Odd things your neighbours do?

[rossub]

ElectricSoup said:

Robbo 27 said:

I live in a cul de sac, there is a house that looks along the cul de sac. As I was washing my car yesterday, the woman who owns the house, who I have never spoken to before, came over and asked if I would mind washing my car on my drive instead of the road, I said I did mind, sorrry. She then asked if I would bring my wheelie bin in as soon as the bin men had been, she then walked off, more than a little cheesed off that the conversation hadn't gone her way.

I'm with her on the bins. The folks in my cul-de-sac are quite slack taking them in, and we have 3 separate collections so it's likely some bins are out front every single day. My 2 nearest and dearest neighbours often put a bin out on a Wednesday in case they forget. Collections are on Mondays and Tuesdays...

Makes the place look a right tip. Oh well, I'm at the entrance to the Close so I can enjoy the view from my dining room, if I sit at the right end of my dining table, in the other direction, along a tree lined avenue where civilised folk live who manage to take their bins in promptly.

You'd really hate me then.

I live in a cul de sac and if it's raining when I get home, the bin stays out. If it's raining when I get home the next day, the bin stays out and....well you get the picture.

[anonymous-user]

My neighbour used to moan about mine, now puts them in for me.

[PositronicRay]

Thesprucegoose said:

My neighbour used to moan about mine, now puts them in for me.

[PAULJ5555]

illmonkey said:

Being back at my folks and I see their long time neighbor who will regularly vacuum the drive. Other mental signs include wiping the front door threshold every time someone goes into the home, to which she has to open the door for the husband or son (34 and lives at home, but has a new M4 on the drive). Cut's the front grass with scissors and throws leaves onto the neighbors side of the drive (for them to blow back onto her half). The list goes on and on.

We all get told off by our mother for watching her duties, she really is a little mental in what she does.

Edited by illmonkey on Wednesday 14th August 11:25

Hoovering the drive and grass has been mentioned on here loads in the past. A few weeks a go I spilt a load of stone dust on the drive and tried to sweep it up but it left a load of lighter fine dust. I remembered this and when the missus was out I hovered the drive just to get up the fine dust patch.

I'm that crazy neighbour now thanks to pistonheads.

[horsemeatscandal]

One neighbour has modified his car to look like the 350Z from the third Fast and Furious film. I didn’t recognise it at first so had to do some tactical Googling. Very odd, mostly done with superglue. Grown man with children. Each to their own I suppose.

The one that actually made me post in this thread.... Just seen a man mowing his tarmac drive, what the hell? Is that a thing?

[Robbo 27]

I used to have a neighbour who would use a nail to remove any moss in his tarmac drive, he was on his hands and knees, the nutter.

Why he didnt use salt or moss killer I really dont know.

[marksx]

horsemeatscandal said:

One neighbour has modified his car to look like the 350Z from the third Fast and Furious film. I didn’t recognise it at first so had to do some tactical Googling. Very odd, mostly done with superglue. Grown man with children. Each to their own I suppose.

A bloke who's a car enthusiast in a tight budget? Not that odd.

[miniman]

horsemeatscandal said:

The one that actually made me post in this thread.... Just seen a man mowing his tarmac drive, what the hell? Is that a thing?

I do that

It's just using the mower to suck up various detritus, rather than a full on breakdown, honest.

[jakesmith]

PAULJ5555 said:

Hoovering the drive and grass has been mentioned on here loads in the past. A few weeks a go I spilt a load of stone dust on the drive and tried to sweep it up but it left a load of lighter fine dust. I remembered this and when the missus was out I hovered the drive just to get up the fine dust patch.

I'm that crazy neighbour now thanks to pistonheads.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just wash it off with a hose

[stinkyspanner]

Various neighbours in my cul de sac like to bring everyone else's bins back down the drive the millisecond the dustmen have gone. I wish they'd just leave them the flip alone rather than squeezing them down the side of our cars..

[nonsequitur]

jakesmith said:

PAULJ5555 said:

Hoovering the drive and grass has been mentioned on here loads in the past. A few weeks a go I spilt a load of stone dust on the drive and tried to sweep it up but it left a load of lighter fine dust. I remembered this and when the missus was out I hovered the drive just to get up the fine dust patch.

I'm that crazy neighbour now thanks to pistonheads.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just wash it off with a hose

I pressure wash a golf driving practice mat. It's astroturf and scrubs up like new. Fore!

[Spare tyre]

nonsequitur said:

jakesmith said:

PAULJ5555 said:

Hoovering the drive and grass has been mentioned on here loads in the past. A few weeks a go I spilt a load of stone dust on the drive and tried to sweep it up but it left a load of lighter fine dust. I remembered this and when the missus was out I hovered the drive just to get up the fine dust patch.

I'm that crazy neighbour now thanks to pistonheads.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just wash it off with a hose

I pressure wash a golf driving practice mat. It's astroturf and scrubs up like new. Fore!

In winter I use petrol mower to suck up leaves from our drive and patio

[SlimJim16v]

rossub said:

I live in a cul de sac and if it's raining when I get home, the bin stays out. If it's raining when I get home the next day, the bin stays out and....well you get the picture.

A bin being left out is a sign that there may be no one home.

[RicksAlfas]

SlimJim16v said:

A bin being left out is a sign that there may be no one home.

Or a lazy, messy sod is home!!



(No offence to any bin leaver outers).

[SGirl]

stinkyspanner said:

Various neighbours in my cul de sac like to bring everyone else's bins back down the drive the millisecond the dustmen have gone. I wish they'd just leave them the flip alone rather than squeezing them down the side of our cars..

I go out and move the bin belonging to the neighbour opposite when it's been collected - she lives on her own and she hates her bin being left out and announcing she's not in when she's gone out. It's no big deal, takes 10 seconds while I'm getting our bin in.

I'm always in when the binmen turn up, but despite this she'll bring our bin in for us if she gets there first. It's just a good neighbour thing.

Don't understand why you wouldn't bring the bin in? If nothing else, it gets in the way of the cars when you want to get them out.

Speaking of which - the binmen have just been! Got to go.

[rossub]

SlimJim16v said:

rossub said:

I live in a cul de sac and if it's raining when I get home, the bin stays out. If it's raining when I get home the next day, the bin stays out and....well you get the picture.

A bin being left out is a sign that there may be no one home.

Indeed. My plan is to lead a potential thief into a false sense of security. When he realises someone IS home, the word will get out to the thief community and the whole country can sleep at night with their bins out, in the knowledge that a left out bin no longer means no one is home

[anonymous-user]

Spare tyre said:

In winter I use petrol mower to suck up leaves from our drive and patio

I'm not sure if that is odd or actually genius! We have around 15 fruit trees and 2 walnut trees that create a good 3 days of work come autumn. Must try this!

[Chris Type R]

CDB1983 said:

Spare tyre said:

In winter I use petrol mower to suck up leaves from our drive and patio

I'm not sure if that is odd or actually genius! We have around 15 fruit trees and 2 walnut trees that create a good 3 days of work come autumn. Must try this!

I do the same to pick up leaves from the concrete apron alongside our house - works quite well.

[snobetter]

Chris Type R said:

CDB1983 said:

Spare tyre said:

In winter I use petrol mower to suck up leaves from our drive and patio

I'm not sure if that is odd or actually genius! We have around 15 fruit trees and 2 walnut trees that create a good 3 days of work come autumn. Must try this!

I do the same to pick up leaves from the concrete apron alongside our house - works quite well.

It's good to do this to anything you're putting on a compost heap.

[stinkyspanner]

SGirl said:

stinkyspanner said:

Various neighbours in my cul de sac like to bring everyone else's bins back down the drive the millisecond the dustmen have gone. I wish they'd just leave them the flip alone rather than squeezing them down the side of our cars..

I go out and move the bin belonging to the neighbour opposite when it's been collected - she lives on her own and she hates her bin being left out and announcing she's not in when she's gone out. It's no big deal, takes 10 seconds while I'm getting our bin in.

I'm always in when the binmen turn up, but despite this she'll bring our bin in for us if she gets there first. It's just a good neighbour thing.

Don't understand why you wouldn't bring the bin in? If nothing else, it gets in the way of the cars when you want to get them out.

Speaking of which - the binmen have just been! Got to go.

It's not that I don't want to put my bins away, or anyone else's if I get home and they're still out. It's more that I don't feel the need to do it immediately they're emptied. It makes me a bit uncomfortable tbh when I'm sitting eating my Coco pops in my pants and the neighbours fking about with my bins outside my window! Just leave them! I'll do it when I leave for work FFS😀