Odd things your neighbours do?
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Vaud said:
nonsequitur said:
Sounds idyllic. Where, exactly?
Pretty much anywhere in Switzerland, though the more conservative cantons tend to be anal.(sorry going of topic a bit here!)
AstonZagato said:
A mate who lives in Switzerland has been dobbed in to the police for parking on the wrong side of the road by a neighbour and reported for speeding for someone he was driving home as a favour.
I've read a few stories of Swiss culture, not least their denial of hoarding Nazi gold and refusal to acknowledge its true ownership unless forced. They do seem a lot of a
holes.Kwackersaki said:
AstonZagato said:
A mate who lives in Switzerland has been dobbed in to the police for parking on the wrong side of the road by a neighbour and reported for speeding for someone he was driving home as a favour.
I've read a few stories of Swiss culture, not least their denial of hoarding Nazi gold and refusal to acknowledge its true ownership unless forced. They do seem a lot of aholes.Blown2CV said:
Kwackersaki said:
AstonZagato said:
A mate who lives in Switzerland has been dobbed in to the police for parking on the wrong side of the road by a neighbour and reported for speeding for someone he was driving home as a favour.
I've read a few stories of Swiss culture, not least their denial of hoarding Nazi gold and refusal to acknowledge its true ownership unless forced. They do seem a lot of aholes.Great roads. No tolerance for speeding. Just find a valley road that terminates at the top of the valley and do a sighting run first.
Had a pretty amazing one last year. A friendly but slightly unhinged neighbour living two doors down decided to go out for a Sunday drive in his ratty Marlin roadster kit car thing. Gave me and a friend a toast with the giant mug of coffee in his hand as he drove up the street. Another 10 metres on he floored the throttle, dumped the clutch and proceeded to do a huge smokey drift until he lost control, mounted the kerb and ended up in another neighbours garden wall. The wall was undamaged but the car had torn a pipe and was throwing fluid onto the exhaust manifold creating a huge cloud of smoke. My friend and I watched in bewilderment, wondering what he'd do next. Turns out he didn't spill his coffee, so he stayed in the car for the next 10 minutes to finish that, looking as calm as hell, before deciding to get out and have a look. As soon as I turned my back to return to my house I literally fell over laughing. Loon! 
Pebbles167 said:
Had a pretty amazing one last year. A friendly but slightly unhinged neighbour living two doors down decided to go out for a Sunday drive in his ratty Marlin roadster kit car thing. Gave me and a friend a toast with the giant mug of coffee in his hand as he drove up the street. Another 10 metres on he floored the throttle, dumped the clutch and proceeded to do a huge smokey drift until he lost control, mounted the kerb and ended up in another neighbours garden wall. The wall was undamaged but the car had torn a pipe and was throwing fluid onto the exhaust manifold creating a huge cloud of smoke. My friend and I watched in bewilderment, wondering what he'd do next. Turns out he didn't spill his coffee, so he stayed in the car for the next 10 minutes to finish that, looking as calm as hell, before deciding to get out and have a look. As soon as I turned my back to return to my house I literally fell over laughing. Loon!
when you say coffee....Going back a few years we (and when I say we I mean my whole family for hours on end!) used to watch our neighbour scrub the joins in her drive with a toothbrush (in fact she vacuumed it a few times!). She'd wipe the stoop at least 10 times a day. Leaves would be blown onto the neighbours (shared) drive. She'd greet her husband and son with the door open every time they came back and then wipe it.
You'd see her through the house cleaning all the time, every window at least once a day. Vacuum every day. Always had a pinny on, in case anyone dare shed some skin and she'd need to tidy the whole house because of it.
The son always had nice cars, and obviously inherited a bit of the OCD from his dear old mother and would clean his car 3-5 times a week. To his credit, he had some good motors, a E46 & E90 M3, and always immaculate. Although it spend it's life going to and from his work a mile away. I never saw it anywhere else.
You'd see her through the house cleaning all the time, every window at least once a day. Vacuum every day. Always had a pinny on, in case anyone dare shed some skin and she'd need to tidy the whole house because of it.
The son always had nice cars, and obviously inherited a bit of the OCD from his dear old mother and would clean his car 3-5 times a week. To his credit, he had some good motors, a E46 & E90 M3, and always immaculate. Although it spend it's life going to and from his work a mile away. I never saw it anywhere else.
Kwackersaki said:
AstonZagato said:
A mate who lives in Switzerland has been dobbed in to the police for parking on the wrong side of the road by a neighbour and reported for speeding for someone he was driving home as a favour.
I've read a few stories of Swiss culture, not least their denial of hoarding Nazi gold and refusal to acknowledge its true ownership unless forced. They do seem a lot of aholes.A thread revival that I meant to post up last week, and the moment has just come back to me now about how petty people are about bins.
The binmen around our way have found ways to increase their efficiency. The crew of 2 men will consist of the driver/operator and then a mate who walks on ahead and lines up all the bins in the right place, but also briefly checks the contents of each bin before lining it up. Whenever he finds some that are partly empty he will take one, and pour the contents into another bin so the lorry only has to do one tip and save a few seconds. This must add up to many saved minutes on the whole route.
One neighbour last week, a bit further up the road, did NOT like this. She's an older lady and she came out of the house and started questioning the "mate" as to why he was putting someone else's rubbish in her bin! She believed she was going to get "done" for having too much rubbish in the bin when the lorry came around. No proper opportunity for the guy to give her an answer she just wanted to have a go, he was doing his best to just leave it and keep ahead of the upcoming truck because no doubt he wanted to get on with it. Bizarre.
The binmen around our way have found ways to increase their efficiency. The crew of 2 men will consist of the driver/operator and then a mate who walks on ahead and lines up all the bins in the right place, but also briefly checks the contents of each bin before lining it up. Whenever he finds some that are partly empty he will take one, and pour the contents into another bin so the lorry only has to do one tip and save a few seconds. This must add up to many saved minutes on the whole route.
One neighbour last week, a bit further up the road, did NOT like this. She's an older lady and she came out of the house and started questioning the "mate" as to why he was putting someone else's rubbish in her bin! She believed she was going to get "done" for having too much rubbish in the bin when the lorry came around. No proper opportunity for the guy to give her an answer she just wanted to have a go, he was doing his best to just leave it and keep ahead of the upcoming truck because no doubt he wanted to get on with it. Bizarre.
My parents have a couple of very odd men living a few doors down. Every blind is permanently down so they must never see any sunlight, own a Vauxhall Carlton estate that never seems to move and an old Transit minibus with mattresses in the back which I assume they use to go on camping holidays. There's another house a bit further down which generally seems tidy, except the windows have never been opened so you can see black mould growing on the windows 
Lance Catamaran said:
Shakermaker said:
Tell me more about this Vauxhall Carlton Estate...
A light blue L reg one, seems in fairly good condition but I have never seen it move. Oddly enough, there is also a black one the next street over!Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff