IHO mrsC and the unicorn girls

Wzz

tell us about your best or worst neighbor. if you live in a place like Population: 2, then disregard.

TheMrsC23

You guys know ALL ABOUT my worst neighbor. 

No issues since we called the cops on her, though. 

Wzz

our terrible neighbor got worse when we called the cops. but then we moved, and i think her dog died, and she was nothing but a pleasure afterwards. she was a crazy person so maybe her meds kicked in.

PMeg819

We had neighbors that kept a goat in their backyard. On Easter, the goat went missing. Their kids also used to throw rocks at our dogs. It was a 6.5 ft tall block fence, so they were getting a ladder or whatever to get up there and throw them.

tawillers

The worst we've had was a family two doors down when we were in the townhouse.  One day I parked in front of their place and she left a note threatening to tow my car.

DH chuckled and taped a note on their door that said he'd love it if they tried.  I gave the note to the management office and they were all "Oh, THOSE people.  Yeah, we're not letting them renew their lease, so they have to be out in 2 days.  Don't worry about them."

We've been pretty lucky in the neighbor department.  We had several different neighbors in the 3 years we were in the townhouse and now our only neighbors are across the side street and behind us.  Our most favorite neighbor right now is the park.

dharmabunny

Perhaps there is the one where dad was not around much, kids were partying with drugs, and stepmom was partying with them. And the cars that would stop by the house...and leave soon after...and the one time one of them left their heroin needle and spoon behind next to the house. It was ignored and left there for about an hour. Came around later, and the paraphernalia vanished. Yeah, it took the cops to make a few key arrests before the house was sold to a new neighbor.

DixieNormous330

We had an across the street neighbor who was fine up until my parents moved and left me and my sister in charge of our house. We were quiet and lived there like we always had. Suddenly the dog was an issue, we were an issue, the neighbor left nasty notes, came over to yell at us, yet when our parents would visit he would tell them how great we were.

AuntFlo

My neighbor in HS was a single lady, late 30's, blonde, great bod (no kids).  During my HS grad party in our backyard, she was mowing the lawn in her bikini.   She was a weird one.

10 years later, I moved back into that house (my mom still owned it and I was renting from her).  Bikini lady still lived there.  She decided that the best place to plant her vegetable garden was the side of her house that was closest to our house.  It was a small patch of grass between her basement windows and our very narrow driveway.  She had a great big back yard and a very nice front yard, but she decided that being all up in our space was the best.  I'm sure she could hear every conversation we had in our house, while she was out there "gardening."  It's stupid looking back, but she made me hate to leave the house.

A couple years later, she decided to plant a flower garden in her front yard, but only on the edge of the yard that was up against our (again) very narrow driveway.   Backing out was always a challange, and sometimes, yes, our tires would go 1" into her grass.  Well, now it was going into her flower garden.   Apparently, this was a real problem for her - but she never approached us.   She'd wait until my mom came to visit and would b!tch to my mom about it.  It was all so ridiculous.  

So - that's my "weird neighbor" story.  Definitely not a bad neighbor, but certainly not the best.

jojobrn

In college there ws the girl and her abusive drug dealing boyfriend. They were evicted after we had to call the cops for a hug fight and they both willingly admitted to the shrooms they were selling and using.

DH and I had the son and his friends of a local realtor that ran for office. His campaign started just after the frat boys moved in and started having middle of the week, middle of the night parties. His friends always took our parking spot and we had the car(s) nearly towed on several occasions (they always ran out to move them to the street just in the nick of time) and called the cops on anoise compaints all. the.damn.time. We didn't vote for his Dad and neither did anyone else. That was seriously the most annoying 6 months ever.

alikatt17

Our neighbor is a 70ish yo woman who lives with her mentally handicapped son in his 40s- she's very much a hermit.  She totally hates us. 

One Sunday afternoon, we had a few people over and we were grilling hotdogs, hanging out on our deck.  It was like 3pm.  I hear her yelling and slamming her sliding door. 

A few minutes later, it's our landlord calling on the phone.  She called our freaking landlord and said that she's diabetic and can't handle the smell of the smoke from our grill insider her house (she always has the windows shut with blinds closed year round).  Yes, she was offended by us grilling hot dogs on our propane tank.  And that we were loud (not really) and we had "weird looking people over (aka my brother and DH's cousin- they had long hair)."  She also said we were also blarning music outside all of the time (we don't own a stereo and we are not blasting the mariachi & polka).  She also doesn't like it when we have friends park on the street in the allowable area, which is in front of her house, across the street.

Landlord told her that she was being insane- we're allowed to use our deck, grill, have friends over, and be as loud as want until the noise ordinance kicks in at 11pm.  And that if she had a problem with us to just call the cops and they can laugh at her.  Haven't had a problem since. 

It's hilarious because we are usually really lame.  I'm sure she's going to start complaing about our child the second it comes home.

So yes, we're horrible people because we grill offensive hot dogs.

VarunaTT

I was the worst dorm suite neighbor ever.  Varuna college stories incoming!

We were 2 in a room, 2 rooms, connected by a small kitchen.

Jaime, Suitemate #1, won most annoying voice in the dorm.  And OMG did she deserve it.  

I had been working overtime and it was finals week, so I had gotten maybe fifteen hours of sleep all week.  I told all the roommates what was going on, said I was taking a sleeping pill and could everyone please just keep it down for one Friday night.  Didn't get any guff.  Jaime wakes me up at 11 pm, screaming in her annoying farkin' voice. I jumped down from the stop bunk, slammed open the door, told her to shut her f'in face with her f'in voice, I was f'in sleeping. She tried to respond and I pretty basically threatened her life (this is in my roomate's words, b/c I was so out of it, I barely remembered this the next day).  I stormed back into the room and slammed the door.  Only it was weighted, so it wouldn't slam.  So i re-opened it and slammed it harder this time.  Then I stomped back to my bunk bed and as my roommate put it, "levitated" back into the top bunk and went right back to sleep.  My roommate said she had to go out into the hallway to laugh until she cried, b/c she was afraid of waking me up, but she had to laugh.

I popped all of the balloons on their door for one of their birthdays.

Their parents were coming to visit.  They had stopped cleaning the suite (we were alternating weekends and they just decided not to clean on their weekends anymore).  They let their 6 year old niece stay the night (WTF) and left her smeared toothpaste all over the bathroom for weeks (because both my roommate and I refused to clean that up).  So, when their church parents came to visit, I bought the biggest picture of Bob Marley smoking a joint I could find (5x3 foot) and hung it in the kitchen, right next to their sweet black and white with red roses kid pictures.  This was in retaliation for the toothpaste and letting SIXTEEN bags of garbage pile up...when we lived right next to the damn garbage closet.  Oh I forgot, I had a picture of the garbage bags piled up and the toothpaste with a big arrow that said, "Your daughters are pigs" on it.  But I don't think that made it to parents day.

They were having Bible study in our dorm room.  That was fine.  Only they didn't give us a heads up.  They were being obnoxiously loud in the common room.  I hear a door open and all of a sudden dead silence.  Then our door opens and my roommate comes flying in and shuts it, leaning against the back like cartoon or something.  I look at her and she is so high, her eyes are slits.  I start laughing my butt off and I can hear all the whispering outside.  My roommate was begging me to go get her some snacks.  Only b/c I didn't want to torture her that much, I went to go get them.

I can't remember what Kim, Suitemate #2 and I got into it about, but Kim was probably right at 6 foot, much taller than me.  However, I was way more belligerent at 20.  And I was yelling right back at her and told her something along the lines of she shouldn't spent less than $250 on her actual makeup b/c I could've given her a crappy looking black eye for free.  This probably would've gone very badly for me, except that my friend-from-across-the-way was visiting and she was the same size as Kim.

Good times!

zsazsa-stl

Oh, where to start?  This was in Population 50, so it counts.  They punished their dog by tying a dead snake around his neck, they bought a horse and put him in a 10x10 pen they made out of construction fencing, they sent their weird friends to our house to use the phone because theirs was always cut off, they stole flowers from the cemetary up the road and used them to decorate their lawn, the daughters boyfriend lived in a tent in the back yard for a few months (and if that tent was a rockin', you didn't go a knockin'), they poisoned a few neighborhood dogs and referenced the Bible as justification, and when they moved out it was discovered that they had painted all of the interior walls either purple or metallic gold.  Also, there was a cd collection under the rug (like out of their cases, cds just hidden under the rug).  My mom let me keep a Soundgarden cd. They were cray cray, but at least they were (usually) nice.  So it could have been worse.  I would take them any day over Mrs. Conn's neighbor.

Best?  My great aunt was pretty awesome.  She did the laundry.

CandCWedding2013

I live on the top floor of a 3 floor building. The woman who lives below me is in a band, professionally. Everyday from 4-8 is full on band practice.So goes to various bars and such to perform and gets home at 1 or 2 in the morning, and starts to play randomly.  We've complained but we were told that she's an artist and needs us to understand her creative outlet.  

The guy who lived next to us was constantly beating his girlfriend until Christmas, when he gave us a bottle of wine and said he was going to counseling. He has since moved out.

The 'caretaker' of our building likes to go into everyones apartment when they're gone and rummage through their stuff. He thought my FI was gone and let himself in only to find my FI sitting there. He said nothing, turned and walked out. We now keep our door chain locked and leave through the back.

CandCWedding2013

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_iho-mrsc-and-the-unicorn-girls?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:e7947c44-7756-4584-a8a0-aee602e651e2Post:5e82ae1f-7749-4028-a6cd-6a10acd39a25">Re: IHO mrsC and the unicorn girls</a>:
[QUOTE]Our neighbor is a 70ish yo woman who lives with her mentally handicapped son in his 40s- she's very much a hermit.  She totally hates us.  One Sunday afternoon, we had a few people over and we were grilling hotdogs, hanging out on our deck.  It was like 3pm.  I hear her yelling and slamming her sliding door.  A few minutes later, it's our landlord calling on the phone.  She called our freaking landlord and said that she's diabetic and can't handle the smell of the smoke from our grill insider her house (she always has the windows shut with blinds closed year round).  Yes, she was offended by us grilling hot dogs on our propane tank.  And that we were loud (not really) and we had "weird looking people over (aka my brother and DH's cousin- they had long hair)."  She also said we were also blarning music outside all of the time (we don't own a stereo and we are not blasting the mariachi & polka).  She also doesn't like it when we have friends park on the street in the allowable area, which is in front of her house, across the street. Landlord told her that she was being insane- we're allowed to use our deck, grill, have friends over, and be as loud as want until the noise ordinance kicks in at 11pm.  And that if she had a problem with us to just call the cops and they can laugh at her.  Haven't had a problem since.  It's hilarious because we are usually really lame.  I'm sure she's going to start complaing about our child the second it comes home. So yes, we're horrible people because we grill offensive hot dogs.
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VarunaTT

Ali, I think you have a new siggy!!!!

*Barbie*

my parents' next door neigbors (when i was a baby - freshman-ish year of college) were insane. my dad always said you'd see our house on the news someday with snipers sitting on the roof, guns trained on the neighbors' house. 

they were religious nuts and used to write bible verses on the side of their house

they used to give my parents videos on "the evils of _________" for us to watch

they didn't take care of their yard and had massive trees so we were forever raking their leaves out of our yard

they had a german shepard which they left outside basically year round and didn't chain up ( yard wasn't  fenced). the dog bit several people on our street and came into our yard after my mom on several occasions while she was gardening. (she hit it with a shovel once in self defence). it made the mistake of going after our bullmastiff, once, when my dad was walking her, and she pinned it with her teeth on it's throat. my dad had to pull our dog off before she killed the thing. my parents called the cops several times about the dog. 

their 2 youngest kids (who were about 4-5 years younger than me) used to lay on their back hillside and stare into our kitchen for hours. 

the worst neighbors that DK and I have had was in our first apartment in Philly. It was this massive Indian family who worked at the Dunkin Donuts down the street. They weren't loud, but they were dirty. They would bring home the 50lb bags of sugar and flour from the store and store them in their apartment, and it attracted roaches. we called the property managers numerous times to complain (and to spray) and all they ever did was fine them and spray. we didn't see too many roaches (and none for about the first 4-5 months), but a few every month is too many. we got the hell out of there as soon as our lease was up.  

FlaNYtattoogirl

Y'all are liars who make up stories to sound more interesting. I bet your real lives are boring as hell. I wonder if you all knew each other for real, you'd be as dishonest and make sh!t up. I'm as real as they come baby.

rachelm13

my new upstairs neighbor i think moves furniture as a workout.  every day at the same time i hear furniture moving.  very odd.

my favorite story about neighbors is at my old apt.  every apt had a fireplace so sound definitely carried.  my upstairs neighbor played the same backstreet boys song every morning before i left for work, and had really loud sex.  she would make (i kid you not) this squealing noise that was a cross between a pig and a beiber fan.  any time someone would be over and got to hear this noise, we would laugh so hard.  after awhile i made scorecards, FI and i would rate the guy based upon her noises.  

i still giggle thinking about it.