Odd things your neighbours do?
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Not odd, but amusing ( to me anyway )
With the recent warm weather both myself and my ( Scottish ) neighbours have our windows open, and I can often hear them talking when they are in their kitchen. Last week they had a bit of a row, and I thought it was funny that as they got angrier their accents became stronger until they eventually became totally incomprehensible
With the recent warm weather both myself and my ( Scottish ) neighbours have our windows open, and I can often hear them talking when they are in their kitchen. Last week they had a bit of a row, and I thought it was funny that as they got angrier their accents became stronger until they eventually became totally incomprehensible
750turbo said:
Every Thursday night (bin day), puts her bins out at circa 9 pm onwards and then does god knows what for the next hour or so. Each to their own, but the amount of noise this generates is astounding. No idea what she does, I assume she races them up and down the paving slabs between our house and hers to generate maximum noise/annoyance.
We're not far away from going out whilst she's doing it and telling her to fook off.
She also seems to have an onslaught of male friends, with a new one every other month (we're not spying on her, they all just park like arses outside our house). We've got a running joke in our house that she kills them and buries them in her garden as she has a very odd looking gravel area which is the perfect size/shape for a shallow grave....
We're not far away from going out whilst she's doing it and telling her to fook off.
She also seems to have an onslaught of male friends, with a new one every other month (we're not spying on her, they all just park like arses outside our house). We've got a running joke in our house that she kills them and buries them in her garden as she has a very odd looking gravel area which is the perfect size/shape for a shallow grave....
Edited by AJXX1 on Friday 24th June 18:37
HayesDC2 said:
My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.
We have thatNo matter what time of the day they leave you get beeping
If one is sat in their car and wants the other family member inside the house to hurry up we get beep beep beep until they come out
Thankfully we are trying to move, but I am very close to going mad and marching out there and having a full melt down
A couple of times a night they wake me up
When I moved to my last village I mentioned to a few people that i thought the constant sounding of horns when arriving at/leaving people's houses, or when passing the house of someone you knew was a bit odd, and they looked at me as if I had two heads.
Apparently it's just what you did in that village.
Apparently it's just what you did in that village.
Spare tyre said:
HayesDC2 said:
My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.
We have thatNo matter what time of the day they leave you get beeping
If one is sat in their car and wants the other family member inside the house to hurry up we get beep beep beep until they come out
Thankfully we are trying to move, but I am very close to going mad and marching out there and having a full melt down
A couple of times a night they wake me up
PS I don't like being woken up
surveyor said:
Spare tyre said:
HayesDC2 said:
My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.
We have thatNo matter what time of the day they leave you get beeping
If one is sat in their car and wants the other family member inside the house to hurry up we get beep beep beep until they come out
Thankfully we are trying to move, but I am very close to going mad and marching out there and having a full melt down
A couple of times a night they wake me up
PS I don't like being woken up
Once we move I'm tempted to keep turning up and there house and just beeping at random
fkwits
Probably revealing that I don't live in the best area (me n the mrs wanted our own place so bought what we could afford a year after uni). So aside from the neighbours across the street punishing each other by locking each other out and then (banging on the door or throwing the food waste bin at it) at all hours probably once every 2 months. Police have been called on occasion. Classy family. One of the daughters has a kid and the Dad has stopped turning up on weekends recently I think. They also seem to refuse to recycle... which is annoying as we had a warning off the council for not putting out the food waste when we were actually composting it.
Directly next door are either having bbq's and parties and swearing at their kids then being exceptionally loud at 2 in the morning (we are both mid terrace so it's not very thoughtful as the neighbours on the other side have a young kid) or they are arguing with each other the next morning - the walls are thick but they are loud.
Not sure on the neighbour on the other side. Caught her in our back garden a few times having climbed over the wall doing things to the side of her house that is against our property. I don't particularly mind to be honest but more concerned if she fell in our garden. She has a stream of different handy men that visit during the day and they always park outside our house. I know I have no rights to it but its still frustrating. Then in the evening it has often been a Range Rover or a Merc replacing the Vectra estate or the C2... I half joke that she's an over 50's prostitute. I'm really not sure.
Next door but one (other side of the noisy arguing neighbours) are a nice couple. Guy is a painter decorator. Asked him if he'd do the outside of the house. That was about 3 years ago. Remind him every couple of months. Still he helped me out when I had a puncture and didn't have the right socket with me (fool) and had walked a couple of miles home in the winter rain just before Xmas. My mrs got their daughter a job at her workplace so occasionally they lift share. The mum waves them off which my Mrs finds a bit odd.
Most annoying at the moment though is the new neighbour across the road. He's got a motorbike which is fine, not a nice sports bike but he clearly uses it for commuting. It's his only transport and is loud enough to rattle the weird indoor plastic window we have above the inner front door (old house). He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Directly next door are either having bbq's and parties and swearing at their kids then being exceptionally loud at 2 in the morning (we are both mid terrace so it's not very thoughtful as the neighbours on the other side have a young kid) or they are arguing with each other the next morning - the walls are thick but they are loud.
Not sure on the neighbour on the other side. Caught her in our back garden a few times having climbed over the wall doing things to the side of her house that is against our property. I don't particularly mind to be honest but more concerned if she fell in our garden. She has a stream of different handy men that visit during the day and they always park outside our house. I know I have no rights to it but its still frustrating. Then in the evening it has often been a Range Rover or a Merc replacing the Vectra estate or the C2... I half joke that she's an over 50's prostitute. I'm really not sure.
Next door but one (other side of the noisy arguing neighbours) are a nice couple. Guy is a painter decorator. Asked him if he'd do the outside of the house. That was about 3 years ago. Remind him every couple of months. Still he helped me out when I had a puncture and didn't have the right socket with me (fool) and had walked a couple of miles home in the winter rain just before Xmas. My mrs got their daughter a job at her workplace so occasionally they lift share. The mum waves them off which my Mrs finds a bit odd.
Most annoying at the moment though is the new neighbour across the road. He's got a motorbike which is fine, not a nice sports bike but he clearly uses it for commuting. It's his only transport and is loud enough to rattle the weird indoor plastic window we have above the inner front door (old house). He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
kowalski655 said:
Forgetting the odd neighbours for a sec,WTF is that about the council warning you for not recycling? Since when did it become compulsory?
That was my feeling too. I was momentarily tempted to dump the contents of the composter on the curbside... but they'd not collect it if it wasn't in the correct bag! Blayney said:
He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Have a friendly word with him about his bike, engines, neighbours, and how to care for them.castex said:
Blayney said:
He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Have a friendly word with him about his bike, engines, neighbours, and how to care for them.WD39 said:
castex said:
Blayney said:
He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Have a friendly word with him about his bike, engines, neighbours, and how to care for them.He never did it again.
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