What is happening on your street WhatsApp?

[Poppingby]

I'm nosey.

On mine, somebody is asking whether a wandering cat is lost (answer: no, as usual) and someone else's delivery has been nicked from outside their house. They are warning us to rethink our safe places.

There was a missing parrot in ours last year... this year lots of people have caught hedgehogs on their ring door bells except for us who caught a rat...

Us asking if anyone was expecting a guy about a bike as he was parked in our drive looking confused and asking about an address which doesn't exist. One neighbour offering another some firewood. A cake sale leftover giveaway. And warnings about yet more road closures.

I'm amazed that so many people know the phone numbers of people on their street! I don't even know the names of most of mine.

They usually start via a note through the door with the details on how to contact the admin so they can add you. Ours was set up during Covid so, I imagine, lots of others started that way as well. They're a good idea, I think.

Moaning about dog poo and fireworks

Well, they don’t. I’m not sure how our area’s WhatsApp started, but certainly by the time we moved here, everyone already in it was an Admin and could add anyone new who wanted. I assume it started with notes in doors.

I'm nosey too, thanks for starting this thread I love seeing what other people are up to! Usual subjects are:- warning of Jehovah's Witnesses or double glazing sales people doing the rounds, reminding people to buy a village calendar which raises money for charity, road closures, giving away furniture and kids toys, and the top subject is whether or not we can get up the hill and out of the estate when it snows. The highlight for me was when I got done by the self appointed WhatsApp police for being offensive about travellers - I wasn't being offensive about all travellers just the ones that had been harassing me and my DH and threatening us at our business and trying to extort thousands of pounds from us and other local businesses to leave us alone. I stand by my opinion which is that they are scum. I told them I wasn't being offensive I was stating facts. Everyone apart from the WA police backed me up! It was very dramatic!

I like that one.

We live out in the country so no street whatsapp unfortunately but not long after we moved in, a neighbour called to see if we'd seen his peacock.

He always had peacocks. But this one in particular was a bit of a Houdini and a bit of a menace.

I knew immediately I was going to love living here.

Poor Gary!

Our building is kicking off about a load of works proposed to be done which will rocket the service charge.

Village WhatsApp
Anyone else got a power cut?
Yes we have!
And us!
Me!
Me!
Us too!

Hours or minutes later

Power back on here!
Here too!
And us!
And us!
Yay - on for me!
And us
😴

Oh man, as a northerner living in London, I really miss this neighbourhood chat.
I live in a complex full of people too busy to even say hello to you in the lift.
I would love to join a group as a fly on the wall, just to hear the gossip. 😂

We had fun on ours last year when Dave the peacock decided to leave his farm home and go for a wander round the Eastern fringe of the city. We were entertained for days by pictures of Dave in various locations. He eventually went home having had fun for nearly two weeks.

We don’t have a street WhatsApp a Facebook group instead. The usual is there’s a chicken on X road is it the farmers? Reminders to dog walkers that Thursday is when the donkeys roam through so keep dogs on a lead please. Only one person likes to remind us all what bins are being collected each week which has caused a few ruffled feathers and sarky comments, she’s a busybody but I quite like knowing if it’s general or recycling because I can never remember!

Also ducks are back and on the road, drive carefully around the corner. Awful incident when one neighbour in her new car ran over another neighbours cat and killed it. That was upsetting as he was the neighbourhood watch cat and used to like our garden to sun himself in. He’s missed.

A few spats about barking dogs and awful parking but it’s quite sedate in the main. I like to lurk but have never commented yet.

"Is this anyone's front door? As it's not mine and you've got my parcel"

oh yes the famous has anyone got my parcel? does anyone recognise this door/gate/drive way?

Where’s that loud noise coming from

can I borrow a hairdryer

We’ve occasionally had panic-stricken ‘Oh my god, I just heard an EXPLOSION!’ from newly moved-in people. (The university is nearby, and periodically the chemistry department disposes of substances in a controlled explosion on the grounds under army supervision, but it’s unnerving if you don’t know this, because the terrain means it echoes…)

Well aren’t you above everyone bows

Not above anyone i just dont need the dramas if we did have one.

Dear lord, we do not have a WhatsApp. Actually, I live in the middle of nowhere. There are no streets or neighbours.

But hot topic on nearest town Facebook group is that some jerk parked their BMW on the narrowest park of a very narrow street where there is no parking on Saturday evening and now no large vehicles can get through, no buses, tractors, big trucks, etc. He’s already lost his wing mirror by the looks of it, but still hasn’t moved. It’s a small town, really only a few streets so no way around him.

Like 10 people have posted photos including of the damage to the car since Saturday. This numpty has yet to surface and move his car. There was a big sporting event on Saturday so possibly got too drunk and doesn’t even remember where he left his car.

Someone's washer dryer has broken and they've been canvassing recommendations.
Someone's car park fob also died so they wanted to know how to get a new one. Someone replaced their shower seal and has a spare part (benefit of us all living in the same flats).

Someone we didn't know parked in the car park and got a ticket. And someone put polystyrene in the recycling and has been called an #££%hole but we don't know who it was. Someone else posted a gentle reminder photo of what goes in which bin.

I’ve been in several in different places in two countries, and there’s never been the remotest drama. Just as there’s never been any drama in any of the parents’ WhatsApps at any of my son’s three schools. Just the occasional stray pet, found keys, someone parked on the street who’s left their headlights on.

Good for you.
I just would not be interested in joining.

We have spats of parcels going missing so now there's self appointes post monitors, where people post e.g. parcels for 9,6, 34 downstairs, with a photo of said parcels. Quite often they pick mine up and leave by my door as I'm first in the corridor on my floor.