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AIBU to ask what slightly odd things your neighbours do?

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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?

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chaoscategorised · 07/07/2019 22:20

Oh no @golightlytoday having realised after having sex yesterday that the windows were open, I really hope this wasn't us!

One of our neighbours cleans their windows and cars ALL THE TIME. AAAALLL THE TIME. And cut down trees on the public land next to their house :/

darkriver19886 · 07/07/2019 22:22

I think I am the strange one where I live. 🤔
One of the weirdest neighbours I had was a man who was hard of hearing but, liked to listen to porn full blast.
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sunshine11 · 07/07/2019 22:25

@BlankTimes - you can delete everything after the question mark. The part before it is the website, the part after is the tracking info!

chaoscategorised · 07/07/2019 22:30

Oh and at our old house - we had a man who used to talk to himself whilst in the bathroom, every day when his wife had gone to work. I work from home and my office shared a wall with his very acoustically blessed bathroom so I would hear him having loud one sided conversations with himself while (presumably) having a poo. Oh, and they would do work on their house at the weirdest times (6am on a Sunday? Smash tiles off the shared wall for hour!) but then ONCE we had the temerity to have two people over for tea on a Friday night and eat in the garden, chatting and laughing, and he leaned out the window upstairs looking over our garden and very angrily told us we were being antisocial. At 7pm. On a sunny Friday evening, at talking volume. Weird man.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 07/07/2019 22:36

I'm the weird neighbour. I take my cat for a walk (on a lead) twice a day, for about an hour to an hour and a half. Some of that "walk" usually involves me sitting on my front step while he surveys his territory and apologising to neighbours while he stomps over their walls and eats their grass.

No-one seems to mind though, and everyone knows us 🤷🏼‍♀️

DreamTheMoors · 07/07/2019 22:44

@Mycatpoops

Hi. Apologize to the sh$tty neighbors & ask them if you could please sprinkle black pepper in the garden where your kitties are pooping. Assure them it will not hurt their flowers & bushes (it will not). Buy a big tin of it, & every 7-10 days sprinkle it liberally everywhere the cats poop. That will stop both problems! 😊

Rosiesmydog · 07/07/2019 22:50

Parks on the road outside his house despite having, not one, but two parking areas (enough for at least 3 cars). He does this, because he doesn’t like people parking outside his house

ShakespearesFister · 07/07/2019 23:00

@17CherryTreeLane - wouldn't it be a shame if you accidentally dropped a LOT of nails on your driveway after a DIY project?

ShakespearesFister · 07/07/2019 23:04

Incidentally, not all cats bury their poop because it's a learned behaviour, not an innate one. Kittens can be taught to do this by humans. A mother cat who has been taught to do this will also teach her kittens, and they will teach their kittens, etc, so it's quite widespread among pet cats. But it's not a natural cat behaviour. It's an adaptation to please humans.

Coldbrewsandamumbun · 07/07/2019 23:04

The couple who used to live next door to us spent ALL their time in the kitchen. All their waking hours. Our kitchen windows gave each other, as we don’t have a boundary down the side of the house (easier access doe both) . The husband used to wash in the kitchen sink Confused I’d see him washing his armpits as I was cooking the tea. I had to shut my blinds 99% of the time I didn’t want to see him washing his old man bits Hmm

DreamTheMoors · 07/07/2019 23:07

@CCquavers Sprinkle black or red pepper generously wherever the cats poop. Won’t harm the cats but they hate it & will choose someplace else to go. Repeat as needed. 😊

Disfordarkchocolate · 07/07/2019 23:22

None of the five cats that roam our street has been taught this, life would be sweeter if they had but I wouldn't want to dig it up either. Never got the idea that you get a pet then let other people experience the 'shit' part of pet ownership.

Letsnotusemyname · 07/07/2019 23:24

Neighbour opposite loves our cats. Reason.... she’s never seen a rat or mouse in the garden.

In reality it’s their dumping ground. They wander across, do their business( buried) and come back.

She also, unconnected, peers through the letterbox. I quite often see it quietly open and then after 30 seconds close slowly.

Waitaway1970 · 08/07/2019 00:35

My neighbour stands at the end of her driveway smoking and insists on throwing her cigarette stub into my driveway. I went away for a while and got back to no less than 40 stubs to clear. When I’ve challenged her she’s got narky and I’ve now had to threaten to tell the landlord. In reality there isn’t much I feel I can do to change her behaviour except maybe post the stubs through her letter box???😏

lboogy · 08/07/2019 06:31

Neighbour on the left - when the bin men come they leave the binds in my driveway or the shared drive sometimes. she will not move her bin from the shared drive or from my house to hers. The other day I came home and her bin was in my driveway. Instead of her to move it to her driveway she closed the lid and walked back to her house leaving her bin in my driveway. I was tempted to leave it in my drive but since I'm not petty I moved it to her driveway

Neighbour on the right - keeps putting stupid noise making engines in his car. They also have loads and loads of rubbish. So much so that they have to leave bags of rubbish in their garden and every 3-6 months they have to hire a garden clearance van.

sashh · 08/07/2019 06:51

Min do a supermarket shop at least 3 times a week, I have no idea how much they are eating. They NEVER put any recycling out. But their oddest beg#haviour was when they got some lottery funding for a radio station that they ran from their bedroom.

They set up a website, claiming that they played 'Music the way it should be, LIVE!' - I had visions of their bed being used as a stage.

My carer lives in a block of flats,one of his neighbours seems to have some mental health issues, he talks normally and sensibly face to face but sometimes stands on his balcony and shouts to no one in particular.

MH is not funny but some of the stuff this guy says is, eg, "Everyone wanted to call me father, even Zeus wanted to call me father." then at the top of his voice, "Father of Rome".

He also, "can't do anything for those Christian women"

Greywind1523 · 08/07/2019 07:15

We lived next door to a family who had three BMW cars between them. The dad and son would spend the majority of every weekend cleaning, waxing and polishing the cars including taking the wheels off. We could never work out how they never had anything else to do on a weekend. They each got a new car every 6 months or so and the cleaning got a bit more fanatical for the first couple of weekends of the new cars.

Another neighbour lived in her dressing gown. No matter what time of day if we saw her she was wearing it.

threatmatrix · 08/07/2019 07:27

Don’t you think they are being sarcastic by doing this. How dare you expect them to put it in the bin. You need to get a litter tray and make sure your car uses it before it gets let out. What sort of a person are you?

TigerTooth · 08/07/2019 08:14

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

No they don’t

TigerTooth · 08/07/2019 08:18

Hmmm got me thinking about cat shit revenge - I hate it so much, my garden is covered in neighbours pet shite - might start gathering it and hanging the bags around her porch - I like it.
Or an air rifle...

TigerTooth · 08/07/2019 08:24

YesItsMeIDontCare*

I'm the weird neighbour. I take my cat for a walk (on a lead) twice a day, for about an hour to an hour and a half. Some of that "walk" usually involves me sitting on my front step while he surveys his territory and apologising to neighbours while he stomps over their walls and eats their grass.

Why do you do that?

TigerTooth · 08/07/2019 08:28

*sproutsandparsnips

I must say that I love my washing line dried, and especially towels which I aim to make as stiff and hard as possible. No fabric conditioner and never tumble dried. They dry so much better like that. If they can stand up by themselves so much the better!

Couldn’t agree more - and new towelsare reserved for guests, I like mine old and stiff😆

HemlockStarglimmer · 08/07/2019 08:48

I’m the weird one for putting the bins out a whole day ahead of time. It’s because I put them out on my way to work. I’m too knackered and sore to do it when I get home. And I’d miss the bin men if I did it on the day. They come early.
(And despite not living alone bin management always seems to fall to the most decrepit member of the family 🙄).

FoodologistGirl · 08/07/2019 09:18

One of our neighbours was busted as few years ago as a weed farm. We didn’t have a clue. They were so quiet. The first we knew was the police breaking down their door. The rest of the street are all lovely. We really look out for each other.

YorkshireIndie · 08/07/2019 09:26

One of my neighbours watched me put grit down in the dark. They were standing in their dinning room in the dark watching me. I did not have nightmares about that for a week. They also stated that I should not waste good council grit but it is okay for my disabled husband to fall