Good neighbours can often be the bedrock of a community. Sometimes however, what you would hope would be someone who could have your back turns out to be the source of trouble.
One woman has sadly found herself falling into the latter, with neighbours causing her frustration. The woman was annoyed to discover that her neighbours had been hanging up their laundry to dry in her garden, without asking for permission first.
Although the two gardens were open plan, they were still "clearly defined". The woman took to Mumsnet to vent her frustrations over the spat, the Mirror reports.
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In the post, she said that as the weather began to get warmer she had started experiencing some problems. This included her neighbours' children playing on her side of the garden.
This was okay, but things soon began to get worse. She explained the problem in a post to Mumsnet.
"Normally, this wouldn't bother me but we both WFH with our workspace at the back of the house, so it was a bit of a pain but we let it slide," she said.
The woman continued to share the issue with the laundry, writing: "One morning I get up to hang out a washing and see neighbours washing already out on my drying green. Mentioned to her and she had always just used our drying green because her poles had broken and the previous owner didn't mind.
"I did mind, and told her so. It didn't stop and we eventually put up a fence."
However, it seems the fence did little to resolve the problem. The woman claims the children broke the gate to the fence and while it was broken, the woman started coming into her garden again and hanging up her washing.
The fence just got fixed, but the neighbour has now drilled holes into it and strung up washing lines stretching across the garden. So now she wants to ask her neighbour to remove the screws, as she didn't ask to put them up in the first place, but she's not sure if she's being unreasonable.
"I realise I may be overreacting and it's just a fence, but AIBU to want to ask her to remove the screws as she didn't ask to drill into it? If she had asked, I'd likely have said no because I'm not keen on the persistent weight pulling on the fence," she adds.
More than 100 people responded to the woman's post, with many agreeing the woman had no right to mess with the fence.
One person said: "She has no legal right to attach anything to a fence that you own which is entirely on your land. It’s your fence and you can ask her to remove the line from it."
Another posted: "Personally I wouldn’t be unscrewing it, I’d be cutting the line."
A third replied: "She is incredibly rude. The washing line comes down straight away."
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