Neighbour wars - give me your opinion

sutty · September 29, 2016

Not actually a war, but you know.

There's an old couple who live opposite us, in a very Harry Potter/Dursley cul-de-sac in Surrey. The old fella has always been a bit pleasant valley sunday. We've been living there since my son was a baby. He's now 9. In that time the old couple have aged obviously and are now quite bad tempered and even more net curtain twitchy

Anyway, my son plays footy outside our house in the front garden with his mates in the road as there's more space there than out the back. The old fella is obviously put out by this for some reason. I don't let them play footy with a casey. It's either a fly away or a sponge ball so nothing can get damaged.

The fella has taken to b******ing my son and his mates (always when neither me or Mrs S are around) and yesterday basically said that he was going to "take away their ball forever" if it touched his property. They were playing quite nicely on my lawn when he did this and were quite upset to the extent that they stopped playing and my boy was genuinely quite upset

So basically do I

1. Go and spark him out

2. Go and talk to him and suggest that if he has anything to say about my child's discipline then he should talk to me about it

3. Call him a c***

4. Write a strongly worded letter, because I am english (possibly suggesting 1,2 and/or 3)

5. Ignore it

6. Hammer nails into his car tyres/pour petrol through his letter box as a warning

7. Use weed killer to draw a giant penis on his lawn?

Anybody got any experience with something like this? It looks something of nothing when it's written down but he's been at them for a while and is getting more and more arsey about it over the last few years and its just getting worse. I know that I should probably do option 2 or 5 of the above...

Gilps · September 29, 2016

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