Rant - Are people really this thick?

aileth

Hi all, no advice, just rant!

Just got home from a long weekend away, husband has gone outside to attend to the bins and noticed our garden is covered in a thin layer of ash. He's looked over the fence and next door have set a fire (now out) on their paving slabs, about a metre (!!!!) from their house and our fence. It's a fairly big pile, I'd say almost two foot wide and half a foot high.

We know our next door neighbours arent the brightest (ignoring Police knocking and getting threatened to knock their window/door in, cutting grass with kitchen scissors), but are people really so thick that they deem this safe? The fire was not in a bin, or contraption, it was directly onto the pavement, which I'm guessing is going to leave a rather nasty mark. They're trying to sell their house!!!

What's even better is they never touch their garden, so the grass is knee height and nice and dry due to no rain for a while.

I am flabberghasted! If things had gone wrong, they are mid-terrace, so not only would their house burst into flames but ours and the other neighbour too!!!

Tiglath

Cutting grass with kitchen scissors - oh my ...

paulineb_2

I know people who cut their grass with kitchen scissors. My mum owns her home and its ex council and the way it is is that theres a patch of grass to the left of each path thats technically that persons but because theres a row of houses, people tend to do half and half if that makes sense, so if you are cutting your lawn you'll do half and half and the person next to you will do the other half, anyway, my mums next door neighbour and the one next to him have been giving her grief for a few years about ridiculous issues, so one of them goes out and measures the garden and cuts the grass at the edges with nail scissors and kitchen scissors just incase he ever cuts an inch of her grass by mistake

He used to cut her grass when he was cutting his without issue, she never expected him to do it but he just did it, now shes persona non grata, hes out with a measuring tape and nail scissors just incase he cuts a blade of grass thats not his

Thats pettiness, not stupidity but yes some people do cut their grass with scissors

aileth

Tiglath wrote: »

Cutting grass with kitchen scissors - oh my ...

Yep. They spent a good three hours out once and only did about a quarter of the garden, then decided to sunbathe, and then left open bottles of sun lotion everywhere so it then rained and covered their patio.


They don't cut their grass with scissors for a reason other than they have never bought a lawnmower. They've bought a new sound system to annoy everyone in the street, drink like fish and !!!! their money away on stupid stuff. They've also alienated the whole street in what they've been doing, so they can't pop around to a neighbours and ask to borrow one!

And they don't do the edging with scissors, they were doing the WHOLE lawn.


When they jumped in the gene pool, they hit the side of the pool.

paulineb_2

aileth wrote: »

Yep. They spent a good three hours out once and only did about a quarter of the garden, then decided to sunbathe, and then left open bottles of sun lotion everywhere so it then rained and covered their patio.


They don't cut their grass with scissors for a reason other than they have never bought a lawnmower. They've bought a new sound system to annoy everyone in the street, drink like fish and !!!! their money away on stupid stuff. They've also alienated the whole street in what they've been doing, so they can't pop around to a neighbours and ask to borrow one!

And they don't do the edging with scissors, they were doing the WHOLE lawn.


When they jumped in the gene pool, they hit the side of the pool.

All I can say is, if you swapped homes with me for a week, I bet youd come back with a new appreciation for these neighbours

Mine are like something out of shameless and Im absolutely not joking on that score, the majority of the neighbourhood

There are some lovely quiet families around here, but they are in the minority

Mine tend to party, drink, take substances, fight and thats people my age (44) and it can be any day of the week as well, not just limited to weekends.

aileth

Well, the rant is really to do with the fact they lit a fire right next to an untreated wooden fence and their own home. We were away for the weekend and could've come back to a block of smouldering rubble all because they don't use their brains!

paulineb_2

All you can do is speak to them and let them know your concerns

If they are a danger that needs to be pointed out

Telby01

These kind of neighbours are the worst.....but cutting grass with scissors? Seriously?

aileth

paulineb wrote: »

All you can do is speak to them and let them know your concerns

If they are a danger that needs to be pointed out

I can tell you there isn't a chance in hell that: (a) they would open the door or; (b) if they did they wouldn't tell us to shove it up our @rse and to f-off. They aren't reasonable people, we've learnt that in the two years here!

Fishingtime

God I am glad that I don't live next door to you

paulineb_2

aileth wrote: »

I can tell you there isn't a chance in hell that: (a) they would open the door or; (b) if they did they wouldn't tell us to shove it up our @rse and to f-off. They aren't reasonable people, we've learnt that in the two years here!

Well I know what thats like, all you can hope for is that the house sells and that they move on soon.