Dog pee raining down on us-WTF?

Our Upstairs Neighbour From Hell

Surely this is a crazy person?

This is the floor of our verandah and in the middle is actual dog pee from the flat above. Photo by author.

Most of us have probably, unfortunately, experienced a neighbour that was a real pain in the ass. It takes all types and sometimes one of “those” types lives right next to you. And makes life miserable in a number of ways.

This is a story about one of those “special cases” that really took the biscuit. Someone who raised being simply a shitty neighbour to another level. Someone who tested your adherence to the commandment “Love they neighbour” to the very, and I mean very, limit.

We called her: “The Neighbour from Hell”.

Before I recently retired, I managed a housing estate in the UK, for over fifty-five year olds. The estate was made up of forty flats, housing ten couples, six single men and twenty single women. So I am pretty damn familiar with petty, silly, neighbourly squabbles and often had to “mediate” to solve problems.

King Solomon, if you like, on some occasions.

Now I am myself retired and living in a small housing complex with my wife and our Belgian Shepherd. The complex has six buildings, each with four units. So, only twenty four apartments, most of which are holiday homes, and a few of which are rented out. Resulting in…