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 will totally out me but we call him 'the parsnip'. One day we were there and he kept popping his head in telling us he was peeling the parsnips. 'Don't they add great flavour to the carrot'.........

And then there's the turf and the stove. Lord above.

Everything is done religiously at the same time every day.

This thread reminds me so much of my DILs!! My FIL is obsessional regarding labeling and filing. Before the days of digital photography he would label EVERY SINGLE photograph in the album listing everyone's full names, date and place even if there were only slight variation to each photo. And that would include himself, MIL, DH and SIL! Must have taken him forever.
I'll always remember a trip to Edinburgh before sat navs came in. DH was driving but DFIL had planned the route and marked out every speed cameras position (loads on A1). What really took the biscuit was the fact that a mile before each one was approached he'd loudly announce "speed camera- slow down" even though my slightly less 'proper' DH was driving at an appropriate speed! 😤😬
Their house is an oasis of organized calm mind, my MILs pantry is a joy to behold!

Wife has anxiety issues and dh manages a post office...enough said.
Maybe it's living like this that helps the wife manage her anxiety though?

I know someone who asked her curtain fitter to make a cardboard template of how her curtains pooled on the carpet so she could follow the pattern when she opened her curtains in the morning.

She also replanted her garden borders because the plants flopped around and looked untidy. You know, because they are natural and erm, plants.

There are many more examples.

I try to remember to wear an apron for cooking in... but that's because I'm jolly messy rather than organised... the same applies to wearing old clothes for gardening/car washing!

I do need to buy a spare hi viz jacket though - mine lives in the car so I want one for my bike as well.

MIL is one of those. I love it when she stays over and turns the living room into a show home until we get home 😄

My dad has a boiler suit for outdoor DIY, to keep his clothes clean, and I think he might wear ear defenders to cut branches off trees etc.

He's not a 'perfect' person, far from it likes his drink and fags far too much for that but has always worked professionally as a gardener and has had H&S drummed into him at work - I think they're hard habits to break.

Blubber Exactly 😂😂

I fell in love with my DH - who was then just a work colleague - when he helped me after work one night when my car broke down. He had a plastic box in his car boot that contained not only every tool and car type gadget under the sun, but a set of plastic overalls and a torch headband which he put on and then mended my car. My car, sadly, remains a shit tip despite his efforts.

I fell in love with my DH - who was then just a work colleague - when he helped me after work one night when my car broke down. He had a plastic box in his car boot that contained not only every tool and car type gadget under the sun, but a set of plastic overalls and a torch headband which he put on and then mended my car. My car, sadly, remains a shit tip despite his efforts.

We have friends like this, every aspect of their life, home, work is organised and regimented to the nth degree. Correct attire and tool for every activity or chore. She decorates her home and herself with the appropriate ornaments and accessories for every holiday and season so Christmas, Valentine's Day, St Paddys Day, Easter, July 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving each have their plastic tubs of decorations and she wears the appropriate t shirt or jumper.

I was in equal parts awed and horrified when she produced a little eyeglass mending kit from her beautifully compartmentalised handbag one time on a day out. From this she selected the correct teeny screwdriver to tighten a loose screw on my sunglasses. I'd been trying to do it with a butter knife I picked up on the restaurant table. I don't know if pity or disgust was uppermost in her emotions but she made a point of gently educating me in proper sunglasses care. She noted that my habit of wearing them on top of my head when not in full sun was stretching the arms and thus loosening the screws. She further commented that these particular sunglasses, admittedly bought for looks rather than protection, didn't have the correct amount of uv Ray blocking powers and my habit of just tossing them into my bottomless shambled pit of a bag and not putting them back in the case was causing the scratches on the lenses.

She also has the best Tupperware collection ever - all matching and every lid in place. I kinda hate her while wanting to be her when I grow up.

My next door neighbour doesn't have a special suit that I know of. He does wash his old bmw every sunday. I wash my new bmw once in a blue moon a month.

I think some of you are being a bit mean. So you don't want to wear overalls and ear defenders? Good for you but so what if other people do?

My kids go to school with caps, sunglasses and sun cream on when it's hot and sunny. They always have water bottles in their bags and a coat in case it starts to rain. If they go out on their bikes or scooters they always wear helmets, and I bought them light up bands to go round their coat sleeves for when we were out in the dark during the winter. If we go for a day out I take water bottles, baby wipes and sun cream in my bag.

I've never thought I might be judged for these things - I just do what I think is right for my kids and what makes my life easier when we're out. In actual fact they're my foster kids so I worry that actually if they don't wear sun cream and get burnt I'll really be judged or they might be taken off me.

You don't know the reasons why people do things their way and, as long as their way isn't hurting anyone else, just let them get on with it!

Ps. I know you're just being lighthearted really so please don't flame me!

I'm one of these people My bag always has a water bottle, tissues, a pen, paracetamol, a spare hair bobble...and I bring a packed lunch to work. I've always had an organised bag since I was a teenager, I think I inherited the organised bag tendency from my DM has her bag also always has anything you could possibly need.

DSs nappy bag is similarly organised, and has healthy snacks

stealth boast

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.

Our neighbours do this. I've posted about them before, and that I initially assumed they had moved into their very bare house just before we moved in, before discovering they'd lived there since the 80s . The big living room has a sofa and a huge TV, and nothing else - no rugs, pictures, a coffee table, or other furniture. The dining room has an empty table and eight chairs and literally nothing else, and the kitchen is exactly as you describe, a series of bare work surfaces. The hall shows no evidence of inhabitation -- no shoes, coat rack, anything on the walls.

I only grasped that this was a choice when we first had a cup of tea there and saw the ritual of emptying the scalding hot kettle and putting it back in a drawer before the tea was drunk. When DS was offered a satsuma, we discovered the fruit bowl also lived in a cupboard.

I don't think it's necessarily to do with others' perceptions, perhaps they are a bit like my husband. My DH doesn't care what anyone thinks about anything really, certainly not interested in what our neighbours are thinking. What he really loves, though, is to have the proper equipment etc for different jobs, and is very much into everything being appropriate to the season. It's more of a quirk than anything, and most of the time he doesn't get his way in this regard because it's so bloody annoying! Each thing that is cooked, served, washed, stored, worn or used MUST be the correct thing.

Chap down from me is a retired RAF pilot. He owns vintage cars which he works on in his RAF flight suit. I love it. I think he's lovely.

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

Have you given him the leaflet for the std clinic? It'd be the kind, neighbourly, thing to do.

Agree with you Kitsandkids

There's always one or two who just can't let the thread be what it is.

If you know it's lighthearted then just unclench. Seriously.

In addition to the above, my husband also cleans the garden hose! I do try to tell him that it lives it's whole life in the garden and is therefore..... oh never mind

I have been looking for the name for people like this and this is is it!!
I know someone like that...will fold a napkin out onto her lap while she eats lunch, her sandwiches are all perfectly made and wrapped so neatly everything beautifully packed etc

I like to be quite organised and fairly safety conscious. We went away for a weekend a couple of months ago with another couple. DH couldn't find the car keys and needed something out of the car. We were a 5 hour drive from home. DH was flapping about the missing keys and was turning the cottage upside down whilst I casually continued to style my hair and put my makeup on ready to go out. DFriends wondered why I was being so calm about the missing car keys. I let them into the secret - I always put the spare key in my handbag if we go a long way from home. DH was not aware of this and quite frankly needs to be more careful about where he puts things. DFriends were in awe of my organisational skills and we all kept up the secret for a while until I had got ready, whereupon I looked for the car keys and found the original set in 2 mins flat!

Nothing wrong with being prepared in my opinion - I was also in the Girl Guides.

We have some people in the village whom we have nick named the 'tidy family'. They are a retired couple and the outside of their house is pristine (I've never seen the inside). He washes both their cars on a regular basis (everyone else around here pays the Eastern Europeans to wash theirs for £3) she regularly sweeps the road outside their house and the garage has everything in clips or boxes neatly labelled.