'The weird things neighbours do' thread

birkee

Oh, I forgot our neighbour who used to pop round to borrow our phone. Gave us the price of a normal local phone call, and called her Sister long distance, and then we had to listen to her chatting to her Sister, instead of our TV.

duchy

My parents had the worst neighbours- retired nutter who used to be convinced that people were poisoning his beloved plants, kept any tennis balls that went over his fence and then gave them to a bloke who was doing some work at his house (bloke asked the other neighbours what an old fella was doing with the balls -when they told him he lobbed them all over our side gate, when I started to drive he took exception to me parking outside his house (semi-in a suburban road)-he used his drive and I was usually six inches across what he considered to be "his" boundry-on a public road-one night I came home to find he'd boobytrapped the road with planks and buckets so I couldn't park (perfectly legally there) I'd only just passed my test and freaked but my boyfriend at the time told me to drive right into it-so I did-parked up and went inside........and he had the nerve to come to the door complaining I'd knocked it down. We informed him it was illegal to put obstructions in the road-not to mention stupid and dangerous -he stomped off telling us he was going to report us to the police-we saved him the bother and did it ourselves. He'd stand and rant at passersby , shout at little kids in the street and in their own gardens. Eventually he was put in a home (after 25 year plus) but it means I'm pretty laid back about neighbours
My current neighbours scream blue murder at each other -smash their house up and often one or other ends up in the cells to calm down (sobar they are lovely) -the one before them used to regually lock herself out drunk at 2am and knock on my door but was so sweet and funny when drunk and used to be around the next mornig with an apology and chocs asking if she'd been awful as she didn't remember ............. I don't drink but I really can't get annoyed I'd rather have neighbours who were always nice to me (if not to each other) and lend a hand when needed than an evil nutter ..............Oh yes my parents neighbour on the other side were a very grey couple who never went anywhere, kept themselves to themselves -their best stunt was when a new couple moved in on the other side -lovely couple-really nice but the neighbours disapproved of them -they sent their 15 year old son down to the local libary to check the electoral roll and then proceeded to inform all the other neighbours that this couple <gasp> weren't married !! The then fifteen year old was the best of the family but after he qualified as a doctor the stuffed shirts stopped talking about him -because he moved to San Francisco with his male partner !!

Jowo_2

My old next door neighbour was a foul mouthed elderly lady who we could hear verbally attacking the other occupants. Her adult son admitted that sometimes it got too much for him so he slept in his work van in the street.

She also refused to neuter her male tom cat as she thought it was unnatural so we had to watch like a hawk when we had our backdoor open as it would come in and try to mark out its territory inside our house.

When I lived in social housing you couldn't make it up - the alcoholic next door was later replaced by a lady with mental health issues who would have screaming fits and bash her property with a broom.

The downstairs lady was an alcoholic reputed to be a former prostitute. The other neighbour was a dope fiend who would blast his music out through the wall and tell me I ought to be grateful that I was being introduced to good music. He also used to leave his radio on full volume when he was out (including long weekends away) because he thought it would deter burglars. When I asked him to keep the noise down, he told me to 'eff off' back to England...

I got the flat from a lady moved into a care home after she was discovered to have dementia and thought that the flies were witches coming in through the key hole. It wasn't unusual to step over drunken people sleeping outside on the landing. I also found a budgie hopping along the landing which I took in as a pet. A chinese gentlemen regularly used to hawk and spit next to me in the lift - there were spit marks all across the landing, too.

olibrofiz

At my last house one of my neighbours was an 80+ year old chap who lived on his own, and for whom tidieness and cleanliness were a thing of the past.

He would often knock on my door for a chat wearing just a stained t-shirt and his boxers :eek: and, I think, trying to impress me. I was given details of his shrapnel wounds, one of which he was lucky didn't cut him off in his prime iykwim (no I didn't want to see the scar), of the lady he worked with who used to sit at her desk with the fan heater blowing between her open thighs etc, etc.

He asked once, if when he went to visit friends again, I'd let him climb over the back fence and exit through my house so he could bolt his own front door from inside (no), and once if I could soak his chicken brick for him (no again).

Didn't mind chatting to him, he was lonely. Drew the line at inviting him in tho

Marvel1

I don't have anything weird as what some people posted.

I don't if this even qualifies but anyway, my next door has no washing line pole, so they attached the line above their window and the other end was tied to my pole as the walls are low and it was right next to it. My sister kept telling me to remove it as they should have asked (I agree) but I thought what was the point it's only a line and not doing me any harm.

They also have their living room window wide open sometimes right through the night - there is no front garden, it's terrace terrace.

Jowo_2

olibrofiz wrote: »

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Didn't mind chatting to him, he was lonely. Drew the line at inviting him in tho

One of my alcoholic neighbours was lonely, too.

One day he said he was suffering from withdrawal symptoms and could I call an ambulance. A controller or nurse (think I may have called the hospital first for advice) chatted to him then they came back and told me that since he admitted to drinking very recently and was still drunk, he wasn't actually in withdrawal but they'd send an ambulance anyway.

I didn't answer my door to him after he pulled that attention seeking stunt.

tanith

My next door neighbour always cuts his grass at night usually around 9/10 pm and for some reason for the first cut of the season he will cut mine and the neighbour the other side of me , front lawns.. he often says to me don't do the front its my job to do the first cut ... I can't remember why it started but apart from that he's a great neighbour if a little accentric

missindecisive

ah yes, we live close to an oddball too.......far to much to say that would give away my id but just a small snippet of many tales to tell....he thinks the government is plotting against him, spying on his property and might put a firebomb through the letter box !

put up with this person and their crazy ideas for years until oneday they turned on us over something silly, then he tried to spread rumours all over our locality saying what a 'rough' family we was! anyhow most people know us and saw straight through it and thought it was hilarious.
The thing that sticks in my mind is that he has two grown up children, both who never visit.......

AbbieCadabra

not a direct neighbour, but lived a few doors up at our old address. a street of terraced houses, late one evening & this guy is having a flaming row with his girlfriend. he'd come out into the middle of the street still hurling abuse at her, he walked into the middle of the road then took a run at the window (just like a ram going to head butt something) - & went straight thru it with his head!

i couldn't believe my eyes!! he just stood there, slightly bent over with his head thru this broken window up to his middle back until an ambulance & the police arrived...just a good job it wasn't double glazing i suppose!

olias

olibrofiz wrote: »

He asked once if I could soak his chicken brick for him.

Is that a euphemism?;)

Olias