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!

Boiler suit =Breaking Bad.

Maybe he's cooking meth and the hedge cutting is just his cover.

Is it wrong that I'm insanely jealous of people who manage to achieve such perfection. Years of trying and we always look rough

I saw my neighbour hoover his drive he seems to harbour a few perfectionist tendencies tbh.

My NDN drives his dogs out to walk them and every day when he gets back he hoovers out the backseat, even though it's got a cover on it and is only ever used by dogs. Washes the car at least twice a week, and washes the driveway down afterward.

I'm really confused that his uber car care doesn't extend to not parking physically touching my car outside our houses as he washes aforementioned drive / makes a point about how I park there all the time because we have 2 cars but he can do it too hahahaha.

The also have many little signs 'driveway in constant use', 'warning CCTV cameras', and some dummy CCTV cameras for good show.

We thought they were funny and quaint until we had a run in about the repairs to the shared chimney structure (we were having work done and the guy noticed some damage, which he patched with their agreement, but they decided about a month later they weren't happy and admittedly it took a while to get him to come back and make it pretty), which involved her screaming at an eight months pregnant me on the doorstep with no prelude and 'official looking' letters threatening court being hand delivered rather than just talking about it calmly.

Ever since then I've wished death upon him every time I hear him cough through the party wall, and all the little perfect things they do give me the rage.

Few examples
We went to Spain on holiday for the first time in the early 80's, they made us go to bed for a Siesta in the afternoon as that's what the custom was. My brother and I were 4 and 8, excited to be on holiday and hadn't napped for years.
We had to cut cheese into cubes to make toasties as that's what the instruction leaflet said, even as teenagers Dad would get cross if we had sliced the cheese as it was incorrect.
The house had to be shut down and unplugged and everyone had to be in bed at 10.30pm , no one but parents could be trusted with this.
The answer phone had full details of how to leave a message, as clearly no one else had one or would know what to do (my friends used to piss themselves at this)
Oh God, horrid flashbacks.
My parents were just so proper, and not in a good way.

Mousehole I'm with you. I have a plethora of matching plastic pots and coordinated lids for food stuffs, an apron to cook, marigolds for washing up, PPE masks for painting/sanding/varnishing, natural sunscreen and deodorant, cycle helmets and a water filter in the fridge...it's the future, right?!

Mind you - my neighbours over the road mowed the lawn with bare feet - with a flymo..

I think I had to go out, as couldn't bear the thought of being in the house when the inevitable accident happened..

I do have a high viz at work fire marshall :)

The boiler suit in the description of your post is absolutely killing me!! Are you neighbours to the stepford wife and her family?!

There's a Julianne Moore film called Safe (1995) that deals with this topic perfectly.

Oh I think we may have the same neighbour. He hoovers the drive and the grass. Better that

I like to wash the car in a pair of daisy duke style shorts and ancient trainers. I'm 57. I like to make the neighbours shudder at the sight of my cellulite

These people would be my entertainment.... but maybe because I am a nosey cow.

So glad somebody else here gets it Acornantics

I had a neighbour who wore a boiler suit and a hi viz jacket to wash his car, all day Saturday and all day Sunday every week. His wife joined in by passing buckets of water out to him.

this is what I imagine I look like

Gloves at the garage here too. But diesel is so messy and not nice. I quite like seeing an elderly man pottering in his garage or working on the car in a boiler suit. But a scruffy old boiler suit that they have had forever :)

it's the future, right?!

Aside from cycle helmets and safety gear in the dark - no its not the future. Millions of us manage perfectly well doing stuff without all the garb you have been sold.

I didn't even know you were supposed to use gloves to fill your car up... and mine is diesel

Ear defenders cutting the hedge 😂😂

Anyone would think they were standing on an airport runway!

Ear defenders cutting the hedge 😂😂

Anyone would think they were standing on an airport runway!

The people in the OP sound like they may have some big anxiety issues! (I have anxiety, wouldn't do those things, except high vis gear for cycling which is important IMO!)

Mine too I use diesel and survive...

IME people who have to carefully construct such a perfect facade, are frequently less than perfect behind closed doors. I know 2 couples who were like this. One couple are now divorced, husband was serial adulterer and the other couple moved away after the husband was convicted of fraud a few years back and served a prison sentence. I'm not saying this is true of everybody who's 'perfect', but don't always be fooled by outside appearances.

^This. My neighbour's were like this and the other neighbours and I used to mock them slightly as the perfect couple - perfect looking with a perfect house and a perfect life. Sadly their marriage disintegrated and it turned out he was a controlling cocaine addict and adulterer; she had been deeply unhappy for many years.

We're lone voices in a wilderness of chaos and anarchy Mousehole. I tell you, it's the beginning of the end.

I do, however draw the line at a neighbour who drives car out of garage once a week, for a wash, buff n polish, then returns it to the garage, no driving involved, every weekend.

Also, then washes and dries the hosepipe before replacing it in perfect loops on hose holster rather than hurtling it at speed into the corner of the shed like most people.

You are me.

This is my neighbour.

And I always feel a weird mixture of visceral rage and jealousy.

Mousehole I do apologise but even your use of "pac a mac" has me gritting my teeth! If it's any consolation however, I am simultaneously envious of your organisational skills.

I also have a diesel car and have never noticed any difference between the petrol and diesel pumps!

Does anybody have one of those local "hub" groups on Facebook? There is a new housing estate near me and they have one and it makes for hilarious reading.

They were up in arms about a neighbour leaving his recycling bins under his kitchen window once and it bringing down the tone of the area, the owners of blue Christmas lights have been shamed into taking them down and they all lived in mortal fear of "gypsies" stealing their dogs for a while when the local rotary club marked out their potential charity Santa route with little arrows.