neighbor and working on car

[dudleybloke]

Buy the biggest, ugliest thing you can get cheaply that's still hot an mot and park it on the road outside his house.

[clarkson22]

98elise said:

This is the best advice. Perhaps when he says he's called the police/council etc just say "fine, I look forwa to hearing from them". Just carry on as normal and let him burst a blood vessel.

It might be worth engaging with your landlord or agent though, so that they don't get the wrong story.

already spoke with landlord , he said not to worry , and he knows he's a pain, to be honest im not bothered i know i can work on my car but everytime i go out to car, gardening, playing with little lad my girlfriend thinks something will happen, she wont even play music in garden anymore due to him ,

[Blaster72]

That's a real shame to feel that way in your own home.

[Gary C]

Have a quiet word, with no witnesses

[clarkson22]

it is your right, i just dont want to be screaming fk off at him or being a total arse myself, im off tommorow and looks like my car needs a clean , im going to tell him firmly tomorrow that i dont want a fallout but there is nothing you can do to stop me working on my car, washing it or any work around my house , smile and walk off and wait till he pops it

and he gets ignored if he carries on

[speedyman]

Why not have a word with his son, the old boy is 80 and could be loosing it mentally. Failing that you know the drill, half a dozen frozen sausages.

[GreenDog]

Have a word with his son and see if he can help ?

[williamp]

GreenDog said:

Have a word with his son and see if he can help ?

This and the one above is the right approach in my opinion. I doubt he will listen to you being reasonable, and the absolute worst thing you should do is anything to escalate the situation or antagonise the person (well, you're doing that already by living your life, but you know what I mean)

Hope it gets resolved. Having a neighbour as an enemy is very stressful

[anonymous-user]

Your neighbour does sound like a tt. But there again, so do you.

[stuartmmcfc]

speedyman said:

Why not have a word with his son, the old boy is 80 and could be loosing it mentally. Failing that you know the drill, alf a dozen frozen sausages.grow a bread

Has it caught on yet?

[clarkson22]

REALIST123 said:

Your neighbour does sound like a tt. But there again, so do you.

So do you

[MoggieMinor]

clarkson22 said:

ive also spoke to my landlord, and no clause against working on my car and he didnt give a st really , told me he was a pain

Nice of the landlord to have told you that before you took the place on....

[freddytin]

Surely other neighbours work outside too.....garden / house / car ?

If you need assistance with the next task please don't hesitate to ask

I'm somewhat surpised at how unreasonable the old boy appears to be ...For the cost of a cuppa I can try and placate Mr. Grumpy

[roofer]

Bottle of white horse oil,for Chrimbo and a Viagra, he'll be your mate. Copy of Fiesta and he'll fix your car for you.

[clarkson22]

I don't think anyone lives at the other side of him , there's a lad about 10 doors up he is rebuilding a land rover on the front of his drive , I was on my way home he was tinkering on drive decided to ask him about the old dude , he says he's not had him complain to him in person but he's moaned to neighbours about him working on his car , I wish the land rover guy was my neighbour

[Smokehead]

Dress like the Grim Reaper and silently point at him next time he foams over.

[InitialDave]

Man, he'd love living next door to me.

Sounds like the stereotypical miserable, impotently angry old fker. I agree with those saying don't escalate, be civil with him, and maybe chat with the son about it. If nothing else, perhaps he'll do himself in with the sheer stress he's causing himself.

REALIST123 said:

Your neighbour does sound like a tt. But there again, so do you.

The OP doesn't sound anything more than exasperated by this curmudgeonly dhead, so no idea where you're coming from there.

[Tom1312]

Sure he isn't ill?

Hardly strikes me as the actions of a healthy person.

[soad]

Smokehead said:

Dress like the Grim Reaper and silently point at him next time he foams over.

[elanfan]

A few months back I was parking in a residents bay (as I'm entitled to do Blue Badge holder) during the day when there were plenty of spaces besides the 3 car driveways on each house. Out comes an old chap who starts remonstrating that I shouldn't be parking in 'his' space outside his house. Told him I was going to as I was entitled to, by this time my wife had my wheelchair at the car door so it was obvious I wasn't able bodied. He continued to rant and rave and I then told him to Chatterly along. Then his wife came out and started to try to pull him inside. Long and short his wife had a quiet word with mine and told her he was suffering some form of dementia (which he didn't know about) and he had become fixated on the parking outside his house and spent hours watching and waiting for people to infringe his space.

Felt a bit guilty afterwards - the guy was ill though it wasn't obvious.

Speak to the son maybe the neighbour has dementia and has become fixated on your actions. If this is the case there'll be nothing you can do, no matter what you say he'll likely have forgotten all about it.