Weirdest neighbour antics you’ve ever come across?

[Mariohatesmushrooms]

I have a neighbour who comes running out of her house to stare at me whenever I go outside, but pretends that she’s doing something else like watering her plants or looking out for visitors. I have no idea why she does this, she is a bit odd in general though. I was taking the rubbish out once and she came dashing out so quickly that she tripped over a bucket and went flying! She landed on grass so would have been fine but it really cracked me up.

When I lived in my very first flat I had an 50+ year old alcoholic neighbour. He appeared in my kitchen one day when I was bringing in some shopping, made sexual advances and took ages to kick out (I was very polite and awkward about it when in hindsight I should probably have seen red!). After that he’d periodically throw things repeatedly at my door when he was very drunk like a bike, fridge shelves, his kitchen bin, a coffee table. It wasn’t too bad and I wasn’t there for long.

I’ve had a few other bizarre neighbours over the years but these are the two who really stand out for me. What sort of neighbour antics have had you chuckling or raising an eyebrow?

Ours sits all day - I mean aaaaaallll day - in a wingback chair facing the bay window knitting and avidly watching everything that happens on the road. It's sort of a comfort in a way. If anything bad happened she'd be a super eyewitness. She sees absolutely everything and even tracks which houses people's parcels are diverted to, but you can't do anything without her knowing.

My neighbour has someone like this, though they're malevolent nasty gossips, about the other neighbours, too apparently. He will talk to them as they're next door but other neighbours ignore them. He says it will be a pleasanter place when they're no longer hanging around the front gossiping with passing strangers all day.

It's actually an elderly couple but the man takes his chair to the front of the house. They're always watching from behind vertical blinds. They don't seem to have any purpose other than their extremely low maintenance garden and gossiping. The man wears dark shades alI the year round.

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Some of these are so sad and shocking.

I do love the more eccentric ones though. I think Tutu Trev might be my favourite.

Really? My family and his have lived next door to each other for a decade and he thinks it's appropriate to tell me he fancies me despite both him and I being married and you think that's not weird? Glad I don't have you as my neighbour!

She’s refused all support and because she’s been deemed to have capacity, the authorities can do nothing for her. It’s really quite sad.

Exactly!

However their logic seems to be if it’s not illegal then all good!

I can think of lots of situations that are not illegal but are weird none the less (like your situation).

He was being completely inappropriate and weird.

Thank you! Sometimes I think MN is a weird place but then if the PP was defending his weird behaviour that sort of explains why weird behaviour happens. One person's weird behaviour is clearly something some people think is OK. But making it massively awkward to live next door to him is totally inappropriate behaviour in my book.

I do think he was mentally ill-he used to stick san-pro to his windows,had loads of pictures of princess diana all over his flat,he'd collect his own waste instead of using the toliet and ex was woken at 3am every morning to this bloke chanting/praying to very odd music

err...yeah, I think you could be right somehow about being mentally ill. I mean, Princess Diana pics??

@cymraes12 unlikely we lived next door to the same elderly neighbour, whatever condition she was in she was always clear her late husband had built her bungalow as newly weds. In her less rational moments it just had the addition of how he’d turn in his grave knowing the neighbours were growing opium/ had stolen the driveway he’d laid etc. And sadly I think residential care was the only move she’d have made.
The younger one, perhaps. She was obsessed with us running a brothel too, we supposedly used our washing line to entice clients. Regardless of the fact her upstairs windows provided the only clear view and 9/10 the only thing on it was whichever rancid yard wear/ horse rug I’d left dripping. Her husband eventually cracked and left just before we graduated so she quite possibly did move to be deranged elsewhere.