‘My neighbour won’t stop whistling – the sound is driving me crazy he needs to stop’

A woman said that she was about to have her second baby, and so she wanted to bring up to her elderly neighbour that his whistling was annoying – but people said she was harsh

To many people, getting on with your neighbour is really important – even if you’re not the best of friends, just that neighbourly friendliness can make living in your property a whole lot nicer. But if your neighbour was constantly doing something to irritate you, what would you do?

One woman took to Mumsnet to complain about her elderly neighbour’s incessant whistling – but she didn’t want to be ‘harsh’ when bringing it up to him – so was looking for advice.

She claimed he was whistling ‘all day long’ and ‘very loudly’, causing her to get very irritated with him, making her feel like she had to mention something.

She wrote: “My neighbour is late 70’s – he whistles all day long and very loudly too. He is very active and walks up and down the side of the house multiple times a day whistling tunes.

“We are due baby number two soon and I just know come the summer months when they’re sleeping regularly in the daytime still, the whistling will drive me crazy when I’m trying to get her off to sleep. Her room is next to the walkway.

“Not only that but it’s frigging annoying for us anyway, I feel like we would be considerate enough not to make noise that neighbours can hear constantly, even if it is a more ‘pleasant’ noise (unfortunately it’s not pleasant to me anymore).

“How can I drop it into a conversation without sounding harsh? Also, he clearly has a habit of doing it and it’ll be hard for him to stop, but I feel it needs to stop because it’s so annoying!”

She came under fire for her seemingly harsh reaction to her neighbour’s whistling, with some telling her that it didn’t matter that much.

One wrote: “Really?? Leave the poor sod alone.”

Another commented: “You can’t, I mean I can see why it would be a bit annoying but he is t really doing any harm.”

Someone else said: “I couldn’t ask someone to stop. Your baby will probably get used to it.”

“Your baby will probably cry and disturb him – unfortunately, it’s just one of those things when you live in close proximity to others”, someone pointed out.

What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments.