Today someone came by and hung a plastic bag containing an advertisement on the door. The city does not allow plastic bags in the recycling bin, so I removed the paper advertisement, without reading, placed it in the recycling container and took the plastic bag in the house and placed in a waste basket. I live in a duplex and when my neighbor came in, he simply removed his from the door and dropped it the porch. It of course, blew over on my side, so I flipped it back in front of his door.

This isn’t a big thing, but it happens on a regular basis and annoys me.

I thought it might be fun and a good way to vent to mention little or big things our neighbors do that get on our nerves.

People who cannot merge onto the highway properly... You are NOT supposed to stop there, you are supposed to use that lane to accelerate into flowing traffic... Thank you

Fued’n with neighbor’s sucks! If the guy does it again collect the stuff and staple it together with a post-it note saying “I think this stuff belongs to you, must have blown over here, your neighbor Bob” and between your post-it and the garbage place a five dollar bill.

Thanks for the suggestion Sarge, but I'm retired and don't have $5 bills to hand out. Why should someone who litters be rewarded with five bucks?

It was back on my side of the porch this morning, so I placed both the plastic bag and advertisement in his recycling cart. If the city catches the plastic bag, I have no idea how it got there. lol

Boy, can I relate to this thread. My neighbor also happens to be my landlord (I live in what is charmingly referred to as a "mother-in-law house"), and he fancies himself quite the handyman - NOT!! The house has no gutters on the outside so when it rains like this, I get a nice waterfall down the back of my neck, bad plumbing, the thermostat is falling off the wall, no baseboards, antique linoleum in the kitchen that is pitted and buckling, kitchen cupboards with so many layers of paint they won't close, windows that don't open, windows that won't stay open, big gaps under both front and back doors (thank goodness I live in CA where it doesn't get freezing cold), etc. etc. ad nauseum, BUT his "handiness" only extends to things he wants to do, like planting crap everywhere out front, including some kind of wild garlic that stinks to high heaven, and telling me to take care of it, extending his back fence into my already tiny back yard, painting 3/4 of the house yellow with puke green trim (goes really well with the red brick steps ), which took him 9 months BTW (he painted the whole house with a brush), staining half the back fence barn red, putting a brick pad in the back yard without leveling or sealing it (the grass growing between the cracks makes a lovely checkerboard pattern), and too many other stupid things to mention. His incompetence, plus his constant presence (once under my bathroom window while I was, ahem, "indisposed") drives me to distraction. If you ask, why don't you move, I would but having 3 animals makes it damn difficult to find a rental that will accept me, and I refuse to give up my animals.

Oh, and people who let their dogs poop on my lawn and don't pick it up, and the kids who throw their trash in my hedges.

BoF, maybe Ol Sarge is suggesting billing the neighbor 5 bucks?

Wow, I didn’t want to get anyone to “raise up” on me. I had a little 11-acre farm and built a house in the trees on the edge some twenty feet from my property line a few years back. This guy buys the land just behind my land and parks a mobile home right next to my home on his side of the line and his land was about equal size with many trees to allow equal space and sitting. Anyway we got in a feud and our days were full of getting even with each other and neither enjoyed life or property. All I was trying to say was kill them with kindness or live in frustration.

If kindness doesn’t work then “PM” me and I’ll send you plans for building quad 50 Caliber Machine Gun mock up a stunt pilot showed me that uses compressed air, propane, water pipes and a firing apparatus made from a small engine ignition system. Conceal the thing on the roof and do some short blasts at 4:00AM when you feel the need to repay unkindness. Probably would work faster for police patrolling in the neighborhood than calling 911 too. DaffyGrl you may want to make a pair?

My biggest pet peeve at the moment are "left lane bandits". Those who travel at or below the speed limit in the left lane of the highway. The worst are the 18 wheelers who take about 5 miles to pass another truck with a speed delta of about 0.25 mph.

I'm a conservative driver, but those in the left lane who sit there cause serious traffic congestion, impact the flow of traffic, and create a bad safety hazard.

I've often longed for a car mounted surface-to-surface missile that could take care of these people.