Neighbor Criticized A Biker, But A Woman Stepped In And Defended Both Him And The Neighborhood
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Imagine hearing a neighbor complaining about something. Her complaints annoy you, but she’s not talking to you. She’s also not complaining about you.
Would you mind your own business, or would you confront her and tell her why she’s wrong?
In this story, one woman was in this situation, and she chose to confront the neighbor. The situation involves motorcycles, noise and children.
Now, she’s wondering if it would’ve been better not to say anything at all.
Let’s read the whole story to decide.
AITA for involving myself and angering the new neighbors?
I(33f) live in a culdesac with 5 other house on my street.
3 of these houses have motorcycles.
Now, i must say, the bikers are really respectful of noise. One gets home late, one leaves early and they walk their bikes to the end of the road before they start them so they dont disturb the gaggle of young children in the neighborhood.
Often times, you will see the bikers giving kids rides around the circle. All in all, fantastic neighbors.
But the new neighbors don’t like the bikers.
On to the issue.
Recently, the only empty house on our street was bought by a young family.
Mom and dad look to be in their early to mid 20s, and the kids look to be maybe 3 and 5.
Mom started making a fuss the moment they moved in over the bikes. “They are too loud” “they shouldnt have bikes around such young kids” and finally “they keep waking my kids up in the middle of the noght”.
One day, OP got really upset on the biker’s behalf.
Most of us ignored them until they yelled at my neighbor for driving thru at 2pm on a Saturday. He was driving under the speed limit and he was making a normal amount of noise.
I was outside when she started walking towards him and his bike, screaming about the bikes and horrible neighbors.
I got up, walked over and yelled back that she moved into OUR neighborhood and she could clearly see the bikes when they were viewing the house.
The neighbor turned her wrath on OP.
She turned on me telling me i was a monster for allowing my kids near that death trap and it was ridiculous that i hadnt complaimed yet.
I told her she was a crazy woman and to stay off both of our properties, that she and her family could keep to themselves and could go suck a catcus.
She wont so much as look at me now but one of our neighbors said that i was being a jerk and that it was a hell of a way to welcome them to the community.
I do feel bad now because i hate to speak to people like that.
It probably would’ve been better for OP to mind her own business, but that new neighbor does sound really annoying.
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
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This person doesn’t think OP did anything wrong.
Another person thinks the neighbor got what she deserved.
This person has questions.
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Everyone is on OP’s side.
I probably would’ve minded my own business, but I agree that the neighbor was out of line. Surely, she saw the motorcycles in the neighborhood before moving in. It shouldn’t have been a surprise. And, as long as her kids aren’t playing in the street, she has nothing to worry about.
Some people just like to complain.
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