Odd things your neighbours do?

[jesta1865]

HorneyMX5 said:

Really noisey sex in the middle of the day with all the windows open.

sorry about that, we'll try and keep it down next time

my wife is worried that both our neighbours are secretly mocking her as they seem to garden all the time, evening and weekends. her issue is that one of her hobbies is buying plants, bringing them home and killing them. (she's joking)

we do have one old guy up the road who collects other people's discarded stuff, should see him with a skip in the road.

one guy about 10 doors away (never spoken to him) does an exercise regime every day (i think) odd thing is he has a huge drive, but does all his stretches and warm up in the middle of the road, if i'm driving to work several times he's had to move so i can get past, still there day after day.

[Hoofy]

jesta1865 said:

we do have one old guy... should see him with a skip in the road.

one guy about 10 doors away... does all his stretches and warm up in the middle of the road

Perhaps they're training buddies.

[Hugo a Gogo]

my next door neighbour is an old lady an she's into that 'planking' business

she's been out on the patio for the last couple of nights doing it, the silly old bat


and she hasn't got the milk in from the doorstep

[BHC]

CedGTV said:

We've had a young-ish couple move in next to us about 6 months ago. Seem friendly enough, fairly regular but run odd hours of coming and going, but recently there has been a definite smell of the old 'Mary Jane' being grown in the air albeit intermittently. I've noticed they've had air-con installed but can't imagine there's a weed factory in there.

Funny but after doing some gardening last weekend I apologised to the girlfriend for going a little over board on the trimming of a rather invasive tree/shrub that is up against the our fence and she wasn't at all bothered by it and said that it was her boyfriend that was the gardener of the house. Couldn't help but drop a little "I bet he is" as she walked away. She was grinning walking away.

Not on the Breaking Bad level, but they are at it all right.

Haven't you thought to grass them up?

[Art0ir]

CedGTV said:

We've had a young-ish couple move in next to us about 6 months ago. Seem friendly enough, fairly regular but run odd hours of coming and going, but recently there has been a definite smell of the old 'Mary Jane' being grown in the air albeit intermittently. I've noticed they've had air-con installed but can't imagine there's a weed factory in there.

Funny but after doing some gardening last weekend I apologised to the girlfriend for going a little over board on the trimming of a rather invasive tree/shrub that is up against the our fence and she wasn't at all bothered by it and said that it was her boyfriend that was the gardener of the house. Couldn't help but drop a little "I bet he is" as she walked away. She was grinning walking away.

Not on the Breaking Bad level, but they are at it all right.

You seem to getting on with them at least. Buy them some carbon filters for Christmas.

[DoubleSix]

Hugo a Gogo said:

my next door neighbour is an old lady an she's into that 'planking' business

she's been out on the patio for the last couple of nights doing it, the silly old bat


and she hasn't got the milk in from the doorstep

[KarlMac]

opieoilman said:

One couple always park their cars on the pavement rather than in the parking bays. There seems to be no reason for it at all and when the bloke drives off, he glares in every window as he drives down the pavement. If for some reason he can't get on the pavement outside of his house, he drives around the corner or further down the road until he's on the pavement. I just find that odd.

We live opposite a block of these 6 flat things. Each 'apartment' gets two parking spaces in the private car park, plus a few visitors spaces. The lengths the residents go to not park there and park on the cul de sac in front of the door is very strange. Its a tad annoying as I like to park in front of my house to unload wife/child before moving my car to car park round the back of our house but theres rarely room.

The one time I did park in the flat car park (as ours was being resurfaced) I almost immediately received the standard passive aggressive note on the windshield.

One of the dirty buggers brought home a mcdonalds, took it into the flat, brought out the empty wrappers, threw it under the car and drove off

Odd.

[bristolracer]

Having fallen out with my new neighbours over parking,(well im a pistonhead I may have some cars)

I have become the odd neighbour

If i have to talk to her I just stare at her t**s
I will run the camper van to warm it up with its blend of pre cat diesel fumes blowing across their garden
My two stroke strimmer is great when they have friends around and are sat in the garden
I have been known to drill a rock or two for fun
i have chased their dog off my garden muttering that i will kill it if i catch it again

It may be time soon to ask them if they have taken the baby jesus into their souls?

[anonymous-user]

Spare tyre said:

pics of the tarp!

Will grab a picture later when i go down to the car It stinks!

[Mr Trophy]

I've actually never met my neighbours (to the left and right of the house)

Is that odd?

[GetCarter]

Mr Trophy said:

I've actually never met my neighbours (to the left and right of the house)

Is that odd?

Depends where you live. I knew a few in London, a dozen in the Cotswolds, and every single one in the Highlands.

[Bradgate]

My neighbour’s mild eccentricity is that he is an obsessive car washer. He hand-washes both his own and his wife’s cars every single Sunday in life. They don’t get a quick once-over, either. He is quite meticulous and spends hours doing it, so I have diagnosed OCD. The cars are not exotica, just ordinary hatchbacks.

I often want to suggest that if he is so keen on washing cars, he is welcome to do mine while he’s at it. I don’t though, because he is an nice guy and a good neighbour, so I don’t want to fall out with him.

[BHC]

Bradgate said:

My neighbour’s mild eccentricity is that he is an obsessive car washer. He hand-washes both his own and his wife’s cars every single Sunday in life. They don’t get a quick once-over, either. He is quite meticulous and spends hours doing it, so I have diagnosed OCD. The cars are not exotica, just ordinary hatchbacks.

I often want to suggest that if he is so keen on washing cars, he is welcome to do mine while he’s at it. I don’t though, because he is an nice guy and a good neighbour, so I don’t want to fall out with him.

And because the bloke who says "when you're finished washing your car/mowing your lawn/anal bleaching your cat, you can do mine!" is usually characterised as the annoying neighbour?

[fido]

Get on well with the Christian neighbours that I share a boundary/path with. The others are {female bits} - woman behind sent the armed police round my house because she heard some voices from my garden (sounded like her ex apparently) and the neighbours opposite 'introduced' themselves by staring at me in the dark and parking like a bunch of {female bits} for the first six months of our coexistence. Both got p0wned in style. Thank god [indeed] for the odd but very nice Christian couple with their assortment of tenants.

Edited by fido on Tuesday 15th July 15:51

[DoubleSix]

BHC said:

And because the bloke who says "when you're finished washing your car/mowing your lawn/anal bleaching your cat, you can do mine!" is usually characterised as the annoying neighbour?

Yup. Add in tedious, trite and unimaginative.

I lived in a nice development full of retired Drs, Lawyers etc with underground parking meaning everyone would troop past in the morning. Every single one of them thought this line represented humour when I was free enough of responsibility to actually have the time to wash my cars.

[Jasandjules]

We have a neighbour who may as well set up CCTV and record every car and person going past her house... I am not sure if she's got a spare bed set up in the lounge to make sure she doesn't miss anything. And when you do talk to her she is always very interested in passing on the bad news of others, never good news.

[Oakey]

HorneyMX5 said:

Having the windows open knowing full well the rest of the flats can hear them.

Next time they're at it, when they finish why don't you shout "NO!!! NO!!! Don't stop, I've not finished yet, keep going!"

[Accelebrate]

A lot of elderly neighbours seem to go through a ritual of removing their car from the garage in the morning, only to then put it away again in the evening. Not necessarily because they're going anywhere or doing something else in the garage.

[Fotic]

bristolracer said:

Having fallen out with my new neighbours over parking,(well im a pistonhead I may have some cars)

I have become the odd neighbour

If i have to talk to her I just stare at her t**s
I will run the camper van to warm it up with its blend of pre cat diesel fumes blowing across their garden
My two stroke strimmer is great when they have friends around and are sat in the garden
I have been known to drill a rock or two for fun
i have chased their dog off my garden muttering that i will kill it if i catch it again

It may be time soon to ask them if they have taken the baby jesus into their souls?

What a lovely man you sound.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Please PHERS help me solve a past odd neighbour situation

When I lived in Swindon 6+ years ago , it was on a street that was about 2 miles long of terraced houses facing out to a small yard then a road, the road was fairly busy cut through, not a busy road but a fair amount of people passing through

One of the houses had 2, yes TWO clocks facing the street from their lounge front window with the correct time??

This has bothered me for years, I could maybe for a second understand having one clock facing the street, maybe the person who lived their was a postie, who walked past several times a day. But TWO clocks facing the street????? WTF?

Here is a street view that captures the clocks in their full glory: