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Does anyone else have weird neighbours?

114 replies

IDontGetYourProblem · 18/05/2016 19:20

The man who lives below me, every time I fart he goes "ohh" I take it he can hear me but It is weird, why does he do this lol do you have weird neighbours?

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AngryCrispLady · 19/05/2016 10:10

I have noisy neighbours. Can hear their music, laughter, dog and (Confused) sex noises through the walls. But never farts. Suggest you see a doctor Wink

CigarsofthePharoahs · 19/05/2016 10:14

My neighbours seem to have a love of fresh air through their house. Their windows are never, ever closed.
When storm Katie hit over Easter, their windows were open. Over winter, even when it's snowing their windows are open. I remember coming back from visiting my parents and driving very carefully due to the ice and snow, looking up at their house and all the upstairs windows, even the big ones, were wide open. Their house must permanently be freezing cold! Even in summer I don't like to have too much open front and back as we get quite a draught going through.
It went from odd to weird recently as one of my neighbours came over at about 5.30pm to complain that my cat was meowing in my garden. He did an impression of said cat. I was so tempted to ask him that if he found the sounds of general life so hard to cope with, then SHUT THE BLOODY WINDOW!
Apart from that they're quite nice.

ChronicNameChangerz · 19/05/2016 10:14

The woman over the road from me has appalling taste in home design. She recently had a bath fitting in her front bedroom. It's right at the back of the room, so not right in front of the window. But every time she has a bath she puts a light on near the bath and leaves the curtains open. We can see everything.

I only know her to say hello to. I've heard from other neighbours she can be a bit off and likes to have feuds with people over nothing. So I don't want to say anything.

mrsfuzzy · 19/05/2016 10:17

one has a face like a slapped arse and never seen her smile, and a neighbour down the road from me, when she had scaffolding up to retile the roof was up. no this is not a joke, on the scaffolding after the workers finished one day, sweeping the boards !!! wtf ? WHY????

ZippyNeedsFeeding · 19/05/2016 10:25

We are definitely "that" family. There are less than a dozen houses in our village, and ours is the only house with anyone under 60 living in it. So when my four year old strips naked, paints himself purple and runs away to show the neighbour his "art", it definitely causes gossip!

chunkymum1 · 19/05/2016 10:30

When I was younger I lived in a shared house with 2 other women. Next door was a shared house with 3 young men.

One of the neighbours seemed to be constantly losing his keys/leaving his keys at home etc and whenever he did this he would ask to wait in our house until his friends came home from work/pub. This happened every about every 1-2 weeks for about 6 months. He joined us watching TV, had dinner/drinks with us etc and got to know us quite well. Although we laughed about how forgetful he was, and did suspect that he might fancy one of our housemates we always believed that he was genuinely locked out. Until one evening his keys fell out of his jacket pocket and he did a really obviously fake 'Oh, what a fool I am, they were here all along.'. I since got talking to one of the other neighbours who told me that he had confessed that he was pretending to lose his keys as a way to come over on Friday tea times and that he had asked them to either stay out late or use the back door so we wouldn't see them coming back. Silly thing is if he'd just knocked on the door and asked if he could come in for a cuppa we'd have said yes anyway.

LisaMed · 19/05/2016 10:31

Checking in to see if I'm mentioned here.

I know that one of my neighbours stands up to wipe.

Toddzoid · 19/05/2016 10:46

I was sat in the garden once when I lived with with my mother and I could hear the NDN shouting (as per) at her DD who must have been about seven or eight. She shouted "IF YOU DON'T GET DRESSED IN A MINUTE I'LL FUCKING KNIFE YA."

I was Shock and couldn't do anything other than laugh. My best friend was with me and we still refer to that occasionally in a joking manner. "Don't do that or I'll knife ya lad." Grin

LoisEinhorn · 19/05/2016 10:50

I live up the end of a cul de sac with some garages at the end. My neighbour rents about 3 garages and is always hosing the area down. He'll then hose the bit of road outside his house. He'll do this in the rain too. Nutter!

LaurieLemons · 19/05/2016 10:51

My neighbours next to me have full blown arguments with the windows wide open. There are builders around, people coming in and out and they still don't care GrinConfused. I've been known to open my window while this goes on for some fresh air so I can hear better .

LaurieLemons · 19/05/2016 10:54

When one of them's really angry and has had enough they slam the door so everyone can hear and go and sit in the garden and cry/rage/smoke so everyone can see. 10 mins later they're back again for round 2.

Pipbin · 19/05/2016 11:05

Now I am one of those 'windows always open' people, Cigars.
Our bedroom windows are open all year round, even in the depths of winter.
I'm afraid I do complain about the neighbours having a loud conversations on their front door steps at 3am.

Pipbin · 19/05/2016 11:07

I know that one of my neighbours stands up to wipe.

How do you know that?

stand up to wipe people are wrong

SixtiesChildOfWildBlueSkies · 19/05/2016 12:12

My neighbour sings to me, quite loudly.....Every. Time. I. Step. Out. Of .The. Door.
He used to sing badly in public and I'm guessing he misses the adoration of his throng of fans. Im not amongst them oh no

BreakingDad77 · 19/05/2016 12:52

One of our neighbours opposite, their windows appears continually lit day and night!?!

MilesHuntsWig · 19/05/2016 13:06

Sorry Dobby, never found out what lesbian recycling was! Still intrigued...

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 19/05/2016 13:08

Who knows what goes on behind closed doors.

Ezzie29 · 19/05/2016 13:16

My neighbours are generally pretty normal, at least on the surface, but we do have the unofficial neighbourhood watch who have lived there even longer than me (not sure how long they've been there but I've lived there for 28 of my 29 years) but it's quite nice really because they'd probably twig if someone was being robbed...

I think we are probably the weird neighbours because I'm always putting the bins out or doing the gardening whilst in my jim jams or singing loudly in the garden.

Once, my dad and my NDN were sat in their respective gardens and managed to fart in perfect unison

NotQuiteJustYet · 19/05/2016 13:24

This will totally out me should anyone who knows me read it...

I once moved into a very gorgeous flat that was converted from a huge victorian terrace house - I was over the moon with it, never been more in love with a house, until I became aware of my upstairs neighbours. They were husband, wife and teenage son.

As it turned out they were the local drug dealers. They posted a map of the local area through my door with our flats/the house circled and a couple of joints inside (presumably a welcome gift? Here's where I live and a sample of my goods...)

I also had them knock on my door once at 1am and offer me a live lobster, came back to three carrier bags of artisan bread on my doorstep and a note saying 'thought you might like this x' and a box of chocolates pushed through my door on separate occasions.

They also used to have Sunday 'nooky' time you could literally set your watch by, accompanied with reggae. My underwear also went missing off the line in the shared yard once and their teenage son complimented my singing voice.

I do not miss those guys.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 19/05/2016 13:38

If you don't get up I'll knife you said to anyone is awful, but to a 7 year old. Shock I'd have had to report it. I couldn't have had that emotional and threatening abuse on my conscience

didyoureally · 19/05/2016 14:11

My ex-neighbour was very fussy and would make a great show of demonstrating his superior knowledge of all things to do with home maintenance and gardens. In the garden he used a geometry set and measuring tape to ensure that his bushes were trimmed with mathematical precision! He had special workwear (boiler suit, cap and miner's head torch) that he wore for most gardening jobs. And when we were having our roof retiled, I came home to find him on the roof sharing his wisdom with the roofer who seemed a bit irritated! I miss him though as our current neighbours are far too normal.

bungmean · 19/05/2016 14:28

Is it an "ooh" as in vinegar strokes cumface "ooh"?

mirtle · 19/05/2016 14:47

I find ours weird. They're sort of over invested/interfering. They don't like anybody parking in the street in case they have visitors. So they go out and shout at anybody they see looking like they're parking.

Sometimes if someone has managed to sneak in, they'll come and knock on my door and ask if I know who's parked there. If I say no, it has been known for them to barge into my house to check I'm not harbouring someone secretly and not telling them.

The funny thing is we have no parking issues because everybody has a drive. There is plenty of parking. So even if they did have a visitor at the exact same time that person was parked there, there wouldn't be a problem.

They also like to dictate where people put their washing airers in their gardens or what colour they've painted their fence. That kind of thing. There was a big hoo haa when number 9's pot plant went missing. I was asked directly "have you stolen it".

If you have a delivery of say some wood where it's a big lorry. They'll come out and ask - how long are you going to be, you can't park there, my friend is coming soon and they'll need to park there. They've made them park round the corner before now and lug heavy items all down the road because they can't possibly park there for two minutes to unload.

The street isn't specially narrow, or lacking in parking. They're just strangely controlling about it all. You'd think they were very virtuous types caring so much about what's right/wrong. But they also do things like sling their garden waste over your fence. Dh throws it back and denies all knowledge.

They're just very odd. It's like we live in a scene from the League of Gentleman at times.

BillBrysonsBeard · 19/05/2016 14:52

There's nowt as queer as folk! It's fascinating... Sometimes you feel everyone is quite 'normal' like yourself, but then this thread says otherwise Grin

ThoraGruntwhistle · 19/05/2016 14:55

I hope my neighbours hear my every burp, fart and other vaguely offensive noises. I don't like them very much because they have far louder than average children and make no effort to quieten them.

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