Oh my God, there is a neighbour on my street who is an absolute arsehole who I nearly came to blows with the other day.
Bit of background, I live in a cul-de-sac and have decent-sized drive - enough for about four cars. I back on to a number of different properties with large privets in between us (important for later).
Most of my neighbours to share off-street parking. I park my car on my drive, never on the street. When people come to visit me (either friends/family or people doing work on the house), some choose to open my gate and park on the drive, others park on the street.
Anyway, around four years ago my mother-in-law is over and she elects to park on the road. This neighbour knocks on and as I open the door he lays into me about how I have a big drive and shouldn't park on the street making it difficult for my neighbours. I tell him it's not my car, it's my mother-in-laws but I'll move it for him.
As I'm moving the car, he's calling me selfish and telling me I shouldn't park there. I tell him, again, it's my mother-in-law's car, she wasn't confident in reversing into the drive and now I'm moving it for him. I leave it there and walk away.
Anyways, this summer comes around and one of the houses I back onto comes up for sale. A fella buys it and starts putting a massive extension on. He employs my neighbour to do it as he owns/runs a building company.
My border with all of my neighbours contains massive privets. Probably 20+ feet.
One day, I'm working in my dining room and I hear chainsaws going. They're starting to cut down the privets.
Now I know that the land that those privets are on is not their land, it is my next-door neighbour's land. I go out, tell them this and they stop. Half an hour later, the chainsaws start up again. I call my neighbour out (it is his land) and he tells them to stop.
The next day they start up again. We speak to this builder (the one who I'd had the parking run-in with earlier) and show him the land registry drawings showing it wasn't his client's land and that he needs to stop.
He proceeds to call us selfish neighbours, we don't want our new neighbour to have a nice garden, they're not trees, they're ugly bushes, so on and so forth.
They eventually settle that the privets are not theirs and they stop.
A week passes and they level them to the ground when we're both out one day. I'm now overlooked in the garden after 7 years of complete privacy.
So another few weeks pass and I get a knock on the door again last week. It's the builder. We had someone round doing a job on the house and they've parked across the drive rather than on it.
I open the door, "You all right, mate?", I say.
"Do you know that you're not allowed to park there? There are people on this street with children and disabilities and you're making life difficult for them".
I start laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
"It's not my car, mate. It's someone doing a job for me but I can ask them to move it".
"I don't give a shit whose car it is, it needs moving".
At this point, I fucking saw red. Told him he was a fucking prick, he should learn how to speak to people and that he can fuck off.
At this point, he started calling me racist
For context, he's Asian and I'm white.
Me: "How am I racist?"
Him: "You were laughing at me".
Me: "Yes, I was, because you're knocking on my door, calling me selfish without first asking whose car it is like a fucking normal person would. I haven't got a fucking clue how that makes me racist."
Him: "People like you are selfish. That is why we fucked you up with the trees on the back".
Me: "You know what, pal, get the fuck off my drive."
Him, aggressively approaching me: "I'd love to fucking punch you, you know".
Me: "Try it, mate, and see how it ends up".
He wags his finger in my face, I tell him to fuck off and slam the door.
Christ, some people are c*nts. Apologies for the length but writing this down is cathartic and it helps me realise that I'm not the one being unreasonable here.
