To find perfect careful people annoying?

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Our neighbours seem like nice people but they are the kind of people who do everything perfectly!

So, if they wash the car the man has a boiler suit on and the kids waterproofs, it was sunny today so the children both had shades on going to school, cutting the hedge they wear ear defenders (and boiler suit), cycling and scootering yellow hi vis and helmets ... you get the picture?!

Not sure why it irritates me but it does! Probably cos I wish i was more like that!

Man next door but one is One of Those....carpet in his garage. I kid you not. Vacuumed every day too.

Some years ago we had friends who lived in a town house and the DH held regular fire drills where he made the family (with 2 young children) practise climbing out of the bedroom window on a special fire escape rope ladder.

They're either aliens or forrin spies. Trying to be British and fitting in, but accidentally downloaded the 1950s version of How We Live.

I bet these people are the people who used to live next door to my parents
It's all a bit much isn't it!

Yes, serial killer

LOL My Dh wears a boiler suit we call it coveralls but usually when he's working on cars and doing other messy stuff, like painting. Hedge cutting , he does in normal old clothes but wears eye protection always. He does this as he's had stuff fly in his eyes before and knows better. I offered to buy him a high viz waistcoat for bike riding he looked at me like

Poor kids. I grew up in a house like this.

I think any of them on their own arent so bad its all of it put together.

We do have a filing cabinet! Although most stuff is just shoved in these days!

They sound like my parents, it was weird and embarrassing.

The hi-vis and helmets on bikes and scooters is just sensible - the hi-vis makes it less likely that you'll get knocked off as people will see you and not wearing helmets (definitely on a bike, not sure about a scooter) is just stupid.

Stiffybyng I wear gloves at petrol stations 🙈 but only because the diesel pump is always greasy didn't do it when I had a unleaded car

The fire drill actually sounds like a good idea.

Ha ha ha this is so funny. We have people on our road like that but retired. They hate us because we don't keep our garden like Hampton palace and we dare to have a dog and a few chooks. I feel your pain

Do they have matching fairisle jumpers and have a family portrait on the wall?

Dons hard hat from PPE box and checks risk mitigation procedures

You're all going to hate me, but....

I do DIY and mechanics in a boiler suit, cook in an apron, cycle in a hi-vis with special sunglasses to stop dust getting in my eyes, lay out plastic sheeting and tape it to the walls before painting, and I always carry a pac-a-mac for emergency rain showers.

It's inherited anally retentive syndrome I think. Exacerbated by years in Girl Guides, a background in science, and a love for clean clothes and surfaces.

Hopefully someone else will come along soon and make me feel less alone.

They definitely send a really posed looking family Christmas card, with a letter saying what they've all been up to this year

Do we have the same neighbours?? We look like the Clampits compared to them....

I once saw a man doing that and was so excited as I didn't realise anyone actually did

Me too but I wasnt excited because I was the fucker stuck behind him as he slowly got out his car then started to walk away from it - instead of to the bloody pump and then carefully put on his gloves and adjusted them nicely, then eventually got the fucking pump and did the job he came for....not before...carefully taking them off - and walking to the bin, checking his hands, and wiping them with the tissue there.

I have an irrational hatred of people who very carefully get Tupperware pots of stuff out of a neatly packed backpack during wholesome family activities. Bleurgh

YES. Someone else feels this Tupperware pain, I must admit my inferiority is coming through here I have never been able to buy or coordinate this Tupperware food thing.

Ha ha ha, when mine were at primary one family used to turn up for school from the 1st June with spf50 on, sunglasses and those desert hats with the collar flap to protect your neck. I used to think ffs, a bit of vitamin D isn't going to hurt. They didn't have any health issues btw, they were just - well them. All vegans too, dad a maths teacher, they were lovely but just so.....perfect.

I do DIY and mechanics in a boiler suit, cook in an apron, cycle in a hi-vis with special sunglasses to stop dust getting in my eyes, lay out plastic sheeting and tape it to the walls before painting, and I always carry a pac-a-mac for emergency rain showers

I don't own a boiler suit, an apron, a high vis vest, special sunglasses or a pac-a-mac 😩. And I was in the Girl Guides! I think I'm failing at life.

I wish I was more like this. Am chronically disorganised and want to know how they do it while simultaneously wanting to slap them with a wet fish for being so anal.

iklboo Fri 05-May-17 20:30:24

^^ hilarious

In laws are like this too - so incredibly careful about everything and very bad tempered if you get it wrong,

strawberry basically like my in laws - forget about everything else in life - everything and devote your life to it, then you have it.

Clampits that's it. That's how we are viewed.

Our old NDNs were just like this. Every weekend, without fail, he would wash, buff and wax both their cars and jet wash their drive way - and yes, he always wore a navy boiler suit, gloves and goggles.

His wife and DCs weren't allowed in the garage, but I did glimpse inside it once and it was laid out like an operating theatre.

They were forever knocking on our door to earnestly inform us that our tyre pressure looked a bit flat, or that a bit of our guttering was coming loose, or that our fence wasn't quite perpendicular...

...we were always spectacularly uninterested in this information, and it used to really upset them.

We once admitted that we rarely, if ever, set our house alarm even when going abroad on holiday - and I swear they visibly gritted their teeth in despair.