Our house is on the right hand end of a row of three.
Our road is mostly quiet at night. During the day it can be quite busy, it's a residential road and the parking is dreadful. There are two schools just around the corner and a large recreational park just around another corner.
Most of the houses in the vicinity have little children and the people behind us have teenage boys.
Of course in the better weather we all enjoy being in our gardens, so it can be quite noisy!
On the right hand side of my house seperated by my drive is a house split into two flats. On the bottom are Bob and Jackie a lovely couple who've been there for a number of years. The flat above has changed hands a few times since we moved in almost 2 years ago.
At the moment there is a single guy in his 40's living in there.
Within the last few weeks there have been a couple of incidents in the road. Firstly someones car alarm was going off at about midnight one friday night a few weeks ago. Annoying yes, but these things happen unfortunately. Anyhow the guy from the flat next door (I'll call him F) went out onto the little balcony he has and started shouting and swearing at the bloke who's car alarm was going off, a tad ott to be honest. Calling him a f***ing moron......anyhow the bloke reset the alarm and went in, low and behold about 5 minutes later it started again again F was out there ranting and raving for the bloke to put the car on his drive, rather than leaving it out in the road. The bloke explained that he was staying overnight with friends, but agreed to move the car.
On the Sunday night of the same weekend, Again early hours of the morning I could hear shouting and banging and swearing. I looked out of my bedroom window and saw F standing on his balcony shouting, swearing and carrying on. He then threw something from the window which smashed onto the road......it went on for a while then he shut up.
Jackie from the flat below called round a few days later and I asked her what his problem was - she said they'd had nothing but trouble from him since he moved in, loud music very late, shouting, banging the toilet seat and generally being a pain.
Anyhow, last night about 9pm, there's loads of banging on our front door. Giles answered and it was F.
He came round to complain about the noise the children make in the back garden. Bearing in mind the children had been in bed since 7pm and are every night without fail, we thought it a bit odd. He was very drunk.
He explained that we ought to have more respect for the people around us!
Being that he was drunk Giles just said yeah yeah whatever....and shut the door.
He then went out in his van - absolutely pissed as a fart.
He returned about 30 minutes later and parked across our drive, sat there tooting his horn and driving backwards and forwards across the drive. Giles went out and took his reg no and said if he woke the kids we'd be annoyed.
We came in and called the police and reported the drunk driving and the fact that he'd been around being a nuisance.
He went out again.
He returned about 11.30. His window that's at the top of the stairs leading into his lounge is opposite the window at the top of our stairs and he just stood there staring into our house, I saw this because I was going up for a bath. I ignored him and went and had a bath, while I was in the bath Giles had been out in the garden having a cigarette, and F's lounge windows overlook our back garden. Giles said he was opening and closing the windows and shouting abuse to Giles, then he shouted "you two are dead".
Understandably we double checked everything was locked and went to bed thinking that ignoring it is probably the best course of action.
He continued shouting and banging the windows, but must have got fed up and eventually it went quiet.
This morning I have been on to the agent who let the property and the woman couldn't believe what I was telling her. She's going to contact the landlord and they'll get him out, but they need to do it in a way which won't alert him to the fact that we've complained. It may take a few months to get him out and we all have to continue to live there..........I have a feeling this won't be the last we've heard of him.
