‘My entitled neighbors complain about everything, so I taught them a lesson’

A woman is praised for taking petty revenge on her “entitled” neighbor who complains about everything she does. The 38-year-old explained how she moved into a rental home and quickly discovered her new neighbors were ‘problematic’.

While they spend all their time outside on the porch, they watch the movements of their neighbors all day long, assessing their daily lives. On Reddit, she said, “Since I moved in a year ago, my neighbors have been nothing but annoying and rude to me.”

“They used to live in my house and now live in the house right next to it. Our street is a row of semi-detached townhouses. We share a wall, the front garden and a veranda with a small dividing wall. They spend most of the year on their veranda. From morning to evening they are always there.’

“They did a lot of nasty things, some downright rude, others I should have called in, and I had to install a camera due to theft which I can’t say if they are or not but I strongly suspect I found out when I started meeting people.’ Other neighbors don’t like them either.

The final straw, however, came when she took out her trash after a “big spring clean,” leaving it on her porch before putting it in the trash at 6:45 a.m. the next day. She added, “Garbage day is Tuesday at the crack of dawn. Except we’ve also had a skunk/coyote problem and all three bags won’t fit in my trash can. One has to stay out.”

“So I leave the bags on my porch near the steps in the late afternoon so they’re ready and I can take them out the next morning at 6:45 a.m. I leave to run errands. About 15 minutes later I’m in the store receives text messages from the other neighbors.”

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“She took a picture of my trash on my porch and posted it in the neighborhood Facebook group about how I’m young (I’m 38) and lazy (sometimes quite so) and that this trash has been smelling on her porch for weeks (20 minutes) .” and that it now attracts rats, so be careful in the park across the street.”

However, their plan backfired as she claimed that 99% of the comments “polluted” her, and told her to contact the bylaws if she has a problem, and not post about it on Facebook. “I politely respond that I did the spring cleaning, I didn’t want it to be torn to shreds at the curb, but I also didn’t want to miss the garbage man,” she said. “Everyone understands it. I’ve even made extra friends with it.”

“But I’m tired of it. I hate leaving my house or returning to it because they are always on the shared veranda and have harassed me many times before this public shaming. My children don’t like them either and my daughter asks me to make sure she’s there before she leaves to see her friends. I’m tired of this place.’

“I call my landlord and he says there’s nothing he can do because they’re two separate properties that he happens to manage. The rental market is absolutely insane and I could never find anything for the price I’m paying here and I can’t imagine anymore to afford.” So to get revenge on her neighbors once and for all, she decided to buy a wind chime, knowing it would slowly drive them crazy.

She said: “This sounds really strange, but I’m very happy with the results… I bought a wind chime. Not a sparkly one, but a real bonger of a wind chime. It blows all the time. hung as close to them as possible without it ever going their way. None of my other neighbors hang out on their porches anyway, so I don’t bother them. Leave the house and hear it.”

Commenting on her post, one user said: “You should buy plants and leave the windows open and make sure they are plants that attract a lot of bees! They will annoy them even more because they are on the porch all the time. Bonus: you save the bees”

Another user added: “Good job! Maybe some incense? Maybe a radio playing annoying music set so only she can hear it? A third user said: “You should buy another pair of wind chimes with different tones ( all don’t fit together of course) and put together a new sound that sounds terrible.”

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