11 Passive-Aggressive Things Your Lebanese Neighbors Definitely Do

Because why live and let live?

1. Put a bunch of heavy bricks to secure a certain parking spot that, most of the time, is not even theirs.

First of all, I wasn’t even going to park there but now that you did that, I want to.
Second of all, this literally backfires on you having to go down and move every single brick before parking your car!?

2. Loudly resolve any and all marital issues they might have in the early hours of the morning.

It’s 5AM. Please tkhatto, ma fi shi bye7roz.

3. Spill your tea in front of your mother.

“Shou, min el shabb yalli wassalik mberi7 wej el daw? Smalla 7elwe siyarto.”

Tante Yvette law btesekte shwey.

4. Watch their mousalsalet at volume 7,000.

With the intensity of Lebanese series, you need the full surround system to fully feel the “el 7a2 3aleye sadda2tak” followed by the slap happening on the screen.

5. Notice you arrive and walk up the driveway but then hurry up the elevator before you reach.

Tab…leh?

6. Hold conversations across balconies without giving a single shit that the entire neighborhood can hear.

– “Eh sar 7akim, yo2borne.”
– “Walla mabrouk! Ana ebne ekhir sene handase.”

Crazy idea: flex over WhatsApp instead.

7. Peak their heads out of their windows or run to their peep holes to listen to any potential gossip.

What do they even expect to overhear? I’m sure it’s not that juicy if it’s being discussed in front of the elevator. Like, chill.

8. Cook at odd hours during the day.

It’s 3AM. You’re chilling in your living room on the fifth season of Suits. Then, you smell it. Onions? Garlic? Wrong, both.

9. Decide to redecorate past midnight, because, of course.

10. Hang up the most absurd and unnecessarily large decorations no matter the occasion.

11. Block your car in and have the audacity to seem annoyed that you asked them to move it.