Odd things your neighbours do?
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When we had our flat in London the whole block seemed to be full of odd people. Mr Mad in the basement flat (number 13) was very Northern, usually very drunk, very often locked out of his own house clutching a can of stella wearing a dressing gown at 6:30 in the morning when I left for work and nearly blew the whole building up while we were on holiday.
Apparently he was in a "bad place" the cause of which was, I believe, large quantities of speed and low quantities of daylight which had culminated in turning the grill on, forgetting to light it, passing out and then being dragged out of his window some hours later by some firemen. Nice chap though. Often used to "help" me fix my car by seemingly teleporting next to me with a supply of cigarettes and bottles of water.
Upstairs was a large, heavy footed lady who would "entertain" guests in the early hours waking us up downstairs complete with comedy rattling chandelier on our bedroom ceiling. She would usually chuck them out a day later and then conduct conversations with them from her fourth floor bedroom window. Again, nice lady, but very loud.
Chap opposite used to rescue ALL the furniture I threw in the communal bins and hardly ever came out of his flat. It must have been rammed with crap. We generally kept an eye on him as he didn't look all that well. We did nickname him "skeletor" though because of his emaciated physique.
Woman upstairs was the block busy body and seemed to be in a never ending war with her landlord about something or other. Would always manage to knock on your door while you were on the bog or having dinner and invite herself in to critique the lounge or chat about someone else in the building.
Camp chap in the flat above Mr Mad had a very OCD flat and sold weed to the local students and he kept a plant on the outside windowsill at about head height with his cat guarding it. Police never seemed that bothered.
It was like an episode of Spaced sometimes and quite fun
Apparently he was in a "bad place" the cause of which was, I believe, large quantities of speed and low quantities of daylight which had culminated in turning the grill on, forgetting to light it, passing out and then being dragged out of his window some hours later by some firemen. Nice chap though. Often used to "help" me fix my car by seemingly teleporting next to me with a supply of cigarettes and bottles of water.
Upstairs was a large, heavy footed lady who would "entertain" guests in the early hours waking us up downstairs complete with comedy rattling chandelier on our bedroom ceiling. She would usually chuck them out a day later and then conduct conversations with them from her fourth floor bedroom window. Again, nice lady, but very loud.
Chap opposite used to rescue ALL the furniture I threw in the communal bins and hardly ever came out of his flat. It must have been rammed with crap. We generally kept an eye on him as he didn't look all that well. We did nickname him "skeletor" though because of his emaciated physique.
Woman upstairs was the block busy body and seemed to be in a never ending war with her landlord about something or other. Would always manage to knock on your door while you were on the bog or having dinner and invite herself in to critique the lounge or chat about someone else in the building.
Camp chap in the flat above Mr Mad had a very OCD flat and sold weed to the local students and he kept a plant on the outside windowsill at about head height with his cat guarding it. Police never seemed that bothered.
It was like an episode of Spaced sometimes and quite fun
During a bad winter years ago, the guy across the road and I fell into a routine of scraping our cars at the same time in the morning. “Morning, Richard!” he would call. “Morning, Peter!” I would reply, followed by predictable pleasantries about the weather.
One morning, I was out first and when he emerged I called out, “Morning, Peter!” He didn’t reply. Nothing. Odd, I thought. I looked over. Peter: check. Warm jacket: check. Work trousers: check. Pink sparkly stilettos: Whoop! Whoop! Mayday! Mayday! WTF!?!
Still having said nothing, he went back inside and came out two minutes later with his regular shoes on and called out, “Morning, Richard,” and off we went as if nothing had happened.
To be clear: he was a professional chap, married with kids and pink sparkly stilettos like a tarty girl would wear for a tarty night out at a tarty venue, only considerably bigger.
They sold up and moved away.
One morning, I was out first and when he emerged I called out, “Morning, Peter!” He didn’t reply. Nothing. Odd, I thought. I looked over. Peter: check. Warm jacket: check. Work trousers: check. Pink sparkly stilettos: Whoop! Whoop! Mayday! Mayday! WTF!?!
Still having said nothing, he went back inside and came out two minutes later with his regular shoes on and called out, “Morning, Richard,” and off we went as if nothing had happened.
To be clear: he was a professional chap, married with kids and pink sparkly stilettos like a tarty girl would wear for a tarty night out at a tarty venue, only considerably bigger.
They sold up and moved away.
Old neighbours,an old couple that hated kids...so odd then that they buy a house in a family domiated cul de sac. Moaning at every kid,every noise,even hitting my disabled son when he walked past their window (how very DARE he!)
Even accused the police of breaking in and hiding in the loft
Small street party when he snuffed it and she was carted off to a home
Even accused the police of breaking in and hiding in the loft
Small street party when he snuffed it and she was carted off to a home
spats said:
I would kill for some low grade nutty next door neighbours rather than the 2 window licking, helmet wearing f
ktards we currently have to put up with!
I’d even take the loud shagging ones over these 2 muppets!
Started off well enough, doing up the house after it was left empty for a decade. Kept it friendly and always kept the noise to a minimum. They even let us use their garden waste bin.
Then it all changed when they found out we were moving in ( I think the clue was us working on the place for 2 years before it was habitable). Here’s an extensive but not complete list of their attempts to drive me insane: Verbal abuse, property being damaged, threatened with a knife, talking to the dog about us, letting the dog bark at us constantly, telling tradesmen they were going to damage our house, smashing a small solar panel, letting another trade put a fence post up then hacking it to pieces with drills, saw and fire. Ripping off supports affixed to the to damaged fence post and stealing them. Stealing our bins and reusable bags. Driving over our alleyway in their 4x4 during the winter when they have no actual need to be driving on it ripping it up to the point where we can’t drive over it. Dumping rubbish directly behind our house, throwing dirty water from their back door onto our garden, cutting our rose bush back by putting cutters through the fence to damage it.
So far the police have issued them with warnings to them, fined them, visited them on several occasions, and now we are going court due to trying to attack me for no reason at all.
The best bit is even though the son lives there and parks his car in the garage every night, they both deny he lives there!
And why are they doing it? Who knows! Even the police cant get a decent answer out of them.
I feel for you, I've been through something remarkably similar, although it was a single old guy who was an alcoholic. It went to court, he sent death threats to the judge (clever huh?), and got a year in prison. The house has been empty for three years since then.ktards we currently have to put up with!I’d even take the loud shagging ones over these 2 muppets!
Started off well enough, doing up the house after it was left empty for a decade. Kept it friendly and always kept the noise to a minimum. They even let us use their garden waste bin.
Then it all changed when they found out we were moving in ( I think the clue was us working on the place for 2 years before it was habitable). Here’s an extensive but not complete list of their attempts to drive me insane: Verbal abuse, property being damaged, threatened with a knife, talking to the dog about us, letting the dog bark at us constantly, telling tradesmen they were going to damage our house, smashing a small solar panel, letting another trade put a fence post up then hacking it to pieces with drills, saw and fire. Ripping off supports affixed to the to damaged fence post and stealing them. Stealing our bins and reusable bags. Driving over our alleyway in their 4x4 during the winter when they have no actual need to be driving on it ripping it up to the point where we can’t drive over it. Dumping rubbish directly behind our house, throwing dirty water from their back door onto our garden, cutting our rose bush back by putting cutters through the fence to damage it.
So far the police have issued them with warnings to them, fined them, visited them on several occasions, and now we are going court due to trying to attack me for no reason at all.
The best bit is even though the son lives there and parks his car in the garage every night, they both deny he lives there!
And why are they doing it? Who knows! Even the police cant get a decent answer out of them.
Hang in there!
spats said:
I would kill for some low grade nutty next door neighbours rather than the 2 window licking, helmet wearing fktards we currently have to put up with!
I’d even take the loud shagging ones over these 2 muppets!
Started off well enough, doing up the house after it was left empty for a decade. Kept it friendly and always kept the noise to a minimum. They even let us use their garden waste bin.
Then it all changed when they found out we were moving in ( I think the clue was us working on the place for 2 years before it was habitable). Here’s an extensive but not complete list of their attempts to drive me insane: Verbal abuse, property being damaged, threatened with a knife, talking to the dog about us, letting the dog bark at us constantly, telling tradesmen they were going to damage our house, smashing a small solar panel, letting another trade put a fence post up then hacking it to pieces with drills, saw and fire. Ripping off supports affixed to the to damaged fence post and stealing them. Stealing our bins and reusable bags. Driving over our alleyway in their 4x4 during the winter when they have no actual need to be driving on it ripping it up to the point where we can’t drive over it. Dumping rubbish directly behind our house, throwing dirty water from their back door onto our garden, cutting our rose bush back by putting cutters through the fence to damage it.
So far the police have issued them with warnings to them, fined them, visited them on several occasions, and now we are going court due to trying to attack me for no reason at all.
The best bit is even though the son lives there and parks his car in the garage every night, they both deny he lives there!
And why are they doing it? Who knows! Even the police cant get a decent answer out of them.
My worst nightmare,I would not be able to hold it together.ktards we currently have to put up with!I’d even take the loud shagging ones over these 2 muppets!
Started off well enough, doing up the house after it was left empty for a decade. Kept it friendly and always kept the noise to a minimum. They even let us use their garden waste bin.
Then it all changed when they found out we were moving in ( I think the clue was us working on the place for 2 years before it was habitable). Here’s an extensive but not complete list of their attempts to drive me insane: Verbal abuse, property being damaged, threatened with a knife, talking to the dog about us, letting the dog bark at us constantly, telling tradesmen they were going to damage our house, smashing a small solar panel, letting another trade put a fence post up then hacking it to pieces with drills, saw and fire. Ripping off supports affixed to the to damaged fence post and stealing them. Stealing our bins and reusable bags. Driving over our alleyway in their 4x4 during the winter when they have no actual need to be driving on it ripping it up to the point where we can’t drive over it. Dumping rubbish directly behind our house, throwing dirty water from their back door onto our garden, cutting our rose bush back by putting cutters through the fence to damage it.
So far the police have issued them with warnings to them, fined them, visited them on several occasions, and now we are going court due to trying to attack me for no reason at all.
The best bit is even though the son lives there and parks his car in the garage every night, they both deny he lives there!
And why are they doing it? Who knows! Even the police cant get a decent answer out of them.
We used to live next door to a nice enough man,had his classical music on a bit loud sometimes but nothing to moan about,then.....
Neighbour across from him said to me one day "Have you seen that weirdo next to you"?
I said he is OK,keeps himself to himself,his girlfriend come and goes,never hear from him really.
Neighbour drops the bombshell that it is not his girlfriend it is him.Now then I used to see him going out in full Scottish kit,kilt etc but just thought he was going to a dinner or some meeting or other,what he was doing was building up the courage to make the switch.
Never admitted this before but I thought his 'girlfriend' was worth one.
Neighbour across from him said to me one day "Have you seen that weirdo next to you"?
I said he is OK,keeps himself to himself,his girlfriend come and goes,never hear from him really.
Neighbour drops the bombshell that it is not his girlfriend it is him.Now then I used to see him going out in full Scottish kit,kilt etc but just thought he was going to a dinner or some meeting or other,what he was doing was building up the courage to make the switch.
Never admitted this before but I thought his 'girlfriend' was worth one.
Probably quite common as a lot of people are strange about parking.....
We live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
We live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
a311 said:
Probably quite common as a lot of people are strange about parking.....
We live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
for stuff like this i really wish you didnt have to tax insure and mot cars in the uk - i could then start playing pranksWe live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
My inlaws are like this, if a car stayed in their spot for a couple of days they'd go into meltdown
Spare tyre said:
a311 said:
Probably quite common as a lot of people are strange about parking.....
We live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
for stuff like this i really wish you didnt have to tax insure and mot cars in the uk - i could then start playing pranksWe live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
My inlaws are like this, if a car stayed in their spot for a couple of days they'd go into meltdown
Our neighbours are bin obsessives.
They open the back door and put every single bit of recycling in separately, then go back in and close the door. Ive seen them take a single plastic milk bottle top outside into the recycling bin, in the rain.
Bins are out the front at 6pm the night before collection ( usually collected at 11am ) so the single item shuffle carrys on out the front - for another 8 hrs. They are retired and the son is on nights so they are literally at home all day and up at 5am !
Bins taken around the back .0005 picoseconds after emptying.
It keeps us amused and we don't need to remember what colour bin it is this week, they wont be getting it wrong ......
They open the back door and put every single bit of recycling in separately, then go back in and close the door. Ive seen them take a single plastic milk bottle top outside into the recycling bin, in the rain.
Bins are out the front at 6pm the night before collection ( usually collected at 11am ) so the single item shuffle carrys on out the front - for another 8 hrs. They are retired and the son is on nights so they are literally at home all day and up at 5am !
Bins taken around the back .0005 picoseconds after emptying.
It keeps us amused and we don't need to remember what colour bin it is this week, they wont be getting it wrong ......
We used to have a lovely old lady next door but a new couple have moved in and the woman has the most annoying nasally voice and is always arguing/shouting at her other half when we’re trying to chill in the garden. It’s a tone that really grates! Don’t know how the guy stands it, she’s not even shouting at me and I want to throw something at her!
Their kids have also taken to shooting their water pistols through small holes in the fence into our garden which is really pissing me off and has got the wife and our kids Guinea Pigs wet. Job for the weekend is to either silicon the holes in the fence, or fight back with 140bar of pressure washer and see if they get the hint!
I’m all for live and let live but they seem sooo irritating in so many ways. Our other neighbours we get on just fine with.
Their kids have also taken to shooting their water pistols through small holes in the fence into our garden which is really pissing me off and has got the wife and our kids Guinea Pigs wet. Job for the weekend is to either silicon the holes in the fence, or fight back with 140bar of pressure washer and see if they get the hint!
I’m all for live and let live but they seem sooo irritating in so many ways. Our other neighbours we get on just fine with.
Spare tyre said:
a311 said:
Probably quite common as a lot of people are strange about parking.....
We live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
for stuff like this i really wish you didnt have to tax insure and mot cars in the uk - i could then start playing pranksWe live on a road that used to be a main A road, a bypass was put in 20+ years a go so the road is a dead end at each end. It's not access only so as it's just off a main road people seem to park up for car sharing etc.
Neighbours like to have their cars like ducks in a row, if anyone dares takes one or more of 'their' places and moves they'll come out and move one of their cars into 'their' now vacated space. Really it's quite funny they'll do it with a minute of another car vacating 'their' space. Anytime of day, regardless of the weather they'll move sometimes the total distance of a couple of feet just to reclaim 'their' space.
I couldn't be arsed.
My inlaws are like this, if a car stayed in their spot for a couple of days they'd go into meltdown
If a random car was parked in the wrong 'space' on the road, it would set off a chain reaction of movements from the residents the moment it left.
Edited by sanguinary on Friday 25th July 13:58
haven't spoken to my neighbours son for a year or so after he was rude to me and my family about moving his car as he was blocking my wife in.
anyway - saw him and his new gf the other day and thought I would break the silence and say good morning.
He said (surprised that I was speaking to him) err good morning - she said the same.
now everytime I see them she gives a massively over the top " HELLO Good morning HOW ARE YOU?"
its pathetic - I seriously should have maintained the status quo - their idiocy hasn't resolved obviously.
and shes a septic too.
anyway - saw him and his new gf the other day and thought I would break the silence and say good morning.
He said (surprised that I was speaking to him) err good morning - she said the same.
now everytime I see them she gives a massively over the top " HELLO Good morning HOW ARE YOU?"
its pathetic - I seriously should have maintained the status quo - their idiocy hasn't resolved obviously.
and shes a septic too.
Capri86 said:
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Their kids have also taken to shooting their water pistols through small holes in the fence into our garden which is really pissing me off and has got the wife and our kids Guinea Pigs wet. Job for the weekend is to either silicon the holes in the fence, or fight back with 140bar of pressure washer and see if they get the hint!
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Definitely the 2nd optionTheir kids have also taken to shooting their water pistols through small holes in the fence into our garden which is really pissing me off and has got the wife and our kids Guinea Pigs wet. Job for the weekend is to either silicon the holes in the fence, or fight back with 140bar of pressure washer and see if they get the hint!
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