Odd things your neighbours do?
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markcoznottz said:
Robbins said:
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!
Move. thetapeworm said:
I may well have missed a memo on this but apparently there is a trend to install televisions in the garden now - two neighbours at the back of my rear garden have put up brackets in their gardens. One on their extension, the other right up the top of the garden on the fence. On a regular basis they run long cables out of their houses, mount the screens and sit watching TV in the garden. Often at volumes which mean I can't hear my TV inside the house if I have the patio doors open.
One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.
For the 'Council' thread?One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.
thetapeworm said:
I may well have missed a memo on this but apparently there is a trend to install televisions in the garden now - two neighbours at the back of my rear garden have put up brackets in their gardens. One on their extension, the other right up the top of the garden on the fence. On a regular basis they run long cables out of their houses, mount the screens and sit watching TV in the garden. Often at volumes which mean I can't hear my TV inside the house if I have the patio doors open.
One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.
I seriously could not put up with a tv in the garden. I'd go around with a shotgun straight through it.One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.
thetapeworm said:
I may well have missed a memo on this but apparently there is a trend to install televisions in the garden now - two neighbours at the back of my rear garden have put up brackets in their gardens. One on their extension, the other right up the top of the garden on the fence. On a regular basis they run long cables out of their houses, mount the screens and sit watching TV in the garden. Often at volumes which mean I can't hear my TV inside the house if I have the patio doors open.
One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.
Would a child's football over the fence be enough to sort it out? One of them also has a kids playhouse mounted on stilts next to our boundary fence, lots of wind chimes and garden lighting positioned so that it shines though gaps in the fence and into my living room.
rehab71 said:
Parking, again!
We live in a terrace of 5 cottages, we have a gentlemans agreement that we only park outside our own houses in 'our' own spaces, sometimes guests come over and park over a neighbours space, not an issue as ultimately it's a public highway.....However the women in number 2 is f
king odd. She firmly believes the space outside her house is 'hers'. Bear in mind she spends 1 or 2 nights in the house a month (gods knows where she goes the rest of time). Anyway last week the below appeared (and the oven, guess she'll shift that soon as it looks bloody awful)
Rocks in the road which mark the edge of 'her' space, it also worth knowing that the house which the rocks are next too is currently not occupied so parking is hardly an issue. She is also happy for her car to overlap the neighbours boarder so she's got double standards. I've moved the rocks on to her lawn a couple of times to wind her up although not going to confront because, a, I can't be arsed and b, I'm moving in a week or so. My mum is going to chuck them in the back of her car for her rockery the next time she comes past.
My neighbour does similar, she has a rock which she positions to mark the edge of her property. For some reason, it annoyed her when I parked my discovery with one wheel on top of the rock.We live in a terrace of 5 cottages, we have a gentlemans agreement that we only park outside our own houses in 'our' own spaces, sometimes guests come over and park over a neighbours space, not an issue as ultimately it's a public highway.....However the women in number 2 is f
king odd. She firmly believes the space outside her house is 'hers'. Bear in mind she spends 1 or 2 nights in the house a month (gods knows where she goes the rest of time). Anyway last week the below appeared (and the oven, guess she'll shift that soon as it looks bloody awful)Rocks in the road which mark the edge of 'her' space, it also worth knowing that the house which the rocks are next too is currently not occupied so parking is hardly an issue. She is also happy for her car to overlap the neighbours boarder so she's got double standards. I've moved the rocks on to her lawn a couple of times to wind her up although not going to confront because, a, I can't be arsed and b, I'm moving in a week or so. My mum is going to chuck them in the back of her car for her rockery the next time she comes past.
SlimRick said:
My neighbour does similar, she has a rock which she positions to mark the edge of her property. For some reason, it annoyed her when I parked my discovery with one wheel on top of the rock.
Why would you do that? It seems like you've gone out of your way to antagonise your neighbour, or that you're terrible at parking. BrabusMog said:
SlimRick said:
My neighbour does similar, she has a rock which she positions to mark the edge of her property. For some reason, it annoyed her when I parked my discovery with one wheel on top of the rock.
Why would you do that? It seems like you've gone out of your way to antagonise your neighbour, or that you're terrible at parking. SlimRick said:
My neighbour does similar, she has a rock which she positions to mark the edge of her property. For some reason, it annoyed her when I parked my discovery with one wheel on top of the rock.
Tell us you were there to witness her reaction when she went out to her car? Too funny.
BrabusMog said:
SlimRick said:
My neighbour does similar, she has a rock which she positions to mark the edge of her property. For some reason, it annoyed her when I parked my discovery with one wheel on top of the rock.
Why would you do that? It seems like you've gone out of your way to antagonise your neighbour, or that you're terrible at parking. That would be like me moving a bicycle which is frequently "parked" in the street outside a chap's house. He puts it out there every day despite there being no resident's permit scheme, and him having a two-car driveway and a garage. He just likes to 'guard' the space outside his house. It's pathetic behaviour, and really ought to be challenged. It's an estate near a hospital where residents succesfully campaigned for parking restrictions. Only they didn't get their desired permit-only scheme, but lots of double yellow lines, some timed restriction single yellow lines, and then a number of unrestricted kerbside spots which they like to monopolise. Believe me, if an 'outsider' is seen parking in an 'unguarded' space, the curtain-twitching gets pretty frenzied.
Another approach to dealing with idiots who think they own a particular spot on the highway or a communal parking area is to properly take the piss. My neighbour on an army estate was senior to me, and believed that as the highest ranking soldier in the row he had 'first claim' to the spot under the streetlamp. I was happy to accept that I couldn't park there if it was already occupied, but he wasn't. He frequently tried to box me in but failed every time. Then he roped in a mate with a small van, and succeeded in blocking my access to the road. So I swung my car up, over the footway and grass verge, went out shopping,came back and the disputed space was still empty. Instead of parking it elsewhere and letting him feel that he'd won in some way I decided to reverse back over the grass and the footway back into the 'blocked in position. I got a round of applause from some other neighbours who'd also been the victim of his ass-hat behaviour. Consequently, he quit his pathetic 'campaign', as my neighbours had seen him seeing me re-park and the game was pretty much up.
Call it passive aggressive if you want to, but by parking on the neighbour's 'space reserving' stone, you can confront the issue without getting confrontational and you get to ridicule their behaviour as a happy byproduct. Fools and idiots fully deserve to be roundly mocked, and it'll wind them up massively too, because in truth they know that it's not "their space" and so cannot reasonably confront you for parking atop "their" stone because that will amount to a confession of their pathetic attempt at territory marking.
Someone asked further up the thread 'why do you feel the need to examine you car three times a day'.
The answer is simple: I am the weird neighbour/totally nuts/OCD to a level beyond amusement/paranoid/sure that it is going to dissolve into a pile of rust on the road the minute my back is turned!
The answer is simple: I am the weird neighbour/totally nuts/OCD to a level beyond amusement/paranoid/sure that it is going to dissolve into a pile of rust on the road the minute my back is turned!
I think I live in some sort of collection point of weirdness.
Neighbours having very loud shenanigans (but only for a short while, poor girl) .... check
Other Neighbour vacuuming her fake grass .... check
Parking Spot wars .... check
We also have a Polish family next to us, that speak great English --- until the door bell goes and they switch to Polish and pretend not to understand what the caller wants (normally delivering packages/ taking meter readings etc )
Sitting in cars, starting engines and running them for 30 mins, then getting back out on going into house ...
The daily motorbike warm up at 6am for 30mins
Or (when I used to work from home) the girl down the road having rather a lot of 'gentlemen visitors' that turned up to a house from the hours of 9am till 17.30 - that I didn't care about, but the constant noise of 'thrack ,,,, aagghhh' did get a little bit annoying during the summer months when the windows were open. Mind you she did have a rather nice Boxster, so it must have paid well.
Neighbours having very loud shenanigans (but only for a short while, poor girl) .... check
Other Neighbour vacuuming her fake grass .... check
Parking Spot wars .... check
We also have a Polish family next to us, that speak great English --- until the door bell goes and they switch to Polish and pretend not to understand what the caller wants (normally delivering packages/ taking meter readings etc )
Sitting in cars, starting engines and running them for 30 mins, then getting back out on going into house ...
The daily motorbike warm up at 6am for 30mins
Or (when I used to work from home) the girl down the road having rather a lot of 'gentlemen visitors' that turned up to a house from the hours of 9am till 17.30 - that I didn't care about, but the constant noise of 'thrack ,,,, aagghhh' did get a little bit annoying during the summer months when the windows were open. Mind you she did have a rather nice Boxster, so it must have paid well.
We have a couple opposite (I would guess recently retired), who moved in about a year ago. Every Sunday morning they load their Mondeo estate full of children's bikes, pushchairs, garden furniture, etc, and go out for the day. At first we thought they were into car boot sales, but they'd come back later and still had everything. And would proceed to unload it all again 
The car would be properly full (back seats folded down, bits tied to the roof, etc). They've now invested in a trailer which is also full of stuff. I think they've got fed up of unloading now as they seem to leave everything in it permanently during the week.
The car would be properly full (back seats folded down, bits tied to the roof, etc). They've now invested in a trailer which is also full of stuff. I think they've got fed up of unloading now as they seem to leave everything in it permanently during the week.
CaptainCosworth said:
We have a couple opposite (I would guess recently retired), who moved in about a year ago. Every Sunday morning they load their Mondeo estate full of children's bikes, pushchairs, garden furniture, etc, and go out for the day. At first we thought they were into car boot sales, but they'd come back later and still had everything. And would proceed to unload it all again
The car would be properly full (back seats folded down, bits tied to the roof, etc). They've now invested in a trailer which is also full of stuff. I think they've got fed up of unloading now as they seem to leave everything in it permanently during the week.
Grandkids who live in a flat or something, take em out for the day I reckonThe car would be properly full (back seats folded down, bits tied to the roof, etc). They've now invested in a trailer which is also full of stuff. I think they've got fed up of unloading now as they seem to leave everything in it permanently during the week.
Old boy in the bungalow adjacent , not sure he realises I can see into his garden. Often seen gardening in his flesh coloured Y fronts if it's warm enough when popping to open the window
"Pigeon lady" as we now call her opposite, puts out loose bred etc for birds all over the garden. However then shouts and screams if pigeons come down for it. She only does it every day so it's not like she doesn't know what will happen
"Inbreds" the other side, adult son is clearly not all there. Often heard him having fires or digging up the garden in the night. Has been observed burning the tires of his abandoned car with a plumbers gas burner, also observed sitting with a piece of board curved over his self at 11pm into some form of temporary hut from the absolutley torrential rain whist doing fk knows what to the front of his car
"Pigeon lady" as we now call her opposite, puts out loose bred etc for birds all over the garden. However then shouts and screams if pigeons come down for it. She only does it every day so it's not like she doesn't know what will happen
"Inbreds" the other side, adult son is clearly not all there. Often heard him having fires or digging up the garden in the night. Has been observed burning the tires of his abandoned car with a plumbers gas burner, also observed sitting with a piece of board curved over his self at 11pm into some form of temporary hut from the absolutley torrential rain whist doing f
k knows what to the front of his carIs there anybody else that would look away when spotting their neighbour, with rising sun illuminating her like a spotlight, sitting naked and moving about for at least 30 mins every day doing her hair etc being lower than us also gives a perfect view which she is clearly oblivious of.
Should just add she is in her 70's, about 20 stone at a guess and can often be found passed out drunk in all sorts of places.
Should just add she is in her 70's, about 20 stone at a guess and can often be found passed out drunk in all sorts of places.
littlebasher said:
Tenuous use of the word 'neighbour', but there is a student type in the flat opposite my office window who likes to stand in her patio window 'Au Naturel' when she gets up in the morning.
The odd part being that surely she must realise there's a 12 storey building directly opposite!
I would look away The odd part being that surely she must realise there's a 12 storey building directly opposite!
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