A father has found himself at the centre of a fierce dispute after refusing to accept a delivery for his neighbour - despite regularly having done so for half a year.
The man had been accepting monthly deliveries of dog food packages for the woman, who lives at the other end of his street.
But when he was unable to take just one parcel last month, a fiery row erupted - and now, the father has spoken out.
Their arrangement began around six months ago, when the 33-year-old dad accepted a particularly heavy package on his neighbour's behalf.
A father was subjected to a furious tirade for not taking a neighbour's parcel - all because he was putting his young son to bed (file photo)
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"Later that evening, the neighbour came to pick it up. I know she lives alone and offered to carry it for her," the father recounted on social media.
She accepted his offer, and when he delivered it to her home, "she insisted I come in for a glass of water and kept me there for an hour, just chattering on".
For the next few months, the father-of-one regularly took the heavy packages to her house.
But in May, the man was unable to deliver her parcel as he was taking care of his son.
"I had to feed my son, give him his bath, play with him, put him to bed," he explained - but promised to bring the dog food round later that evening.
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His neighbour at first posted a note through his door with her mobile number, asking him to message when he could deliver it.
When he finally got in touch after his son went to sleep, she didn't reply until the following day, before launching into what he described as a "long, rambling tirade".
Then, the situation escalated.
His neighbour "came banging on the door later in the evening and screamed at me for not taking the package", the man said.
The woman accused him of being "selfish" and suggested he "could have asked her to stay with my son while I carried it," though he noted this hadn't occurred to him at the time.
When another delivery arrived this month, he decided to refuse it entirely to avoid further fury.
She then began "screaming at me for not taking the package, that she now had to find a way to get it from the company depot and that it was going to cost her a fortune", the dad-of-one said.
In the wake of the row, one 58-year-old local has threatened to report him to his landlord for being "un-neighbourly", the 33-year-old claimed.
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