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Most of my neighbors are fine, but there's one who is really pissing me off.

Awhile ago in our neighborhood, he cut me off twice, and I almost rear-ended him on a snowy road because of his road rage. Of course, he didn't know I was his neighbor - I went home right after this happened and saw him pull into our garage. Well, tonight there's a car in his spot, so he's conveniently blocking my spot. Just parked right in front of it. Not in it, IN FRONT OF IT. ARRRRRRRGH. There's tons of street parking that he could've used, there's even room in the garage to put your car in case you need to unload or something. He could've done that instead. Why are some people such jerks? :(

How do you deal with your annoying neighbors? I want to do something really passive aggressive, but... this guy is psycho.

Whaaat! That is hilarious! I can't believe they changed their locks. He must've been pretty drunk.

We live in an apt complex. I know his car, but I don't know which unit he is in. I might give him a chance to move it, and if it's still there tomorrow evening I will call the landlord. Thanks for weighing in! It feels good to know other people have crazies for neighbors too, somehow.

@eeniebeans - what a horrible lady! The crazy cat lady myth is TRUE!

@Lizabeth Lou - that made me laugh, thank you! Poor drunk kitty. Another crazy cat lady, eh? ;)

@danielle - yes, laughing it off is a strategy I'm trying to adapt! That's nice that you had an understanding landlord. Geez!

He's blocking my spot; I got home tonight and can't get into it, so I had to park on the street. It's just an inconvenience, and he's inconsiderate and insane, and I'm paying good money for garage parking, blah. Let's just hope he's outta there by tomorrow!

What's weird is he's completely blocking my spot, AND completely blocking another car in -- but maybe he knows the other car's owner?

@Virginiamarie - hahaha you suck! Just kidding. I think all my neighbors are fine, just one REALLY bad seed. :)

@danielle - yes, please!! haha, that would be so so so awesome.

@Virginiamarie, @Sulli - I agree, you ARE lucky! That's so cool. I had a fun neighbor only once, in college. This place I live in now is mostly older people and everyone keeps to themselves, for the most part.

I don't have any neighbors that are too bad right now. The only people who live on our street are FI's siblings (private road), but the people who live in the developement right next to us are rather rude sometimes.

• There's one house where the dog has been barking almost nonstop the last two or three days, I think they just moved in though.
• Another one throws trash and their dogs cr@p over the fence and into our big field out front. I guess they assume that just because it's not technically a yard they are allowed to do it.
• The people straight out in front of us used to live up the canyon behind us and there's a definite strain on the relationship with them since their dogs are known to have killed animals in our field before and their dogs have tried to rush my little dog before.
• Then there's the entire development at the end of the road. Somebody in FI's family thought it would be funny to put up a sign that basically said "if you trespass we will shoot you" and most of the family thought it was kind of funny, but also feels rather strongly about people trespassing because it has been an issue in the past where people think that just because it's a field they can let their kids and dogs and whatever play in it even though they pass like 3 signs that say No Trespassing. One of them commented (because of the sign) that it was like the Mason-Dixon Line. We just shrugged it off and left the sign there.

I had a neighbor that I was convinced was a drug dealer.  It was really starting to freak me out.  He would get tons of phone calls at all hours of the day (their phone was so loud I would hear it ring through the wall) but they would get especially frequent in the middle of the night (like 12-3 am).  Then, every time the phone rang a couple minutes later I would hear people on the stairs- every time without fail.  They would also set off the smoke detector fairly frequently- I was convinced they must be doing something with drugs. Making them, getting calls for people to come over and buy them, delivering them, something.

Then one day I kind of casually asked when taking my rent to the landlord "hey, what does my neighbor do?" and she told me he was a taxi driver. Oh.  I felt pretty dumb, he was just getting calls to go pick people up- and they got more frequent as people began to leave the bar at night.  As to the smoke detector, apparently they are just bad cooks :-/

Wow, thanks for all the commiseration!

@Toffee - I'd say throwing dog poo over the fence is very rude, ugh. Might even be illegal, since they're not picking up after their dog but just tossing it? Sorry about the people trespassing - I remember our family had the same problem despite no trespassing signs on an old place we had growing up, in northern MN! It's like people think the signs are just a joke. 

@Sep Queen - I could totally see myself wanting to do what your FI did with the bat and chickening out! That is so funny. I'm glad the neighbor was understanding and didn't take it too personally.

@ccrane - aw, what a nice neighbor! I bet he just really, really likes his lawn mower. I know some people are like that with their mowers, or snow blowers, it's great! :)

@Virginiamarie - that sounds like a blast!

@contrarymary - whoa, that woman had nothing better to do than call the cops and complain all the time? did the cops even take her seriously? I'm happy she's not there to harass you anymore.

@greenleaf - that's a funny story, but I would've assumed the worst, too! Still, pretty obnoxious to deal with even if it's a perfectly legal business he's running, haha.

@amanda.lynn - ugh! I sometimes worry if I'm cooking especially "aromatic" foods, but I would never aim the smells into other people's spaces! I used to have an apartment where I could smell my neighbors' cooking through my front door. I had to seal it with some special tape from Home Depot to try to shut it out. :(

Jduck.. we have a neighbor that blocks our parking spot quite often.. and not only do they but their GUEST do too! & then when we go ask them (politely) to move.. they gives us a "what the heck do you want" type of face!!! eeeeeeeeeeekk!