Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

What, telling him that I've reported him to the police for keying cars and will keep doing so until he stops?

I'm hardly gonna beat him up.

I'd check what dog he has first!

Who knows. A professional detective none of us are, but the professionals won’t help us!

Yeah, maybe i'll just follow at a distance and see.

I find the injustice of people like this getting away with is so distracting.

Also, I'm supposed to be getting the car repaired soon. Reluctant to do so if there it's a serial vandal and he's not been caught yet. Already costing me £650 on the excess plus whatever the cost is in the future insurance prices.

Combo of police reports in the area, a suspect with an address - you'd hope at that point the rozzers would pay a visit.

At what point does stalking become an issue?

Can I suggest none of these things?

The Venn diagram of people who key cars at random and people who are likely to get aggressive/violent when challenged probably has quite a lot of overlap. Doesn't mean he should be free to do as he pleases but getting yourself attacked by some nutter who walks past your front door twice a day isn't going to make things any better.

Meh, the threat of violence always seems to let them off the hook, but never the other way around. I'm not that easily cowed tbh. Which is presumably why I'm such a gobshite.

Anyway, this is all predicated on my willingess to sit looking out my window on the offchance someone matching the description going around the street walks by.

Likelihood of this actually happening? Pretty low I suspect.

Follow him home and burn his house down in retaliation. Best way to stop these people is to show you're prepared to go further than them.

Or get an in-car motion sensing camera or somesuch. I believe they do exist.

It's what a European farmer would do.

Trying to learn a song in Welsh when you don't speak Welsh - it's so hard to remember the start of the next phrase when you don't have any context on the meaning of the words e.g.

Myfanwy boed yr holl o'th fywyd

Dan heulwen ddisglair canol dydd.

A boed i rosyn gwridog iechyd

I ddawnsio ganmlwydd ar dy rudd.

Anghofia'r oll o'th addewidion

A wneist i rywun, 'ngeneth ddel,

A dyro'th law, Myfanwy dirion

I ddim ond dweud y gair "Ffarwél"

I’ve done that a few times. There are some we only sing rarely so I get it for one concert then we don’t do it for a year and it goes again. Learned some for the opera I did last year and rehearsal for that was intense as it was with the WNO so that has stuck.

I remember seeing a very weird video in Tate St Ives of a bloke walking to stay still on an escalator to stay still while reciting the first chapter of Genesis, while everyone else in the video was walking backwards... he did it by learning the whole of the chapter phonetically backwards, he walked backwards on the escalator while doing it, then he reversed the video so that it looked like he was the only one going the correct way, and also his recitation of Genesis was the right way. The visual bit would have been fairly simple to do, but learning about three minutes of gobbledygook phonetically must have been a nightmare. Even worse than learning Welsh (the right way round).