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!

NoSquirrels. It’s ok he’s thought this through as he has informed everyone he’s driving 15 mins from home to dump all this shit! His excuse is: a full time job, two sets of elderly parents he has to shop for, 3 kids that he’s been home schooling for 18 months and he hasn’t had more than 5 hours sleep for years. This being Yorkshire there’s some competitive hard-done to posts on the lines that 5 hours sleep is a luxury. It’s bloody bonkers.

@SuzyDaarling

Ours is an endless loop of missing cats interspersed with 2 tradesmen who take pictures of every flipping job they do with comments like “Another satisfied customer.” There’s the occasional ‘what was that buzzing/droning/loud banging noise around 3 am. Then there is a smattering of racist xenophobes and 3 anti vax and general conspiracy nutters one of whom has been told to stop emailing our local MP about 5G masts/absence of birds and bees/covid being a huge worldwide plot etc etc. All this and the people trying to flog their old clothes and household crap for vastly inflated prices.

You must be on our one! Although there was a heated discussion on traffic calming measures this week.

Nigella the bonkers anti covid vaccine one got deleted thankfully. Not sure I remember traffic calming. Are you in west Yorks?

This sound like great fun, I'm jealous.

Our local site is all dog turds and people parking 0.007cm outside of their space.

An LTN is a Low Traffic Neighbourhood.

Mine is littered with people parking like idiots and cats missing. Then someone moaning about their regular hairdresser charging £5 for a fringe trim. Fireworks going off at stupid times.

The one about the bees stealing pollen is epic!

inadvertently turning everything to sheer filth: ‘Wanted: “handyman” to “help” with light “gardening” jobs.’

^

Gold

Bloody cheeky bees eh

@nameyourshorta

Mine is usually just people advertising their nails business or someone asking for recommendations.

My old one was based in a more, ahem, area, and once a woman asked if she could get some money raised to take her DD to the cinema? Said she'd never been

The thank you gesture? A drawing from her DD 

This woman drove an

I also drive an Audi - it's a Motability car. I get a lot of judgement for it as I'm a struggling (disabled) single mum unable to work. I see the perplexed, judgey looks every single time I go to collect something that's kindly being given to us for free and I turn up in an Audi. They then usually refuse to give it to me. This was once followed by a massive abusive post on Facebook whereby I was then banned from all of the free groups. If only they knew that I was actually penniless and had put my last £5 of fuel in just to get there

@Mpsister

Mine is dominated by one poster who is convinced that the reason he can't get a girlfriend is that he doesn't smoke

Wtf?!?!

This is my absolute favourite! The best thing I've ever seen on the internet EVER

Not just the cat's face(!), but the genuine question!!!!!! 💪🏻🤼😹

I'm not in the UK and we don't have Next Door here, but I was a member of a local FB group until I had to leave for my sanity.

It was run by an absolute megalomaniac and her cabal of followers, and you had to enthusiastically agree with everything they said. No dissent was tolerated, you'd be eviscerated for daring to disagree with them.

There was lots of 'fundraising' for a thing where people could nominate 'local heros' and they'd buy flowers, prosecco, chocolate and drop them on the person's doorstep with a note telling them how loved they are. Nice idea, yes? Except it became a circle jerk of them all nominating each other and delivering gifts to each other, funded by other people.

Loads of passive aggressive posts that frequently descended into full on arguments. Oh and the 'what time is Tesco open until tonight', 'where can I buy a pair of jeans', 'is xyz restaurant open today'. Fucking. Google. It.

An utter shitstorm over a defibrillator.

They were an, er, interesting group of people.

@MrsTerryPratchett

I haven't RTFT but Brazen and Strange would be a great name for something. Shop? Band?

I have just started noodling around on the bass after a very long hiatus, and have been thinking I'd like to get a group together to jam. If I do, I'm totally naming us Brazen and Strange

I'm on the opposite side of the world from the UK and it's no different.

Fox and helicopter sightings, endless complaints about youth/rubbish/street maintenance/mask wearing/hoon drivers/dog poo and 'I heard sirens, anyone know what's happening?'.

That cat's face

Around here we get

‘Did anyone else just hear gunshots?’
Replies: yes I heard them too or call the police then instead of posting or Nah it’s just teenagers setting off fireworks

Disclaimer, I live in Texas

Have just checked out our local Nextdoor and there is a big discussion involving drains ,sanitary towels ,wipes etc ! The local village is in two different counties . Can see a county war developing 🤐

Ours is very boring. The majority of the posts are about lost cats and dogs. Or someone needing recommendations for an electrician/plumber/tiler etc.

My favourite fb group is on the Wirral.
Recently a large building has been built , not sure what for. It's tall and red brick. No obvious windows.
Someone put Didn't know they'd brought back window tax.
Love scouse humour.

On our next door someone suggested we all submit photos of our cats and then when the 20 or so are lost / found they can be cross checked against pictures!

@EBearhug

Local Traffic News, I assume.

I joined through a thing which shields your real email. So I get the highlights mailed to me, but I can't actually log on, because I don't know my account name. On balance, this is a good thing, because it means I can't respond to the mad people. (Although also I can't respond to the few sane queries either.)

What's your shielding thingy called please?

I'm crying with laughter at this thread. Feline defence training

Ours is full of foxes, missing parcels, lost cats, helicopters, Moans about traffic and parking.

And people warning others to watch out for strangers spotted in the street, lurking (usually with an Eastern European 'look', whatever that is). Just everyday people going about their business. One poor woman was standing in the street waiting for a lift from a friend. People were wondering if she might be a victim of human trafficking.

Bonkers.

@Boredmotherofone

This is my absolute favourite! The best thing I've ever seen on the internet EVER

Not just the cat's face(!), but the genuine question!!!!!! 💪🏻🤼😹

@Boredmotherofone

That is the funniest thing that I’ve seen for a long time…..woke DH up trying to laugh quietly and he thought I was choking 😂😂.

Not on next door but this cropped up on my local fb group last night and made me laugh - as a family were getting ready to go out to lunch a random dog jumped in their car, they didn't want to leave it so took him with them to lunch and posted photos on the Facebook post the owners soon commented and were laughing at photos of him having cuddles at lunch before his return home