent. Since then, they've been hammering and drilling almost constantly, from 8am-6pm every day. I spend a lot of time working from home, but can't do anything for the noise (measured at between 90-100dBA!). I've complained on several occasions, and each time they apologise and tell me that they'll be finished "in a couple of days." It's still going on! They've even started getting the builders to park their van across, or even on, our drive! Although that offends me greatly, I haven't said anything because it has yet to coincide with me needing to use the drive.

As if I haven't been tolerant enough, we had a visitor a few weeks ago, who parked on our drive behind me (probably should have used the neighbours'!), partially - but not completely - obstructing the pavement. It didn't affect the neighbours in any way, but they decided to call the police, who came and ordered that the car be moved to the nearest space ~1/4mile down the road. Interestingly, the officer who turned up didn't seem to mind the double-parked cars obstructing the road in several places, or the vehicles (and a skip) parked illegally in disabled spaces across the road. What a crazy world we live in!

Thankfully, my work is requiring me to move now, so some unfortunate new tenant can enjoy the neighbours' company.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Marcel, it just got me in a ranting mood! :nuts:

I'm calm now :)
 
Marcel said:
LOL

Actually I've just had a brainwave

Might get some yellow chalk and draw some double yellow lines outside her house.....mwahaha
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Don't you think that might be a bit too subtle for her :thinking: :lol:
 
Land mines..... the only way!
 
It's only a few months ago some kids got fined for chalking on the road outside their house.

Speak to your kids, ask them to play nice and stay away from her front garden, neighbours are to be respected after all, then when winter comes, trip over one of the ruts her car has made and sue her ass for everything she's got!!!!!
 
LOL Yeah, thats an idea.
I did tell my daughter last night not to chalk anymore, but this morning, I've sat her down and corrected myself. I've told her she can, but she isnt' to chalk every single flag...lol

If the woman complains again, I'll just explain about the tolerance thing, and if she doesn't like having to tolerate other people, she should move to a desert island somewhere. But seeing as she can't we've all got to get along, so if she can tolerate the kids, I'll tolerate her offroading.
 
I know how you feel Marcel. My kids grew up in a very similar area to yours [looking at the pics] and all the kids used to chalk on the pavements, and the rain would wash it off. The only rule was that you didn't do it on someone elses pavement, as in, the bit that led to their door, unless they specifically said you could. It is a case of tolerance for each other...however, a little addition to the story...we moved to london a couple of years ago, into a very middle class [almost even upper middle class] neighbourhood where there were no other teenagers, certainly not at our end of the road, and the only other kids were very young, toddlers. My oldest daughter, then 13, made friends with some kids from round the corner [11 and 12 yrs], and one day chalked all over the pavements with bits of broken plasterboard from a nearby skip. I was mortified when a few hours later, 2 different 80+yr old neighbours were out with brooms and buckets scrubbing it all off. So we made her and her friends take the brooms off the neighbours, apologise, and do the cleaning themselves. Dont get me wrong, they are pretty tolerant, as we are of them, they just didnt like seeing the 'graffiti' and didnt want to intrude or offend by asking us to get rid of it. So, perhaps tell your kids they can have 'xx' number of flags to chalk on, then when they are full, they have to clean them off before they can chalk more....and tell the neighbour where she can buy cross country tyres for her bloody car! ;)
 
I like your approach LL.

What annoys me is that she chose to knock only on my door. Not next door and speak about their grandchildren. Nor did she go down the road, and speak to another parent about THEIR girl that was there too (She just assumed it was all my kids).
 
gwocni said:
as I attended the police barracks to make my complaint....
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Ah I forget the Northern Irishims sometimes :p

N.I = Police Barracks (as they're huge !)
Mainland = Police Stations (Normally have flowers outside them and no guns in sight!)

:D
 
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