You just can’t win with some people…

You try to take the high road and not let things bother you too much, but they have a way of escalating an already precarious situation and making it much worse.

And that’s even more annoying when the situation wasn’t that big of a deal in the first place!

In today’s story, a person talked about how their neighbor took things to a whole new level just because, well, he’s a jerk.

Take a look at what’s going down in this neighborhood.

Well, it’s war I guess. The neighbor complained to his friends after we complained about his loud music.

“Recently I made a post about our new neighbor playing music extremely loud for hours on a Sunday evening.

It could be heard from the street and within our home (with separate walls) with closed windows. This guy had been getting on our nerves before with his loud outbursts and loud radio in his garden.

He got pushed a little bit too far…

The music on Sunday evening until night, triggered my PTSD and we decided to make a report to the police for them to “check it out”.

Well, a few days later the neighbor came to us and confronted us. He asked if his music is a problem. I was angry and I said yes, it’s too loud for too long.

It doesn’t mean you can’t play music ever, but it should be reasonable and at reasonable times. He said “Good to know I have good speakers, haha”.

We thought it would be okay and were relieved.

Not for long.

Later, this guy had a birthday party. He invited a bunch of people into his garden. Music and loud talks were normal, we accepted it after our conversation. But what we heard later took us by surprise.

This is weird…

His friends made a loud speech for the neighbor. They loudly expressed praise for their friend, thanked him for their friendship and years and then… included us in the speech, his neighbors.

They basically said: “Ignore the crybaby neighbors who complain about your music, they can stick it and should mind their own business” and everybody laughed.

Needless to say, hearing these words made us realize any chance of peace with this guy is gone.

He must have been so hurt by our complaint about his extremely loud music that he complained about it to his friends who in turn loudly made fun of us.

So, yeah. Fun times are coming.”

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a couple whose new neighbors’ construction noise is ruining the whole neighborhood vibe.

Reddit users spoke up.

This person has been there…

Another reader weighed in.

And this Reddit user offered some advice.

Well, so much for being friendly neighbors, huh?

You can say that again!

The best thing this person can do is back off and try not to make things even worse…if that’s possible…

It sounds like this guy needs to get a life…just sayin’!

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