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AIBU?

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...to fantasise about new neighbours..

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Punkatheart · 19/02/2013 22:08

The house opposite me has been sold. Previously owned by a rather private man on his own...

I would like a poet with floppy hair, but a builder's body. I want him to be of course single - but a single parent would be lovely, with a lovely teenage boy for my daughter.

My daughter is not so optimistic...'It will be two ugly old men, mum. You know our luck.'

I can dream. Romance without effort. No travel. Convenient.

Lazy, much? I also sound like a bad short story in Woman's Wotsit....

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CharlieBlanche · 19/02/2013 22:12

Be careful what you wish for. I wished for a family to move in next door after lots of single tenants.

Oh dear.

We were very happy when a lovely single lady moved in this time.

ISeeSmallPeople · 19/02/2013 22:13

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Jbck · 19/02/2013 22:14

Every time a house in our cul de sac is up for sale I fantasise about the new neighbours. Mine are more girls for my DC to play with, nice parents and no smelly little football playing boys who will try to date said DDs when they are older
Good luck OP, hope you get your fantasy neighbour.

HoHoHoNoYouDont · 19/02/2013 22:15

Maybe she'll have 11 kids and a horse

Sorry, wrong thread.

FannyBazaar · 19/02/2013 22:15

I wished for quiet old people, perhaps hard of hearing so we could make noise and not have to worry if we were noisy neighbours, I got a family with 3 boys! They are lovely though and I remembered having an elderly downstairs neighbour in a flat who used to have her TV volume up so loud we could listen to her Coronation Street when our windows were open!

A lovely single man would be nice, but imagine dating a neighbour and it not working out but the neighbour staying...

Noodlenoon · 19/02/2013 22:17

Funny!

BrittaPerry · 19/02/2013 22:20

I'm about to move, and hoping to find a lovely selection of bohemian types, lots of interesting yet happy families, like in one of those 'everyone is differen' books, except everyone is an artist or whatever and we can pop in and out of houses and have board game nights and learn how to cook world dishes etc

Someone I vaguely know has just had to leave the street due to terribke neighbours taking against her, so I'm possibly being optimistic, but it is near a university and a fairly multicultural area, so possibly...

CharlieBlanche · 19/02/2013 22:34

ISee shush don't spoil it for me, she seems very nice (although in comparison to the previous creepy lot I'm not asking for much really.

Actually she looks like she might be an MNer

Cyclefaster · 19/02/2013 22:59

The house next door to me has just sold. I hear Bradley Cooper is buying it. Also David Beckham will be his room mate!

SomethingProfound · 20/02/2013 22:07

The house next door to me is up for sale, I never thought about my fantasise neighbour.

But someone who says hello would be nice, the previous lot had poles very firmly wedged up their derrières!

PessaryPam · 20/02/2013 22:16

Something is that not a tad racist?

sarahseashell · 20/02/2013 22:18

I'm thinking the builder's body will not match the poet/floppy hair head it'd be odd like one of the puzzles where you twirl round the body parts will he have policeman legs for example

oldraver · 20/02/2013 23:29

I live in a cul-de-sac of seven houses and three have been up for sale recently, two sold SST so long as thye dont find out about the loopy neighbour in the last week. I really do hope we get some friendly families. We have a couple of friendly neighbours but also some retired ones, they are what I would call family houses so have been surprised there aren't many children here

SomethingProfound · 20/02/2013 23:51

Pam, a pole can also be a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.

Saying that someone has a pole shoved up their arse is implying they are uptight.

I was not implying they had people of polish decent shoved up their bums.

stretch · 20/02/2013 23:56

PMSL

auntilin · 21/02/2013 00:02

ditto

WorraLiberty · 21/02/2013 00:04

Oh come on I'm sure Pam was joking!!

Well it made me laugh anyway!

SoleSource · 21/02/2013 00:07

Lol Pammy

stretch · 21/02/2013 00:10

"I was not implying they had people of polish decent shoved up their bums."

Do we not have quote of the week anymore?

RichardSimmonsTankTop · 21/02/2013 01:49

"I was not implying they had people of polish decent shoved up their bums."

Excellent.

SchroSawMargeryDaw · 21/02/2013 02:19

That so better be in the talk round up! :o

ripsishere · 21/02/2013 03:57

It's almost as interesting thinking about incoming neighbors as being the new one yourself.
Our old NDNs were OK, I was hoping for more fun. Our current ones are Chinese (not surprisingly) and ATM have four four metro tall sticks of sugar cane threatening to fall on me every time I open my front door.

ripsishere · 21/02/2013 03:58

metre metre metre. This bloody laptop americanises every single bastard thing it doesn't like.

MercedesKing · 21/02/2013 06:52

I agree with the daughter, 'It will be two ugly old men, mum. You know our luck.', she is so adorable in fact!!!

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Punkatheart · 21/02/2013 08:21

...there is only so many times I can stroll past, whistling.....trying to see anyone...

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