To be shocked at neighbour??

[DomesticDisgrace]

I was having a very rare chat with my downstairs neighbour, I'm in a duplex and she's in a flat underneath with her front door under the stairs to my place. Two very separate buildings really and you can hear absolutely nothing from one to the other.
We were talking about ovens and I was saying I'm a pretty useless cook but really been trying this year, something was said about what shelf is best and she said "because heat rises", at this stage DD was getting impatient and I just made a stupid joke about how that'll come in handy for me next winter (given that she lives underneath), not even true because I had my heating on loads this winter and I only said it out of silliness.

Well I've just gotten a text from her saying "Domestic, I've been thinking after our discussion earlier and I'm feeling a little hard done by if I'm honest. Perhaps we could have a chat later on and come up with the fairest way of dealing with the issue regarding heating"

What the actual fuck, I don't know what to say back but I really can't afford to pay her for having her heat on just because heat rises??

Honestly I'm not even offended, I'm just totally shocked and even a bit relieved that she's obviously just stark raving mad!

Love the fuel allowance idea Haha but under no circumstances will I be communicating again!

A deserted wife was the position dreaded by Women in Ireland who are oldfahioned far more than your husband die, it was an insult.

Ohh this has cheered me up no end

I am quietly chortling at the little demon comment. Could you perhaps lipstick 666 on DD's forehead for when you next go past the door?

Good. Lord. What a nutter. Definitely one to avoid.

'Ah, I get it, you're not right in the head, hope you get the help you need www.mentalhealthireland.ie/information/how-do-i-get-help.html, best of luck xxx'

Give it to the bitch.

I really didn't expect her to get nasty just thought she was a bit odd. What a horrible person she is.

Blimey, this is the craziest idea I have ever heard. What a fruitloop she sounds. You are doing the right thing keeping communication to a minimum from now on.

I used to live in a top floor flat, on the fourth floor. I had three flats directly underneath mine. They made virtually no difference to whether or not I needed my heating in the winter. Or just maybe I was missing a trick or two.

We had some oddbod neighbours in that block, but for very different reasons to you, and a whole other thread anyway.

Olympia

I am actually finding the mental health comments uncalled for. The behaviour she is displaying is nasty behaviour not unwell behaviour.

Or was she trying to help you access a benefit? I can see it the snidey way, but I could also imagine a socially inept person thinking they were helping.

And I thought I had seen it all

She could be nasty and unwell.
She is displaying odd behaviour. It's not normal for a conversation about cooking skills to degenerate like this.

"Dear neighbour, I am sorry for you if you cannot afford your heating bills and are a deserted wife/feel that you soon will be. Unfortunately the only help I can give you would be to suggest you look into insulating your property better and to visit your GP and CAB. You wouldn't be able to apply for that benefit you linked to as it's been discontinued but I don't know enough about social welfare to advise you further, so CAB may come in handy for you; your GP might have suggestions for how to cope with your current emotional and social difficulties. As I'm neither qualified or experienced in these areas I will leave our communications at this point. All the best for the future, which I sincerely hope improves for you soon. Kind regards, Domestic."

She sent you a link about being a deserted wife?

Change your number OP.

LimitedPeriod they were a small but clearly antisocial group of neon tetras, two of those Lesley Ash Lip-type fish that stick to the glass to clean it and two or three small orange ones that I think might have been called barbs.

One of the orange ones had a small black Hitler type mark where his nose would be if fish had noses, so I suspect he might have been the instigator of all the trouble. He looked the type.

Blimey. I posted earlier that I thought this might be a thread that kept on giving... But she is acting vv odd.

Step away Domestic but don't delete her texts.

I think its time for the 'are you on glue' text

This thread is just what I needed after my shit of a day.

I think you should send back 'haha, just realised you must have sent me the wrong link, for a minute there I thought you were serious and was about to call the doctor!! How funny!'

CRrrrrrrraaaazzzzyyy!

Seriously though OP, I would suggest you keep the texts and perhaps make a brief note of the conversation. Date and time it took place and a brief summary of where you were and what you both said.

Because I think she's only going to get worse and it mint be handy to have them as proof should you need to complain to someone or she decides to complain to someone about you.

That way you can prove that you were sane, rational and reasonable while she was a bit barking/outright rude and bizarre.

Time to disengage from this one I think OP - she is clearly a spanner short of a full toolbox

I was another who thought she was joking .... then maybe slightly Autistic ... and now agree she's a fecking fruit loop!

Definitely just ignore.

For what it's worth when I had a flat we never had to use the heating because the flat downstairs was full of Spanish students who kept theirs crazy high. It was great!

Well, if she really feels that her property is not well insulated then she needs to get in touch with her landlord or the management company to discuss it.

Ignore!

"It would appear a mad person is sending messages in your name."

Wow! Whole new level if crazy. I would avoid that one. She must be on something. I am shocked people even think like that.

I wonder what other weird grabby things she does in her life!