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To ask for strange things your neighbours have requested to borrow...

157 replies

Mrscropley · 07/08/2017 12:31

Years ago my neighbour asked if she could borrow some pj's as hers were dirty and she could find spares. . Yeah no problem, nice black satin pair never really wore as always felt like a wet fish wearing them.
Week later asked again - specifying the same ones as he bf liked her wearing them during sex. . Told her to keep them!! Shock

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ImperialBlether · 07/08/2017 12:33

You actually lent her some pyjamas? I can't imagine doing that unless she was going to hospital, then I'd tell her to keep them.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 07/08/2017 12:34

Just now, nail varnish remover.

DarlingWednesday · 07/08/2017 12:39

Pack of sausages that I'd already cooked. She was hungry and said they smelled nice

SnickersWasAHorse · 07/08/2017 12:40

A shovel to bury the pet budgie. Never spoke to them before or since!

MrsOverTheRoad · 07/08/2017 12:42

My husband's hair clippers. I thought that a bit manky and said I didn't know where they were!

Imaystillbedrunk · 07/08/2017 12:43

Tin opener. Every day for 2 months, he'd stand on the doorstep opening his beans with our tin opener.

We bought him one for Christmas

midnightmisssuki · 07/08/2017 12:43

A glass of wine with the promise he would return it the next day! Grin

Assburgers · 07/08/2017 12:44

Ironing board & iron. She didn't want to actually use it, but her mum was coming round & she wanted to look like she had one. I used to live next door to students Grin

alwaysthepessimist · 07/08/2017 12:45

neighbour asked for our windows cd (back in the day) as he wasn't registered...said no bugger off. Weird guy, always felt uneasy about him, years later he appeared in the local rag after being prosecuted for downloading porn......

ProfessorPickles · 07/08/2017 12:47

I nipped round to see if they had any tomato sauce as I'd ran out and knew I wouldn't enjoy my meal the same without it Grin
Just squirted it on my plate and took it back.

Is that acceptable? Grin

AFingerofFudge · 07/08/2017 12:48

Years ago my flatmate cooked a fried egg, put it on a plate and went out the front door.
Short time later returned with it sitting between 2 slices of bread and butter.
Had knocked on a few doors before finding someone in and willing to "lend" the bread and butter! Grin

elevenclips · 07/08/2017 12:50

You lent PJs ConfusedShock

Falconhoof1 · 07/08/2017 12:51

Tin opener. They returned it with custard or similar around the cutting wheel. Yuk!

LogicalPsycho · 07/08/2017 12:51

Oh god Grin

I like to collect ornate skulls and crystals (i'm not woo or anything, I just like them!). My NDN asked if he could borrow a skull to show his DS and DD when they visited. I said yes, all good.

He knocked my door a few days later to return the skull...with sprigs of Sage in its eyes "for my protection" Hmm Grin

Henriettacat · 07/08/2017 12:51

Foil and lemon juice They are junkies. Sometimes they pretend that they are cooking chicken, but they aren't

SpareChangeDownTheSofa · 07/08/2017 12:52

Assburgers As a student, that made me laugh Grin

I once had someone ask for sea salt as they had pierced their nipples and needed to put her nipples in a little bowl of salt water to prevent infection.

MuffinMad · 07/08/2017 12:52

I was a single parent at the time and times were tough.

My neighbour who had a husband and two grown children, knocked and asked me for 8 potatoes and 4 eggs so she could make them egg and chips for dinner, as she had nothing in.

😕

SnickersWasAHorse · 07/08/2017 12:55

When I was much younger I lived in house split into flats. The man in the flat below me was a lovely gay guy with a very active sex life. We had keys to each other's flats as we were both away often.
One day I got back to my flat after time away to find a note saying that he had borrowed a new set of bed clothes as his were a dreadful mess. He'd also borrowed a courgette but he'd thrown that away thinking I wouldn't want it back after what he had done with it!!

PhyllisNights · 07/08/2017 12:55

Pyjamas? That's hilarious!

My neighbours ask for our garden equipment. I take photos before I hand it over and then photos afterwards. I have a folder somewhere for that sort of thing, actually. I'd tell them to buy their own or charge them a fee for borrowing, but my husband is too nice.

Eusebius · 07/08/2017 12:58

Snickers - What's wrong with borrowing a shovel? Confused. Sounds like a perfectly normal type of implement you'd ask your neighbours for.

Original poster
Mrscropley · 07/08/2017 12:59

I borrowed a £ off another neighbour once for the tooth fairy as I had no cash in the house!!
The pj neighbour was a bit eccentric (spoilt) she had a canary just because it matched her yellow kitchen and only bought packets /tins that were yellow so she could have them out on the bench!!

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nookee · 07/08/2017 13:00

My £££ carpet cleaning machine. It was returned broken and they said nothing about it. And my tree loppers, also returned damaged. I don't loan anything out now.

SnickersWasAHorse · 07/08/2017 13:01

Nothing wrong with borrowing a shovel. It was just that we had never seen him before or since.

CadleCrap · 07/08/2017 13:17

I had to borrow some eggs the other day. Nothing wrong with that but we have 6 chickens in the garden and none of them laid that day.

DuggeeHugs · 07/08/2017 13:21

One set of neighbours asked for all of
the following within one month of moving in:

Alcohol
Money
WiFi password
Toilet plunger(!)
Car ramps
Alcohol again
"5 minutes of your time to view your en suite as there isn't one in our house"
Money again
Our driveway

Fortunately, I don't have an issue saying 'no'!