I fucking hate my downstairs neighbours. they are two floor below me and I seem to smell their spicy curry cooking ALL DAY and NIGHT long coming in my windows. It fucking pisses me off and I am getting really sick of it. It didn't bother me at first and if it was only at dinner time or there round it still would bother me. BUT, I smell it ALL THE TIME, strongly. I smell it at 05:00 hrs when I get up for work. I smell it at 21:30 when I go to bed. I smell it at 22:30 when I get up to let the cat out of my room. I am always fucking smelling it. It isn't the residual cooking smell; it is the hard at work get down and greasy and piss off all my neighbours cooking smell.
How many people do they have living in that two bedroom unit to have to cook nearly all day and all night? there must be a fire regulation or something. I pay the same fucking rent as them and thier choice in lifestyle is affecting my comfort in my own home and it is fucking killing me. My ethics and morals of letting people life the way they want is interfering with my want to also live the way I want.
When i come home late in the evening from work, I eat a sandwich, or a bowl of cereal for the exact reason that I don't want to bother my neighbours with my cooking. Can not my neighbours have the same respect?

FUCK, I hate selfish people.

Am I wrong people? Am I being prejudice?


grrr. I am at my wits end and I can't "get used to it" like some people recommend. I have tried.

I'd say move,but I know how expensive and how much of a pain in the ass that is.I don't think the landlord can do anything about that,though,what with it being food smells. I feel your pain,though. I had neighbours behind me in my last place that liked to smoke crack all night long,my room was right behind their living room and it stunk like...crack,I moved almost immediately.

On the other hand,if you still have to live there,yet want to get lessen the stench,Tipking is your friend,I find all kinds of good stuff on that site. Give it a whirl,good luck to ya.

http://www.tipking...k/Cleaning/Smells/

I hate my neighbour, too. She's an unemployed, lazy piece of shit who hasn't (admittedly) worked a day in her life, drives a three month old car, named her daughter "Butterscotch", and calls 5 times a week asking for shit.

She's not even from this country (And I have NOTHING against immigrants, but she refuses to work, and lives for free, I work my ass off and drive a 14 year old car and can hardly afford to buy groceries sometimes.)

Ohhh.. dont get me started!


I live in an apartment building that has 3 floors and 9 apartments total. My neighbor (whose door is directly beside mine) is completely psychotic and stalkerish.

I'll come home from work or where ever, and I'll go to unlock my door, and you can hear her walk up to her door and stop. Then she'll open her door, look at me and say "sorry" and slam it. She follows me around my building too. I went to check my mail, and she followed me to the mailbox, but she didnt check her mail; she just stood there. When I went back to my apartment, she followed me to my door and waited for me to go inside! She also follows my husband when he goes to throw out the garbage and she watches to see what he does! It got to the point where whenever I saw her, I'd move faster to get away from her or avoid her. One time after following me around, she had the nerve to ask me if I had a problem with her because I was avoiding her! She hasn't clued in that she's fucking creepy!

The daughters of the ones who lived across the street from me used to play their crappy hip hop and rap music so loud that we could hear it even with the windows closed (in the summer!) and the television turned up very loud.

The mother dressed like a hooker and tried to seduce my old man at every chance she got, but she looked more like ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

I was nearly run down by the daughter's insane boyfriends numerous times and they even had a party on our front lawn and sat on the hood of our car. This all happened while the parents were home! When we called their father to complain he told us to "Lighten up, they're just having some fun" and hung up on us, mind you the "fun" was taking place on our land! We had to call the police to get them to leave; that or let my mother beat someone with the baseball bat she had in her hand.

The old women I lived next to in my old apartment building was totally incontinent She would just piss and shit where ever she was standing. She used to call building security and tell them someone was trying to steal her door knob. After building management finally got her moved out they actually had to bleach down the concrete after the carpet was torn out. You could see the stains where she had walked almost like she had left a trail behind.

Posted by buckybear The old women I lived next to in my old apartment building was totally incontinent She would just piss and shit where ever she was standing. She used to call building security and tell them someone was trying to steal her door knob. After building management finally got her moved out they actually had to bleach down the concrete after the carpet was torn out. You could see the stains where she had walked almost like she had left a trail behind.

Damned sad for everyone. You, building management, security and the old woman.

What bothered me is she had family, her kids moved her into the apartment. I guess it was cheaper then an assisted care faculty. She should have been someplace where she was taken care of not left on her own whether she wanted it or not.

i'm lucky in the neighbor department. Everyone around me is really quiet. Sometimes the people across the street, or the people right next to them across the street, get into so awesome fights (i mean pop popcorn and sit on your porch listening fights!), but other than that, this place is forest lawn quiet.

Speaking of awesome fights, last april i went down to my sisters house in florida. She lived in a duplex with some grade A white trash living in the other side of the house. One night my sister was out and i was in the living room when all the sudden the shit hit the fan. At first i was just listening through the walls, but then i just sat on the couch and laughed. These people were nuts! Throwing things, screaming, banging on the walls, finally i called my sister and told her about it. But then one of the psychos breaks a window, so the landlord was called, and the cops, and it turned out to be more entertainment than what was on the television that night.

Me neighbors here in new york...man...They just screw up the whole road, you know? Everythings nice and quiet and then theres them. Recently divorced, the husband got the house *sigh*, and now he has some sort of tree cutting business being run out of his lawn. He's got a chainsaw going at 8 in the morning, then when summer comes, he breaks out the four wheelers and around the house he goes for hours at a time.

Ridiculous..

Posted by emck00 Me neighbors here in new york...man...They just screw up the whole road, you know? Everythings nice and quiet and then theres them. Recently divorced, the husband got the house *sigh*, and now he has some sort of tree cutting business being run out of his lawn. He's got a chainsaw going at 8 in the morning, then when summer comes, he breaks out the four wheelers and around the house he goes for hours at a time. Ridiculous..

Find out what the zoning laws for your neighbourhood are. The guy's business is a nuisance and is interfering with the rest of the neighbour's peaceful and legal enjoyment of their property. If it doesn't comply with the zoning and is not grandfathered, you may be able to get it shut down legally.

And with luck, he may just sell the place and leave.

I dont think my portion of the neighborhood is zoned, the avenue above me though is zoned to not allow Rabbits...and apparently the bordering town isnt allowed rabbits either. Thank God i live where i do, or my rabbit would be S.O.L

See if you can get some feeder crickets from the pet store into their apartment. See if they have a space under their front door, or a mail slot for you to dump the crickets into.

Several dozen crickets chirping away at all hours of the night while they hide under the baseboards and under the furniture is a great way to drive your neighbour nuts.

OMG Taco, you are the fucking best!!

When I broke up with my ex, who was cheating on me, etc, etc... I removed every single electrical receptacle in our apartment, emptied a can of seafood flavoured cat food in behind each one, and reassembled it. That place fucking STANK for about a month.

Clamatto juice in creative places is your friend, too.

Posted by bandi When I broke up with my ex, who was cheating on me, etc, etc... I removed every single electrical receptacle in our apartment, emptied a can of seafood flavoured cat food in behind each one, and reassembled it. That place fucking STANK for about a month. Clamatto juice in creative places is your friend, too.

I should also note that fermenting/rotting green peppers produce a very unique and disgusting smell. Just put them into a sandwich bag, close it up, but leave a small hole in the bottom of the bag for the putrified juice to drip out. I learned this lesson back in grade 9 when I first had a locker.

I'm not too sure how you would hide the green peppers into their apartment however.

Hide it in places no one looks, tape it to the underside of a sofa or something like that.

Posted by HairyTheTaco I should also note that fermenting/rotting green peppers produce a very unique and disgusting smell. Just put them into a sandwich bag, close it up, but leave a small hole in the bottom of the bag for the putrified juice to drip out. I learned this lesson back in grade 9 when I first had a locker. I'm not too sure how you would hide the green peppers into their apartment however.

I must concur that rotting fruit/and or vegetables trumps most others in sheer foulness. Of all the disgusting things that would go by when I worked at the recycling plant from Hell,these were by far the worst. Except,of course,the headless,gutted deer carcass,but I wasn't there that day.

Or buy them a beautiful looking carrion flower, a day or two prior to bloom.

I prefer Dracunculus Vulgaris, or the "Dragon Arum". When it blooms it is a very deep crimson color with an off-white stamenate in the center, but it smells for days of rotting meat/flesh.

Bonus points if they have upholstered couches, chairs, whatever...because the funk will permeate them and cannot be gotten rid of for a long time.


~b

I had those...I live in a two family house, something left over from the Republic Steel days in Mineville.
I usually solved the problems with my neighbors by playing "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Gimme Three Steps" at full volume at 3 in the morning. But, I had noise issues. Neither of them worked, so they'd make very loud noise all day long. I expressly told them I worked nights at least one week of the month and I sort of needed my sleep.
So, I'd wait till my first night off and make it hell on them, three or four nights of it off and on, they finally learned.
I think I'm about ready to start doing it again after tonight though. New neighbors, well, they've been here about a year, usually good, but tonight, the mother of the kids isn't home and they're raising hell next door. Which is why I'm still up. Grrr.
My old neighbors had four dogs in a three bedroom...not little dogs, little dogs I can deal with, I have cats, two large rather noisy cats who sound like horses galloping up and down the stairs and whine constantly, so I know what it's like, but they had rotweilers and pitbulls, fucking big goddamn dogs. You'd hear them galloping up and down the stairs, and the mess they made in the front yard. The yards are connected, but used to be fenced because of the dogs. The woman who lived there would let them out and they'd shit everywhere, it got so bad in the summertime I couldn't sit on my front porch because of the flies.
Well, we ended up calling the health department, who did nothing...so...we ended up kidnapping their cat. It ended up in a good home, no worries about that, but our plans of kidnapping their dogs didn't work out so well. My dad got one into the back of the truck...well...the dog nearly ripped his arm off.
The only thing I feel bad about with all of the things that happened is we ended up finding their ferret in our rat trap in the basement. But, that's what you get when your ferret gets into our walls...
I just wish people would learn to be a little more considerate of their neighbors. God knows I try to be.

Shael