Think I annoyed my neighbour

Cyberstrike2027 said:
What's a kid's wednesday schoolday compared to work that actually matters: money to be earned, to pay bills, and get parts for breaking cars :rolleyes:

It's just a tap, even if it did disturb the kids, they'd just roll over + go back to sleep...
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See, now this makes sense. If I was the parent (and I have been) I would be leaning out asking how long he will be with the hammer, not giving him crap about how my kids are sleeping. Being a neighbour, he would know that. If I was the hammerer I would apologise and say I'd be done asap and I'll try to be as quiet as possible. This has actually happened to me. Then there would be no need for all the neighbour hatred.
 
Akira said:
But it wasn't, you're doing the old chav thing of going 'I was only kidding' when you get called on something. Fact is, you shouldn't have been hammering your calliper when it would disturb other people, never mind coming on the internet and looking for sympathy. Reminds me of a lyric, goes 'I too thought that when proved wrong I lost somehow'. You don't lose anything, but you should be more considerate. I've maintained all my cars and bikes outside my terraced house for years, working a horrendous shift pattern without arousing their ire. I did it with a bit of forward planning and they reward me by doing the same. It's worth considering :) I'm not even going to try to decipher Snowdog's rant, he's quite tangled up in it. At the end of the day, if it was an emergency repair you could have made that clear and explained to your neighbour, not making out it was your right to hammer your brakes whenever you feel like.
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First of all, I'm not a chav, I'm a uni graduate studying accountancy. Secondly I'm not a keyboard warrior and grew up in Ireland, we only say something when we're willing to back it up. Thirdly, I was not asking for sympathy and actually asked if I was being a tool in my op.

Also, in mention of forward planning, I had my brakes ready to be done at the weekend, but as it turned out, my brakes had other ideas and I didn't have much choice tbh.

Anyhow, I can see both sides. I understand why my neighbour asked me to stop, but as I said, if her kids were still asleep there was no real issue to begin with. For the sake of further argument, lets just agree to disagree Akira :)
 
SpeedFreak said:
First of all, I'm not a chav, I'm a uni graduate studying accountancy. Secondly I'm not a keyboard warrior and grew up in Ireland, we only say something when we're willing to back it up. Thirdly, I was not asking for sympathy and actually asked if I was being a tool in my op.

Also, in mention of forward planning, I had my brakes ready to be done at the weekend, but as it turned out, my brakes had other ideas and I didn't have much choice tbh.

Anyhow, I can see both sides. I understand why my neighbour asked me to stop, but as I said, if her kids were still asleep there was no real issue to begin with. For the sake of further argument, lets just agree to disagree Akira :)
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By all means, it's only tinternet :) Twas merely discussion, hope your brakes work out and your neighbour learns diplomacy.
 
DanH84 said:
be fair here, just theoretically you have a one or two year old who you've just got off to sleep and they're woken up by the hammering which by speedfreaks own admission was audible a not just next door but a few doors away. you're the person who has to get your kids back to sleep. fixing his car was important but could have very easily have been done at 7pm when he got in from work before he had dinner etc.
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That's all well and good, but as the OP says, it was 2 hits, and the children didn't wake, but the woman still came out and had a go.

No one should be punished for speculative negative outcomes to a "risky" action. Like speeding on an empty road, in broad daylight, plenty of visibility around everywhere, and get getting given a ticket for what might have happened if you had a blow-out, or something else. Nothing has actually happened, but you still get punished.

That's what I'm talking about. He didn't actually grief anybody, nothing happened.
 
Cyberstrike2027 said:
That's all well and good, but as the OP says, it was 2 hits, and the children didn't wake, but the woman still came out and had a go.

No one should be punished for speculative negative outcomes to a "risky" action. Like speeding on an empty road, in broad daylight, plenty of visibility around everywhere, and get getting given a ticket for what might have happened if you had a blow-out, or something else. Nothing has actually happened, but you still get punished.

That's what I'm talking about. He didn't actually grief anybody, nothing happened.
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your in bed remember!

how did he kno the children were still asleep?
 
I think it might have been better and probbably cause less problems down the line to appologise nicely and say that you're finished doing the work that is going to make loud noises, as she doesn't now it's "only 2 hits" it might be another 50 before he's finished for all she knows.
 
Cyberstrike2027 said:
That's all well and good, but as the OP says, it was 2 hits, and the children didn't wake, but the woman still came out and had a go.

No one should be punished for speculative negative outcomes to a "risky" action. Like speeding on an empty road, in broad daylight, plenty of visibility around everywhere, and get getting given a ticket for what might have happened if you had a blow-out, or something else. Nothing has actually happened, but you still get punished.

That's what I'm talking about. He didn't actually grief anybody, nothing happened.
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It's ok, it's been discussed. No need to bring hypothetical speeding scenarios (wtf) into it.
 
Cyberstrike2027 said:
That's all well and good, but as the OP says, it was 2 hits, and the children didn't wake, but the woman still came out and had a go.

No one should be punished for speculative negative outcomes to a "risky" action. Like speeding on an empty road, in broad daylight, plenty of visibility around everywhere, and get getting given a ticket for what might have happened if you had a blow-out, or something else. Nothing has actually happened, but you still get punished.

That's what I'm talking about. He didn't actually grief anybody, nothing happened.
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Really just what the **** are you on about. If you had a blow out the last thing you'd want to be doing is speeding.
 
Controller is going for the post count tonight....

He knew they were still sleeping coz the screaming lady said they were. Thus, there was no problem :rolleyes:

Akira: It was in a paper a few months ago, a Judge said he could not send someone to prison for meerly posing a threat to the community, since he hadn't actually done anything. I can't remember what the guy was all about, but I was making the point that he shouldn't be yelled at by a neighbour when nothing bad has happened.
 
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