Neighbours Smoke

spugzbunny

If I were sitting on a bench and a fat middle aged man with too tight clothes on who smelt like 2 week old bed sweat sat down and flashed his hairy belly button would I be in my right to ask him to move as it was disgusting and not nice when I was eating?

I got asked to 'smoke less' in a beer garden recently. Her exact words were 'I can see you reaaaalllly like smoking but could you please not blow it in my direction'. I pointed out that that was the direction of the wind and I was in an outside smoking area and she had sat down next to me. I then mentally ripped her head off and rolled it in the ashtray and eventually had to leave the pub because I was so so very angry.

lauren_1

I had this from my NIMBY neighbour, she came found fuming that her guests had to smell my smoke and could I refrain from doing it on nice days :eek:

Yeah sure, as soon as you stop your cat sh!!!ing in my garden, she also gathered up all the fag butts in the vicinity of her front/back garden and pushed them through the letter box claiming them all to be mine ( i dont smoke straights, its her teenage daughter that smokes straights)

It took every ounze of self restraint to not post the cat poo through her door.

Her argument was its in the cats nature to explore and she cant help where it poo's.

I did get my own back by lighting 2 packs of incence sticks in my garden, 5 large citronella candles, box of cones and a rather packed joint when she was having another lunch/cream tea thingy.

dramaqueen1973

Wow what a thread!!!!!

dramaqueen1973

lauren_1 wrote: »

I had this from my NIMBY neighbour, she came found fuming that her guests had to smell my smoke and could I refrain from doing it on nice days :eek:

Yeah sure, as soon as you stop your cat sh!!!ing in my garden, she also gathered up all the fag butts in the vicinity of her front/back garden and pushed them through the letter box claiming them all to be mine ( i dont smoke straights, its her teenage daughter that smokes straights)

It took every ounze of self restraint to not post the cat poo through her door.

Her argument was its in the cats nature to explore and she cant help where it poo's.

I did get my own back by lighting 2 packs of incence sticks in my garden, 5 large citronella candles, box of cones and a rather packed joint when she was having another lunch/cream tea thingy.

Love it!!!!!!:rotfl:

building_with_lego

Soooooooooooo, bringing this back to the OP.....
We have a student house next door, their contract forbids smoking (I know because I spoke to the lettings agent ), they smoke indoors and it seeps into our hall and master bedroom. Absolutely honks. We have asked them nicely three times if they wouldn't mind smoking outside; each time the smell reduces for a time then recurs.

What the hell can we do? *IS* there anything we can do? Someone early in this thread said that they have the right to not smell smoke in their bedroom- that's exactly how I feel. Letting agent says that they can't do anything until the contract is up. :mad: One would think that breaking the contract may have some effect...?

jetta_wales

Wow still going? When did benches come into it? With the buts through the letter box issue though you really should have posted that cat poo lol.

MERFE

Smoking is disgusting, anyone who does it should be ashamed of themselves and talk about chavs - most chavy thing ever I think. OP you have my sympathy our old next door neighbours would do this, smoke in the garden it would go over the fence and through the patio door. The smell is rancid and my kids shouldn't have to breathe anyones smoke EVER. Especially when they are just playing in their own backgarden. But there isn't really anything you can do about it. We also had to put up with the constant coughing at 4am nearly everyday of the old man who couldn't give up the fags and was killing himself. TBH if it wasn't for those neighbours our old house would have been almost perfect, all the other neighbours were lovely and non smokers, they however were a family from hell. So glad we moved and whilst next door do smoke you wouldn't know it so it is possible to be considerate. I regularly tell people in the street they stink if I'm unfortuante enough to walk behind them. Plus it has to be the least MSE thing ever, such a waste.

ditto people that own cats - I've said it before and I'll say it again, anyone who has one should be made to walk the streets picking up their pets crap - also disgusting.

scooby088

Like i said earlier if my neighbour complained i would ignore them and i cannot think of anything more that infuriates me is a stranger dictating what i do in my own property. I hate having screaming kids in the garden is it right of me to complain about the noise they make?

MERFE

scooby088 wrote: »

Like i said earlier if my neighbour complained i would ignore them and i cannot think of anything more that infuriates me is a stranger dictating what i do in my own property. I hate having screaming kids in the garden is it right of me to complain about the noise they make?

You can complain all you like doesn't mean they have to do anything about it, which is why I didn't bother mentioning to my neighbours how utterly disgusting they were. I knew it wouldn't change anything, moving was by far the best option, no longer have to listen to the useless son abusing his mum either.

shellsuit

MERFE wrote: »

Smoking is disgusting, anyone who does it should be ashamed of themselves and talk about chavs - most chavy thing ever I think. OP you have my sympathy our old next door neighbours would do this, smoke in the garden it would go over the fence and through the patio door. The smell is rancid and my kids shouldn't have to breathe anyones smoke EVER. Especially when they are just playing in their own backgarden. But there isn't really anything you can do about it. We also had to put up with the constant coughing at 4am nearly everyday of the old man who couldn't give up the fags and was killing himself. TBH if it wasn't for those neighbours our old house would have been almost perfect, all the other neighbours were lovely and non smokers, they however were a family from hell. So glad we moved and whilst next door do smoke you wouldn't know it so it is possible to be considerate. I regularly tell people in the street they stink if I'm unfortuante enough to walk behind them. Plus it has to be the least MSE thing ever, such a waste.

ditto people that own cats - I've said it before and I'll say it again, anyone who has one should be made to walk the streets picking up their pets crap - also disgusting.

I'm not ashamed in the slightest.:A

And as for chavvy, how the hell can smoking be chavvy when people have been smoking since day dot?

As for telling strangers in the street that they stink ~ who the hell do you think you are?

Would you like it if people stopped you and told you you had a face like a bag of spanners?