What Grinds Your Gears? :)

superstaff · 07-02-2022, 11:36 AM

You know what grinds my gears?

Sh*tty, disrespectful neighbors.

I've dealt with these sorts a lot. Most of it is rude neighbors who play really loud music in their backyards, so loud that it shakes the walls of my apartment or house. Sometimes they'll also have drunk guests over who throw beer cans into my property. I'm not even talking about one set of neighbors here, by the way.

So at my house, my neighbor to the left is around 40-50 years old with a 20 something year old son that seems to come and go, and she's been a huge b to me and my husband... Plays loud music outdoors (which she is currently doing, even my white noise can't cover it because it's so loud)... Has had her guests either park in or block our driveway... Has a vegetable garden that attracts pests to my house (we got mice last year after she got the garden up, and this garden is RIGHT on our property line, up against our fence............)... It seems she might've reported us for having 'tall grass' in the front yard to the township (it could've been another neighbor but.....meh, I wanna assume it was her)...

I don't even know what to do because whenever I've 'feuded' with neighbors in the past, I was ALWAYS on the losing end. Always. The only thing to do was to move (or more like, I would put up with it until I moved out...). Thing is, I am in a house that I own now, not a sh*tty room or apartment for rent. It's not as simple to just up and leave a house. I also hate the feeling that they 'win' when I have to uproot my life. Thing is, cops have never helped. Talking to them civilly never helped. Talking to them 'on their level' never helped. Nothing ever fixes this issue because people are assholes.

07-02-2022, 11:36 AM	#11
superstaff Mad Scientist Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: NJ Posts: 1,091	You know what grinds my gears? Shtty, disrespectful neighbors. I've dealt with these sorts a lot. Most of it is rude neighbors who play really loud music in their backyards, so loud that it shakes the walls of my apartment or house. Sometimes they'll also have drunk guests over who throw beer cans into my property. I'm not even talking about one set of neighbors here, by the way. So at my house, my neighbor to the left is around 40-50 years old with a 20 something year old son that seems to come and go, and she's been a huge b to me and my husband... Plays loud music outdoors (which she is currently doing, even my white noise can't cover it because it's so loud)... Has had her guests either park in or block our driveway... Has a vegetable garden that attracts pests to my house (we got mice last year after she got the garden up, and this garden is RIGHT on our property line, up against our fence............)... It seems she might've reported us for having 'tall grass' in the front yard to the township (it could've been another neighbor but.....meh, I wanna assume it was her)... I don't even know what to do because whenever I've 'feuded' with neighbors in the past, I was ALWAYS on the losing end. Always. The only thing to do was to move (or more like, I would put up with it until I moved out...). Thing is, I am in a house that I own now, not a shtty room or apartment for rent. It's not as simple to just up and leave a house. I also hate the feeling that they 'win' when I have to uproot my life. Thing is, cops have never helped. Talking to them civilly never helped. Talking to them 'on their level' never helped. Nothing ever fixes this issue because people are assholes.