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GAH! Aside from the correct term being "brakes," not "breaks," I would wonder if the brakes squeal and annoy the crap out of everyone in the neighborhood. So I would get the brakes checked and fixed if they need to be. Don't be that neighbor who wakes people up and makes their fillings hurt.
FWIW, I left a note like that when someone with a bad belt parked behind my apartment a few years ago. This person left for work at 6:00 a.m., and woke me up every single day with the squeal. I (very politely) pointed out the problem and suggested that he either look into it or not park in the alley between buildings because all of our bedrooms faced the alley and a lot of us did not have to get up until at least 7:00 a.m. He just started parking out in the main parking lot.
i would take it as "your car is freaking loud do something about itbefore i actually get annoyed enough to speak out my anger in person" then i would possibly do something about it.... why the hell would i want to be driving around in a shriek machine?
as for the whole "is it rude, is it not rude" stuff implied with the thread. you are both being rude for different reasoning's.
suck it up and understand you're both at fault over the incident and get the car looked after.
Last edited by rego00123; 08-21-2013 at 10:50 AM..
I wonder if the brakes are squealing so loud that it is pretty obnoxious?
Or the neighbor is being quite snobby, god forbid someone's car make a lil noise.
It also sounds like your husband is being sensitive.
If I was your husband, I would ask the neighbor if he wants to do the brake job. Maybe the neighbor is really good with cars. Would be kind of cool to make a new car-guy friend.
If the neighbor isnt, then I would blow it off and say "thanks for your concern, I'll take a look at them when I get a chance." But I know a lot about cars, and I would already know if the brakes needed replacing, way before the neighbor left me a note.
I cant tell if your husband knows anything about cars.
If it's been years since you last had your brakes worked on/looked at, probably wouldn't hurt to have that done...especially if they don't make noise normally.
Worn-out brakes are a hazard but loud squealing brakes are really annoying especially when someone's rolling past my house at 4am with them.
A few months ago my husband found a note on his windshield that said "Your car needs new breaks. Now!". It wasn't signed so he had no idea who wrote it. A few days ago a neighbor we don't really know came up to my husband and asked him if he had gotten new breaks yet. In the short conversation he found out that it was this neighbor who put the note on his car.
The hubby is sure that the neighbor is being a jerk and a snob but I think that he may just be trying to be helpful. The hubby thinks because he finished the note with "Now!" the note was not meant to be helpful. He thinks the note was meant to say something like "Get your breaks fixed now before you go out driving in that unsafe car, you *******". I don't know though. Ending the note with "Now!" is a bit odd. I'm curious how others view the note.
There is nothing worse than a nosy neighbor. I hate neighbors like that. Nosy and think they run the neighborhood. I can't stand them, I would love to move to the countryside where I am not too far away from the city from far enough away where I can own a piece of land with nobody nearby so I wouldn't have to put up with crap like that.
I'm severely hearing impaired. Because I cannot hear issues like this, I would thank the neighbor profusely for alerting me to a problem before it grew into a more serious problem. I take brake issues very seriously and I wouldn't fart around with this issue.
Nosy, neighborly, caring, snobby - does it really matter if there's a problem and him alerting you to it saves yours or someone else's life?
There is nothing worse than a noIsy neighbor. I hate neighbors like that. NoIsy and think they run the neighborhood. I can't stand them, I would love to move to the countryside where I am not too far away from the city from far enough away where I can own a piece of land with nobody nearby so I wouldn't have to put up with crap like that.
A few months ago my husband found a note on his windshield that said "Your car needs new breaks. Now!". It wasn't signed so he had no idea who wrote it. A few days ago a neighbor we don't really know came up to my husband and asked him if he had gotten new breaks yet. In the short conversation he found out that it was this neighbor who put the note on his car.
The hubby is sure that the neighbor is being a jerk and a snob but I think that he may just be trying to be helpful. The hubby thinks because he finished the note with "Now!" the note was not meant to be helpful. He thinks the note was meant to say something like "Get your breaks fixed now before you go out driving in that unsafe car, you *******". I don't know though. Ending the note with "Now!" is a bit odd. I'm curious how others view the note.
I had a neighbor liked that. She was an elderly woman and she though things had to be done her way. She got into it with a couple of other neighbors including me. I was younger then and too nice, now I would be happy to give her a nice piece of my mind, but she moved several years ago thank God.
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