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!

This has also reminded me that me and DSis2 used to play "being servants". I remember once during the summer holidays deciding to clean the rather long driveway.... with toothbrushes

I was a weird child.

No!

I had a friend at school with a house like that, my mum was mortified having her over to our house for the first time, but she loved it! It took about 3 visits until she was like one of the family, relaxing a little bit more each time. Occasionally she would forget where she was and do it the prim and proper way, and then her face would light up when she remembered she didn't have to do that at TellMeItsNotTrue's house

I like to think she now has a few kids and a home, not a house but a home, where she can say to hell with rules!

This is my ndn. It's a family joke that he has an outfit for every activity and a secret dressing up fetish
Boiler suit for car washing.
Lycra for cycling, along with proper goggles and cycling gloves.
Waders for pond cleaning.
Flat cap for driving his open top car.
He takes a wet suit on holiday to the med.
Tweed jacket with patched elbows for casual wear.
Proper walking boots and a wax jacket for weekend walks.

I have a neighbour who is smuggety smug. Whenever they go away a painter decorator turns up. So they always come home to freshly painted room.

Oh god yes I agree I find people like this annoying as hell . Everything done slowly and correctly

However I think for me it's a tiny bit jealousy because I am a disorganised clumsy shambles

Neighbour in front is super nice, she also cleans up the sidewalk with a brush and dustpan and cuts the grassy bit with scissors. Her house is probably immaculate.

Wecks - is your neighbour Mr Benn?

YANBU wildly irritating!

My neighbour reels out his hose and wipes it down with a cloth after using it to clean the car

They don't sound perfect, they just sound like they have a lot of accessories.

They probably have sex accessories, and schedule sessions on a weekly calendar. They probably have a foreplay timer.

I wonder what he wears for sex?!

We have friends who don't have a single thing out on the worktops in their immaculate kitchen. So the kettle, toaster and all other appliances have a space in a cupboard and are returned immediately after use. The kettle is put away before you are able to sit down with a cuppa.

Not for me I'm afraid.

They sound like Ned Flanders' family.

Lol funniest descriptions ever! My DH would like to be like this especially with the correct attire for activities, but our household is too chaotic!

Our neighbours are pretty normal but they do spend quite some time carefully reversing their cars onto the driveway each night - I assume so they can just drive off in the morning - this annoys me for some reason.

Pft, if you can't get soaked and soapy washing the car then it's just crap.

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 do keep an old t-shirt & shorts to decorate in because I always get paint on me. I should wear something when I do stuff outside because I tend to end up grubby and needing to change my clothes, and I always put dustsheets down for decorating (taping them to the walls would actually stop those drips down the edge that end up on the floor). I could do with eating in a bib because I seem to have stains on all my tops (cooking is generally fine). And hi-vis / helmets are just sensible but I don't cycle. (Don't own a pac a mac but I have a kagoule - does that count?)

We have friends a bit like this. They always have homemade bread, Tupperware and a pristine picnic mat which is five years old and well used. They send pictures to our friendship group chat of them doing the veggie patch in their wellies on Saturdays etc. But what hits me is that living like this just absorbs so much time!! We often arrange as hoc Friday dinners but they just can't cope with that so the kids miss out. Only with lots of prior notice can you have a play date. Just exhausting being that perfect. Wife has anxiety issues and dh manages a post office...enough said.
Dh parents an be a bit like this too. I will always remember the day dfil was cross because the outside shutters had not been closed so rain was touching the windows!! The horror!

I am very similar to your neighbours but would like to be more organised and tidy. A lot of this is common sense and basic safety, so it seems strange to be annoyed that people are following sun protection guidelines or suggesting they are weirdos for getting their DC to wear hi Vis and helmets to cycle.
We do some high risk sports so it makes sense to wear the safety gear, that surfer who was rescued this week would have died without the proper wet suit. I know this thread is light hearted and has a few extreme examples but I think common sense is sadly lacking in a lot of people these days and most on this thread seem to say that's a good thing.
Just because you are sensible in some areas of your life doesn't mean you have an unexciting sex life or are a control freak!
This thread is like the peer pressure at school not to be seen as too bright in case you're mocked for it. Any sensible organised folk are to be congratulated and I hope to be more like you one day.

Johnny

Putting factor 50 on your child all the time is counter productive. People and especially children are getting rickets from lack of vitamin D (which is actually a hormone) as they are not exposing their skin to sunlight.

Every seemingly perfect plan has its drawbacks. Take solace everyone .

Wecks

And chances are he also has a gimp suit.

laundryelf I think most posters on here know that a lot of this stuff is best practice. They just find that those organised enough to do them make them feel bad and therefore grumpy! At least, that's me.

You see, you're all mocking this family but come the zombie apocalypse they'll be the only ones alive because they've planned for it and got the right attire

I have a friend like this, we call her captain sensible. It doesn't irritate me though as whenever I needed anything, she would have it and would lend it to me. From dust sheets to marquees to car kit for driving in Europe!

My aunt and uncle are like this (she's a nurse, he's a cop).

Boiler suit - check
Ear defenders - check
Washing car and hose - check
Tupperware - check
Pressure on tyres - check
Alarm on - check

Add into this, home-made bread, Mass every Sunday, an immaculate house (they have some system in place where they plug the hoover into various walls rather than carry one around plus a chute for laundry), more food than you could eat in a year, own grown strawberries, garlic, carrots, cabbage, immaculate garden, not a weed in sight and you get the picture.

It all came apart when he developed depression.

I nearly broke my hole laughing one year when he bought my aunt garlic and chives Philadelphia for her cheesecake at the last minute on Christmas eve.

I used to dread going there. The cop's first thing to ask would be 'have you taxed the car?' and then 'I'll check your tires'.
The nurse once ran out like some frantic possessed woman when we were visiting as children to say 'We've got a bug, don't come near'. I don't think any of us had ever had a bug lol. My mother was bemused.