Brazen and Strange requests on NextDoor

[Eastie77Returns]

I don’t know if it’s just a reflection of the people who live in my area or if Nextdoor just attracts strange people in general but some of the posts on my neighbourhood page are a just a mix of brazen entitlement and weirdness

Today a man has posted a long message explaining he desperately needs someone with a car to pick up his relative from Heathrow. He is not willing to pay but has offered to buy the driver a Costa coffee by way of compensation. For context, it would be a 40 mile round trip. Residents have responded asking why he cannot meet his relative himself or take the Heathrow Express/tube if he doesn’t have a car. He has replied that he doesn’t want to travel on public transport, his relative cannot take the Express as the ticket is “not in her budget”. When a (male) respondent offered to help the poster replied no thanks, the driver must be a woman

Another woman has written an abusive message criticising people who offered to help fund her 5 year old’s birthday party and then backed out. She posted a week ago stating she needed several hundreds of pounds to buy a bike and organise a party. Apparently someone sent her a PM offering to meet her outside Morrison’s to buy her a birthday cake and didn’t show up. Another offered to transfer her money and didn’t. A third person offered something else and didn’t follow through and so it went on. Obviously sad if true but…who goes onto a public site and makes these kinds of requests

Last week someone drew an intricate picture of a missing shoe. They lost it in a park whilst sunbathing(!) and said they were willing to pay compensation as the shoe had sentimental value (why they didn’t just post a picture of the surviving shoe is anyone’s guess).

I admit I just go on ND for the LOLs now!

Oh no, it won’t let me - could some kind Twitter user please link to the best of next door feed 🥺💐

I feel like crap and could use a laugh. (Actually maybe I should get onto next door and post a sob story about needing something because I feel a bit sick?)

Ours are always about missing cats, car thieves and fireworks. God how people love to moan about fireworks. There’s also the occasional rant about bins and the council. Nothing too interesting

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Do you have to register with your home postcode?? My area is really dull, I want yours OP! 😂

Someone's found a racist pigeon on mine

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Thank you!

@SomethingNastyInTheBallPool

We have one woman who posts endless jokes, and a man who puts quotation marks round random words, inadvertently turning everything to sheer filth: ‘Wanted: “handyman” to “help” with light “gardening” jobs.’

Oh I love the random quote marks! Just off to join mine ... bear with and all that.

@recreationalcalpol I misread your post, thinking Mental was a GREAT name for a cat. The one at the back of me is called Sergei, my cats are

I'm joining mine. It will be full of nutters banging on about bees. It's a local obsession.

Ours is mostly asking for recommendations, charity jam sales (lovely jam, sells out so quickly so people must stalk the page waiting for her to post) and one woman who basically asks for stuff. Don't know whether she wants stuff for free or whether she wants to buy second hand but she posts weekly asking for everything from garden furniture to fridge freezers and jigsaws and adult colouring books. It's almost as if she is unaware of online shopping or the local town about a mile from where she lives.

@blissfulllife May I ask how they know the pigeon is racist?

[quote TSSDNCOP]@blissfulllife May I ask how they know the pigeon is racist?[/quote]
I'm hoping they meant racing pigeon

Ive joined mine.

Requests.for reliable tradespeople.
And a lot of complaints about people driving too fast

My favourite so far

Ok so apparently eggs are being injected with poison. Thank god I've been alerted.

@beigebrownblue

I joined with a name that I don't usually use to see what it was like.

I agree, some of it is weird.

example

'Like to warn people that my husband opened the door to a naked man last night'.

?

I was glad I hadn't used my usual name. I thought I had mental health issues...

I think we live in the same place! Do you happen to live in a seaside town?

We have a prolific poster who seems to have styled himself on Victor Meldrew. There is literally nothing he won't complain about.
His latest diatribe was about a local pub which emailed him about Christmas parties/dinners - in August.
He was so incensed by this email that he was trying to get everyone to boycott said pub because you shouldn't mention the C-word before 1 December.

It was so funny when every response was basically "Thanks for letting us know, we'll book right this minute". If I didn't know better I'd think he had a stake in that pub.

The thieving bee complaint made me laugh.

I think we may have a winner. First post is of a snake in someone's garden and they're trying to identify it

@recreationalcalpol

Ours is fully insane about cats:

‘Has anyone lost a cat? This ginger one is in my garden’ - no, it’s not lost, just a cat being a cat…

Or

‘NEW CAT ON THE BLOCK! Is this your cat? I’d really like to know its name’

Mental.

I love that! I’m always interested in the neighbourhood cats and love to get to know them. Let me come and move to your area!

The shoe!!! I'm crying 😂

surviving shoe

Mine is always about helicopters, stolen packages, flashers, parking tickets, more stolen packages, unusual bird sightings, and finally - stolen packages. So dull.

This sounds hilarious, all I have is my neighbours arguing about cricket on our neighbourhood page!

Brazen and Strange

Good name for money grabbing solicitors