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Probably_Talking

What minor things do your neighbours do that really annoy you?

I live in an apartment building with post boxes on the outside of the building. Recently some new people moved in and kept leaving the post that wasn't for them on the windowsill, the postmen (people) here don't collect post, you simply write "return to sender" and place in a postbox - we have one on the other side of the road, so it's really not difficult.

It started really annoying me the post was building up, so I have started putting it back in peoples post boxes, every day I see it back on the window and place it back in the boxes, being going on for over a week now.

So anyone else had such a stupid thing annoy them, or any other silly neighbour stories?

Posted Feb 16, 2012, 10:51 AM UTC

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shahadien•

Exist.

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Ixuvia•

Ah. So I'm not the only one who would prefer large bottomless pits next to my house over my neighbours...

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Misterbert•

They sit on their porch and look at me looking at them.

It's fucking annoying.

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Ixuvia•

This is probably exactly what they think of you.

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Probably_TalkingOP•

I'm waiting for someone to say "while I sit relaxing on my porch my neighbour keeps staring at me, it's fucking annoying"

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heygabbagabba•

When my nectarine tree drops fruit on their side, they throw it back over the fence. Assholes.

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[deleted]•

They park their vehicle in front of my FUCKING GARAGE. I regularly emerge in fury-form on my balcony, loudly crying, “THAT’S NOT A PARKING SPOT. YOU’VE PARKED ME IN!”

If that doesn’t work, I threaten running my keys across their automobile’s paintwork, and calling the cops. Haven’t had a problem since.

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Probably_TalkingOP•

Are you normally a laid-back person?

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[deleted]•

Yes and no. Up till two years ago I was. But then I had a mid-life crisis at age 35. Now I have a short fuse.

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Probably_TalkingOP•

I find that normally small things in life don't bother me, but at home other people annoy me really easily, like the stupid post thing. Worst thing is, I've started being sneaky and only doing it during the day so they think it's the postman!

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[deleted]•

HAHA! Yes. The little things annoy the living daylights outta me too.

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fuzzysarge•

I would have had their car towed.

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dispatcher_83•

egg my dog on. We are moving in about a month, but are currently in a townhouse. They are late night, kid-free people about 26 years old. We have kids, so late night noises can be annoying, but acceptable. However, when they go outside and smoke our dog peeks his head out the window and they purposely make noises and talk to him, which makes my skiddish dog freak out and think someone is trying to break in. Pisses me off everytime.

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Probably_TalkingOP•

That's just cruel, at 26 they should know better. (I feel old now!)

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whitecaliban•

The girl who lives next door, her bedroom shares a wall with mine. And during her sleep she will randomly kick the wall and it will sound like someone is banging on my door. Don't even get me started on the sounds when her boyfriend comes over...

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Probably_TalkingOP•

My neighbour above me randomly stomps around in the middle of the night while I'm trying to sleep.

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effw0rd•

My upstairs neighbors stomp too, to the point where I wanted to pull my hair out. People say its because they have a wooden floor, neighbors are flatfooted.... but the excuses don't make up for how loud it is, or the force. The whole apartment shakes when they tramble on by, so much so that once it caused the glass globe on the kitchen light to completely dislodge itself and come crashing down, as I was preparing dinner. Oh, and they bring there friends dog up (pets not allowed) and it sits upstairs dropping its toy on the ground constantly whenever its there. Ugh

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FuzzedOut•

Not taking care of their lawn. It just bugs me seeing a giant area covered in junk and dead grass.

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Probably_TalkingOP•

That is annoying, would most likely make your property lose value as well.

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FuzzedOut•

It's particularly annoying because my family use to rent that house and we made sure it was in tip top shape (for the landlord and for our neighbors). Then the previous owner of our current home, which happened to be next door next door gave us a sweet deal on this house so we relocated. Four months later, our new neighbors move into our previous home and it goes to shit. Yet our landlord doesn't seem to care! go figure.

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pics-or-didnt-happen•

This weekend I plan on going upstairs to find out what the fuck is going on up there.

Either there is an old retired man up there who builds birdhouses from 6am-8pm or a bunch of cokeheads cutting lines.

I work from home and all I hear all day from upstairs is *tap tap tap TAP TAP TAP... TAP TAP... tap tap tap TAP TAP TAP".

It's not too loud and I figure I'll be able to ignore it ONCE I KNOW WTF IS GOING ON.

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[deleted]•

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fuzzysarge•

Put their alarm clock on noise level "Def-con 1" then leave for the weekend. Or pass out drunk/high with there stereo blasting with a CD that skipped.

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[deleted]•

Hold fucking garage sales every other fucking weekend.

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vcxzfdasrewq•

Procreate.

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