Do people take pleasure in being total a-holes?

[annie0000]

our neighbours who we don't get on with any more, mainly due to their kids behaviour and the fact that they are lying b's, went out of the way to be awkward today but it didn't quite come off. We've been getting a lot of work done on our house and have a skip in the driveway and the other half of the drive has been used by the joiner/tilers to cut their wood/tiles - they have then parked their vans across the driveway which leaves me no room to park but doesn't get in anyone else's way. We have 4 spare parking bays in the street that we can use.

However, if I am a minute or two late getting home from work, the street (cul-de-sac) is full of cars of people who park in it to pick their kids up from school - yesterday I had real problems parking anywhere and had to abandon the car until the school run was finished, then move it into one of the bays - My neighbour was out and saw that I had bother getting a space.

Anyhoo, comes home today - a bit earlier only to see that despite her drive being empty, she had parked her car badly and used up 2 of the spare spaces - there was absolutely no reason for her to do that other than to be awkward. She must have been so disappointed that the guys had finished up early and I could park in the drive!!! Some people eh.....

[pdust]

thats the kind of thing that makes you grit your teeth and growl out For Funks Sake!!!

[starone]

Hee-hee - that was as good as some of the jokes in the joke section.

[nungate]

I with you Annie, a nice bit of Karma!

[welshlibranr]

Oh well, that was her thwarted then annie!.......hope she hated it!........lol.........

[annie0000]

i know it is petty, but it really gets on my wick, okay - we don't like each other, that's fine, they can do their thing and i'll do mine, as long as they keep the scabby trolls that they call children off my property then I am happy enough. But I certainly wouldn't go out my way just to be a pain.........or maybe I would now ;o)

[micmak]

I have neighbours like that Annie. I also live in a cul-de-sac. There are 8 properties and 8 spaces, So one each right. Wrong. They do my head in.

[annie0000]

lol welsh and all, I can just see her choking on her gin - especially as she would have had to walk a whole 20 meters back and forward to her car.... strangely enough she moved it onto her drive about 10 minutes after I got home...

[annie0000]

micmak - I feel your pain. Most of the houses have a double driveway apart form the smaller ones - the extra spaces tend to sit empty unless people have a lot of visitors - even then, it's a wide enough street to allow most people to have one or more card parked across the driveway too. We are next to the school though so people tend to come into the street at kicking out time to collect sprogs which is generally fine too.

[owdhamer]

I am very lucky i have brilliant neighbours,but it has not always been so.

[DTCwordfan]

I'd creep in one night and paint a double yellow drive right down the middle of her drive.....

[annie0000]

owd - that's nice - the rest of my neighbours are great......strangely I am not the only one that doesn't get on with them. Dt I like your style - now where did I put that brush.....

[owdhamer]

Annie i have had some right t__ts in the past .police called etc.

[annie0000]

yeah, the same here - their kids are a nightmare - they have behavioral issues and the police were regular visitors for a while - been a bit quieter over the winter but expect that it'll kick off again when the light nights are back :o( - I have to keep my kids away from them which meant that my boys really didn't get the use of the local park etc last year. I just wish they'd move...

[owdhamer]

These people were retired solicitors. The son got breathalysed the week after, did i take the pee!!

[TWR]

I find the more ammunition you give them the worst they get, if you can ignore the family one day they will need you more than you need them " Been there and seen the video'

[mccfluff]

i am currently at war with the the nobs on the sales floor. they forget i approve their expenses

[Ankou]

agree with redhelen. this is minor, but could lead to an escalation of tit for tat actions that get out of hand and dangerous.

have a chat and sort it out.

[ojread2]

Parking spaces are a sensitive issue

We have huge problems with parking where I live in a close
We have one family who have 5 cars between them and they save spaces for each other. They deliberately park across 2 spaces or they form a box'd off area by parking one of their cars at a horizontal with another taking up 4 spaces all together
They know exactly what they are doing and are utterly selfish.
The sons have those horrible boom boxes on their exhausts. They start there engines at 4.30 am and again at 11 pm and sit there for a good 7/8 minutes waking myself up and my daughter. In the evenings it was longer. They must have been waking other neighbours up as well
I say must have and was because I complained about the noise nuisance and it has stopped.
Can;t do anything about the parking because the cars are taxed and legal

So, what do we do now? not a lot we can do. I'm not lowering myself to stoop to their level

[ojread2]

I've tried redhelen, they dont even acknowledge you when you say 'Hello', so I gave up talking to myself