to think my neighbour shouldn't have done this.

[Themumsnot]

Knock on the door yesterday morning. Newish neighbour from down the road a bit standing there explaining that he had accidentally scraped the side of our car while parking (we live on a very narrow street). DH goes out to have a look and says not to worry, there are worse scrapes on the car already (we live on a very narrow street).

Knock on the door a few hours later. Neighbour again, this time brandishing a tube of Tcut and a bottle of wine.

What a nice man and as DH pointed out completely unnecessary as we'd never have known if he hadn't fessed up. Just thought I'd share as I thought AIBU could do with a bit of cheering up today.

Awww that's sweet. He sounds like a good new neighbour.

What a great guy!

What a pleasant guy. And a nice thread! :)

That's really nice. Lucky you to have a lovely neighbour.

What a lovely gesture. We could do with a few more posts like the OP's!

I told a friend recently that I have to go to a local clinic for a day eye op. She immediately offfered to accompany me. She has no car so would have had to use the bus everywhere. I would not be able to drive for obvious reasons and I thought how good it was of her to offer.

That's lovely, RB. Have some for your friend!
Maybe we should make this an official thread for random acts of kindness.

What is Tcut?

Yesterday a girl who works in a cupcake shop and often gets the bus with us gave toddler ds one of her leftover cakes to keep him occupied when the bus was late. She gave one to the driver too. Who says teenagers are selfish dicks?

Tcut is car polish stuff that is good for hiding scratches.

How lovely of the cupcake girl.

Note to self: do random acts of kindness more often.

that's lovely

You think your neighbour shouldn't have done this?

Have you written it backwards?

Trills I think she means in it a "Aww you shouldn't have" kind of way?

He sounds like a lovely neighbour OP

What a nice chap.

Note sure but I think T Cut spreads existing aint over the scratch. I keep meaning to go out and attend to one on my car but keep forgetting.

*existing paint

. Nice post OP.

When I saw the title of the thread I had already muttered a 'almost certainly not' in anticipation of the usual awful things that MN nieghbours are prone to do.

That's just what I meant, Worra. All the more lovely for being totally unnecessary. If you saw our car, you'd know what I mean.

Lovely - agreed we need more like this

That's really lovely our old neighbours gave my DP wine and chocs when he fixed their car, some people are lovely.

I always do my neighbourly thing, which mainly consists of running around the road picking up rubbish. I did pick up an open letter off the floor today and returned it to the original owner who was very grateful, that's my neighbourly deed for today

He sounds too nice. I'm worried he can't really be trusted.

I suggest you get the wine and T-cut out of your house pronto, in this day and age neighbours shouldn't even make eye contact. Anything more is a bad sign.

Well you sound really nice too OP. not many would react like that .

I agree with akammafrost; your neighbour sounds lovely, but so do you and your DH! Neighbour was probably terrified, if' he's new to the area and having to confess that he'd scraped your car. He must have been grateful to find out how reasonable you are :)

Sorry, misspelled akaemmafrost's name

how awful Themumsmnot, it must be a nightmare for you living near such a terrible neighbour.

That sort of unreasonable behaviour reminds me of the time my parents in law offered to babysit for us so that we could go out for dinner alone. I mean, how dare they?

What a lovely thing to do!!

I love it....random acts of kindness.
Just took warm chocolate chip muffins round to new neighbour......then he invited us to a BBQ next weekend. Now there's lovely!