IRRITATING NEIGHBORS

[Tyler]

Don't even get me started on my parents' neighbors.  We refer to them as the Klopecs as their house is the only two story house in the cul-de-sac yet it's not taken care of.  Though, they decided to spend money to build a fence right on the edge of their property and along our driveway.  So now to park two cars in the driveway you have to let the passengers out first.

[Timmay]

Don't even get me started on my parents' neighbors.  We refer to them as the Klopecs as their house is the only two story house in the cul-de-sac yet it's not taken care of.  Though, they decided to spend money to build a fence right on the edge of their property and along our driveway.  So now to park two cars in the driveway you have to let the passengers out first.

Do you not have the 5 foot rule there?  Here in our city we can not build or place anything right on the property line.  You are suppose to be able to maintain all parts of your yard without having to be in the adjoining property.  I would check in on it, they may be forced to move their fence back about 5 feet.

[wpruitt]

We call the guy behind us ground hog because he pops his head over the fence to see what we're up to. 

Wouldn't Wilson be a better name ?

[Tyler]

We call the guy behind us ground hog because he pops his head over the fence to see what we're up to. 

Wouldn't Wilson be a better name ?

Only if he was actually cordial.

[Mike]

Okay mine is kinda lame but when I lived in town before I had the worst neighbor ever. It was when I had poultry, I was only allowed 3 birds but had like 20 but none made much noise. The neighbor always complained about my birds and was so whiney about it. He said they woke him up and all that. On top of his complaining he also had a pack of yappy dogs. He had a couple little rat dogs and a hound of some sort. They would bark at everything it seemed, they kept me up all the time it seemed. Then the guy was caught trapping the other neighbors cats and was seen killing one and skinning it out so he got into some trouble and moved out.

 Then after him there were some druggies in the same house. People came and went at all hours and there was loud music and funny smells, it didnt feel safe with them around but atleast they didnt complain. Then we moved out and didnt have many bad neighbors after that.

[Alexander215]

Okay mine is kinda lame but when I lived in town before I had the worst neighbor ever. It was when I had poultry, I was only allowed 3 birds but had like 20 but none made much noise. The neighbor always complained about my birds and was so whiney about it. He said they woke him up and all that. On top of his complaining he also had a pack of yappy dogs. He had a couple little rat dogs and a hound of some sort. They would bark at everything it seemed, they kept me up all the time it seemed. Then the guy was caught trapping the other neighbors cats and was seen killing one and skinning it out so he got into some trouble and moved out.

 Then after him there were some druggies in the same house. People came and went at all hours and there was loud music and funny smells, it didnt feel safe with them around but atleast they didnt complain. Then we moved out and didnt have many bad neighbors after that.

I don't know about druggies, but when the Hells Angels still had a clubhouse in Halifax I  felt a hell of a lot safer out at night

[Mikekoz13]

Well I grew up in the city in what we called "Row houses" in those days. We were a pretty rough group of kids and shitty neighbors were NOT given any kind of break.

      As teens we had a spot on one of the streets where we hung out. The spot was on the corner of a street and an alley way. We hung out there because it had a street lamp for night time congregating and the alley led directly to the wooded area where we hung out.
      Now we were rough kids but not really bad kids..... we didn't generally just cause trouble because most of us had Dad's that would kick our asses. So when we hung on the corner we were never loud or disrespectful to the neighbors....... but there was one old lady, in her late 50's, that didn't like us hanging out under that lamp. I don't remember her name but she was always calling the cops on us. The cops would come, move us along with a "guess who called again", and be on their way.
      So one Fall evening one of the guys, Dominick, "hatched" a plan to get even with this old gal. You see.... Dominick's neighbor was a milkman. So Dominick had us all pool our money and he went to the milkman and bought six dozen eggs.
      There were about 20 of us there the night the  plan was put into play. The plan : One of us would run up and knock on the door then run. The old lady would always come out with a broom yelling. When she came out and the door shut behind her, operation "egg" would be launched.
       So up goes one of the guys, he knocks real hard on the door and runs back to the pack of us kids. The old gal comes running out of the house cursing and swinging her broom. The door shuts behind her and Dominick yells "NOW!!!'. Twenty teenagers launched a couple of eggs each...... it looked like a snowstorm there were so many eggs in the air!!!
       The old woman was yelling "OWWW! OWWWW!" as the eggs pummeled her and the front of her house.
       We immediately got rid of the egg cartons and then just hung out waiting for the cops to show up. A few minutes later they were at her door. We could see the cop nodding his head and looking at the eggs all over the front of the house and porch as well as the old gal.
        The cop walked off the porch and right down to us. As he got closer we could see that he had a big smile on his face. He said, "You guys finally got her, huh?..... Shhhh no laughing". He stood there wagging his finger at us like he was lecturing us for a couple minutes. Then laughed and drove off. He told us the guys at the station were going to have a good laugh when they heard about this.

         Final note........ The old gal never called the cops on us again.............

[Mikekoz13]

      About 8 years ago I lived in a different town. I lived on a cul-de-sac but the houses were only 20 feet apart. We had a single Mom with a 10 year old boy named Dustin living next to us. Dustin was a bit of a stinker but I really liked the kid and was kind of a surrogate Father to him. His Mom would often ask me to talk to him when he was in trouble at school or if he did something wrong at home.
      The parking pads to our houses were right in front of the houses. Well the single Mom put in a basketball hoop for Dustin. Problem was, this hoop was only about 40 feet from our bedroom windows in the house.
       Well one Summer evening about 10:30 the basketballs are bouncing like crazy. I go to bed at 10PM to get up at 4AM. Finally at 11:00 I go to the window and Dustin and two other boys are out there shooting hoops. I said, "Hey Dustin don't you think it's getting a little late?". I heard a few grumbles among the three of them but they did stop.
       The next night.... same thing....balls bouncing at almost 11:00. So this time I get up and go out and tell them to knock it off. I tell them this is the last night and I'm not going to put up with it anymore. Some grumbles and off go the other two boys and Dustin into his house.

      Fast forward to the next evening about 7 PM. Dustin, these same two boys and another boy pull up on their bikes and grab the B-balls to shoot hoops. I was sitting on my front porch. I looked over waved to Dustin and said, "Hey Dude, how about you knock off by 10 o'clock tonight". He said, "OK Mr. Mike".
      But one of those other two boys says to me, "I went home latst night and told my father what you said to us last night". I said, "Is that right?". Then he says "Yeah.... and he said to tell you this is a free country and we can do whatever we want to".
      So i got up off the porch and went over to Dustin and these other three boys. I said" Who are you boys and where do you live?". Turns out the two of them were brothers and the third was their cousin. They lived on the other end of the neighborhood.
      I looked at the one with the big mouth and said, "You know what? Your dad is right.... this is a free country. You can do what you want and I can do what i want right?" The three boys shook their heads yes very enthusiastically. Then I said, "So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going down to Baltimore in a little while and I'm going to my old neighborhood. I'm going to get one of my old friends kids to come back here with me and I'm going to pay him $10 to kick your butt".
      Well the younger brother yells at me, " You can't do that!". I look at him and say "Well I'm going to pay him $20 and have him kick your butt too". Then i look right at their cousin and say to him "How about you? Do i need to pay him $30 and have him kick you butt too?" NO SIR!! he says.

      So then the one with the big mouth says he''s going to go home and get his Father and bring him back up here. I said, "Go ahead, and tell him I'm going to kick his butt right in front of you boys. I'll be waiting on the porch."
    They rode off......... never to be seen or heard again............apparently dad was a coward..........

[PeripheralxMvmnt]

When my wife and I were first married we lived in a townhouse.  We shared a wall with two Mexican women who spoke as much English as we did Spanish.  We would cordially smile if we saw each other.  They seemed very nice.

HOWEVER - We're not so sure they got along.  They would get into these screaming matches.  We could hear them screaming at each other in Spanish through the wall.   Doors would be slamming, things would get thrown, etc......

It was actually kind of comical after a while.

Latin women are no joke man. When they get to yelling, there is no different levels. Its just LOUD. haha.


my next door neighbors are pretty cool (i actually used to play shows with him when we were in seperate bands. didnt even know it until we moved in.) but the neighbor next to them is odd. We live in townhomes, and she has horse stuff everywhere. Flags, horse statues, etc. all over her house. When we are outside at night because were hanging out with friends, she will not come outside or say anything to us if we might be getting too loud. she will just flick her lights outside on and off constantly.

and thats another thing. she will not talk to us. or anyone. she has walked right past us, eyes straight ahead, not acknowledging us or the fact we said hello to her. and that was right after we moved in.



my parents neighbors on one side are crackheads. the two brothers are always in and out of jail for this and that. never anything too serious, just fighting or not paying child support. their sister has about 100 kids, and 3/4ths of them were born addicted to whatever god-awful drug their mom was shooting up at the time.

and all that in a normal, quiet suburb outside of the city.   

[buddha]

Although, the lady next door to me has taken in her daughters' little yappy piece of sh*t yorkie. I work out of the house most of the time and like to have the screen door open a lot. Every little thing causes this little rat to bark like it's the End Of Days! God I hate that dog with every fiber of my being. 

OK, your turn.

A little lump of hamburger with some anti-freeze mixed in is a sure cure for a yapping yorkie.

Talk about an irritating neighbor, though. In my first house in Waukegan I lived across from a woman who had "a couple" of gentleman callers at odd hours. One day I come out of my house and my bros in blue had the house taped off. I asked what happened and learned that one of her beaus had pinned her to the basement floor with a butcher knife. I mean, the dude stabbed her so hard he chipped the concrete underneath her. With the knife, I mean.

The remark about the anti freeze ijn the hamburger is NOT funny  .

We lived 2 doors from an old witch who hated cats. She put meat with antifreeze in it out. Would you like to explain to your 6 year old daughter why her cat was dead and had obviously died a very painful death due to the pain shown on the poor things face? No? I didnt think so!

My apologies. My entry about the anti-freeze was insensitive and I have deleted it so as not to create any further offense.

[The Scottish Ambassador]

A BIG THANK YOU TO BUDDHA FOR REMOVING HIS POST AND ALSO FOR SENDING ME A PM APOLOGY. THIS IS WHAT MAKES THIS SITE SO GOOD. I TOO HAVE REMOVED MY POST. NO HARD FEELINGS BUDDY