Odd things your neighbours do?
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Pothole said:
My neighbour is a painter and decorator. I need all my window frames painting (wood frames with double glazed units) as I'm not going up ladders any more. I asked him yesterday to tell me what a ball park figure might be so I know if someone's trying to rip me off...He's up a ladder painting them as I type! Trying not to take payment, as well. I love where I live.
He just wants a good look in your windows to have a nosey.SistersofPercy said:
Pothole said:
My neighbour is a painter and decorator. I need all my window frames painting (wood frames with double glazed units) as I'm not going up ladders any more. I asked him yesterday to tell me what a ball park figure might be so I know if someone's trying to rip me off...He's up a ladder painting them as I type! Trying not to take payment, as well. I love where I live.
Cherish these people. Daughters NDN is a mechanic and Son In Law drives an old Jag X Type which he adores. Starter motor packed up one morning. Neighbour saw him on the drive trying to deal with it, arranged for the car to be trailered to the garage, fixed it and drove it back. Gave him the £40 bill for the new starter motor and wouldn't accept anything else.Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Pothole said:
Trying not to take payment, as well. I love where I live.
In which instance, if he refuses, get him a large bottle of his favourite tipple. Good to keep people like that sweet. Bloke round the corner drivers 0.2 miles to take his kids to school and then picks them up again in the car, I thought maybe he then drivers somewhere else after dropping them off but nope car goes straight back home.
Worst thing is its a VW Beetle softop with "the beetle" sticker on the side in the style of the beetles writing.
Worst thing is its a VW Beetle softop with "the beetle" sticker on the side in the style of the beetles writing.
Background, neighbour decided to fall out with us and pretty much had a year of abuse from him. Police gave him an harassment warning in November, which reduced some of the verbal but he then started other things such as following my wife through a local church yard and driving at her on the pavement.
A few weeks ago he started mocking her previous cancer treatment (she has implants due to double mastectomy), as well as general abuse at me.
Last night he was playing songs featuring my wife's name, most troubling was Gerry Monroe - Sally which features the lyrics "Marry me Sally; And happy together we will be".
This guy is absolutely bats
t.
A few weeks ago he started mocking her previous cancer treatment (she has implants due to double mastectomy), as well as general abuse at me.
Last night he was playing songs featuring my wife's name, most troubling was Gerry Monroe - Sally which features the lyrics "Marry me Sally; And happy together we will be".
This guy is absolutely bats
t. Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
vaud said:
Killer2005 said:
Police gave him an harassment warning in November
You might want to consider a restraining order; report the abuse as assault. IANAL.
Killer2005 said:
We have done. The police officer dealing with has been on holiday so we have to wait for him to catch up with everything
What a complete ahole. If that doesn't work I'm sure a large group of PHers could be amassed to come over and make a nuisance of ourselves outside his property. Hope you get it sorted without resorting to outside officialdom though.Pothole said:
I bought half a case of the wine he drinks...he made Mrs P take one back when she finally persuaded him to take them off her! He's done a cracking job in about a quarter of the time it would have taken me. When I helped him carry the ladders back through the house from the back garden (no side access) he said "have you got any masonry paint? I'll do that wall under the front window and the bit round the garage if you like" I reckon he'd do the whole house if I let him!
There is a very valid reason why he’s doing it for free!coppernorks said:
It's odd to think that some PH posters think that their quiet, private, silent,
respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
I thought that bout the young lady (early/mid 20's) that lives next door to me as I never see her,but then early hours of Thursday around 1am the police are hammering on her door threatening to smash it down if it isn't opened! respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
Turns out she has a boyfriend whose bail conditions stipulate that he can't be there and they are doing a welfare check on her to make sure he isn't there!
Saleen836 said:
coppernorks said:
It's odd to think that some PH posters think that their quiet, private, silent,
respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
I thought that bout the young lady (early/mid 20's) that lives next door to me as I never see her,but then early hours of Thursday around 1am the police are hammering on her door threatening to smash it down if it isn't opened! respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
Turns out she has a boyfriend whose bail conditions stipulate that he can't be there and they are doing a welfare check on her to make sure he isn't there!
PH User said:
Saleen836 said:
coppernorks said:
It's odd to think that some PH posters think that their quiet, private, silent,
respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
I thought that bout the young lady (early/mid 20's) that lives next door to me as I never see her,but then early hours of Thursday around 1am the police are hammering on her door threatening to smash it down if it isn't opened! respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
Turns out she has a boyfriend whose bail conditions stipulate that he can't be there and they are doing a welfare check on her to make sure he isn't there!
More than odd I find the behaviour of the guy across the way a bit perplexing if not down right odd. Every week on bin day he'll rush out of his house and put his bin out like the rest of us but every week without fail he'll put the wrong one out. This results in him chasing the bin men because they've obviously ignored his incorrect bin.
I wouldn't mind but if I or the neighbours put our bins out the night before he just has to look around the close and he will see which bin to put out but no, he will STILL put the wrong bin out. I'm starting to wonder if he has issues or is simply fking with us, it's been a few years now and he's still not getting the right one, surely he must realise last weeks bin is nearly empty so it must be the other one this week.
He reminds me of Heartbreak ridge where they keep wearing the wrong T-shirts. It really is very, very odd
I wouldn't mind but if I or the neighbours put our bins out the night before he just has to look around the close and he will see which bin to put out but no, he will STILL put the wrong bin out. I'm starting to wonder if he has issues or is simply f
king with us, it's been a few years now and he's still not getting the right one, surely he must realise last weeks bin is nearly empty so it must be the other one this week.He reminds me of Heartbreak ridge where they keep wearing the wrong T-shirts. It really is very, very odd
PH User said:
Saleen836 said:
coppernorks said:
It's odd to think that some PH posters think that their quiet, private, silent,
respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
I thought that bout the young lady (early/mid 20's) that lives next door to me as I never see her,but then early hours of Thursday around 1am the police are hammering on her door threatening to smash it down if it isn't opened! respectable, i.e, perfect neighbours are odd.
Turns out she has a boyfriend whose bail conditions stipulate that he can't be there and they are doing a welfare check on her to make sure he isn't there!
Killer2005 said:
Background, neighbour decided to fall out with us and pretty much had a year of abuse from him.
I feel for you buddy, and unfortunately can empathise. When we moved into our house (first time buy, nice enough area), our next door neighbours seemed pleasant in a conversational way, if rather more the types you'd expect to breed Staffies in their back garden (they didn't).
About six months later we had a significant water leak from the semi-detached property on the other side. I had a wee bit of hassle negotiating with the unfriendly, elderly and cantankerous (if harmless) neighbour responsible for the leak to sort a repair/settle the insurance claim.
First set of neighbours started accusing me of "bullying and harassing" the elderly woman. Cue two years of constant screamed abuse, threats to murder our cat. They rented an Audi R8 (God knows how - no seemingly gainfully-earned income) and gunned it outside our front window at 6am every day. Never drove the bloody thing, just gunned the engine. I'm hardly powerfully built myself and have absolutely zero inclination to get involved in fights over absolute bulls
t, so I used to just blank them throughout. This all culminated in these neighbours attacking me physically (my wife, bless her, called the police although I told her not to) and very loudly and publicly accusing me of being a paedophile. (Wtf? I've always been more into my MILFs!)
I promptly got about 30 of my heaviest mates round, had a massive party in the garden until 6am and played Gary Glitter songs over the fence at them on full blast… They duly put their house on the market and were gone within a couple of months!
A new couple have moved in who are absolutely delightful. They know nothing about their predecessors - my wife and I have decided that some things are best unsaid. However - I do now suffer from PTSD. I can be watering the plants out the front and develop serious and severe flashbacks about some awful woman flinging open that door and screaming at me that I was a, quote unquote, f
king nonce. It will take me quite some time to get over this, if ever. Shame as we adore our house and have some smashing new neighbours.
Some people just seem to get off from picking fights with those around them. Surely it's better to at least pretend to get on with your neighbours - who knows when you'd need them to sign for a package, lend you some sugar or call the fire brigade if they saw your house burning down?
My neighbour is 70+ and a complete creep, always sniffing around, humming and singing to make himself known. Over the past 15 years he has accused me of clicking at his wall at 2am when I wasn't in, accused me of playing gospel music which I don't like or listen to. Best one was 10 years ago he came out and challenged me for making a noise while bringing my bin in at 7pm on a July evening.
Today I looked up and he's on my side of the garage with hedge clippings. Now the hedge isn't near my side so clear from looking from my first floor that his was having a nosey through my bi-folds into my kitchen while standing n my side of the shed. He's on my CCTV doing it so I'm gonna let it slide. Being an oddball is one thing but being a peeping Tom is another.
I'm expecting to look out some day and find him wearing his partners lingerie while running around my garden. I've questioned if he has mental health issues or dementia which I'm told he hasn't. Given the hot weather I have had windows open and have caught up up against the boundary listening to conversations. So I said I was gonna wash my car and within 5 minutes he was out washing his. I now call him Fred after Fred West so if he's listening he won't know I'm talking about him.
Today I looked up and he's on my side of the garage with hedge clippings. Now the hedge isn't near my side so clear from looking from my first floor that his was having a nosey through my bi-folds into my kitchen while standing n my side of the shed. He's on my CCTV doing it so I'm gonna let it slide. Being an oddball is one thing but being a peeping Tom is another.
I'm expecting to look out some day and find him wearing his partners lingerie while running around my garden. I've questioned if he has mental health issues or dementia which I'm told he hasn't. Given the hot weather I have had windows open and have caught up up against the boundary listening to conversations. So I said I was gonna wash my car and within 5 minutes he was out washing his. I now call him Fred after Fred West so if he's listening he won't know I'm talking about him.
Edited by sutoka on Sunday 13th June 01:55
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