my life

United States
December 15, 2007 7:14pm CST
I have this neighbor that loves to get into everyones buisness and it is driveing me nuts. She has called the cops on me for disaplining my children from trying to steel from a store. Now she is takeing control of the parking in my apartment building. I do not know what to say or do but to just go on with my life and i wish that she would with hers and leave me and my family alone and to let her know that she has one for takeing friends away from me because i am tired of the baby games that she is playing with me. So i hope that she will read this and get the hint to leave me and my family alone and that you have won on number of cases. She thinks that i am a really bad person because i had not let her kids off the bus because i can not see if there was anyone home for her first grader and her third grader. She has been told number of times to be outside for them or i have no choice but to take them back to school. So she was not outside for them and i drove around the apartment building four times before someone came outside to get them off. Is that so wrong of me to do.
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9 responses
• India
16 Dec 07
hi rose i still think its none of your business to interfere in your neighbours life though u think she snapped...u just "assumed" she did.it does'nt really concern you about her life
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@magikrose (5429)
• United States
28 Dec 07
It did concern me because my son was involved and she snapped at my son without talking to me and letting me know what was going on. All of a sudden my son comes home crying saying she snapped at him saying it was HIS fault. Honestly she had no right to snap at my son without talking to me first. That is why I did what I did. I know how she is and I knew what what was going on at the time and she was having alot of issues and I feared that a certain incedent set her over the edge. Now she is refusing to be civil and talk to me about things as small as parking in our own appartment building.
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
16 Dec 07
I told you I called the cops because I feared you flipped with all that you were already going through. Disclipining your child is fine but I heard the smacks through the window when I was coming to confront you about what happined with my own son. That is why I called because I feared you had snapped. As far as the parking there was NEVER assigned parking here. It was always an agreement between the tenants. all you had to do was tell us what was going on and we would have worked with you with NO problem. You didnt have to call the property manager. Plus when the family wasliving upstairs from you, you didnt have a problem with the parking at all now that they left you have a problem. If you needed certain parking from the start then you should have spoke up when you first moved in and then this wouldent be an issue now. As far as the bus issue goes all I was wondering is why you didnt notify me that you were being forced to change things. You have been droping my first grader off without me being outside for sometime now and then all of a sudden without notice someone has to be outside. If you did not want to talk to me direct then a note would have been acceptable. Not to mentone the fact that every day your drop off time is diffrent so we never really knew what time to be outside and it was gettingtoo cold to be waiting outsied for a half an hour. That is why I decided to take my kids off the bus and drop them off and pick them up. Plus you were snotty to the person I had go outside and wait for them and that was not necessary. I dont remember ever taking any friends away from you at any point, except for myself. I have left you alone. I dont come knocking on your door for any reason, I dont go out of my way to make your life miserable. To be honest it was my husbad that had an issue with the parking NOT me. I kept telling him to let you park there the only thing I was asking was to please leave me room so I can park by my door especially in the winter when out parking lot turned into ice because of my hip problems that you know about. You had a habbit of pulling almost up to my nose forcing me to back up almost to the fence just to get out. Honestly we all should take a lesson from our children who have set all the issues aside and still make it a point to make the best of the living arrangements and get along. To tell you the whole truth I miss being friends with you. I admit I am not perfect but I NEVER meant to cause trouble. Everything I did, I felt I was doing for the best intrest of everyone. I know you are not going to believe me when you finally read this and that is fine. I cant force you. All I ask is that you forgive me as I have forgiven you. We both made mistakes. I hope that someday we can atleast be on talking terms face to face. Bright Blessings to you.
• United States
16 Dec 07
After reading your post, you have made the first step, and offered the apology, you can't make anyone accept it. I know living in an apt complex causes issues, just glad I don't have to live in apt now.
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
16 Dec 07
Like I said about the bus, at the begining of the year you had NO problems letting my children off the bus WITHOUT anyone being outside and all of a sudden without notice you change your mind. If you had made an attempt to notify me either in person since we are neighbors or even a note sent home with my daughter I would have made shure that either myself or someone authorized was outside to get them off. But NO you chose not to tell me and just have my 3rd grader come and tell me that you will not release my 1st grader untill someone is outside. I do not see that is a proper notification. It is NOT my childs job to relay the message it is YOURS as the busdriver and the person responsible for my childrens safe ride home. You chose to let a personal vendeta get in the way of your job and not notify me personally. That is why I took my kids off the bus. As far as you not accepting my appology I expected that because you have NEVER really accepted any appology I have ever given you for any reason, no matter how small and petty it was. I am sorry that we cant come to some agreement or some small forgiveness so that we can live in this appartment piecefully. At this point in time I would be happy with a simple thank you for me at least admitting my faults and saying I am sorry. But I guess that really is too much to ask for.
• United States
20 Jan 08
it is kind of hard to let you know when their is a change on the bus rules if i do not get told until that day. it is not up to me to let you know that you have to be out there for your kids. i can not see the house from where i drop them off and i can not see the cars as you know because they are parked in the back of the apartments. if i really wanted to i could have dropped the girls off at the police station after comeing by here 4 times and gotten you and your husband for abandament. it is my job to get them to school safe and home safe and i plan on doing that with everysingle child i have on that bus. at the schools we can not let off until we see an adult at the doors and the same goes for when we bring them home. so what the big deal is i have no clue and frankly i do not care because my job is done the right way and the safe way and that is all i care about. how am i sipposed to know that nothing happened to anyone in that house or that you are being robbed or what ever. what i did was in the righ and for the saftey of those girls because if i had let them off and they saw something that was not meant for them to see it would be my job on the line and that is not happen .
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
16 Dec 07
No, that is not wrong of you, and if she knows the rules, to be out there when they get home, then she's the one in the wrong. As for all the other things she is pulling, I would tell her, once and only once, that if she does not back off, mind her own business, and leave me alone, I will contact the authorities, and if need be, file harassment charges against her. And if that does not work, and she continues to play games, follow through with it. Some people can not handle being put in their place, and they know they were in the wrong, as with her and not being there for her children. good luck.
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
28 Dec 07
I Have not been in her business since school started. I haven as much as said hello to her so for her to say I am in her business is a load of crap. I have backed off and left her alone for some time now and I continue to do so.
• United States
16 Dec 07
If she cant take responsibilty of them someone has to. You made a good move by not dropping them off if something would have happened to them it would have been your fault not because the parent didnt pay attention but because they were in your hands at the time. none the less as far as the incidents go you can always post a notice on your door telling her everytime she tresspasses she gets a $5000.00 fine this will hold up in courts and you can bill her for it as you posted it and she continually does it. As far as her in your business tell her if she doesnt stay out of it then your going to sue her for harrassment nosey people who cant mind thier own business dont have a life and if making them pay is what you have to do then do it to the fullest advantage!!!!
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
16 Dec 07
1 problem we live in the same appartment building and there has NEVER been assigned parking it has always been an greement among the tenants and she never talked to us about the parking. If she needed a certain parking spot then she should have stated it when she first moved in not almost a year later when someone moves out. As far as the bus. Since I started putting my kids onthe bus shehas always let my kids off without someone outside cause she knows I am a stay home mom. Gee she should know I am a stay home mom we are neighbors. As far as getting in her business I havent said 2 words to her in months so I dont see how I am in her business when I dont know what business she is getting into. So how can I be in her business when I dont even talk to her at all?
@cream97 (29086)
• United States
22 Sep 10
Hi. motherof35108. First of all, how can she expect for you to make sure that her child gets off of the school bus? Are you her child's bus driver? I have to wait on my kids every morning and afternoon. I don't expect for someone else to mind my own kids. I will do so. Also my husband as well. How can she call the cops on you for being a parent when she can't even do what you are doing?
• India
21 Oct 10
Welcome to mylot The world is full of bad and good persons, neighbour are no exceptions in any way, you have taken the right step i am sure of it, i have 4 neighbours only one is nasty and bad in all respects.. Thanks for response. Professor. .
@kareng (61740)
• United States
28 Dec 07
Wow, you have a nosy neighbor indeed. Try to keep your cool and remember that what goes around comes around! As for the bus, you did the right thing. You followed the rules and made sure her children were safe. She should be thanking you for that and not giving you a hard time. You said that you hope that she reads your message here. Is she a member of mylot? Happy new year and hoping your neighbor learns where to keep her nose in the coming new year!
• India
16 Dec 07
well i think its not the big problem for u u should go to her and talk the staright what u r ?what u think about children? might be she will underestand.
• Lithuania
25 Feb 08
Oh, I understand you very well! I have a neighbour who always listens when I talk with someone in the landing or rings at the door to talk about buzz.. if she heard something about us she comes to pass an opinion even it isn't a truth.. about two years ago it made me nervous but now I just don't pay attention..