16 People Who Will Never Forget Their Neighbors

We all live within the walls of our own houses and apartments and we don’t see our neighbors very often. But sometimes they enter our lives thanks to their unpleasant actions.

At CHEERY, we hope that your neighbors don’t drill into the walls all the time, so you can read these stories about bad neighbors in peace.

• Our neighbors are generally fine, but the one behind us does weird stuff. 25+ years of living alongside each other NP, but when a windstorm damaged the fence we went and got quotes as did she. And she gave us a copy that had us paying 2/3 of the damage. We balked on that, obviously. More recently the fence has started to lean, again from a windstorm, and she blamed our garden on it. Our garden with a retaining wall and a good six inch clearance from the fence. © Cyrakhis / Reddit
• A neighbor jumped in front of my car while I was driving down the road to yell at me for going through his trash at night. I told him it was probably raccoons. He refuses to believe it to this day. And I really didn’t do it. © A_crispy_sock / Reddit
• The old lady who lived below me left me multiple cryptic letters, blaming me for the birds chirping too loudly in the mornings. Not pet birds. The sparrows and other birds outside. This went on for months. © NarcolepticKnitter / Reddit

• He eats my flowers. In his defense, he told us that he had been doing it for years when he introduced himself after we bought the house. In general, he’s a great neighbor. Just an older, eccentric stoner who keeps to himself and eats my flowers. No shame. He comes over to my yard, and eats my lilies raw, or brings scissors and clips the heads to “boil and make jam.” It’s crazy to me, but we have embraced it. © TraumaSparrow / Reddit
• Our neighbors decided to close the joint water pipes we share that would provide our yard with water because we didn’t welcome them “properly” in the neighborhood. © ninnnaa88 / Reddit
• I have had many neighbors who played music loudly but only one, who, in a dorm setting, left his door open and his music cranked to max so he could keep listening to it while visiting friends who lived on the other end of the floor. © catboy_supremacist / Reddit
• Being the nice guy I am, I would clean my neighbor’s driveway off in the winter just because I had a snow blower. She would never thank me in person. Instead, she’d come over to my house and would leave a bag on my front door that usually contained whatever expired goods she had in her pantry. Some of the standouts for me was like a dozen cans of 10 year expired stuff, and once, a half a bag of wheat flower. © cmde44 / Reddit

• We used to live next to a woman that would have a disco party for her cats in her backyard at 2 a.m. every few days. She would put up a disco ball and party lights with music playing. It was a little bit odd but what made it crazy was her dancing like a Native American performing a ritual around the disco ball. It’s honestly one of the strangest things I’ve ever witnessed! © epicsunrise77 / Reddit
• One night I was in the backyard, sitting in lawn chairs, watching the stars with the wife when a neighbor popped out with a flashlight in our faces. I went off, saying, “What the hell are you doing?” She apologized and left with no explanation. I could go on, but then I may start thinking about moving again. © Sleestacksrcoming / Reddit
• My neighbor in the flat upstairs likes to stand outside my open (ground floor) window at 6 a.m. and argue with her dog. Like, “I know you don’t want to go home, but if you don’t stop being so bad you’re not getting your sausage roll.” Or “I’m not the one who wanted to go out, so what’s your problem?” It happens at least twice a week. © BallantyneR / Reddit
• We bought a house and on the day that we were unloading the first truckload, the neighbor came into our garage, uninvited, and started telling us what trees on our property he wanted us to cut down. © Frontsaladfrontblunt / Reddit

• My neighbors love barbeque but they hate cleaning up. So they dumped the dry coal onto my backyard. My plants there died after a week, including the Venus fly trap. © Tharion_Auger / Reddit
• Our next door neighbor will linger near our garage if we’re outside. She will act like she’s picking weeds and slowly move towards us. If she catches us, we’re in for at least an hour long conversation. Which actually isn’t a conversation. It’s her telling us stuff, run-on sentences and side-quest stories. © Stridelite / Reddit
• My sister’s kids were playing in their own garden. And neighbor reported to authorities about that. Not for the usual reasons, like too much noise. Nope, it was because a volcano in Italy had erupted and the radiation would hurt them. And my sister lives in the U.K. © JimmyHerbertKnockers / Reddit
• My neighbor dug up my fancy flowers and replanted them in her own yard, 15 feet away. © lalalimabean / Reddit

• I was walking home and approached our house entrance. Suddenly a neighbor jumped on me and yelled, “You stole my chair!” Old women from our house used to sit on it in front of the entrance. I tried to explain that I didn’t need it but I heard in reply, “Now you hold on.” 2 days later I found 3 trash bags in front of my door and judging by the smell, there was rotten fish in them. It wasn’t difficult to guess who had left these bags. I put on gloves, took these bags, and put them in the place they liked to sit. This “war” lasted for a year. And then a year later, our neighbor from the fourth floor decided to do renovations in his apartment and began to throw out his old furniture. So when he was carrying out chairs, one of the old women recognized the chair which they thought I had stolen. She jumped at the neighbor and began to shout at him. After that, old women stopped leaving their garbage near my door. But they still scold me when they see me. © Erikov / Pikabu

How about your neighbors? Do any of them act weirdly? Tell us in the comments below.