AIBU to ask what slightly odd things your neighbours do?

[Mycatpoops]

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?

@user1494055864 until you got to the penis shielding bit, I thought you may have been one of my neighbours. OH isn't really one for clothes, and seems to feel no need to keep away from the front door/garden

I'm the odd kind of neighbour based on this thread. DSs school polo tops have been on the line for days, there are a few resilient stains that the sun is gradually bleaching out.

Odd neighbour in our area has a huge climbing plant which entirely covers an upstairs window, and an equally massive palm tree planted directly outside a downstairs window, up against the wall of the house. It must be dark as a cave in there!

We have lived next to the same neighbours for 15 years. In all that time I have never seen them out and about around our local area, the shops, parks etc. They regularly go out, but always drive. I don’t think I have ever seen them walking down our road even.

@TigerTooth - because he has a medical condition which means he has to keep away from other cats. By taking him out on a lead he gets fresh air and mental stimulation while keeping the threat of picking up infections or passing on the condition to a minimum.

My neighbour has about 30 cars on his drive he regularly lines them all up around his house and down the drive blocking access to the shared drive that I can no longer use as he has dumped another car on there. he is a car hoarder has a taxi, a motor home, wedding cars and even a hearse. He owns a garage business so why the fuck he needs to park them all outside his house I don't.

Mine told my landlord I'd been sacked because my car hadn't moved for two weeks, I was on annual leave and didn't need to drive.

Fairylea I feel your pain. Our arsehole upstairs neighbour does it between 7am-9am daily right above our bedroom. I've told dp to put in a noise complaint as I'm positive she had wooden floors and it's in the tenancy agreements that only carpeted floors are allowed unless you're on the ground floor which she isn't. I would love to see her have to shell out for new flooring after the many mornings or no long lies.

I've just read all this wondering if I recognise myself in any of the posts. But thankfully I don't.
We have a couple of neighbours who are obsessive about parking outside their houses (on street parking) which is quite tight. They must stare out of the window all day because the instant someone moves out of 'their' spot they dash out and move into the space. One deliberately parks one car in a 2 car space to save space for when member of family gets home. The rest of us just have a giggle at their expense.

Next door have recently started going out of an evening in 10-20 minute increments. Back and forth repeatedly, the whole family in and out the cars and house. This goes on the 2/3 hours. We've no idea what they can be doing

This reminds me of the thread where the OP's neighbour/s were going out in the middle of the night. I think the whole family went. I wonder if they ever found out what they were doing.

NDN where I used to live would only wash his car in the rain. You could guarantee within a couple of minutes of it raining, he'd be out washing his car...sometimes at night in the dark. Very strange!

what slightly odd things your neighbours do?

• I sometimes wonder if my own neighbours think I am odd.

There'll be multiple days when I am gone before dawn and not back till the early hours, often carrying multiple bags.

Then a week or so when I don't leave the house (or am out and back again before she's back from the school run, so same diff)

My living rooms are mostly at the back of the house so the front is often dark and unlit.

I rarely have visitors, but I can I also leave the house at unusual times for varying periods of time.

I could be up to anything!

My DP caught one of our neighbours vigorously hoovering the wooden decking in her back garden on Sunday. Apparently it's not the first time she's been spotted.

I live rurally and have two neighbours. One set are lovely when sober, nightmares when drunk, are alcoholics and let their 4 dogs run loose into my fields and chase and injure my horses. The woman is a banned drink driver and never ever goes out except on the rare occasions her DH takes her to the shops in his car. They have no children and no jobs [inherited wealth I assume] but do have a cleaner and a gardner come in. They are late forties...

The other is a recluse. She is late thirties, and I have never, ever seen her outside. I have occasionally seen her in a taxi, going into town [she doesn't drive]. Except last year she got a sudden spurt of energy and took to wandering around my garden with her title deeds in her hand and knocking on my door repeatedly - she is very gullible and a local tradesman had told her some nonsense about where her septic tank was emptying to. I'd say she was harmless but she can actually be a bit rude.

@saj90 I did this with mine before I stained it The broom wasn't getting the dust from where I'd sanded it out of the grooves.

My ndn insist on parking her car on the road every time is slightly windy "just in case" the fence blows down.
This fence isn't loose, doesn't move an inch. But without fail it'll be on the road.

Next door have recently started going out of an evening in 10-20 minute increments. Back and forth repeatedly, the whole family in and out the cars and house. This goes on the 2/3 hours. We've no idea what they can be doing

Sounds like they are delivering something if you are lucky it's deliveroo.

TheCanyon; Do you mean they leave home at 08.15? Every Asda I know opens at 10.00 or11.00 on Sundays.

I live in a flat, one neighbour struggles to get in his door some nights so takes a nap in front of it. The other one has a rubbish clear out at 10pm. I thought someone was breaking in next door but it turns out that he was using his wheely bin to collect rubbish then dragging it up and down the stairs.

*We've lived in our house over two years and have never seen the people/person that lives next door. We have occasionally heard them walking about at night but never in the day time.

Sorry about that

Meant to add your neighbours are vampires.

Ndn strims his whole back garden. Not just the edges or hard to reach bits but the whole bloody thing. The gardens aren't massive yet it takes him all day every single sunday.

Ndn has also taken to staring when ever I water the plants/do gardening out the front/am in the kitchen. It's really creepy being stared at whilst you wash the dishes. They also do DIY at 10pm at night, perfect time to hang some shelves.

Resident director of block of flats. He won't let anyone have a pet and yet he has a cat, when he goes out to work/for the day he takes the cat with him in a carrier and sneaks it out the flat. Not sneaky enough as he's been seen multiple times doing it.

I've also been told by someone who used to live in the same block that he doesn't use his washing machine as he thinks it will be a selling point when he moves (he's been there about 14 years and it's the same machine that the developer installed). He takes his washing elsewhere to be done.

@HawaiianLion Sun 07-Jul-19 19:16:57
My neighbours have a lovely, big garden yet whenever they have guests over in the summer, they move their car and have a BBQ on the drive.

Maybe you live next door to this poster:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3571382-WIBU-to-make-them-sit-outside

@pinkstripeycat Sat 06-Jul-19 20:24:36
One of my cats craps in my garden and I do a poo pick every day. My other cat goes in the garden of person living behind us. Person has put up wire fencing to stop my cat getting through a space in the fence. What he doesn’t know is that the hole my cat uses to get in his garden is hidden from his side by a huge bush. Unless he chops it down and fixes his fence he’ll not stop my cat. Next door neighbour had a go at me once about my cats pooping in his garden. He said he didn’t mind his other neighbours cat going in his garden but didn’t want mine to. Daft thing is it was his other neighbours cat doing the pooping!

If you know that, why don't you block the hole, instead of sounding smug and proud that your cat shits in someone else's garden?

A lady who lives down the road from me has become a bit of stalker....

She started having an affair with a bloke around the corner.
He has a long term girlfriend who doesnt live with him.

This ladies friend has said that she walks her dog constantly up and down the road past his house
1, to hope he comes out and chats to her
2, to see if the girlfriend is there

She is desperately trying to become friends with his friends.
I and many other neighbours had already worked out what was going on long before her so called friend started telling everyone.
The even sadder part is that she thinks its just her and his girlfriend.....that he will ditch her and she will be more than a bit on the side.....he has many lady friends.
Quite sad to see someone that desperate

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

Do you live next door to my PILs?