'The weird things neighbours do' thread

GavB79

Callie22 wrote: »

My neighbour to the left is really odd - every morning at about seven am he throws two or three plastic bottles out of his back bedroom window on to the patio below. I think they're usually empty but I have no idea why he does this.

Callie22 wrote: »

They also still have the old outside loo and you quite often see him disappearing in there with the paper.

Well duh...

dizziblonde

Ours are fab - one of them just helped fix our guttering the other day and gave us his old lawnmower last week and is forever found doing odd jobs for anyone in the street (and has the best collection of building trade mates going if you're ever looking for a decent x y or z). We did have the resident inconsiderate family having a kids party last year with a hired DJ and EIGHT hours of nightclub volume S Club 7 and Steps, which I think constitutes a method of torture Amnesty International would be interested in investigating. We did actually buy a house on the same street we rented on mainly because the neighbours (apart from inconsiderate family) are awesome though.

Ones we had growing up were odd though - we had the guy who threatened to punch us if we parked on our drive... the one whose 6 year old was learning the trombone and would practise at 10pm... the one who you could set your clock by - if it was 7pm on a Thursday, she'd have every houseplant in the house in her kitchen watering them.

muskoka

Cleaning your car in the rain is the best time to clean it. You actually should always wet the car before you wash it to loosen the dirt. Fact! Honest

greenmoneysaver_2

I think we are the odd neighbours - we have an elderly dog and I have a bad back. I can't carry him to ge to the park and he walks so slowly he's had his walk by the time we get there. . .

So we have a dog buggy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With cup holders and everything, can often be found in local Costa wih nim!

Tippytoes

I have few neighbours, but feel like I live in the midst of a funny farm. Over the years:

1. parents away, mega party with beer bottles and glasses thrown into the street from upstairs windows
2. parents home, mega party with a live very amateur rock band (complete with amps) in the garden (middle of winter)
3. neighbour who polishes wheelie bins with Autoglym car polish
4. neighbour who, when she has visitors to stay, washes their knickers for them every day (but nothing else)
5. neighbour who has bonfires every day, but only when the sun is shining, it's over 70 degrees outside and I've got my washing on the line
6. neighbour who, every morning when he leaves for work at 6am, has to open, then slam shut every door of his hatchback at least four times each
7. neighbour who has trained all four of his cats to carp in any/all garden except their own

aries69

My mad neighbour was tasared by police one sunday morning - was excellent entertainment and justice for many sleepless nights, luckily they moved and street now very uneventful

geoffky

The bloke next door to my father and mother in law who is in his late 40s rather than walk up ten flights of stairs goes out of the back door and urinates in the back.. i saw him a while ago and pulled him on it,but of course he denied it,,,dirty little lazy slob...:mad:

olias

geoffky wrote: »

The bloke next door to my father and mother in law who is in his late 40s rather than walk up ten flights of stairs goes out of the back door and urinates in the back.. i saw him a while ago and pulled him on it,but of course he denied it,,,dirty little lazy slob...:mad:

Bl00dy he11 thats one tall house he must have!!!!!!!!!:D

Olias

wok_boy

Aquatronixjenny wrote: »

Our immediate neighbours are lovely, but there is an odd one over the road and a few doors down...

They had a block paved drive laid last year, they never park their car on it and his wife polishes it every week They also phoned the council when a lovely couple moved in next door to me. They were having a new kitchen delivered so a big lorry was parked outside delivering the goods. The next day this poor couple had a visit from the council saying they had a report that someone was running a 'Kitchen Distribution Business' from this address! They had received a complaint from a neighbour. It wasn't any of the other neighbours and we looked over and there were curtains twitching at his house

Oh dear I hope the council billed the neighbour for wasting their time.

penguin83

Nothing to sinister with my neighbours luckily (as far as I know!) but did get a fright from one of them last summer. DS had woken up grouchy in the middle of the night so I climbed into bed with him to settle him. His bedroom is at the back of the house and while I was lying there waiting for him to nod off I could hear noise coming from the back garden. Convinced there was burglers prowling I txt OH who is a taxi driver to come home. What seemed like hours later (but was probably minutes) he flies through the front door and straight in the back garden to find.... our neighbour hanging out her washing at 3.30am. Apparantly she couldn't sleep and decided to get on with some housework! xx