I know there was a thread about this before, but I need to vent.

I have a neighbour how is a poop disturber. He's in his mid-forties and is a father of 2 small children. Him and his wife run a home-based business - correction, his wife runs a home-based business while he is the primary caretaker for their kids.

Subsequently he's around the building a lot, and he's also a horrible gossip. He talk to people, gets dirt on someone and passes them on, and vice versa. He has been the root of many unfounded rumours, or he will have managed to twist the truth to suit his needs to make others look bad.

Anyways, I have a special arrangement where I store my bike in a garden closet because our bike locker is in the bowels of our parkade and difficult to access on a daily basis. That with the absence of any place to lock the bike, I have always chosen to bring my bike into my suite. After this said gossip reported me to the building manager that I am infringing on the bylaw by bringing my bike into my suite, I was kindly given the use of the garden closet by the building caretaker.

I've been parking my bike there for a little over a year now, and the gossip was asking around about my special arrangement.

Knowing him, I know he will be spreading this information to all other idle gossips in the building to disturb the poop while he sits back and watches the outcome.

I sent him a very strongly worded email yesterday telling him to choose his battles wisely because I know his petty tactics. I realize I was a bit off the cuff but I do not regret sending that to him because I called him out on it. Of course I get a rebuttal back saying I don't have my facts straight and to cool it with the attitude.

I guess in the end I just wanted to vent. But is there another way to deal with people like him who takes pleasure in disturbing the poop? I do wish he could get a proper job so he's not around the building so much.