nuisance neighbour

snapperfritz

My patio doors face next doors .She stands smoking whatever she smokes staring into my house .She only started smoking less than a year and she is in her forties so I don't think they are ordinary. She has lodgers and one is a cop what can I do

Little CuChulainn

Grow a large tree.

TheChizler

Curtains!

thickhead

snapperfritz wrote:

My patio doors face next doors .She stands smoking whatever she smokes staring into my house .She only started smoking less than a year and she is in her forties so I don't think they are ordinary. She has lodgers and one is a cop what can I do

Is what she is smoking any of your business ?

Aye Bosun

What do you want to do?

It's clear from your post that you think she is smoking something illegal but has it occurred to you she might be smoking rolling tobacco or herbal cigs?

As for only taking up smoking in the last year, what's that go to do with anything, people give up all the time and restart again because of a moment of weakness or stressful point in there lives. Once a smoker, always a smoker as they say. I was off them 10 years and started again..means nothing!

My advice would be stop looking out your window at her, she has every right to be smoking on her property and if you have an issue with privacy put up a fence.

234

snapperfritz wrote: »

My patio doors face next doors .She stands smoking whatever she smokes staring into my house .She only started smoking less than a year and she is in her forties so I don't think they are ordinary. She has lodgers and one is a cop what can I do

Take up smoking and keep asking her for a fag as she stands outside. She'll soon get sick of you and smoke somewhere else.

Pat Mustard

snapperfritz wrote: »

She only started smoking less than a year and she is in her forties so I don't think they are ordinary. She has lodgers and one is a cop what can I do

Report your suspicions to the cop that the cigarettes she smokes are not ordinary.

You may get a look that is not ordinary.

billy few mates

Apologies for the thread drift but I have a similar problem with my neighbour, every time I go out the back for a quick fag he's there watching me through his patio door which is directly opposite mine, he just stands there watching and apparently trying to sniff my smoke.
I've mentioned it to one of my lodgers who happens to be a Garda but he says theres nothing I can do about it.
I've only noticed it since I started smoking last year, is there anything I can do about it...?

notabasicb

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

billy few mates wrote: »

Apologies for the thread drift but I have a similar problem with my neighbour, every time I go out the back for a quick fag he's there watching me through his patio door which is directly opposite mine, he just stands there watching and apparently trying to sniff my smoke.
I've mentioned it to one of my lodgers who happens to be a Garda but he says theres nothing I can do about it.
I've only noticed it since I started smoking last year, is there anything I can do about it...?

Little CuChulainn

billy few mates wrote: »

Apologies for the thread drift but I have a similar problem with my neighbour, every time I go out the back for a quick fag he's there watching me through his patio door which is directly opposite mine, he just stands there watching and apparently trying to sniff my smoke.
I've mentioned it to one of my lodgers who happens to be a Garda but he says theres nothing I can do about it.
I've only noticed it since I started smoking last year, is there anything I can do about it...?

Buy him some curtains and a tree.

Bongalongherb

I can't even enjoy a joint at my own front door ffs. Don't be so paranoid.

Prisoner6409

snapperfritz wrote: »

My patio doors face next doors .She stands smoking whatever she smokes staring into my house .She only started smoking less than a year and she is in her forties so I don't think they are ordinary. She has lodgers and one is a cop what can I do

Why don't you thank your lucky stars that's all she is doing. You could have a neighbour that has several dogs barking day and night and before anyone chirps in that at least then you could do something about that is only the case if it is not a privately owned house and even then little enough can be done. My point is, is she really bothering you and how come you always are there when she is having a smoke. As for "Reporting your suspicions to the cop", man get a life, thats that's kind of attitude that makes this country such a narrow minded inward looking place. Why not, mind your own business on your own property.

gctest50

snapperfritz wrote: »

My patio doors face next doors .She stands smoking whatever she smokes staring into my house .She only started smoking less than a year and she is in her forties so I don't think they are ordinary. She has lodgers and one is a cop what can I do

order one of these to keep her busy



'bout as logical as thinking > 40 = not ordinary smoking stuffz

MarkAnthony

So you're stood there being a pest smoking at the back door, he has a habit of staring at you. Both equally odd habits to be frank.

I don't like the smell of smoke and my neighbour no doubt isn't fond of opera, but within certain limits you have to live and let live.

nuac

billy few mates wrote: »

Apologies for the thread drift but I have a similar problem with my neighbour, every time I go out the back for a quick fag he's there watching me through his patio door which is directly opposite mine, he just stands there watching and apparently trying to sniff my smoke.
I've mentioned it to one of my lodgers who happens to be a Garda but he says theres nothing I can do about it.
I've only noticed it since I started smoking last year, is there anything I can do about it...?

1. Tell your neighbour that there is something good on boards.ie and that she is better off wasting time there than standing looking into the neighbours'
2. Start a joint leylandia project with your neighbour. You may find that you have a lot in common

Atlantic Dawn

How were you allowed have patio doors facing her garden, it's normally a planning no no?

conorh91

I assume the gable end of the OP's house faces the gable end of the neighbour's house, both having an entrance on opposing sides.

Whatever the aspect of both houses, a person of ordinary sensibilities would probably install blinds, or at least have the foresight to realize that bashing a 6-foot-wide hole in your house, in clear view of your neighbour, will diminish your privacy.

hardCopy

Good fences make good neighbours.

234

hardCopy wrote: »

Good fences make good neighbours.

Hasn't really played out like that in Palestine...

MarkAnthony

234 wrote: »

Hasn't really played out like that in Palestine...

I think that's solved now, some guy is trying to patent a pigs blood sprayer thing.