🔥 Weird Things Your Neighbours Do Thread

[TheWorldisGoingMad]

I'll start... My neighbour thinks it's totally acceptable to sit in their car with the engine running and lights on.... for 3-4 hours, 6 nights of the week! Not in front of their own house. My mind truly boggles, they are still there now and it's 1:20. Arrived just after 21:00. 🙈 It must be costing a fortune.

Any thoughts as to why he does this?

Change your mobile number. For a start.

that’s got to be some sort of religious thing, surely?

Nope. I don’t think there are many deeply religious people who like to spend a Sunday afternoon drinking Stella on the doorstep while swearing at their dog.

No, maybe not then.

My next door neighbour lives alone. She always wears an old fashioned pinny, hairnet and slippers, except at night. I see her outside in the garden, after dark, still wearing the hair net and slippers- but she will have exchanged the pinny for a vest. Just a vest, nothing else. Fortunately it’s quite a long vest, but not long enough when she bends down.
She seems to spend quite a bit of time bending over and noisily throwing things into her shed through the open door.

I try not to look in her garden at night despite the terrible racket she makes.

One neighbour takes forever to go out or go in whenever he leaves the house, he will put something in his car, slam the door loudly and then pace up and down the road with his phone. He then goes back in for something, slams the front door and car door again, then does some more pacing with his phone, returning home requires a similar series of events. His MIL seems to stay several days a week and this seems to extend the procedure considerably.

The man opposite washes his car and cuts the grass in pouring rain.

Omg you read my mind tonight lol. I mean with neighbours there will always be issues. One will always like things a certain way do things differently to the other.
Well my thing is, day is still day, and night is still night 😳
So there are a few things I could mention, my neighbour douses the hallway with air freshener which makes me sick, it goes up the glass mirror there they never clean it. They do this to most likely help or think they are helping it smell nice, because they hog the front door area smoking, butts and ash everywhere.
Yet I got told by a few this is ok to smoke there, why do we not have rights too 🫣

Bangs doors especially after a row we had and they nearly took the front one off it's hinge. So carried on banging their own for obviously to prove a point.

Has the school holidays off due to job, so kids are up until late youngest crashing up and down until 11pm at least this is a living hell when I've got to get up.

The reason it works for them is bf just a cock lodger and goes off to work next day. And mother of kids wants lie in and kids laze all day eat junk, don't really go out, so come alive at night so unfair.

They know when I put my DC to bed at exactly then they start livening up for the evening.
But it will get dealt with, I can't go on like this.

This is not the arrangement as per what I was told when I signed my tenancy.

The ratio was one adult one child not multiply by 2, can you imagine the effect of that if each household did that.

Ohh I wish this was my place as we are in a most likely conversion that had no building permission by the looks and sounds of it.

This! It is illegal. Report him.

My neighbour puts random notes through my letterbox accusing me of made up things. They never bear any relation to reality or anything I have done or could possibly know about. She did send me whatsapp’s and texts but I’ve blocked her everywhere so she has resorted to notes or letters. Sometimes she doesn’t say they are from her but they obviously are because they are so batshit. They are always nasty. She does it to other neighbours too so it’s hard to take it personally.

We used to have next door neighbours who would have sword dancing sessions in their shed. We would hear the drums beating and men shouting out. This is in an inner city very small garden.

The man who lives opposite has a garden full of random stuff. Every now and again he will spend a week moving everything round and then stop. Currently he has a ladder against his house, a big pile of flagstones, a half demolished garage, pieces of fence and various containers.

I'm in the US and one of my neighbors started a giant bonfire just as the eclipse started on Monday. They have never been weird before so it was very random! Someone clearly called the fire dept as they arrived minutes later and made them put it out and our house then smelled of put out smoke for hours as all our windows were open (not because of the eclipse, it was just a lovely warm day lol).

A neighbour used to have an annoying yappy little dog. I couldn't come home without it yapping, whether I was walking by on the pavement past her house or parking up it would start yapping. The neighbour used to have a ritual of looking out of her window in the door to show the dog that she was checking and had a whole reassuring dialogue with the dog, couldn't just ignore it. Felt like tip toeing home as a teenager and trying desperately not to wake my parents. So annoying to have my comings and goings monitored like that, I felt there was no need to open the curtain and make a show of checking for the dog, just ignore it.

Mine puts fishnets all over his bush

I'll avoid the obvious wisecrack 😆

RedRuby2020 believe me I had years of renting so many properties and always noisy neighbours who did not give a crap about others. Had this weird religious group that used to meet upstairs and the noise of them chanting my god thought they were going to come down through my ceiling, that was in London. Had druggies beside me in a house and a lovely area until they moved in, their house always getting raided. they used to be up all night and slept all day. People coming and going, drunks arriving and walls were like paper. They would slam their doors and play the same shitty song all the time. Felt like going out and strangling them, in the end I had to move with my son and so stressful. Another place had nosy neighbour who just sat looking out his front bedroom window watching everyone coming and going. Police always up to them also. So at last got our own place and is great as nothing worse than listening to someone running across their floors non-stop and making noise all the time and slamming doors, why can't people just close a door normally. So the guy above us doing his closing the door 3 times ocd thing is nothing and they are great and if they do have friends over always finishes reasonable time. Your neighbours should not be smoking at the front door as everyone's access. Put a plant pot there with sand in it and maybe they will use it. I had to ask upstairs neighbours in old place to stop throwing cig butts down as my patio not their bin. Basic manners. Are you on a housing list or any chance of getting a place. Very stressful especially when have a child and hope things improve as never thought my situation would.

SnowFrogJelly why the hell does he put fishnets, is it to stop cats, must look mental. Put a few christms lights on it ha!!!! Is his bush big !!!!

I pass a lady on my way to work at 05.45 every morning sweeping the main road outside her house....which was highly amusing from my point of view one wintery morning as the gritter , in full flow, sailed past...if looks could kill! 🤣🤣

My opposite neighbour takes photos of any cars parking outside their house - they have a drive with space for 3 cars on it so no one is taking their space. If they catch the person getting out of the car, they tell them to move because they are blocking them in when they are clearly not.

My neighbours (mother and son) scream at each other in the middle of the street regularly. Often right outside my front window. They get out the car, then start (or maybe carry on) yelling and screaming for up to half an hour. Their front door is 2 metres away, but they don’t go inside until they are done. I don’t understand how they aren’t embarrassed to be yelling such personal stuff in public. We live in terraces, so this is right outside their neighbours homes.

Everyone else is just normal, sometimes a bit noisy as that’s life, but usually quiet. These people are just caricatures of Eastenders characters.

Next door lives alone, his house is a little run down and he pisses off the entire estate with his overgrown garden (especially those of us downwind who are fighting a losing battle against weeds in our own lawns) but owns a top of the range Porsche Cayenne.

A grand to pave his unused garden would save him a lot of hassle

Me too, bellowing drowning out the wife and kids. like Dom Jolly he'll stand outside his front door to make a phone call so all the Street can hear, he's also started shouting at us through the fence, last Summer, in my PJ's around 7am I opened my bedroom window a crack to put out a fly and the boom of a "Morning Melony!" ricocheted around the Street. Get to fuck.

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My neighbours moved in about 6 months ago. But have never put their wheelie bins out for collection in that entire time. What do they do with all their rubbish???

Every light is on in the house from dusk - late every day and every blind/curtain shut all the time. The man's car is only there occasionally, and (I assume) his wife rarely seems to leave the house