Ever had a long running feud with your neighbour?
By muscare
@muscare (3068)
Australia
May 24, 2007 5:24am CST
I have to say that over the years I have got on relatively well with my neighbour, who is well over 80. However, there was a time not that long ago where he lost the plot. There was a date palm growing in his yard right next to his house, which also happened to be next to the fence. I told him on many occaisions that it was starting to push on the fence, to which he did nothing. In the end it snapped the wooden railing. He then said it was the councils fault, because they planted the palms in the main st. The birds did the rest! Eventually, he had the palm removed, after getting the fence taken down, and then told me the fence wasn't his problem. For someone who has a lot more money then sense, he could have sorted the whole problem with minimum fuss. He has since gone back to normal, well, what passes as normal for him. Anyone else with problem neighbours?
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@castleghost (1304)
• United States
24 May 07
Last year we had just bought a house in a small town. The owner before us hadn't mowed the grass for over a month. So when I got out to mow the lawn it was difficult to get it cut. Apparently while I was mowing our lawn I had gotten some cuttings over in to her lawn. You would have thought that I had killed someone. She went over to her brothers place which was across the street and whined to him that I had gotten grass clippings in her yard. Her brother then came over to my place so that he could yell at me. I try to apoligize because I didn't mean to hurt her lawn like that. I even offered to rack the clippings up. He told me I better have the clippings racked up in thirty minutes. I got the clippings racked up but all last year my neighbor and I didn't speak. This year I am outsideplaying with our new dog when she comes walking up to the fence to ask me if we had gotten a new dog. I said yes, we needed a younger dog for the children. She acted like nothing happened at all last year. I couldn't believe this.
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
24 May 07
Gee, what an uptight, pain in the you know what!! Wonder why she had to get her brother involved in the first place. Probably lucky, though. Imagine if you had've been talking to him one day and started going on about her in a bad way!!! And then she tries to act like your best friend. Geez, you got a good one there!
@RockShanghai (86)
• China
24 May 07
there must be something unpleasant happening between you and your neigbours. have a sleep and you'll forget it. Don't worry too much. :)
@latsmom (824)
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24 May 07
Yes. i once moved to an area in Yorkshire that was really racist. I moved there with my daughter after fleeing violence adn gosh I wish I had never done so. The people living in close proximiity shoulted abuse at my then 2 year old daughter, we were banned from teh local social club and they would not even give my little girl a place at the school saying it was full when I knew full well it was not. it was horrible adn I had very few freinds there. it was like I had gone back a few decades or centuries. i have never known anything like it. I am happy to say though I have now moved and left those small minded people behind to rot in their own ignorance
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
24 May 07
That's horrific. I really don't understand how some people can be like that. I hope you didn't have to stay in the neighbourhood very long, and I'm very glad you got out and found somewhere nicer to live. Makes my dispute over a fence seem a bit feeble in comparison!
