Neighbours From Smell.
Lots of people have problems with their neighbours. It is usually to do with them making excessive noise, parking their car in your way or growing a 200 foot hedge which obscures the sun. However, my neighbours have a far more unusual annoying habit…
I’m not big on barbeques myself, although I’ve never had a particular problem with them… until now. The family next door to us seem to live on nothing else. Over the last week they have had at least four. This is fine, except it absolutely stinks. They appear to be completely obsessed with barbequed food; they even cook their burgers outside to go with a meal they are making indoors. God alone knows what their cholesterol levels must be like, I mean seriously, why not just buy some personal biodiesel storage tanks for your garden?
I may be a vegetarian, but I do not have a problem if anyone else wants to eat meat. It is like religion; you have your own beliefs and you should not enforce them on other people. However, when I saw the guy next door lighting a bonfire the other week I was seriously concerned that he may be planning to throw a cow on top…
The barbeque itself is only an issue because of our neighbour’s thoughtlessness. If we have windows open or washing on the line they never think to warn us of their intent to spark up. Seared flesh is not my favourite aroma in the world, and if my clothes smell of it then it really gets me down.
It would be nice to sit in the garden without the fear of being engulfed in a cloud of acrid smoke at any moment. Surely, most families do not consume such a massive amount of barbequed food? I dread to think of how they lasted over the winter months, but I would guess they either have an interior barbeque installed or they just chow down on McDonalds every day.