Odd things your neighbours do?

Odd things your neighbours do?

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tribbles

3,980 posts

223 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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I-A said:
Twice a week for the front lawn - rear lawn is out of sight so slightly neglected and takes 4-5 times as long to mow in the first place!

I think mowing twice a week has really helped thicken the grass up.
I do a third of my lawn every 2 weeks, but may increase it if there's been a bit more growth than normal...

anonymoususer

5,855 posts

49 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Dashnine said:
I’m sure half the time, even in the US as well as the UK they’ll take stuff you might not normally expect them to take as they know it’s value and how to move it on.

At our local recycling centre the other week a guy was sitting by the electricals skip snipping off the cables from unwanted appliances - copper prices have recently gone through the roof. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be a council initiated policy.
You might be surprised

Error_404_Username_not_found

2,229 posts

52 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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I just got new neighbours. Couple of middle aged gay men moved in about eight weeks ago. Bumped into them one day in the driveway as I was spraying the weeds and chatted briefly. Both seem pleasant and good mannered.
Thing is they never seem to stick a nose out of the door and they're completely silent. Not even the TV in the evening (which suits me tbh as we don't either).
Nothing. Not a peep.
It's like having mice; you don't see them or hear them - you just know they're there.
Both work from home apparently, but doing what I have no clue.
Previous neighbours, as nice as they were, had a couple of teenage daughters and a six year old boy, so we got used to a bit of a racket now and then, but the new fellas might as well be Trappists.
Trying not to speculate what they're up to.

PH User

22,154 posts

109 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Sounds like you have the perfect neighbors

vaud

50,620 posts

156 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Error_404_Username_not_found said:
I just got new neighbours. Couple of middle aged gay men moved in about eight weeks ago. Bumped into them one day in the driveway as I was spraying the weeds and chatted briefly. Both seem pleasant and good mannered.
Thing is they never seem to stick a nose out of the door and they're completely silent. Not even the TV in the evening (which suits me tbh as we don't either).
Nothing. Not a peep.
It's like having mice; you don't see them or hear them - you just know they're there.
Both work from home apparently, but doing what I have no clue.
Previous neighbours, as nice as they were, had a couple of teenage daughters and a six year old boy, so we got used to a bit of a racket now and then, but the new fellas might as well be Trappists.
Trying not to speculate what they're up to.
Some people like peace.

Wireless headphones? Reading? Yoga?

Greshamst

2,075 posts

121 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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What’s happened to this thread? Last few posts have been about neighbours parking their cars on their own drive, and others not being noisy.

I come here for eccentric hedge wars, neighbours kids free house parties and 2am car washing with kitchen sponges.



ChevronB19

5,803 posts

164 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Error_404_Username_not_found said:
I just got new neighbours. Couple of middle aged gay men moved in about eight weeks ago. Bumped into them one day in the driveway as I was spraying the weeds and chatted briefly. Both seem pleasant and good mannered.
Thing is they never seem to stick a nose out of the door and they're completely silent. Not even the TV in the evening (which suits me tbh as we don't either).
Nothing. Not a peep.
It's like having mice; you don't see them or hear them - you just know they're there.
Both work from home apparently, but doing what I have no clue.
Previous neighbours, as nice as they were, had a couple of teenage daughters and a six year old boy, so we got used to a bit of a racket now and then, but the new fellas might as well be Trappists.
Trying not to speculate what they're up to.
How is that weird behaviour?

anonymoususer

5,855 posts

49 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Error_404_Username_not_found said:
Bumped into them one day in the driveway as I was spraying the weeds and chatted briefly. .
Is this a euphemism ?

Hugh Jarse

3,530 posts

206 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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ChevronB19 said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
I just got new neighbours. Couple of middle aged gay men moved in about eight weeks ago. Bumped into them one day in the driveway as I was spraying the weeds and chatted briefly. Both seem pleasant and good mannered.
Thing is they never seem to stick a nose out of the door and they're completely silent. Not even the TV in the evening (which suits me tbh as we don't either).
Nothing. Not a peep.
It's like having mice; you don't see them or hear them - you just know they're there.
Both work from home apparently, but doing what I have no clue.
Previous neighbours, as nice as they were, had a couple of teenage daughters and a six year old boy, so we got used to a bit of a racket now and then, but the new fellas might as well be Trappists.
Trying not to speculate what they're up to.
How is that weird behaviour?
like being in the jungle, when it is too quiet

Pit Pony

8,655 posts

122 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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ChevronB19 said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
I just got new neighbours. Couple of middle aged gay men moved in about eight weeks ago.

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How is that weird behaviour?
2 men, living together. It's not normal I tell you....weird..
I mean, who does all the cooking and cleaning?

Other 1950s stereotypical homophobic observations are available on application to my Grandad (Rip)

Heathwood

2,544 posts

203 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Well I got chatting to my rather odd elderly neighbour on the way to pick the kids up from school this afternoon. In his usual fair weather attire of just shorts, socks and sandals.

He preceded to tell me what a cracking pair of legs my wife has whilst licking his lips and with a certain look in his eye. Dirty old bd!

LosingGrip

7,827 posts

160 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Error_404_Username_not_found said:
I just got new neighbours. Couple of middle aged gay men moved in about eight weeks ago. Bumped into them one day in the driveway as I was spraying the weeds and chatted briefly. Both seem pleasant and good mannered.
Thing is they never seem to stick a nose out of the door and they're completely silent. Not even the TV in the evening (which suits me tbh as we don't either).
Nothing. Not a peep.
It's like having mice; you don't see them or hear them - you just know they're there.
Both work from home apparently, but doing what I have no clue.
Previous neighbours, as nice as they were, had a couple of teenage daughters and a six year old boy, so we got used to a bit of a racket now and then, but the new fellas might as well be Trappists.
Trying not to speculate what they're up to.
My neighbours below me are like this. Never hear them. Rarely see them. Often get the smell of what they are cooking as you walk pass their door. They take parcels in for us and leave them outside our door if we aren’t in or I’m on nights.

They are the perfect neighbours. Although they did just step over my girlfriend when she had a tumble down the stairs and hurt her leg and couldn’t get up.

Other neighbours are a right pain however. Three cars in the household. They have an allocated parking space and a garage but use neither. Really causes a problem. Another uses their parking space as a gym as they are a PT. Parks so it’s a pain getting into our drive but not quite bad enough we can’t get in.

When we move I want a two/three car driveway!

Error_404_Username_not_found

2,229 posts

52 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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Hugh Jarse said:
like being in the jungle, when it is too quiet
The heat. The flies. And those damnable drums! I wish the drums would stop.
Noo... You don't want the drums to stop!
Good Lord, why not Carruthers?

Bass solo....

Sorry, I just got out of hospital and the software is glitching a bit
Goodnight All.

Error_404_Username_not_found

2,229 posts

52 months

Tuesday 8th June 2021
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LosingGrip said:
My neighbours below me are like this. Never hear them. Rarely see them. Often get the smell of what they are cooking as you walk pass their door. They take parcels in for us and leave them outside our door if we aren’t in or I’m on nights.

They are the perfect neighbours. Although they did just step over my girlfriend when she had a tumble down the stairs and hurt her leg and couldn’t get up.

Other neighbours are a right pain however. Three cars in the household. They have an allocated parking space and a garage but use neither. Really causes a problem. Another uses their parking space as a gym as they are a PT. Parks so it’s a pain getting into our drive but not quite bad enough we can’t get in.

When we move I want a two/three car driveway!
Yep, it would have made more sense if I'd mentioned that they are in the ground floor apartment below me.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

117 months

Wednesday 9th June 2021
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Heathwood said:
Well I got chatting to my rather odd elderly neighbour on the way to pick the kids up from school this afternoon. In his usual fair weather attire of just shorts, socks and sandals.

He preceded to tell me what a cracking pair of legs my wife has whilst licking his lips and with a certain look in his eye. Dirty old bd!
Socks and sandals. A giveaway.

Red9zero

6,910 posts

58 months

Wednesday 9th June 2021
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nonsequitur said:
Heathwood said:
Well I got chatting to my rather odd elderly neighbour on the way to pick the kids up from school this afternoon. In his usual fair weather attire of just shorts, socks and sandals.

He preceded to tell me what a cracking pair of legs my wife has whilst licking his lips and with a certain look in his eye. Dirty old bd!
Socks and sandals. A giveaway.
I often see an old chap walking his dog wearing socks and sandals (man, not dog). Odd enough, but he still wears them in the rain or snow, even walking through wet grass in them. Apparently he used to be a vet and would wear them when out visiting farms too. As far as I know, he has never admired my wife's legs though.

CharlesdeGaulle

26,317 posts

181 months

Wednesday 9th June 2021
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Red9zero said:
As far as I know, he has never admired my wife's legs though.
Oof. That's gotta hurt!

geeks

9,204 posts

140 months

Wednesday 9th June 2021
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nonsequitur said:
Heathwood said:
Well I got chatting to my rather odd elderly neighbour on the way to pick the kids up from school this afternoon. In his usual fair weather attire of just shorts, socks and sandals.

He preceded to tell me what a cracking pair of legs my wife has whilst licking his lips and with a certain look in his eye. Dirty old bd!
Socks and sandals. A giveaway.
Usually socks+sandals=beard as well.

Bluedot

3,596 posts

108 months

Wednesday 9th June 2021
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geeks said:
nonsequitur said:
Heathwood said:
Well I got chatting to my rather odd elderly neighbour on the way to pick the kids up from school this afternoon. In his usual fair weather attire of just shorts, socks and sandals.

He preceded to tell me what a cracking pair of legs my wife has whilst licking his lips and with a certain look in his eye. Dirty old bd!
Socks and sandals. A giveaway.
Usually socks+sandals=beard as well.
Not that I am remotely in the same generation as hipsters but I believe a beard is actually part of 'the look' at the moment.
They've moved on from blokes drinking beer laced with twigs.
hehe

Kev_Mk3

2,784 posts

96 months

Thursday 10th June 2021
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Bloke over the road from me wears sandles and his boxers / short shorts only to jet wash his drive only the boxers have a massive hole in the back so his crack is on show.............

Hes never said hi once since we have lived here but his wife / daughter are lovely. They even say he is socially awkward lol