To find perfect careful people annoying?

[Nospringflower]

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!

Are you me, OP? My NDN is just the same as yours

They even use a bin liner in their wheely bin, and put nappy bags on their car wing mirrors when it rains to stop water marks. I dread to think what they must say about us, especially when DP wipes his number plate clean with his sleeve because his truck is so caked in mud

Mind you, I would use eye protection for strimming or hedge trimming with electric cutters.

MIL used to have a tiled floor in her garage that was better than my kitchen floor.

I briefly dated a very sensible cautious man once. He put a towel down for sex.

I work in a petrol station and I didn't even know there were gloves!

Considering how many accidents occur at home, investing in (and wearing) the appropriate PPE for the task doesn't seem like something annoying, or weird. He'll be the one smiling years down the line when he's safely protected his hearing, and everything else!

I get really fucked off when our neighbour washes his car because I can never be arsed to do mine can't even be bothered to drive it through a car wash

I only started filling out a calendar this year and was massively proud of myself.

Hahaha ifcats ! I bought a A4 sized magnetic fridge white board this year. And I use it. I felt terribly grown up. Like I can actually sort shit out. I'm 45 .

I am far from perfect but I wear ear defenders for certain jobs because I have really sensitive ears and the whirry machine noises really hurt, I own a boiler suit too, I don't have a car so don't wear it for washing the car but for any messy jobs I do. DD has sunglasses on every time it's remotely sunny because she asks every morning if she can wear them, even when it's raining and I'm guilty of the stacks of tupperwear, I grew up in a huge family so organising picnics in a neat backpack was a lot less stress and it's habit now. I have never yet managed to get my DC to put a hi-vis on though.

It had never occurred to me that people particularly noticed or that it would annoy anyone.

This thread has made me laugh. I don't feel like the only clampit family now

I once shagged a bloke who broke off to put his trousers into his very own trouser press before getting down to it. Shexy.

I know the feeling, and lots of my neighbours are like this, they have perfect gardens, and immaculate houses. I have often popped next door and they invite into a sparkling tidy house, just how to these people do it? Our place is a complete shambles inside and out, we bring the tone down unfortunately

This will put me to anyone who know my pil.

There are too many things to list but here are a few good ones:

They bring their own slippers when they come to visit (they live 10 mins away)

They put a sun shade thing In their car window every day. Even if it is raining cats and dogs.

He has the obligatory boiler suit for diy/car washing etc.

Takes a man bag with him everywhere with his diary in (and goodness knows what else - never plucked up the courage to ask what's in it)

Not long after I moved in with dh - his mum came round to visit and brought her own marigolds for cleaning. My dh was really clean and tidy so couldn't figure this one out.

The cooker is 40 years old and looks brand new (vintage lol) to be fair everything in their house is circa 1975 and in amazing condition.

They bought us two commercial fire extinguishers for our house. Constantly asked why we haven't put them on the wall yet. They are massive!

They have tin foil behind all their radiators. My husband tried to suggest we did it too. No fucking way!

And the cherry on the cake - came downstairs in our new house to find pil making toast - no problem wit that. Could understand for the life of me why the fucking extractor fan on the cooker was on and the toaster was underneath, just in case it catches fire apparently, I just said ' I really couldn't live like that'

They are over cautious perfectionists and I strongly suspect they still make my 2 yr old west his reigns even when they are in an enclosed park.

Seriously though I tend to agree with the person who said perfect on the outside doesn't necessarily mean perfect life. Plus they must have too much time on their hands.

Nospringflower Are they spies trying to blend in? Do they speak perfectly? Talk to them and see if they have any kind of regional accent.

Oh my God.

I am this person.

DH uses the petrol pump glove. DD who is 2 has her own sunglasses, foreign legion hat, and 50spf on from April. I have a special uv protection gardening hat.

And I want a fucking boiler suit to wash the car in. That is such a great idea.

I am a good food packer. We have packed lunches out most days of the week, and am an expert at packing shed loads into glass Tupperware type things. Whether the kids eat it all.is another matter.

Stiffy

In fact, I am a lot like your neighbours sadly. We don't wash our cars however.

My in laws being slippers here too. They forgot the other day and MIL refused to take her shoes off as she would "get cold" if she sat without so made a point of sitting with feet on wood floor (in shoes)
Others' organisation makes me jealous

OP, clearly your neighbours are in fact aliens who have studied human life from afar, but like some TV costume drama , have overdone the research. Wait until Christmas, it will be like a John Lewis Christmas catalogue, the mothership will ensure that theirs is the only house on your street with snow on Christmas morning, just as the butchers boy delivers the turkey and the jolly Dickensian Carol singers serenade you all........

I have friends like this. There are like that behind closed doors as well. Just very organised. They probably don't waste time on MN

They have perfect christmas lights that are wired in and were arranged when the extension was done! They climb a ladder in protective gear to put them up!

Ah but how do you know what goes on behind closed doors?

My Mum's BF and husband were...well, odd...to say the least.

When they went on holiday they would drain their entire central heating system in case they had a burst pipe while away.

They kept a little notebook, and logged every time they raised/lowered the roof on their VW Eos.

Every Bonfire Night, they would lay metal sheeting behind the front door, and he would patrol the hall all evening, in case a pesky child tried to put a firework through their letterbox (it never once happened in over 50 years).

Why am I thinking of the couple who keep toads, try and hold their nephew hostage and also have the evil twin girls in The League Of Gentleman here??

Do you live in Royston Vasey OP?