Pregnancy and Neighbours Car Horn

Georgiegirl256

So OP, here's a question for you. You say you're not going to sit there and do nothing (and to a certain extent I agree with you), and you say you're not going to go to the Police, so what are you going to do? Turn all vigilante on him?

Also, you don't think honking your horn at 3am isn't going to stress your partner out even more? Not that bothered about the baby now are we if that's your solution.

monkeychops

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I'm sorry but you are making too much of a big deal of this. She is pregnant not ill and if you think a cat horn outside is bad then you got a shock coming when baby arrives

I am not pregnant but I would be furious if I was woken every morning by some !!!! sounding his horn. I am not a good sleeper at the best of time and once woken struggle to get back to sleep (and often don't).

!!!!!! wrote: »

Sounds a bit like the person that moves in to a quiet rural village then complains about the church bells and cocks crowing. Is the OP the only one with the problem? Are any other neighbours affected or is this a case of hypersensitivity?

No, nothing like a person moving to a quiet rural village. Cocks crow it is part of nature, church bells have rung for years but I never realised that someone honking a car horn early morning is something that is a tradition. Why exactly is the idiot honking his horn? Just imagine if everyone leaving for work, no matter what the time, started honking their car horn to say goodbye to anyone in their home.


I find it incredible that so many people are defending this absolute a***hole. Be interested to know if you would all feel the same if it were one of your neighbours.


I know that after a couple of weeks of disturbed sleep I would be tempted to put a sledgehammer through the car windscreen.


I find it annoying enough that so many drivers find it necessary to sound their car horn anyway (often because they are too damn lazy to get out of the car to tell the person they are picking up that they are there) but early morning and late night are NOT acceptable.

missbiggles1 wrote: »

So we're all wrecking our health by using alarm clocks? Seriously?

Years ago I used an alarm clock and found that some days (presumably if in a deeper sleep) the alarm would jolt me awake and I would find my heart beating fast and feeling slightly sick. I changed to a bodyclock or SAD alarm which wakes me by a light gradually coming on to simulate the sun coming up which is a much nicer way to be woken

Tropez

To quote Edmund Blackadder, this is the worst idea since someone said ‘yeah let’s take this suspiciously large wooden horse into Troy, statues are all the rage this season’.

Contact the council and they will get their noise abatement team to send out a notice that a complaint has been registered against the homeowner for unsociable noise. As others have said, you can contact the local PCSO as well who may have a word. If you show this pillock that you're not going to take it lying down they may well stop but if you stoop to their level, all that will happen is the belligerent buffoon (and he's already shown himself as one) will up the ante, you'll have an even more tired, cranky and stressed girlfriend and probably a bunch of neighbours who are reporting the pair of you to the council and police.

I completely agree with you that this guy is in the wrong and a bunch of choice phrases that we can't use here, and that you shouldn't just leave him to it but you need to think about making your girlfriend comfortable, yourself comfortable and tackling it in a legal manner that isn't going to cause you any further problems.

monkeychops

Skintski wrote: »

I'm ignoring the pregnancy thing but still totally amazed by how many think it is ok for a neighbour to be so inconsiderate to others to continue doing something so completely unnecessary. There are families with kids in our road and want them to sleep in, there are those who work unsociable hours etc.

I personally would be horrified if I discovered I was irritating my neighbours. People are so selfish these days, what's wrong with everybody?! It's something so minor that could so easily be fixed and yet people are only interested in themselves.

Totally agree. I am amazed how many people are defending the !!!! that honks his horn. How on earth is it acceptable? I would be furious if he did at 7am or 8am as there is no reason whatsoever for him to do it.


I am not sure whether some posters on here just like to bee argumentative and get some sort of kick out of making ridiculous comments and winding up the OP or whether they are just as petty and selfish as the people being complained about by the OPs

Air_Cooled_75

gunsandbanjos wrote:

pregnant women are not delicate flowers

Try telling this to my friend (I agree with you 100% though) she seems to have fallen out with me, the only thing I can attribute this to is me asking (not suggesting or telling) her if she has a low pain threshold! We have known each other since before school and we are now in our 40s, seems a bit daft...

Back to the op, loud noises and sleep disruption will not have any impact on the pregnancy/baby. Just suck it up and buy some earplugs. Congratulations Btw

thorsoak

If you are getting up to go to work for 3am then that will also disturb your girlfriend's sleep. Might I suggest that you get some earplugs for her? You are only using the flat for a few months so there is very little point in becoming overstretched about a situation that can only escalate in the nuisance/ exaggeration factor. And believe me, speaking g as someone who has gone through four pregnancies, being woken several times a night is easier to cope with than copies g with a neighbour who will go out of her way to carry aggravation to an unacceptable level WHILST staying just in the letter of the law.

notanewuser

I have neighbours that must tell their friends to beep their horns when they're outside rather than have the epic 8ft walk to the front door. Does my head in. It's not every day, but I do recall getting so wound up about it while DD was tiny that I would run outside and knock the door for them. :rotfl: Most got the message, although things have slipped recently.

Mind you, DD slept through them, and still does, having been exposed to the sound since conception. And dogs barking etc.

If I were the OP I'd be letting his tyres down at 3am though. Should delay the goodbye beep for a good half hour at least!

missbiggles1

monkeychops wrote: »

Totally agree. I am amazed how many people are defending the !!!! that honks his horn. How on earth is it acceptable? I would be furious if he did at 7am or 8am as there is no reason whatsoever for him to do it.


I am not sure whether some posters on here just like to bee argumentative and get some sort of kick out of making ridiculous comments and winding up the OP or whether they are just as petty and selfish as the people being complained about by the OPs

I aven't read anybody defending this behaviour, perhas you might like to quote where anybody's done that?

Gavin83

I suggest getting a fairly large fan, ideally reasonably noisy and have this turned on in her room. If it's cold direct it away from her. The noise of this might be enough that the car horn won't disturb her.

However this guy is taking the !!!! out of you. I'd probably take his suggestion of ringing his doorbell every morning. Alternatively find out his phone number and give him a helpful morning wake up call instead.

The other alternative is to burn his car, however now he knows it probably you I'd recommend a camera guarding your own property first.

Skintski

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I aven't read anybody defending this behaviour, perhas you might like to quote where anybody's done that?

There are several posts to that effect and some bizarre suggestions like setting the alarm clock five mins before, no one should have to do that to accommodate a neighbour. The guy is clearly an asshat.