Odd things your neighbours do?
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carrottop said:
I have a neighbour who lives almost directly opposite to me. We've never got past the polite wave stage. He is middle-aged and married, though we have never seen them out together; (other than that) he seems very ordinary.
However! once a month, and it's always the evening of the third Friday, he dons a poorly fitted toupe and (equally ill fitting) suit and goes out for about three hours.
We've see him hovering by the front door checking the coast is clear before he makes a sprint for the car.
He will then arrive back sans toupe and park just a little way up the road. He sits in the car for about 30 mins before driving onto his drive and dashing indoors.
Wow - that is odd indeed.However! once a month, and it's always the evening of the third Friday, he dons a poorly fitted toupe and (equally ill fitting) suit and goes out for about three hours.
We've see him hovering by the front door checking the coast is clear before he makes a sprint for the car.
He will then arrive back sans toupe and park just a little way up the road. He sits in the car for about 30 mins before driving onto his drive and dashing indoors.
carrottop said:
I have a neighbour who lives almost directly opposite to me. We've never got past the polite wave stage. He is middle-aged and married, though we have never seen them out together; (other than that) he seems very ordinary.
However! once a month, and it's always the evening of the third Friday, he dons a poorly fitted toupe and (equally ill fitting) suit and goes out for about three hours.
We've see him hovering by the front door checking the coast is clear before he makes a sprint for the car.
He will then arrive back sans toupe and park just a little way up the road. He sits in the car for about 30 mins before driving onto his drive and dashing indoors.
Sounds like a comedy sketch!However! once a month, and it's always the evening of the third Friday, he dons a poorly fitted toupe and (equally ill fitting) suit and goes out for about three hours.
We've see him hovering by the front door checking the coast is clear before he makes a sprint for the car.
He will then arrive back sans toupe and park just a little way up the road. He sits in the car for about 30 mins before driving onto his drive and dashing indoors.
johnwilliams77 said:
Colonial said:
They never answer their door.
I don't either. I am odd then.Europa1 said:
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I never realised it was such 'a thing'.I once had to knock on someone's door to tell them the front of their house was on fire (they'd been removing paint from windows sills that afternoon with a heat gun).
Odd things your neighbours do. Oh, i've got one, i've got a family of c*nts that stay next to me who seem to, contrary to what i thought the law was, drive freely around in 4 untaxed vehicles in the last year, and the police and the Dvla do nothing, so relax everyone, YOU DONT NEED TAX!!
Blown2CV said:
ReaderScars said:
Blown2CV said:
absolutely weird one over the weekend. I could heard the wife answer the door and then talk to someone for a bit at the doorstep whilst i was getting ready for us all to go out. Turns out it was a lad from down the street who i estimate to be 22 years old or so... we'd never spoken to them in our lives and i wouldn't really recognise them out of context, but have seen them about. He was saying that his brother was really into cars and would like to wash my car for free (I've got an Audi S8). The brother is probably a year or two younger than this lad - don't believe there is any special needs angle to this. I think it would be adorable if they were like primary school age, but from a pair of adults i found it very strange, and was a bit taken aback. Mrs 2CV just kind of said she'd speak to me and we would come and let them know. I'm basically pretending it hasn't happened, but now I am wondering if i have just been a t
t and should let him... but then i think no fking way it's not like he is a kid, and i wouldn't even let most professionals near my car.... then i am thinking we might get a brick through the window.... then i am thinking there is more to the request than meets the eye. Maybe I am being too British but I just don't want this weird situation thrust upon me!
I reckon he wants to set up as a car washer/detailer and wants to use pics of your cleaned car to promote his services, seeing as it's a bit of an executive conveyance.t and should let him... but then i think no fking way it's not like he is a kid, and i wouldn't even let most professionals near my car.... then i am thinking we might get a brick through the window.... then i am thinking there is more to the request than meets the eye. Maybe I am being too British but I just don't want this weird situation thrust upon me!You never know it might be worth letting him at it if he's a detailing type, just stand over him as he does it though
Greendubber said:
Blown2CV said:
ReaderScars said:
Blown2CV said:
absolutely weird one over the weekend. I could heard the wife answer the door and then talk to someone for a bit at the doorstep whilst i was getting ready for us all to go out. Turns out it was a lad from down the street who i estimate to be 22 years old or so... we'd never spoken to them in our lives and i wouldn't really recognise them out of context, but have seen them about. He was saying that his brother was really into cars and would like to wash my car for free (I've got an Audi S8). The brother is probably a year or two younger than this lad - don't believe there is any special needs angle to this. I think it would be adorable if they were like primary school age, but from a pair of adults i found it very strange, and was a bit taken aback. Mrs 2CV just kind of said she'd speak to me and we would come and let them know. I'm basically pretending it hasn't happened, but now I am wondering if i have just been a tt and should let him... but then i think no fking way it's not like he is a kid, and i wouldn't even let most professionals near my car.... then i am thinking we might get a brick through the window.... then i am thinking there is more to the request than meets the eye. Maybe I am being too British but I just don't want this weird situation thrust upon me!
I reckon he wants to set up as a car washer/detailer and wants to use pics of your cleaned car to promote his services, seeing as it's a bit of an executive conveyance.t and should let him... but then i think no fking way it's not like he is a kid, and i wouldn't even let most professionals near my car.... then i am thinking we might get a brick through the window.... then i am thinking there is more to the request than meets the eye. Maybe I am being too British but I just don't want this weird situation thrust upon me!You never know it might be worth letting him at it if he's a detailing type, just stand over him as he does it though
carrottop said:
I have a neighbour who lives almost directly opposite to me. We've never got past the polite wave stage. He is middle-aged and married, though we have never seen them out together; (other than that) he seems very ordinary.
However! once a month, and it's always the evening of the third Friday, he dons a poorly fitted toupe and (equally ill fitting) suit and goes out for about three hours.
We've see him hovering by the front door checking the coast is clear before he makes a sprint for the car.
He will then arrive back sans toupe and park just a little way up the road. He sits in the car for about 30 mins before driving onto his drive and dashing indoors.
That is normal behaviour round my way. (Minus the toupe).However! once a month, and it's always the evening of the third Friday, he dons a poorly fitted toupe and (equally ill fitting) suit and goes out for about three hours.
We've see him hovering by the front door checking the coast is clear before he makes a sprint for the car.
He will then arrive back sans toupe and park just a little way up the road. He sits in the car for about 30 mins before driving onto his drive and dashing indoors.
Feeling pretty fortunate reading this as all my neighbours are 'normal'.
13 houses on our cul de sac, one side of the road all have driveways the other side don't and so there is an unspoken rule that those without drives get to park in the road which seems sensible to me. We have two cars so one goes on the drive way and the other on the larger road that feeds our cul de sac which is all of 20yds away, nice and wide and has no houses looking onto it so upsets no-one.
Occasionally visitors will park in a space that isn't 'theirs' but no-one gets worked up, only person who gets a little upset is an elderly lady who has been there since the 70's and is a bit protective of her convertible Astra (washes and valets it every weekend). She just politely asks people to park on the main through road and asked if we could tell our visitors to do so. Seems perfectly reasonable to me and she is lovely in every other way.
Not on close terms with everyone but would definitely say hello whenever I see them. On good terms with my direct neighbour and take it in turns with to do the fortnightly mow of the front lawns as they are all adjoined.
13 houses on our cul de sac, one side of the road all have driveways the other side don't and so there is an unspoken rule that those without drives get to park in the road which seems sensible to me. We have two cars so one goes on the drive way and the other on the larger road that feeds our cul de sac which is all of 20yds away, nice and wide and has no houses looking onto it so upsets no-one.
Occasionally visitors will park in a space that isn't 'theirs' but no-one gets worked up, only person who gets a little upset is an elderly lady who has been there since the 70's and is a bit protective of her convertible Astra (washes and valets it every weekend). She just politely asks people to park on the main through road and asked if we could tell our visitors to do so. Seems perfectly reasonable to me and she is lovely in every other way.
Not on close terms with everyone but would definitely say hello whenever I see them. On good terms with my direct neighbour and take it in turns with to do the fortnightly mow of the front lawns as they are all adjoined.
glasgow mega snake said:
My neighbour is building a patio. He's lifted some turf, put down a blue plastic tarpaulin, sprinkled it with about 5-10mm of sand, and is putting paving slabs on top. WTF? I am not sure this is a recognised patio building technique.
You mean there's another way of building a patio?Last week the guy opposite was removing a large hedge from his front garden. He parked his work van half in his drive and half on the road to load up, no problem as road was passable. However, our next door neighbour comes home and parks in his usual spot outside his house and half over our boundary therefore blocking our end of the cul-de-sac off. Muppet.
nonsequitur said:
glasgow mega snake said:
My neighbour is building a patio. He's lifted some turf, put down a blue plastic tarpaulin, sprinkled it with about 5-10mm of sand, and is putting paving slabs on top. WTF? I am not sure this is a recognised patio building technique.
You mean there's another way of building a patio?We share a front garden with the neighbour. For years, whenever someone cuts the grass, they'll just cut the neighbours too.
This weekend, they cut the grass on their side only, leaving a perfectly straight divide of freshly cut grass and long grass.
I suspect I've pissed them off somehow
This weekend, they cut the grass on their side only, leaving a perfectly straight divide of freshly cut grass and long grass.
I suspect I've pissed them off somehow
bobtail4x4 said:
it was your turn
I've done it for the past 3-4 times. Perhaps that means it is now my job to do it. They're strange people regardless.
Had a note through the door a while back complaining about our loud music which had been playing all day and disturbing them.
The house was empty and we weren't in the country
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