Odd things your neighbours do?
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Parking seems the general theme here.
I live in a very small village which doesn't have any parking restrictions and my house is in a row of 5 terraced cottages, we all have a gentlemans agreement that we don't park in front of each other's houses and it works perfectly well, however we've a neighbour a few doors down who had a large detached house with a double garage and a drive large enough for 3 cars, yet every few weeks he puts his two main cars on the road and leaves them there for no real reason. I can't understand why you would park on the road when you have a drive? I can only think he does it to annoy those of us who have to park on the road.
I'd never say anything as he's perfectly entitled to park there just seems odd to me!
The neighbour next to him is odd too. When we were having a BBQ last summer my mate had just got his kit car back on the road so naturally did a bit of coming and going while he took us out in it in turns. Queue weird neighbour getting her knickers in a twist because he'd parked outside her house and was going to call the police be cause we're 'boy racers', stupid bint!
I live in a very small village which doesn't have any parking restrictions and my house is in a row of 5 terraced cottages, we all have a gentlemans agreement that we don't park in front of each other's houses and it works perfectly well, however we've a neighbour a few doors down who had a large detached house with a double garage and a drive large enough for 3 cars, yet every few weeks he puts his two main cars on the road and leaves them there for no real reason. I can't understand why you would park on the road when you have a drive? I can only think he does it to annoy those of us who have to park on the road.
I'd never say anything as he's perfectly entitled to park there just seems odd to me!
The neighbour next to him is odd too. When we were having a BBQ last summer my mate had just got his kit car back on the road so naturally did a bit of coming and going while he took us out in it in turns. Queue weird neighbour getting her knickers in a twist because he'd parked outside her house and was going to call the police be cause we're 'boy racers', stupid bint!
We have some across the road from us who don't live there, nor do they rent it out. The house just sits empty for roughly a fortnight for them to spend a weekend end there in the garden? It's not like the house is in a holiday home location! Apparently they used to work nearby but then got jobs elsewhere so moved but didn't sell the house.
It really is bizarre and does make you wonder what is in that garden!
It really is bizarre and does make you wonder what is in that garden!
DougMcC said:
My new neighbour is a really nice bloke. However one strange (but amusing) thing I have seen him do on a regular basis is to run from one end of the garden to the other, about halfway he will jump, pirouette and fart all at the same time in midair. Strange but amusing 
That is f
king excellent
I must say I have boring knobbers living around me, I'm jealous. 
StuntmanMike said:
DougMcC said:
My new neighbour is a really nice bloke. However one strange (but amusing) thing I have seen him do on a regular basis is to run from one end of the garden to the other, about halfway he will jump, pirouette and fart all at the same time in midair. Strange but amusing
That is fking excellent I must say I have boring knobbers living around me, I'm jealous. 
The retired couple on the one side are alright, she's a little bit nosey and I get the 'you can do mine next' comment almost every time from him, but they look out for us, take parcels in and the house and cars are safe on the shared drive.
The other side is a bit odd, he seems to check his bins or something around the side of the house every couple of hours at night, and will randomly remove fence panels or chop all the bushes down on the front 'joining' the front or back yards for weeks at a time. Seems to do stuff in his garden wearing tennis gear. Oh and the garden has gnomes in it.
They seem to have a fleet of randomly aged offspring, the old couple dont know much about them other than that they had the house built in what would've been another garden for our house.
The other side is a bit odd, he seems to check his bins or something around the side of the house every couple of hours at night, and will randomly remove fence panels or chop all the bushes down on the front 'joining' the front or back yards for weeks at a time. Seems to do stuff in his garden wearing tennis gear. Oh and the garden has gnomes in it.
They seem to have a fleet of randomly aged offspring, the old couple dont know much about them other than that they had the house built in what would've been another garden for our house.
My neighbour has four sheds in his small(ish) back garden. It's not really a garden anymore TBH as there's no more grass. One shed has chickens in it and another is a heated shed with small tropical birds imprisoned therein. Shed three has a jacuzzi installed and shed four is a bar complete with 3 bar stools. I have never seen him use the bar.
1. Previous neighbour who would jump out in a coat and wash her car whenever it rained.
2. Same street, different house. Chap washed his Vectra after every drive. leathered it. put it in garage. His daughter was not allowed to park on double drive....
New neighbour, elderly years, moves his car late at night, with jaz playing loudly while loading drums. One night my wife my have made some choice remarks. He knocked on the door the next day to complain about my daughter (the wife - who is 6 years old than me), and mentioned that he thought some young lads lived here (17 year old step-son). He seemed not to have noticed me in 18 months.all odd.
2. Same street, different house. Chap washed his Vectra after every drive. leathered it. put it in garage. His daughter was not allowed to park on double drive....
New neighbour, elderly years, moves his car late at night, with jaz playing loudly while loading drums. One night my wife my have made some choice remarks. He knocked on the door the next day to complain about my daughter (the wife - who is 6 years old than me), and mentioned that he thought some young lads lived here (17 year old step-son). He seemed not to have noticed me in 18 months.all odd.
briangriffin said:
My elderly neighbour has had his Halloween decorations up since last November, fair play to him though he gives it his al. Down to the skeleton on the sofa and the cobwebs in the windows.
Bless him
If there are lots of flies in the window, then yes - literally! Bless him
Have a
anyway!! 
Mine on one side the fella is a bit strange, I've lived here 6 years and he's had a Keith Lemon type bandage on his hand all that time. The only thing ive ever seen him do is walk his dog maybe 10 times his Mrs does everything else.
If I let the dogs out for a pee at 11 - 11.30pm they have the back door open and you can smell and hear them cooking a fry up. TBF it smells lovely but it always makes me hungry. Just off for a Scooby sniff now
If I let the dogs out for a pee at 11 - 11.30pm they have the back door open and you can smell and hear them cooking a fry up. TBF it smells lovely but it always makes me hungry. Just off for a Scooby sniff now
When I saw this I thought I would be able to trump all stories with my friend's neighbour, but judging by what other people have said, this might be entirely normal.
My friend's neighbour loves a bargain and is always trying to make a bit of money somehow. Recently they managed to get a job lot of old shoes, which they spread over their garden to try and pair up. They were then left out over a few weeks until they were soaked. On a more recent occasion, it was filled with handbags, which we think they ended up burying.
They also keep hanging their washing out on my friend's washing line, he is far too amused by this to confront them about it.
My friend's neighbour loves a bargain and is always trying to make a bit of money somehow. Recently they managed to get a job lot of old shoes, which they spread over their garden to try and pair up. They were then left out over a few weeks until they were soaked. On a more recent occasion, it was filled with handbags, which we think they ended up burying.
They also keep hanging their washing out on my friend's washing line, he is far too amused by this to confront them about it.
hmmm seems we're lucky! just some nosey retired couple across from us.
They hardly leave the house night owls too always see the tv glowing in the front room very late.
Can't stand the little englander parking stuff you see posted on here all the time.
They hardly leave the house night owls too always see the tv glowing in the front room very late.
Can't stand the little englander parking stuff you see posted on here all the time.
Edited by petrolsniffer on Wednesday 16th July 09:25
thetapeworm said:
One of my neighbours waits for me to start doing jobs in the garden then without fail leans out of his upstairs window and shouts that he has a <insert name of a tool for a job I'm not doing> I can borrow if I want.
Last night he wanted to lend me a breaker bar to tidy up the edge of the lawn (I was using a lawn edging tool at the time).
This is fantastic! I wish I had a neighbour like that - he sounds completely bonkers, but in a fun way. I'd go out and mow the drive or something.Last night he wanted to lend me a breaker bar to tidy up the edge of the lawn (I was using a lawn edging tool at the time).
petrolsniffer said:
Can't stand the little englander parking stuff you see posted on here all the time.
Sounds absolutely awful - but it would appear to be very common. I used to work for Lex Vehicle Leasing in Sale and there was a bloke who lived there who used to get up at 7am every morning and put his Galaxy across the two parking spaces outside his house (he couldn't see them anyway because of the hedge!) to stop staff parking there. It's here ...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.429238,-2.327106...
So not only is is hedge totally blocking sight of the parked cars - he's got TWO drives.
However it gets worse: one day one of the staff came back to find that he'd put their window through, let the handbrake off and was pushing their car out of the way. Total fruitloop.
Edited by Dog Star on Wednesday 16th July 09:38
DaveGoddard said:
I remember once on one of the rare occasions that I wash my car, one of my neighbours pulled up in her Fiesta and trotted out the "you can do mine next" line. I wasn't in the best of moods at the time and fired back "That joke has been around since cars were invented and hasn't got any funnier since." She never spoke to me again until her and her family moved out.
Our delightful neighbour doesn't work and has recently begun taking in dogs from a charity which 'rescues dogs from death' (Basically stray dogs with behavioral issues which cannot be re-homed)
She doesn't walk them and certainly has no interest in training them. When they bark, and they bark regularly, her way of dealing with it is by yelling at them. Loudly.
She also yells at her kids, who despite their oaf of a mother are surprisingly well behaved.
The dogs are only allowed on her paved patio area which every so often is hosed down which sends a fetid stream of stale piss and crud flowing straight past our front door.
There seem to be at least 4 dogs home at any one time and every few days a tatty old van (driven by a pitiful looking wreck of a woman) filled with barking dogs turns up and home comes another bad tempered staffie or similar. The neighbour in question seems to use this dog-van as her primary form of transport as not surprisingly she doesn't drive.
We have thought about complaining but are worried about making the situation worse. Her mother lives on the other side of us so the potential candidates for retribution should she get wind of a complaint are us and us only.
She doesn't walk them and certainly has no interest in training them. When they bark, and they bark regularly, her way of dealing with it is by yelling at them. Loudly.
She also yells at her kids, who despite their oaf of a mother are surprisingly well behaved.
The dogs are only allowed on her paved patio area which every so often is hosed down which sends a fetid stream of stale piss and crud flowing straight past our front door.
There seem to be at least 4 dogs home at any one time and every few days a tatty old van (driven by a pitiful looking wreck of a woman) filled with barking dogs turns up and home comes another bad tempered staffie or similar. The neighbour in question seems to use this dog-van as her primary form of transport as not surprisingly she doesn't drive.
We have thought about complaining but are worried about making the situation worse. Her mother lives on the other side of us so the potential candidates for retribution should she get wind of a complaint are us and us only.
Edited by 24lemons on Wednesday 16th July 09:44
I had a neighbour once, a 50yr old divorced guy. Every night at 6pm, just after he got in from work - for 5 minutes, there would be a huge, repeated thumping noise, like the sound of an elephant jumping in a skipping rope. Then it would go quiet again..and that was it til the next day.
Dog Star said:
Sounds absolutely awful - but it would appear to be very common. I used to work for Lex Vehicle Leasing in Sale and there was a bloke who lived there who used to get up at 7am every morning and put his Galaxy across the two parking spaces outside his house (he couldn't see them anyway because of the hedge!) to stop staff parking there.
It's here ...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.429238,-2.327106...
So not only is is hedge totally blocking sight of the parked cars - he's got TWO drives.
However it gets worse: one day one of the staff came back to find that he'd put their window through, let the handbrake off and was pushing their car out of the way. Total fruitloop.
What does the solid white line infront mean? sorry not upto scratch on all my road markings one of my brothers neighbours has a smaller one if you're even a cm on it she goes nuts which I was one day she could still get a bus out her drive but insisted I moved my car off the line so I made sure I was literally just off it seemed to please her anyway! It's here ...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.429238,-2.327106...
So not only is is hedge totally blocking sight of the parked cars - he's got TWO drives.
However it gets worse: one day one of the staff came back to find that he'd put their window through, let the handbrake off and was pushing their car out of the way. Total fruitloop.
Edited by Dog Star on Wednesday 16th July 09:38
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