Odd things your neighbours do?

[Ej74]

We had neighbours move in opposite our road has not seen this much action since we've lived there

Police coming round frequently, last 2 incidents

Someone had got into the son's car a poured 4 pints of milk all over the interior and had a knock last week by police asking if we had heard anything at 5.30 in the morning regarding an isolated incident ? (prior to this the police had forced entry and arrested the son).

My next door neighbour is building a shanty town in the rear garden and in his infinite wisdom decided to lay a membrane down and cover the garden in gravel ps. he also did this front garden too.

[FN2TypeR]

All that jazz said:

She's also the noisiest person I've ever known just from doing normal stuff. 5.20 am every weekday I can guarantee to hear her slam the drawer in her chest, and then stomp across the floor to the bathroom and clatter and bang about in there for a while, then into the kitchen and bang plates and slam cupboard doors etc etc. Repeat the process from 6.10 pm until around 11 pm, bang, slam, clatter, bang. It goes on and on and on. How can a person make so much noise just doing normal stuff? She's a tiny build and I can hear her stomping across the floor (which is carpeted as I've seen it) quite clearly and I'm in the flat above! It does my fking head in! I've come close on many occasions to go round and ask her WTF she's doing and to stfu. The 4 previous occupants that had lived there in the time I've been here were all quiet as a mouse and I never heard a thing from them! Luckily I only rent this gaff for work so can move elsewhere if it gets too bad but I wouldn't be pleased if this my home and I owned the place.

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We had one of these below us in our flat, she was fking mental - she lived alone and her washing machine, which was knackered and loud as fk, was going none stop - and I mean that, she used to put it on at 4am. She liked a wee drink (total wino) so I'm convinced that she was wetting the bed and chucking the sheets straight into the washing machine, either that or she was sitting on top of it to frig herself off. I went down to speak to her a few times and got the usual platitudes but nothing ever changed, I finally lost it on Christmas Day (!!) when the bloody thing was rumbling away at 5am, I had a melt down on the landing and shouted the place down, she started crying and saying sorry, won't do it again etc etc

4am Boxing Day....... you guessed it.

[ashleyman]

Ej74 said:

We had neighbours move in opposite our road has not seen this much action since we've lived there

Police coming round frequently, last 2 incidents

Someone had got into the son's car a poured 4 pints of milk all over the interior and had a knock last week by police asking if we had heard anything at 5.30 in the morning regarding an isolated incident ? (prior to this the police had forced entry and arrested the son).

My next door neighbour is building a shanty town in the rear garden and in his infinite wisdom decided to lay a membrane down and cover the garden in gravel ps. he also did this front garden too.

Are we neighbours!? This sounds like what my life has become!! When we moved in the Police didn't even drive down the road at all, now they're passing 2/3x a day.

[Blown2CV]

Dr Murdoch said:

zedx19 said:

Early last year some new neighbours moved into a rented property across the road, couple in their early 20s I'd say. Seemed nice enough but noticed a lot of odd behaviour such as random women and men coming and going at all hours. They also never ever opened the curtains, only when parents visited and as soon as parents left the curtains would be shut again. Anyway, towards the end of the year, they'd clearly split up and been having affairs, hence the random others "coming" and going. New neighbours moved in over Christmas, family this time and nice to speak to, however they to have never ever opened the curtains. This house has nice big windows as well but the curtains are always firmly shut, very odd.

I imagine there's a peeping Tom over the road, and they're just trying to maintain their privacy.

zing

[Blown2CV]

Ej74 said:

We had neighbours move in opposite our road has not seen this much action since we've lived there

Police coming round frequently, last 2 incidents

Someone had got into the son's car a poured 4 pints of milk all over the interior and had a knock last week by police asking if we had heard anything at 5.30 in the morning regarding an isolated incident ? (prior to this the police had forced entry and arrested the son).

My next door neighbour is building a shanty town in the rear garden and in his infinite wisdom decided to lay a membrane down and cover the garden in gravel ps. he also did this front garden too.

not so much weird as just standard council goings on IMO

[MartG]

New neighbours over the road leave their 2-car drive empty during the day by parking their Prius outside their next door neighbours house. Not too bad in itself, but the road is a bus route and every time a bus goes past the Prius' alarm goes off

[PAULJ5555]

Europa1 said:

All that jazz said:

Nah, too thick for the internet I think. Although seeing some of the posts made by other members on here..

But! There's been some more developments! The package has now turned up! It was jammed half in my meter cupboard and indeed the box has been opened but the contents are still intact. I did gingerly check the socks for stains, smells or general crustyness as feared by some of you but all appears to be well. However I am struggling to understand how the package has made it from inside an empty and unoccupied property to my meter cupboard. It would appear that the father and son's story about no.4 taking it in was a load of bks and in fact they had taken it in (as per the Amazon card) and decided to open it to see if there was anything valuable worth nicking. I always thought they were nice people too but I suppose this is the "odd neighbours" thread after all.

I really do struggle to understand the mentality that thinks it's in any way acceptable to think a parcel addressed to someone else is somehow "fair dibs" to be opened just to see if there's "something worth having" inside, then make up some easily unpicked lies about it.

Time to post yourself a dog poo when your not going to be in.

[All that jazz]

FN2TypeR said:

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We had one of these below us in our flat, she was fking mental - she lived alone and her washing machine, which was knackered and loud as fk, was going none stop - and I mean that, she used to put it on at 4am. She liked a wee drink (total wino) so I'm convinced that she was wetting the bed and chucking the sheets straight into the washing machine, either that or she was sitting on top of it to frig herself off. I went down to speak to her a few times and got the usual platitudes but nothing ever changed, I finally lost it on Christmas Day (!!) when the bloody thing was rumbling away at 5am, I had a melt down on the landing and shouted the place down, she started crying and saying sorry, won't do it again etc etc

4am Boxing Day....... you guessed it.

I don't hear her washer but that could be because she had a new one delivered when she moved in and new ones are generally very quiet. Everything else though, thud thud thud, bang bang bang! STFU bh!

[Tim-D]

I live in a 60's cul de sac in a small village ..... houses nicely spaced and road wide as your average motorway..... pair of coffin dodgers opposite are basically the neighbourhood busybodies - run the neighbourhood watch scheme, curtain twitch like crazy, total godbotherers - and consequently endlessly collect for some good cause or another......

99% of the time all fine - but my other half has a tat on her lower back.... this drives them both bonkers..... the Mrs was washing her car - tat fleetingly visible as a consequence... cue that evening a card through the door "please ask Mrs D to cover up her tattoo"........ - - would have taken a pair of sodding binoculars form their lounge to spot it ???) piss well and truly boiling, we decide to ignore......

Just before christmas I'm in the back of the garage doing some resto work..... overhear massively revving engine and crunching gears.... the old biddy had fired up their car - normally a bad sign..... 30 seconds later huge crunch - unfortunately I'd left my car by the side of the road..... she'd bashed the mirror casing off and stove in the front door...

I was unseen but relied on the fact she'd wait but oh no..... got out... checked her damage and kicked my mirror casing under the car and drove off...... piss boil 2..... spent a few hours fixing the car....

Next day spying my scowl she sidles over for a chat "I think I may have touched your car".....hmm.....I had calmed down a bit and was about to say no bother I've fixed it when.... "oh well its 13 years old so has probably had worse"....... and walks off.......

For neighbourly harmony I've swallowed it..... but come recycling day ... green bags out and four of the six outside their house are clearly marked with my house number (put them on as mine kept mysteriously disappearing) ... now I'm not a gardener - cut the grass and that's about it and had wondered where all the bags had gone ..... so once emptied marched over and repossessed them.... only to find another fffing note though the door today ordering their immediate return!!!

..... mental...end of tether reached.......

[All that jazz]

Tim-D said:

I live in a 60's cul de sac in a small village ..... houses nicely spaced and road wide as your average motorway..... pair of coffin dodgers opposite are basically the neighbourhood busybodies - run the neighbourhood watch scheme, curtain twitch like crazy, total godbotherers - and consequently endlessly collect for some good cause or another......

99% of the time all fine - but my other half has a tat on her lower back.... this drives them both bonkers..... the Mrs was washing her car - tat fleetingly visible as a consequence... cue that evening a card through the door "please ask Mrs D to cover up her tattoo"........ - - would have taken a pair of sodding binoculars form their lounge to spot it ???) piss well and truly boiling, we decide to ignore......

Just before christmas I'm in the back of the garage doing some resto work..... overhear massively revving engine and crunching gears.... the old biddy had fired up their car - normally a bad sign..... 30 seconds later huge crunch - unfortunately I'd left my car by the side of the road..... she'd bashed the mirror casing off and stove in the front door...

I was unseen but relied on the fact she'd wait but oh no..... got out... checked her damage and kicked my mirror casing under the car and drove off...... piss boil 2..... spent a few hours fixing the car....

Next day spying my scowl she sidles over for a chat "I think I may have touched your car".....hmm.....I had calmed down a bit and was about to say no bother I've fixed it when.... "oh well its 13 years old so has probably had worse"....... and walks off.......

For neighbourly harmony I've swallowed it..... but come recycling day ... green bags out and four of the six outside their house are clearly marked with my house number (put them on as mine kept mysteriously disappearing) ... now I'm not a gardener - cut the grass and that's about it and had wondered where all the bags had gone ..... so once emptied marched over and repossessed them.... only to find another fffing note though the door today ordering their immediate return!!!

..... mental...end of tether reached.......

WTF! fk the "neighbourly harmony"! I'd have lost the plot after the note about my OHs tat and been straight over there. I can't believe people think this kind of thing is acceptable to do, telling you how to live your life etc.

[ChemicalChaos]

All that jazz said:

WTF! fk the "neighbourly harmony"! I'd have lost the plot after the note about my OHs tat and been straight over there. I can't believe people think this kind of thing is acceptable to do, telling you how to live your life etc.

You think that's bad, you should hear some of the Resident's Association stories about American neighborhoods. Cutting your grass on certain days only, painting your house a certain colour only, not being allowed to have cars over a certain age on the driveway..... One story involved someone who had their driveway blocked in with concrete blocks over missing a bill deadline. The clincher was a US Army soldier who returned from a tour in Iraq to find the RA had repossessed and sold his house over an unpaid $300 RA subscription.....

[S11Steve]

Not had any issues with the neighbours at the house I've been living at for 2 years. The immediate neighbours are Russian, both very well educated and work at the university. They both speak fluent English, albeit with an accent, but are genuinely nice people.
What is odd though is overhearing their arguments. They shout at each other in Russian, but he mutters things in English at her, which she obviously hears and shouts back at him in Russian again.

A few doors up there is a young religious family, both under or close to 30, 4 kids and very "traditionally wholesome". They organise a street party at the local church hall every christmas, and they would go out of their way to help anyone.
We were freaked out when they came round last christmas, and stood in our hallway singing hymns at us - they don't believe in carols, so hymns it was...

And to be honest, if that's as "bad" as neighbourly relations get, I'm happy with that.

[eltax91]

All that jazz said:

Tim-D said:

I live in a 60's cul de sac in a small village ..... houses nicely spaced and road wide as your average motorway..... pair of coffin dodgers opposite are basically the neighbourhood busybodies - run the neighbourhood watch scheme, curtain twitch like crazy, total godbotherers - and consequently endlessly collect for some good cause or another......

99% of the time all fine - but my other half has a tat on her lower back.... this drives them both bonkers..... the Mrs was washing her car - tat fleetingly visible as a consequence... cue that evening a card through the door "please ask Mrs D to cover up her tattoo"........ - - would have taken a pair of sodding binoculars form their lounge to spot it ???) piss well and truly boiling, we decide to ignore......

Just before christmas I'm in the back of the garage doing some resto work..... overhear massively revving engine and crunching gears.... the old biddy had fired up their car - normally a bad sign..... 30 seconds later huge crunch - unfortunately I'd left my car by the side of the road..... she'd bashed the mirror casing off and stove in the front door...

I was unseen but relied on the fact she'd wait but oh no..... got out... checked her damage and kicked my mirror casing under the car and drove off...... piss boil 2..... spent a few hours fixing the car....

Next day spying my scowl she sidles over for a chat "I think I may have touched your car".....hmm.....I had calmed down a bit and was about to say no bother I've fixed it when.... "oh well its 13 years old so has probably had worse"....... and walks off.......

For neighbourly harmony I've swallowed it..... but come recycling day ... green bags out and four of the six outside their house are clearly marked with my house number (put them on as mine kept mysteriously disappearing) ... now I'm not a gardener - cut the grass and that's about it and had wondered where all the bags had gone ..... so once emptied marched over and repossessed them.... only to find another fffing note though the door today ordering their immediate return!!!

..... mental...end of tether reached.......

WTF! fk the "neighbourly harmony"! I'd have lost the plot after the note about my OHs tat and been straight over there. I can't believe people think this kind of thing is acceptable to do, telling you how to live your life etc.

Yeh, I don't think I could have gone past the tat incident. If I somehow miraculously managed to calm down before seeing them again, the car would have been it. I'd have called the police saying I saw her leave the scene of an accident and I'd have claimed from her insurance company immediately.

[ambuletz]

You should have knocked on their house with you holding it using a pair of tongs and tell them 'this is what I think of your note' and set it a light infront of their face.

[Nardiola]

I live in a cul-de-sac and there's an odd guy, who must be around 50-60 who swears at his house, trees and anything in front of him. He used to be more vocal a number of years ago, but he's mellowed a bit, possibly Tourettes?

His windows are all covered up with newspaper, and he used to paint his doors, window frames, guttering and such in such a way that he painted the glass and walls too. His mother (when she was around) said he always had a few screws loose, but fair play to him he's paid off his mortgage. He works in track side safety for Network Rail, warning other workers of incoming trains, probably by swearing loudly 'fking train '

[Tim-D]

Yep bit of fun.....all my other neighbours "normal" thank god.... on the scale of some posted here, the banes of my existence a minor irritation....anything further though and I'll reach critical mass........ but derive some childish joy from seeing my aged cat exclusively using their stone chipped drive kept OCD pristine as his personal litter tray....

[ambuletz]

i don't get people who cover up ALL their windows with newspaper. 99% of people have curtains or those white transluscent curtains. first thing i want to do in the morning is open up all windows and have a good look out.

[Robertj21a]

ambuletz said:

i don't get people who cover up ALL their windows with newspaper. 99% of people have curtains or those white transluscent curtains. first thing i want to do in the morning is open up all windows and have a good look out.

Growing weed.

[All that jazz]

It's rare I open the curtains in my lounge as I spend most of my time sat at my PC when at home and the light reflects quite badly on the screen (glossy finish). The curtains are fairly thin and white anyway so even with them shut it's still plenty bright enough in the room to do stuff without needing to put a light on. Also, I find with the curtains open and being able to see out that I get distracted by stuff going on outside or just idly looking out at the horizon in a daze rather than getting on with whatever I'd planned to do .

[Some Gump]

Tim-D said:

Yep bit of fun.....all my other neighbours "normal" thank god.... on the scale of some posted here, the banes of my existence a minor irritation....anything further though and I'll reach critical mass........ but derive some childish joy from seeing my aged cat exclusively using their stone chipped drive kept OCD pristine as his personal litter tray....

Wow, you sound like a great neighbor.

You'll be happy that my local moggy doesn't come and try to kill all the birds in my garden anymore, because i got the little with a bucket of cold water. Hopefully one that odd driveway might get the same luxury.