r/neighborsfromhell

I've got this sixtyish year-old single neighbor lady across the street from me that wants to insert herself into everyone's business 24 seven. You know they type.

A friend of mine was on vacation for a month and I volunteer to stop by his house once a day to feed his outside stray cat. You can't actually pet the cat, but it does sleep on his porch and expects food and water. His place is right on my way to work.

After a couple days of getting his keys out, going in his house, getting a scoop of food out of the bag and then locking up again, I decide I can streamline this process.

I take the bag of cat food back to my place. In the morning I scoop a red solo plastic cup full of food on my way out the door and put it in my cup holder. Now I can drive up, jump out, reach up onto the porch and dump the cat food cup, check the water and I'm gone in 60 seconds. Perfect!

This works fine...for about two weeks. One morning as I'm stepping out of my place I notice a sheriff's car parked up the block. I've got nothing to hide or worry about so I didn't really think too much of it.

I drove past him and turned the corner. Next thing I know he's behind me lighting me up and pulling me. The very first thing out of his mouth is "Hi there. Have you had anything to drink this morning?"

I'm already gathering up my license, registration, and opening the app to show my proof of insurance because I know the routine. Looking a little surprised, I say "no".

He motions towards the center console and says what do you have in the red solo cup? For a second there, I'm thinking, what red solo cup? Oh the cat food cup! I pick it up and shake it "cat food" he looks completely confused by this. I tell him I have to feed my friends cat on the way to work and this is the easiest way to do it. Just dump it in a bowl.

He kind of chuckles a little bit takes my license and registration information back to his car and says "I'll be back in a second." After presumably running all my stuff, he comes back and laughs and says "Ha ha,yeah sorry we got an anonymous call that you were leaving the house every morning with an alcoholic drink in your hand." He apologies again, give me his business card in case I had to show the boss why I was late to work, told me to have a nice day and I went on my way.

I just KNEW this was because of the lady across the street! So next day I walk out start my car. I can see her standing on her porch, doing the looking, but trying look like shes not looking.

I come out with the bag of cat food and look her way and yell "Good morning neighbor!" Making sure I was facing her house, with a bag of cat food in one hand and the red cup in my hand, I make a big exaggerate scoop out of the bag with a cup and hold it in the air. Then I set the cat food down in front of my door and driveway..

And that's how I got pulled over for open container of cat food.

So if we could all just bring in our washing and be more mindful of the apparent schedule that would be great...

I live in a four in a block and we all have our own spacious gardens separated by six ft fences and with that we all have our own washing line. (No shared appliances either)

I was hanging out my second washing of the day and this lovely lady stomped up to the fence to demand I bring my washing in as I am a "inconsiderate arsehole and (hers) would take longer to dry now!!"

My reply of "It's hotter than Satan's ass crack today, I think we'll be fine." Was apparently too much for her to handle and she screamed she'll be phoning the landlord to complain.

She is entirely serious.

(She complains about everyone in the street so at this point her ridiculous complaints are only hurting herself)

I’m honestly a bit overwhelmed right now. Today I came home to find an unsettling mess on the balcony.

We usually leave the balcony door open for our dog because he loves spending time outside. It’s fully enclosed with glass panels, so it’s safe, and he has his bed and space out there. One panel was left open for ventilation.

When I got back, the area beneath that open window was covered in what looked like guinea pig bedding and droppings (I used to have guinea pigs, so that’s my best guess). I’ve never had anything like this on the balcony before, so I assume my neighbors may have recently gotten one.

HOWEVER. Its not the first time an animal waste of theirs landed in my place. A few years ago, I had a similar issue with their dog. Dog poop and pee pads kept ending up on my balcony. I don't know the full situation, from what I could see, the dog didn’t seem to be going outside regularly and they were letting it out on the balcony to do its business. After 2 moths of complaints, the issue eventually stopped and the dog was no longer living there. I can only hope that they gave it away into a better home.

I thought that was resolved, but now it seems to be happening again. I also dont know how to adress this issue since they didnt seem to be cooperative in the past, were mad at me for being bothered by literal shit on my balcony (even when i showed them) and were just extremely annoyed. What do i do if this keeps happening? I dont wanna make any impulsive decissions but this just seems to the be the same thing starting all over again.

The reason I mentioned my dog at the beginning is because he was left alone out there with the mess. I have no idea how long it had been on the balcony or whether he licked, sniffed, or came into contact with any of it. Since it came from an unknown animal, I'm worried about parasites, bacteria, or other contamination he may have been exposed to. That's honestly the part that makes me the most upset.