An anonymous woman who just moved into a new home with her husband asked Mumsnet users for advice after encountering several problems with their next door neighbours
It’s so important to have friendly next door neighbours. But sadly that wasn’t the case for one couple.
Now a woman begged the internet for advice after becoming the “talk of the village” just three months since moving into the “forever home” she always dreamed of with her husband.
Taking to Mumsnet, she explained after just three nights in their new abode, a disgruntled neighbour confronted her about parking in front of her house. She explained: “We have a cottage with parking under both windows, they have a two bed cottage with, well no parking.
“She kept shouting ‘One cottage, one car’ and started with ‘You have been told’. My hubby had answered the door and was a little shocked and when I went through to defuse the situation she was super grumpy with me too and walked off shouting ‘One cottage, one car’ like a little mantra.”
The woman said just days later she heard her neighbour’s husband complaining about her to someone in the village, while on a separate occasion she found their missing cat – yet no thank you was forthcoming.
In further feline drama, she complained to the forum the neighbours’ cats were “stalking our elderly dog” and “using our veggie beds as litter trays” while “thinking it’s okay to enter our house”. The woman then accused the male neighbour of “staring” at her mum whenever she stays over, as well as placing and “slamming” his bins “against our front door”.
She closed her lengthy rant: “I’m at a loss as I feel stressed in our garden, and I love my garden, and it is taking the shine off our new home. I’ve said to my hubby maybe this won’t be our forever home after all, but my mum says we should stick our grounds until they move.”
The woman then asked other Mumsnet users for their thoughts, many of whom admitted their confusion over the car parking spaces. Others, however, suggested she wasn’t being unreasonable, with one responding: “You’re giving these idiots far too much headspace.
“Kill them with kindness and allow them to continue to make fools out of themselves. Do what you want, park where you want and ignore ignore ignore. I assure you that everyone knows what these people are like.”
A second advised: “Just ignore them – like really ignore them. Park your cars/put your bins where you are allowed. If they move your bins put them back. Get a ring door bell. Go out and enjoy your garden and pretend they’re not there.”
A third added: “They obviously had an issue with the previous owner and are carrying it over to the next. You need to grey rock these people and completely ignore them. I mean completely. Like just act like they don’t exist. Do not engage at all. Ever.”
And a fourth declared: “You have done nothing wrong, so stand your ground. I hope you have a lovely time out in your garden with your mum. Just get on with doing what makes you happy.”
