Odd things your neighbours do?
Discussion
Hitch said:
Having read through the last few pages it seems to me that the weirdos are on this thread. I haven't a clue if my neighbours are weird or not because I spend very little time spying on them, tracking their movements or trying to work out what they're plotting against me!
Very little, but still some, right?I'm fairly fortunate with neighbours, the ones who I share a driveway (to garages) between the houses are great. Lovely family and very easy going.
The other side to me are nice but hard work. The 'dad' of the family works his arse off doing house clearances, auctioneering, antiques that kind of thing but is just annoyingly thoughtless. Had an electrical fire in his Sprinter van and had it recovered, slap bang outside my place.
It sat there for 9 months and although taxed and insured it caused a real obstruction to being able to see turning out of our driveway. It's a very quiet area but there's actually a junction hidden behind it, plus it's a total heap so not exactly pretty to look out onto.
Fortunately he got told by the Police I believe to get it shifted as it was causing an obstruction as there's a small bus services that runs round picking up the oldies.
Since he's sold the Sprinter for scrap and now has some horrendous box van thing which he can't use day to day so he leaves it positions around the road. Thing is there's only about three cars which park on the road as all have driveways but you know you have that understanding that number X parks there etc. He just leave sit parked anywhere but in front of his own place. Annoyingly he's had his garden turned into parking but without a dropped kerb but her nor anyone else will park outside his place anyway.
All things considered, it could be worse. He's just a bit inconsiderate rather than an unpleasant bloke.
The other side to me are nice but hard work. The 'dad' of the family works his arse off doing house clearances, auctioneering, antiques that kind of thing but is just annoyingly thoughtless. Had an electrical fire in his Sprinter van and had it recovered, slap bang outside my place.
It sat there for 9 months and although taxed and insured it caused a real obstruction to being able to see turning out of our driveway. It's a very quiet area but there's actually a junction hidden behind it, plus it's a total heap so not exactly pretty to look out onto.
Fortunately he got told by the Police I believe to get it shifted as it was causing an obstruction as there's a small bus services that runs round picking up the oldies.
Since he's sold the Sprinter for scrap and now has some horrendous box van thing which he can't use day to day so he leaves it positions around the road. Thing is there's only about three cars which park on the road as all have driveways but you know you have that understanding that number X parks there etc. He just leave sit parked anywhere but in front of his own place. Annoyingly he's had his garden turned into parking but without a dropped kerb but her nor anyone else will park outside his place anyway.
All things considered, it could be worse. He's just a bit inconsiderate rather than an unpleasant bloke.
I have become aware that bin collection day is of the utmost importance to some of the retired residents in my road.
Now, the "norm" for most people is of course to put your bin out the evening before in the designated place ready for collection at some point the next morning, usually between 7am and 10am depending which route the lorry is working.
However, I often will not take my bin out until the morning of collection as I leave the house to go to work, taking a full bin bag with me including my morning banana peel on the top, and walk the bin over the road.
This, however, prompts a number of people to believe the noise they are hearing is that of me taking my bin in, rather than putting it out, and so they will walk out of their house and then open their bin to check whether or not it has in fact been emptied and is ready to be taken back in, despite them not having heard the racket being made by the collection lorry. If they do hear the collection lorry, then as soon as it has been, the curtains are un-twitched and they are dragging their bin as quickly as they can back to the front of their house, whilst of course mine, if I am out at work when the lorry comes, will remain out all day until I get home from work.
Now, the "norm" for most people is of course to put your bin out the evening before in the designated place ready for collection at some point the next morning, usually between 7am and 10am depending which route the lorry is working.
However, I often will not take my bin out until the morning of collection as I leave the house to go to work, taking a full bin bag with me including my morning banana peel on the top, and walk the bin over the road.
This, however, prompts a number of people to believe the noise they are hearing is that of me taking my bin in, rather than putting it out, and so they will walk out of their house and then open their bin to check whether or not it has in fact been emptied and is ready to be taken back in, despite them not having heard the racket being made by the collection lorry. If they do hear the collection lorry, then as soon as it has been, the curtains are un-twitched and they are dragging their bin as quickly as they can back to the front of their house, whilst of course mine, if I am out at work when the lorry comes, will remain out all day until I get home from work.
t. We have the green wheelie bins for the recycle stuff but have to use good old fashioned black bags for the landfill stuff.
As the majority of stuff can go in the recycling it means there is 1 (max) black bag a week, but not for my neighbour. He refuses to use the green wheelie bin as apparently it does 'someone' out of a job as obviously the black bags are 'sorted' for recycling.
He then complains he runs out of black bags as the council don't supply enough & has to buy more as he uses 3 or 4 a week while his like new green wheelie bin sits there redundant.
As the majority of stuff can go in the recycling it means there is 1 (max) black bag a week, but not for my neighbour. He refuses to use the green wheelie bin as apparently it does 'someone' out of a job as obviously the black bags are 'sorted' for recycling.
He then complains he runs out of black bags as the council don't supply enough & has to buy more as he uses 3 or 4 a week while his like new green wheelie bin sits there redundant.
Bins are a fun topic for neighbours. I've just moved and within 2-3 weeks find my bins are being moved for me...in that I leave them to be collected at the end of my drive with the little food waste bin and when I get home my bins have joined next doors collection.
Solution? stick my house number on the bins so I can at least find MY bin easier when it runs off.
Solution? stick my house number on the bins so I can at least find MY bin easier when it runs off.
CoolHands said:
"Oooohh he's leaving it out all day again Henry"
If you really want to do their head in put one of your bin bags in their bin, and get it just right so it leaves their lid partly open. They'll have a seizure.
Friend of mine moved into a place where the majority of residents were retired, she got roped into a committee meeting being polite and neighbourly, they spent the first 1/2 hour discussing bins, the top item getting most of them upset was the fact someone had put a used chip paper in the blue bin (recycling), there was a 10 min discussion about whether you could wash the paper before putting it in.If you really want to do their head in put one of your bin bags in their bin, and get it just right so it leaves their lid partly open. They'll have a seizure.
A few weesk later an innocent visitor emptied some stuff out his car into "their" bins, it caused uproar!
Sad really.
Alex_225 said:
I'm fairly fortunate with neighbours, the ones who I share a driveway (to garages) between the houses are great. Lovely family and very easy going.
The other side to me are nice but hard work. The 'dad' of the family works his arse off doing house clearances, auctioneering, antiques that kind of thing but is just annoyingly thoughtless. Had an electrical fire in his Sprinter van and had it recovered, slap bang outside my place.
It sat there for 9 months and although taxed and insured it caused a real obstruction to being able to see turning out of our driveway. It's a very quiet area but there's actually a junction hidden behind it, plus it's a total heap so not exactly pretty to look out onto.
Fortunately he got told by the Police I believe to get it shifted as it was causing an obstruction as there's a small bus services that runs round picking up the oldies.
Since he's sold the Sprinter for scrap and now has some horrendous box van thing which he can't use day to day so he leaves it positions around the road. Thing is there's only about three cars which park on the road as all have driveways but you know you have that understanding that number X parks there etc. He just leave sit parked anywhere but in front of his own place. Annoyingly he's had his garden turned into parking but without a dropped kerb but her nor anyone else will park outside his place anyway.
All things considered, it could be worse. He's just a bit inconsiderate rather than an unpleasant bloke.
Similar thing here. I had the neighbour from two doors down's Transit dumped outside my house for months. No real bother, as I have a driveway and only one car, but it wound my Mrs up to the point where she had me check the tax and MOT on the DVLA website. All kosher.The other side to me are nice but hard work. The 'dad' of the family works his arse off doing house clearances, auctioneering, antiques that kind of thing but is just annoyingly thoughtless. Had an electrical fire in his Sprinter van and had it recovered, slap bang outside my place.
It sat there for 9 months and although taxed and insured it caused a real obstruction to being able to see turning out of our driveway. It's a very quiet area but there's actually a junction hidden behind it, plus it's a total heap so not exactly pretty to look out onto.
Fortunately he got told by the Police I believe to get it shifted as it was causing an obstruction as there's a small bus services that runs round picking up the oldies.
Since he's sold the Sprinter for scrap and now has some horrendous box van thing which he can't use day to day so he leaves it positions around the road. Thing is there's only about three cars which park on the road as all have driveways but you know you have that understanding that number X parks there etc. He just leave sit parked anywhere but in front of his own place. Annoyingly he's had his garden turned into parking but without a dropped kerb but her nor anyone else will park outside his place anyway.
All things considered, it could be worse. He's just a bit inconsiderate rather than an unpleasant bloke.
Scroll forward a few weeks and she (the neighbour) catches me gardening and makes a point of apologising about the van, explaining why it's there, and that it was due to be moved. Basically, it was bought for their business to replace an old rustbucket Transit, but the engine seized. It was recovered to outside my house because her drive is a slope up. Recovery truck couldn't winch it up there.
Anyway. She says she's had enough of being let down by garages to fit a new engine, and will sell it 'as is'. She gets it pushed around the corner too, "out of my way". Now, as I say, it's not been a problem for me. It sat there for months making the place look a bit scruffy, and if I'd been trying to sell the house I may well have asked her to move it, but it caused no real issues. No sooner has it been pushed around the corner, than it's disappeared. "Wow!" thinks I, "that sold pretty quick for a van with a knackered engine".
But no! Home she comes, looking puzzled. Next morning I get a knock on the door. Had I seen what happened to the van? Nope, so she reports it to plod, who "check the database" and it's been towed, as a result of a complaint by a resident. She get's a huff on, being as how it's taxed, tested, and insured. They (the council as far as I can gather) apologise for their 'oversight'. No problem - she can just pick it up from the pound, our mistake, no charge. Not without an engine I can't, comes her reply. It's legal, was parked safely and (reasonably) considerately - you lot can jolly-well put it back where you (wrongly) took it from.
So it came back. Pointing in the opposite direction, but roughly where it was when she parked it herself. Fair enough, she's binned selling it, and her father-in-law (a mobile mechanic) is going to replace the engine "when he's got time" between jobs. It's been a few more weeks since then, and something strange has happened.
It's pointing down a slope. But although it hasn't moved forward or back, the rear end is now about 3ft out into the road. Almost as if someone has deliberately shoved it out at a jaunty diagonal angle. Perhaps to claim that it needs moving because it's "causing an obstruction". It isn't, because the bin wagon and builders' merchant's delivery trucks can get past OK, and there's no through traffic on the estate. But it seems odd that one (or perhaps more) of the 'round the corner' neighbours have taken against her parking the van there to such an extent that they're shoving it around to try to drop her in 'it'.
benm3evo said:
We have the green wheelie bins for the recycle stuff but have to use good old fashioned black bags for the landfill stuff.
As the majority of stuff can go in the recycling it means there is 1 (max) black bag a week, but not for my neighbour. He refuses to use the green wheelie bin as apparently it does 'someone' out of a job as obviously the black bags are 'sorted' for recycling.
He then complains he runs out of black bags as the council don't supply enough & has to buy more as he uses 3 or 4 a week while his like new green wheelie bin sits there redundant.
That's far too confusing a systemAs the majority of stuff can go in the recycling it means there is 1 (max) black bag a week, but not for my neighbour. He refuses to use the green wheelie bin as apparently it does 'someone' out of a job as obviously the black bags are 'sorted' for recycling.
He then complains he runs out of black bags as the council don't supply enough & has to buy more as he uses 3 or 4 a week while his like new green wheelie bin sits there redundant.
We have 3 wheelie bins round our way. Green top - landfill. Blue top - recycling. Brown top - garden waste.
But we have to buy our own bin bags.
Shakermaker said:
That's far too confusing a system
We have 3 wheelie bins round our way. Green top - landfill. Blue top - recycling. Brown top - garden waste.
But we have to buy our own bin bags.
Perhaps that's why my neighbour is boycotting the recycling. It's not really because of the landfill faries that need their jobs to support their fairy families, it's because he can't get his head around the bag/bin situation! We have 3 wheelie bins round our way. Green top - landfill. Blue top - recycling. Brown top - garden waste.
But we have to buy our own bin bags.
3 wheelie bins! How the other half live 'eh. We were promised one for landfill (of black colour I believe) when we moved in. That was 7 years ago!
Most of my neighbours are of the retired type and no bother at all.
There is one set who cause some entertainment though.
When I first moved in I was decorating and heard a load of shouting outside - seen some blokes scuffling so went out to see what was happening.
Turned out the adult son of the family had supposedly been stealing from the house whilst they were on holiday.
Someone was waving an axe around at him so I went to calm the situation down...the axe weilder was about 85 and was stuggling to move about.
I said it's not the best idea to be waving an axe around but he said it was ok becuase the sheath was on.
I left them to it as it was all family related and just seemed to be shouting a lot...son got in his van to drive off and the axe was put through the windscreen!
Most recently, involving the same people, a car's been parked in an off road parking spot for over a year...never moved and never knows who's it was (turns out it was the grandson's).
It wasn't really causing any issues other than an eyesore. Came back the other day and it had gone with a hand written sign zip tied to the fence saying "better luck next time grass" with a cannabis leaf drawn next to it?
Got no idea about that one??
There is one set who cause some entertainment though.
When I first moved in I was decorating and heard a load of shouting outside - seen some blokes scuffling so went out to see what was happening.
Turned out the adult son of the family had supposedly been stealing from the house whilst they were on holiday.
Someone was waving an axe around at him so I went to calm the situation down...the axe weilder was about 85 and was stuggling to move about.
I said it's not the best idea to be waving an axe around but he said it was ok becuase the sheath was on.
I left them to it as it was all family related and just seemed to be shouting a lot...son got in his van to drive off and the axe was put through the windscreen!
Most recently, involving the same people, a car's been parked in an off road parking spot for over a year...never moved and never knows who's it was (turns out it was the grandson's).
It wasn't really causing any issues other than an eyesore. Came back the other day and it had gone with a hand written sign zip tied to the fence saying "better luck next time grass" with a cannabis leaf drawn next to it?
Got no idea about that one??
Butch lesbian couple next door. One keeps herself to herself and is friendly enough. The other one however... incessantly whinging to us about various issues is getting wearisome, keeps calling our cats into their flat and feeding them despite asking her politely not to do so, over-friendliness going as far as poking her head through our bedroom window for a chat when we're sat in there (ground floor flat but still weird) trying to pass down to me any old rubbish she no longer uses like an old bike pump then inviting herself to use my track pump when I informed her I had said item. Leave me alone crazy woman!
benm3evo said:
Perhaps that's why my neighbour is boycotting the recycling. It's not really because of the landfill faries that need their jobs to support their fairy families, it's because he can't get his head around the bag/bin situation!
3 wheelie bins! How the other half live 'eh. We were promised one for landfill (of black colour I believe) when we moved in. That was 7 years ago!
I think they gave us all extra wheelie bins as a cheaper alternative to building a new hospital, or road improvements, probably.3 wheelie bins! How the other half live 'eh. We were promised one for landfill (of black colour I believe) when we moved in. That was 7 years ago!
All that jazz said:
PoleDriver said:
I was on my drive last night and I looked in the neighbour's window.
There were two people in there, an older man and a younger, pretty woman.
On the table between them was a dog, which they were dissecting!
Wait.. WHAT?!There were two people in there, an older man and a younger, pretty woman.
On the table between them was a dog, which they were dissecting!
Oh, did I not mention I live next door to a Veterinary surgery? 
It's not odd and I've mentioned it in here before but me and my wife do get entertained by the couple next to us having coitus.
Last weekend it was so loud (and they're windows were open) some neighbours actually shut windows as you could hear them going one by one! Fair play to the bloke though, 45 minutes and I'd say she went three times... They've gone on holiday this morning so hopefully we'll get some peace this weekend.
There's also the lady who parks her next to me in our reserved bays. She washes that little KA every week with a dishcloth and a toothbrush.
Last weekend it was so loud (and they're windows were open) some neighbours actually shut windows as you could hear them going one by one! Fair play to the bloke though, 45 minutes and I'd say she went three times... They've gone on holiday this morning so hopefully we'll get some peace this weekend.
There's also the lady who parks her next to me in our reserved bays. She washes that little KA every week with a dishcloth and a toothbrush.
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