If your neighbor is annoying, clap your hands! (clap clap) If your neighbor is annoying, clap your hands! (clap clap) If your neighbor is annoying, and you sought revenge to show it, if your neighbor is annoying, clap your hands! (clap clap)
If you clapped along to the song, you have most likely been “blessed” by a troublesome neighbor, too, just like this redditor, who was forced to deal with the neighbors’ aggravating parking habits. Scroll down to find their story below.
Some people manage to find new ways of making neighbors’ lives needlessly difficult every day
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This person’s neighbors would test their patience with their parking habits
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Many people have at least one neighbor they are not that fond of
Please, be kind to your neighbor; it’s not that hard to do and it can do wonders for everyone’s well-being. I can only imagine how stressful and needlessly tiring it is having to deal with someone aggravating on a daily basis, which could be avoided if people treated each other nicely.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, which means that some people will make it their life’s mission to make their neighbors’ lives miserable. Bearing that in mind, it’s not surprising that, according to a survey carried out by the online lending marketplace LendingTree, nearly one in four adults (in the US) hate at least one of their neighbors.
For some Americans, the feeling is so strong, they’re even willing to uproot themselves and relocate; the aforementioned survey found that 19% of respondents have moved because of a neighbor they dislike. Out of those who haven’t moved, 24% have reportedly been in an altercation—either physically or verbally—with a neighbor, and as many have called law enforcement or taken legal action against someone living nearby.
Being rude or unfriendly is the main thing people dislike about their neighbors
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People who dislike their neighbors could likely come up with an extensive list of reasons for feeling this way, but some of them seem to be more common than others. According to the aforementioned LendingTree survey, the main problem people have with fellow residents is them being rude or unfriendly, which seems to bother close to half of the respondents. Roughly a third of them are irritated by neighbors making too much noise or being too nosy.
Then there are also such grievances as personal incidents, unruly pets, lack of maintenance of one’s home or lawn, unruly children, and not following parking rules, respectively. The latter is what bothered the OP, too, who seemed to be a rather calm neighbor to have—they didn’t mind people living nearby parking their cars on the curb in front of their home, as long as it wasn’t done on Fridays, the day they would take out the trash.
Unfortunately, the neighbors couldn’t spare that one day in a week, which eventually led to the OP seeking petty revenge. When they told their story to fellow members of the ‘Petty Revenge’ community, several other netizens took to the comments to share similar stories of how their neighbors made life needlessly difficult, showing that a world where everyone treats their neighbor with respect is but a dream.
Some people have had to deal with similar annoying neighbors themselves
The aggravated resident answered a few of the netizens’ comments, providing more details
