'The weird things neighbours do' thread

pulliptears

dizziblonde wrote: »

You didn't live next to my friend did you? She died in a very similar fashion to that - and was bordering on an alcoholic if not definitely there already. Don't believe she had a garden pond though.

Don't know? Her initials were LF This lady sadly died on the sofa one night, her other half was too drunk to notice, thought she was asleep and covered her with a sleeping bag. Sadly he would then drink himself into a stupor, wake the next day, think she was asleep again and the cycle went on.

Three days had passed before their adult son called in to visit and found her. It was all quite sad really. The Husband went to live with the son but fell down the stairs drunk on Christmas day, he finally died around the April time after being on life support for all that time.

By the time they came to sort out the will etc it transpired they had remortgaged the house to pay for the drink (neither were capable of work at that point) so the poor son had nothing at all left and the house was sold.

Funny thing was, 12 months or so after the Father died I found his signet ring in one of my flower pots outside, monogrammed with his initials. How it got there is a total mystery but his son was very pleased to have it.

tiff

How awful, the poor son.

pulliptears

tiff wrote: »

How awful, the poor son.

It was, felt so sorry for him he was such a nice lad, but they had reached the point where alcohol was their number one priority

eamon

Theres nowt as queer as folk! Then again my neighbours probably think I'm an oddball as well.

londonirish_3

my old neighbour was always sending her kids round scrounging food, one day the girl knocked and asked for some bread so I gave her half a loaf, ten minutes later she came back "me mum says we need butter too cos we aint got none" !! !!!!!!!!!

Wee_Pilsbury

When I was a nipper we had a neighbour who would fight with her husband every weekend and then start playing "Stand by Your Man" after he had fallen asleep drunk. She would play this at top volume with the windows open too :eek:.

One night (or should I say one morning - 2 a.m.) the music stopped suddenly. A few minutes later neighbour was at the door asking if my mum had any 50 pence pieces for the meter :eek: - needless to say, mum lied and said no

F_T_Buyer

Funny thread....

My neighbours may think I'm odd too, last autumn a kids soft toy was in my garden (a bob the builder no less) so I put it on my wall thinking whoever's it is can reclaim it. But the wind kept blowing it off, a few months later I decide Bob isn't going to be found... so is now looking after my garden. I bet my neighbours think I'm mad putting soft toys on my wall. Lol.

Oh, question: is having you curtains shut all weekdays during winter odd? I never really see the light during winter, so don't bother opening curtains - also keeps the place warmer too. I open them at weekends though... Sometimes I open them when I get home from a night out if I know I won't get up early, don't want my neighbours thinking I'm getting out of bed at midday when I actually am! LOL.

sonastin

F_T_Buyer wrote: »

Oh, question: is having you curtains shut all weekdays during winter odd? I never really see the light during winter, so don't bother opening curtains - also keeps the place warmer too. I open them at weekends though... Sometimes I open them when I get home from a night out if I know I won't get up early, don't want my neighbours thinking I'm getting out of bed at midday when I actually am! LOL.

I don't open my curtains during the week in winter - sometimes if I'm away for a couple of weekends, they can stay closed for weeks on end! I consider it to be very MSE on the heating bills

I did invest in some blinds that I keep shut for, ahem, privacy - precisely so that my neighbours can't see what time I eventually get round to opening the curtains :rotfl:

hollynololly

My ex neighbours moved into the house next door and seemed very nice to begin with...they brought us round bottles of spirits and crates of beer and apologised for any disruption their house renovations would cause us...little did we know what was about to happen...

they built an extension on the side of their house without planning permission that totally blocked out my kitchen window

dug up their drive with a huge digger that blocked my car in my drive for hours meaning I couldnt get the car out to pick the kids up from school in time

left their dog alone in the garden for weeks before they moved in, the dog jumped over the garden fence and killed my daughter's guinea pigs - I called the RSPCA but it was never really resolved

drove a different car every day, with all kinds of men turning up at the house at all times of the day and night, lots of bottles of spirits, packs of cigs and fivers changing hands

- we eventually moved as it was a rented property anyway and he was a very intimidating man - we were only renting our house anyway, six months later he was picked up in Holland having gone on the run for cigarette smuggling- apparently it was a million pound illegal business he was running - that's a hell of a lot of fivers!

dizziblonde

pulliptears wrote: »

Don't know? Her initials were LF This lady sadly died on the sofa one night, her other half was too drunk to notice, thought she was asleep and covered her with a sleeping bag. Sadly he would then drink himself into a stupor, wake the next day, think she was asleep again and the cycle went on.

Three days had passed before their adult son called in to visit and found her. It was all quite sad really. The Husband went to live with the son but fell down the stairs drunk on Christmas day, he finally died around the April time after being on life support for all that time.

By the time they came to sort out the will etc it transpired they had remortgaged the house to pay for the drink (neither were capable of work at that point) so the poor son had nothing at all left and the house was sold.

Funny thing was, 12 months or so after the Father died I found his signet ring in one of my flower pots outside, monogrammed with his initials. How it got there is a total mystery but his son was very pleased to have it.

Nah not my friend but surprised to hear quite a similar sounding story. She overdosed (for attention seeking purposes I quite strongly believe - although she was my friend I'm not going to lie that she had a perfect personality), and collapsed in the hallway of the house, her fella assumed she'd passed out drunk, climbed over her and sat watching TV all night, went to bed leaving her there and only bothered to ring the emergency services when she was still not moving in the morning. I only found out the full circumstances of the death when the inquest was reported in the paper I was reading waiting in the JobCentre during one of my seasonal brushes with unemployment... the fella got pretty short shrift from the coroner by all accounts.

Gruesome ways to meet your end on both counts though.