A woman has expressed her frustration with her new neighbour who is creating drama and will not ‘leave them alone’ regarding a specific feature in their garden
Neighbour drama is something that you don’t want, but sometimes it’s something that comes to you when you move home – and one woman was sick of the person next door creating petty drama over a bamboo plant.
She said that she and her partner moved into their house a few months ago, and the person who lived their previously had “planted a wall of bamboo because the neighbour would not stop complaining” about the fact that she could see into their back garden as her back porch overlooks their yard.
But the woman had already pushed the new homeowners to their limit as she “would not stop complaining” about how “tall” the bamboo had become, urging them to cut it.
Taking to Reddit’s ‘Neighbours From Hell’ forum, the frustrated woman wrote: “Every single interaction we have had with the neighbour is her complaining about this bamboo. It’s leaning over, it’s spreading on to her property, it smells, etc. She will NOT leave us alone.
“To try and make her happy, we have spent the last month working hard to have it all cut down. She knows our plan to get rid of it is to cut it down, remove it, then dig up and poison the roots. We have gotten it all cut, but are waiting on a service to help remove it. She wanted a privacy screen. She wanted us to cut it down. But I think she will always need some drama in her life.
“The problem is that nothing will shut her up. She watches our yard to ambush us when we go outside. She yells at us and complains about a drainage ditch. Today she screamed at us about being ‘bad neighbours’ and mocked me when I explained that we are working on it.”
The woman said her neighbour has “reached out to the county leadership about it”, saying that they “probably couldn’t care less” – but she keeps using that to “threaten” them.
“We know it’s an annoying plant and are working to get rid of it but this woman makes me want to leave it all to rot on her property line”, she fumed, finishing the post by penning: “I’m honestly worried to let our dogs out without being with them because who knows what she would do.” She then asked for “petty” ways to show that they “don’t care about her opinion”.
Someone urged her to keep the bamboo, writing: “You could leave the tall bamboo. Obviously that the previous owner planted something quick growing that she wouldn’t be able to kill off from her side for a reason. If you remove the bamboo, she’ll still find something to harass you about”, but the original poster explained they’d already taken steps to get rid of it.
Another simply said: “Literally just ignore her anytime you go outside. Let her ramble on and on with no reaction from you”, as that would frustrate her more.
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