'The weird things neighbours do' thread

pawlala

I saw my neighbour hosing down the inside of his car bonnet and engine yesterday. Surely this is an ideal way to short the electrics and damage all the components of a vehicle in an otherwise good condition?

pawlala

Luckyred wrote: »

She reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket.

rather that than Rab C. Nesbitt!!

tiff

Given the number of us with odd neighbours, maybe we all have some peculiarities, its just human nature. I believe we are good neighbours but I have hung washing out late at night/early morning in the summer(something mentioned above).

EmilyQ

These replies have made me chuckle. Blooming hilarious some of them. Although I feel sorry for some of you.

Our neighbours are actually not that bad. Like I said, they're all mainly very competitive about material wealth. If you do your front garden, they do their front garden. If you buy a new car, they buy a new car.

Yesterday I finished my garden at the back. Today my neighbours are working furiously on their own, Haha. Seriously, I'm not being paranoid or thinking the world revolves around me. They really are 'keeping up with the Jones' types.

One woman who lives opposite is the weirdest. She stands at her window and 'observes'. Whenever anyone is getting anything done to their house or garden she sticks her nose in and finds out what's going on. One neighbour was having his garden landscaped whilst he was away on holiday. Apparently this woman went round the back of his house to ask the landscapers what was happening and how much was being spent.

Over the years, whenever my husband and I have gone to any parties in the street, this woman always gets really drunk and tells me 'One day, I'm going to buy a four bed detached.' She currently lives in a smaller property.

It's all very odd how people value their self worth on the cars they drive and the appearance of their homes. I definitely think this 'aspirational' and materialistic attitude coupled with record breaking availability of credit during the Noughties was partly to blame for today's economic crisis.

Still.. at least they'll be stuck where they are for another five years, given the amount of times they've remortgaged their homes to continue on the destructive path of 'looking like they have money' when really they haven't.

It's a shame really, because materials don't make us happy. It's easy for people to forget hoe lucky they are. And how they should stop obsessing over what they havent got or feeling inadequate when their neighbours appear to be doing better. Which is not always the case.

Anyway, soap box moment over. Haha

celyn90

I used to live next door to "1920's man" - he was in his thirties and lived with his mum - they were nice enough, but used to get very shocked when they saw me doing things like repairing the roofing felt on the garage as it was not a job for a young lady. I asked him if wanted to do it and he ran away.

Not sure how they felt about the motorbike Or the day I was painting the gable end and fixing the guttering.

Our current neighbours are really nice. One is teaching herself to play the saxaphone though - so it's like living next door to Lisa Simpson.

My parents have odd neighbours - he's turned the back garden into a building yard and they now have problems with invasive plants and rodents because of it. The issue is that my parents house is one of two isolated semis in big plots - either side of which has been developed. They have had offers from developers for their houses, and 3 out of the 4 people would have sold - my parents neighbour being the one that won't. He wants to buy all four houses (he has tried in the past on one of them), so is just waiting for people to move and seems intent on speeding up the process.

Jowo_2

EmilyQ wrote: »

These replies have made me chuckle. Blooming hilarious some of them. Although I feel sorry for some of you.

Yeah, I felt sorry for me when I had one neighbour smashing up her flat with a broom screaming "the voices! the voices!" and the other neighbour blasting out Van Morrison for hours while playing along on a tin whistle.

That's after I got back to my flat by tip toeing around the sputum in the lifts and landing.

ILW

A previous neighbour of mine lived with his dead wife in the flat for 2 or 3 months before he died himself and complaints were made about the smell. Thing is I used to seem him most days to say hello when he walked down the road to buy his milk and smokes.

pawlala

was he called Norman?

jackieb

Years ago I was in the back garden hanging out washing. Next door's bathroom window was open. I heard much giggling and splashing and then a man's voice saying, 'you can wash my face now'.

Blackpool_Saver

I am loving this thread, I have laughed out loud so many times !!!!!!