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AIBU to ask what slightly odd things your neighbours do?

303 replies

Mycatpoops · 06/07/2019 08:30

I'll go first. I moved to a new house a few months ago and my new neighbours obviously hate the fact my cat craps in their garden (understandable!) They pick the poop up and either hang it on my gatepost or on top of my wheelie bin. I totally understand they don't want cat crap in their garden, and my sister's neighbour just flings it over their fence so at least my neighbour is more courteous but....why on my gate (half a foot from my bin) or on top of the bin? Just open the lid and put it in the bin, surely?! I would dearly love if my cats would crap solely in my own garden but sadly I cannot train that!

Anybody else want to volunteer their neighbour's slightly odd behaviours?

OP posts:
nitgel · 06/07/2019 08:32

Put out all their washing to dry in the front garden

EatingBreadAndHoney · 06/07/2019 08:33

Most cats bury their poo. Does your neighbour dig it up? Sure it's not fox poo that he's gifting to you?

InTheHeatofLisbon · 06/07/2019 08:37

One in particular is v v v odd, but calling the police when we're on holiday to declare we were being burgled when BIL was in and out to feed the cats (he knows BIL, he's a regular visitor and pretty recognisable) was a very fucking stressful one.

Making a point methinks. Twat.

Oh and whenever any neighbours do anything to their house he copies. So painting the house a new colour, outdoor lights, buying a pressure washer, a new strimmer. It's bizarre. I can't be arsed keeping up with the Joneses.

Teacakeandalatte · 06/07/2019 08:37

I live in a row of houses that runs at right angle to the main road with a pathway to the front and a small private access road to the rear. My neighbours are the only ones in the row to put their bins out the front meaning the bin men have to walk round specially.

Original poster
Mycatpoops · 06/07/2019 08:39

@EatingBreadAndHoney I think they dig it up while doing their gardening. I'm as yet unsure how they ID my cats poop from that of my neighbours. Also, whether they gift my other cat owning neighbours with poop remains a mystery at present!

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AtiaoftheJulii · 06/07/2019 08:39

A lot of cats are pretty incompetent at actually burying it. And obviously if they just put it in your bin, you wouldn't know! Which I expect is the main point of the exercise!

My neighbour sometimes doesn't bother putting their rubbish in their own bin, but just drops a carrier bag over the wall into the corner of my front garden! That might be more than slightly odd.

ImpracticalCape · 06/07/2019 08:42

Use a petrol leaf blower for 8 hours every single sunny day 🙄

nsldriver · 06/07/2019 08:42

Rev their motorbike in the garden for half an hour every day

Nonnymum · 06/07/2019 08:43

eatingbreadandhoneysadly most cats do not bury their poo.

4under4our · 06/07/2019 08:44

One uses coat hangers to hang their washing on the line. Suppose it makes sense but it just looks strange.

Other side smokes weed right outside my front door. I've repeatedly told him not to. When he hears me opening my front door he tries to run round the corner and deny he was sat outside my house 2 seconds ago.

Fairylea · 06/07/2019 08:45

Ours hoovers their wooden floors at 7am every single day. Even weekends. Confused

PersonaNonGarter · 06/07/2019 08:46

My neighbours get their friends round for a curry, and everyone orders a curry dish and then you only eat that curry dish that you ordered - no sharing. Mind blown.

Not that strange by strange neighbour standards though.

NCforthis2019 · 06/07/2019 08:48

They chop chicken in the carpark on a chopping board. They cut their toenails in the carpark.

NCforthis2019 · 06/07/2019 08:49

^^ where I used to live. Neighbours now are normal :-)

LittleLongDog · 06/07/2019 08:50

@nitgel there’s a household round here that does that too. I think their front is much sunnier than the back so it makes sense. Mine is the same but I’m far too British to be able to hang it out front - so I just hang it in the shade! Blush

Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 06/07/2019 08:50

My street (in London) is heavily parked, so you can't always park right in front of your house. I do not care about this, even a little bit.

My lovely neighbours (who don't have a car btw) will call me through the window if a space outside my house becomes available, even if I am parked just 10 metres down the street. They never knock on the door or ring me for this, I just hear their voices floating through the open windows.

I feel they are then disappointed in me for not moving my car closer to the house.

Minkies11 · 06/07/2019 08:53

One of my neighbours randomly screams when he's doing the gardening. He never scream while washing his car or taking the bins out. He also likes to put knee and elbow pads and shin pads on to do a bit of weeding (his garden is mostly bark chippings). Odd as fuck and slightly disconcerting at 7.30am to hear load screams while I'm having my morning coffee and looking at the flowers......

flamingjune123 · 06/07/2019 08:54

Leave for the supermarket at 8.55 every single Saturday morning
Get the lawn mower out at 1.55 every Saturday afternoon from April to October. The lawn gets started at 2pm precisely even when we were in the middle of last years heatwave and the grass wasn't growing
Fucking control freaks

Dungarees · 06/07/2019 08:55

Not where I live now but in my old house.

Our ndn didn't use their wheelie bins for their rubbish. Instead they put all their rubbish in the husbands car and he took it to work and put it in the bins at work.

twistyturnycurlywhirly · 06/07/2019 08:56

She'd collect up all the rubbish blown on to her garden throughout the week and bring it to my house claiming it's mine. There's a bloody big hedge separating our front gardens. I can't see the rubbish blowing over it somehow. Hmm

When a really bad storm blew down her fence, my husband went out and spent an hour or two fixing it for her. A couple of weeks later, she complained the fence was broken because of my DH. Then tried to claim it was my cat that had pulled the 6 ft fence down.

She also trimmed her trees with a bread knife and filled gaps with plastic bags.

Disfordarkchocolate · 06/07/2019 08:59

That how I hang lots of my washing 4under4our, but I'm one of those none ironing people and it helps with that.

hsegfiugseskufh · 06/07/2019 09:01

2 doors down lady when we were moving in "hi im x im not always in ny pyjamas"

Reader... she is, in fact, always in her pyjamas.

Her husbands pushes their Chihuahua around in a dog pushchair. It makes me smile!

Our old neighbours were alchys who used to fight every day. They had an almighty row once which ended in her going outside and stabbing his van with a pair of kitchen scissors. She also told me her mum was dead which i later found out wasnt true as she added me on fb when we moved and there were lots of pics with her and her very much alive mother!

NotSoSorry · 06/07/2019 09:02

@4under4our

Do you have a window somewhere above your front door? I would chuck a big jug of water over him, each and every time he smoked anything outside my front door. Bloody disgusting, inconsiderate arsehole.

golightlytoday · 06/07/2019 09:06

Have loud sex with the windows open.

RighteousSista · 06/07/2019 09:11

Earlier this week i was in the garage and could hear an
unfamiliar noise and also recognised the distinctive voice of my neighbour very near to the garage door and our drive. Curious about what CF-very could be occurring this time i decided to bring the bin out through the garage door to find said neighbour playing swingball on my driveway! They seemed surprised when I suggested they use their own drive or their back garden. AIBU?!!