10+ People Whose Neighbors Are a True Test of Patience

Ever feel like your neighbors are a test of your last nerve? You’re not alone. These people have stories that’ll make you cringe, laugh, and maybe even feel a little better about your own situation.

Can they survive the madness? Here’s a look at the true masters of “keeping calm and carrying on.”

• When I was in elementary school, our neighbor’s four dogs would always poop in our backyard. My mom asked the neighbor many times to pick it up, but he never did. So every morning before school, my mom would send me and my brother on “poop patrol”.
  At first, we just put the poop in the neighbor’s yard, but our neighbor never got the hint. My mom then had us put the poop on his porch, and then he got a fence. opalescenttreeshark / Reddit
• When my boyfriend cuts the grass, even if our neighbor just cut his grass a few days prior, he (our neighbor) will cut his again the next day. He’s an old man who can’t stand to have his lawn just a smidge taller than ours. DarthPandaBear / Reddit
• My sister’s neighbor reported my sister to the police because her kids were playing in my sister’s garden. Not for the usual reasons, too much noise etc. Nope, because a volcano in Italy had erupted, and the radiation would hurt them. My sister lives in the U.K. JimmyHerbertKnockers / Reddit

• Next-door lady was standing on her driveway yelling at me because acorns have fallen from a large oak tree on my property onto said driveway, demanding that I cause the tree to cease and desist from this intentional criminal activity. konqueror321 / Reddit
• Back in the late 70s, my mom had a terrible upstairs neighbor that would play loud music all the time. She would bang on the ceiling with a broom to get him to turn it down. One day there was no music, and my mom, an aspiring nurse, was concerned.
  She went upstairs to investigate and found that the guy had broken his leg and was laid up in a cast so he couldn’t get up to keep changing the records. She, being the nice person she is, nursed him back to health, and That, kids, is how my Father met my Mother. Alis451 / Reddit
• The upstairs neighbors’ dog peed on their patio, and it dripped down onto me while I was sitting outside reading. I yelled and ran to shower. And when I texted them to ask them to take their dog out to pee in future, they said it wasn’t their dog, and it must have blown over from somewhere else. epicsunrise77 / Reddit
• She stalks us. Like every time I get home, she’ll walk outside and tell me I was either 3 mins later getting home this time or that I’m home 2 mins earlier and then ask me why.
  One time, my friend and her sister came to pick me up. The neighbor was against her window with her hands and face pressed up on the glass, trying to look at who was coming to pick me up. My friend and her sister were so terrified they called me telling me to hurry up bc a crazy lady was staring at them through a window. I replied, “Oh, it’s just the stalker neighbor!” Competitive-Menu-146 / Reddit

• Ever since we arrived to the building we’re currently living in, the water bill (I don’t know if that’s how it’s called) had been insanely high. After years trying to cut showers and stuff like that, they finally called the water company.
  Turns out the laundromat downstairs, which was owned by another neighbor, had tweaked its pipes so that all the water they used was marked as used by us. Not any business: a laundromat. Eventually it was fixed, and we’re back to paying a reasonable amount, but I don’t remember if we were ever compensated for all the previous years. JusticeforKimPine / Pexels
• Had one that would basically steal our mail and other stuff from our porch and yard. Caught her once to confront her, and she started yelling at me to stop attacking her and tried to say I was stealing her stuff. Ended up with the police getting called and us filing a restraining order against her. kamekukushi / Reddit
• My neighbor in the flat upstairs likes to stand outside my open (ground floor) window at 6am and argue with her dog. Like, “I know you don’t want to go home yet, but if you don’t stop being a jerk, you’re not getting your sausage roll.” Or, “I’m not the one who wanted to go out, so what’s your problem?” Happens at least twice a week. BallantyneR / Reddit
• The first apartment I lived in, I had a neighbor that would try opening the door. Didn’t hear it myself because I worked nights, but I came home early one night around 2am, and he was trying to get. Had a huge argument with him, and he stopped doing it after that.
  I’m guessing he thought it was just my two female roommates living there because he never tried anything after he knew I was there as well. Kinda opened my eyes at the time to the sort of women have to deal with. frontal_pin / Reddit

It’s not always easy to get along with neighbors, and sometimes it can even lead to debates.