JB, you need to change your signature. 

Not that I'm complaining, or anything! 

Sorry 

Actually I do sympathise with you on the dog issue - we had a lady down the road whose animal used to favour dumping his load on the access path outside my house - so I told the owner in no uncertain terms that I would rub her nose in it next time!  There hasn't been a next time for approx 2 yrs now 

We used to have a really bad tempered and argumentative neighbour - a cat (possibly ours) used to regularly crap in her garden and she had a real go at my husband about it.

He smiled and said 'but it's taken me ages to train her to do that'.

She did crack her face ..............the thing is you don't really have much control over cats - they do their own thing as and when they please.

but, i like it..

We throw the cat poo over into the neighbour's garden - they have 6 cats so it's a fair bet that it belongs to them. 

I put cut holly over bits of the garden that the cats really like to poo on. One day my husband through some cat poo over the fence and it had a bit of holly embedded in it. It landed on top of the neighbour's shed.

I bet they looked at their cats a bit funny

Our cat buries hers under the neighbours tree...

Sprinkle pepper Rexi - they hate that 

I'll try it

All I have at moment is whole peppercorns though, and I'm not going out into the garden with my pepper grinder

snob!  

My dog will only shit in my garden....and then only the left hand side of the path....

My dog's like that, Croc. We can take her on a five mile walk and she'll still wait till we get back home before she'll go for a poo, in our garden.

The dog two doors down used to shit in our garden - so we built a big fence. It kept their kid out, too, who was always coming in after a ball.

Yep...thats it....I reckon she holds it till we get back.

I hope he's not a psycho...or your shit's just about to get deeper.

Russian Roulette with them types.

On the positive side, it means we never have to walk around, carrying one of those used dog poo bags.

Water pistols rexi. I love my cat, but I hate the freeloaders coming in to partake in the fine dining.

i have more than once stomped round my neighbours house with me hair like him out of flock of seagulls..dressing gown on an wearing me spongebob slippers to tell them to stfu when their chuffin awful rap music either keeps me awake..or wakes me up at half seven on a sunday morning.......

thankfully they got the message.........i think the sight of me frightened them to death....

I get what you`re saying JB. 

I`m not confrontational but I say my piece when I think it`s right to.

A bloke at my local Spar is the rudest most ignorant moron ever to grace the til in any Spar in the whole wide world. He treats customers like muck on his shoes. 

I eventually told him that.

His answer: Good.

Caught on camera. 

He got the boot.   

Being German, I'm supposed to find it easy to complain, but I never used to. I always kept my mouth shut for instance when I went to the hairdresser and the end result was horrific. I'd smile, say very nice, pay and run home to wash my hair. If a meal in a restaurant wasn't very nice, I'd say I had a small appetite, etc. Not any more. Since I passed 50, I don't really care anymore. If my hair looks shoite at the hairdresser's, I'll say so and ask them to change it. I'm not prepared to pay money anymore for things that don't meet my approval.

I never complain, i get all shy and embarrassed, until every now and then when i know im in the right and someone is blatantly doing something wrong, then i go mental I have no issue standing in the middle of morrisons shouting at the shopkeeper while the whole store comes to a stop to listen. then i return to an oasis of calm

I am a behind closed doors complainer......always wish I had said what I thought of, immediately after I have got home and shut the front door....then hubby gets an earful,,,,,

I rarely complain, I just set my husband on them. He is a gold medalist complainer.

I don't seek aggro even when I know I'm in the right    

and being like you, stressed eric, will put you in an early grave .... don't worry about me. I am generally placid .... but if I feel the need to complain about something, then I will

I tend not to complain about 'little things,' can't be doing with getting worked up into a frenzy about sod all....but, if I think someone is seriously taking the piss, then I'll definitely have my say, not in a shouty, red in the face, burst a blood vessel, give myself a coronary kind of way, but definitely have my say nonetheless.... Someone's dog's repeatedly crapping outside of my door would definitely fall into that category

JB, you could suggest he buys a couple of these

The dog crappola issue boils my blood.  We have neighbours who think their dog has the right to dump its load anywhere, on more than one occasion I have challenged them about it, the first was when it was taking a dump on another neighbours lawn, and when I pointed it out the response I got was 'oh well they're not in'   I said 'OK next time you're not home I'll bring my 2 up to crap on your lawn'.  

They also take it around to the communal grassed area behind another neighbours house where the children in the street (used) to like to play, they can't now as it's full of their dogs crap. What's more annoying is, that if they could be bothered to walk another 2 minutes there's a fantastically huge field where they could let the dog actually run, although I would still be pee'd off if they didn't pick his crap up.  I have 2 dogs and I've seen me go back to where they have been with a bucket of water to swill it away when they have had an upset stomach and it's impossible to pick it up.

*breathes*

That`s exactly what JB did. 

I'd be as unreasonable and lunaticky as I could be

It`s not about aggro velvet, it`s about not letting others walk all over you and yours.  

I don`t seek aggro either, I avoid it like the plague but sometimes you have to stand up and be counted. 

Apologies for the cliche but it`s all I could think of. 

I know Scotty.

Just circumstances  

Aww, I know what you mean now. Sorry velvet. 

Dinnae  

I know exactly where Jackson et al are coming from  

My husband is also a gold medalist complainer: if he's going to pay for something, he wants it to be right.

We have a family story about this: we took all the kids and their significant others out to a nice restaurant for a meal.  The waiter made himself scarce almost immediately.  Bob finally got his attention, and the first thing he said to him was, "We're going to need a LOT more attention around here", complete with the bushy eyebrows meeting. We had very good service after that.

I know you do. 

Your hubby sounds a lot like mine, Lori.

Well, you're right.

I'd be standing to attention.

I did waitressing when I studied.

Thanks cologne. I understand velvet`s circumstance - hence ma apology.   

  I have 2 dogs and I've seen me go back to where they have been with a bucket of water to swill it away when they have had an upset stomach and it's impossible to pick it up.

cinds^^

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that image  was rather  too much info, not you  with buckets of water  but the diluting  of the poo....

anyways i discovered   that in the covenant of the common areas it is written in  writing, that pets   are not permiited to  be  kept.

Happy daze!

I dash of a wordy complaint to The  Guardians of the Covenant  ( whilst wondering if ive inadvertently fallen into an indiana jones movie) and  three days later, the dogs  and their crap are no more. 

The mouth breather next door isn';t speaking to me, which is quite a relief in it's self, and all my neighbours appear to be very busy   with their heads under car  bonnets,  or intently examining the floor anytime i walk past.

Its because it's not polite to complain, i just know it...

Go Indi.. good result.      I used to be a rubbish complainer.. but I've much better at it as I've got older...