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?

Finally, a place to share this! I live in a flat sandwiched between a shop and my upstairs neighbour. Our front doors are accessed via stairs up to a good sized roof terrace (the roof of the shop next door) with plenty of space to hang laundry and for chairs if we wanted to.

When I moved in I asked the landlord about the neighbour as the previous tenant had apparently had disagreements with him and left on bad terms. The landlord sort of sucked in a breath and says 'well... I'll tell you this... he likes pigeons.' So I'm like alright, pigeons are cool, we all have hobbies. I wonder if he has coops somewhere.

Once I'm moved in I soon learn what he actually meant was that the chap upstairs likes to chuck several slices of bread out of his window on to the terrace, several times a day, for the flock of local city pigeons to descend upon. About the same time I found out he walked in stomp, talked in shout and really REALLY hates any bird other than pigeons.

The second you hear a seagull cawing you can hear him charge across the flat to shout out the window and throw things at the gulls that have, shockingly, been attracted by the free food.

He also likes to shout 'fuck off, you black bastards' at the Jackdaws.

So that's nice.

Whenever they walk their several dogs and have bagged dog poo, they leave it outside their front door. After some time, usually the husband, picks the poo bags up and runs across the road to the street bin & deposits the bags in to that.
They also get their wheelie bins cleaned by a wheelie bin cleaning company every bin collection day. Could understand that if they did have to put the dog poo bags in their own bins but they obviously don't

I think I found out why my neighbours don’t use their garden
The grass might die
Hence keeping small DC indoors watching TV for 48 hours of a weekend!
The garden is nothing nice to look at so I don’t know why they are worried about the grass that’s the least of their problems 😂

I have an elderly neighbour who likes to do naked yoga in their front room and you can see them when passing their house.

You'd be surprised at how shocked even the most unshockable seeming people get when unexpectedly confronted with the sight of an eighty year old ball bag.

I've lost count of the amount of visitors who have appeared at my house completely agog at what they inadvertently witnessed driving by.

😂

I love this thread.

Chap opposite always moaning he's got a health problem, but manages to sweep his gravel with a broom several times a day. If his wife goes out, dustmen have been or postman delivers, he'll go out and sweep. You just know he's going to do it and can easily catch him at it. I laugh but it's a shame really.

My neighbor cuts his grass twice a week - usually st the sight of a daisy coming up. Also polished and cleans the car after EVERY use

My neighbours have loud sex in their back garden. Kept me amused during night feeds.

I hang clothes on the line on hangers. I use the arms of the rotary airer for this. Rarely lose anything in the wind. It was a mumsnet tip that put me onto this, I already dried things on hangers inside the house. I rarely need to iron.

NDN walks round the house listening to music with headphones on.

Singing loudly and badly.

It's summer so all his windows are open and it's hilarious, literally like cats scrapping 🤣

Mind you, I sunbathe in my front garden because I get no sun in the back so I'm probably considered "the weird neighbour" lol

Anyone going to say "They send sympathy cards to the trees in my garden"?

@BadLad

@BadLad omg that could be my neighbor. He was really upset when his tree fell down apparently REALLY UPSET 😂

I was actually thinking about posting something similar the other day.

My neighbour is very odd he has put bars on every single window, his whole garden is full of junk. he has boarded up his conservatory and put a thick white sheet on top and tied it up so you cant see through. Always in work clothes but never seen him actually go to work.

Neighbour let’s himself into our garden and roots around in our bins. DH caught him in the act a few weeks ago and his response was that ‘he was looking for something’. Possibly his marbles.
PILs’ neighbour writes notes to other residents in their (quite posh) little road complaining about all sorts of minor ‘neighbourly infractions’ like bbqs and bonfires. And also more ‘kindly’ notes offering advice on their gardens or washing their cars.

This thread is hilarious!!

Mine offered me a lift home with my shopping but refused to actually allow me to get into the car - only my shopping.

There’s also now a hole in my garden where I’d planted the lavender plant she gifted me recently. I can only assume she’s dug it up

My old neighbours were def drug dealers - had a camera fitted outside of their front door.

They were also pretty nasty. They had a massive dog which used to shit all over our garden (as there was no fence down middle) - I very politely asked if they'd mind picking it up (and I even said once a week rather than every day which I think was more than reasonable). They moved out and rented it out to tenants and I found a huge pile of dog shit outside my back door.

I got a fence put up after that.

What horrid people.

I am always perplexed at my neighbours who NEVER open a window, not even a tiny one in a heatwave. Their house must be so stale. One of their windows has bubble wrap stuck to the glass!

I have a neighbour also who never opens a window.

In fact she never cleans up,if she knows she is getting visitors her son has to hoover up around the rubbish.If she sees the window cleaners approaching she shuts all her curtains.

She went into hospital and her friend who lived next door went in and washed all her pots,put them away and cleaned the sink......when she came out of hospital the neighbour complained to her friend that she couldnt find things and demanded to know what she had used to clean the sink....because she is very particular about what she cleans her sink with lol

I have a neighbour who doesn’t open her windows, what makes it worse is that She has a house cat, that house must stink 🤢 She has lived in the house for at least 17 years and the only time I’ve seen the windows open was when she went into hospital for a few weeks and her children went in and opened the windows and cleaned the house. Since she’s been home the windows have never been open again.

I also have a neighbour who has a driveway but refuses to park on it, instead they park in front of it on the road. It’s at a very narrow bit of the road so it’s really annoying for people trying to get past.

One of our neighbours is a old lady and her son. You can be laid in bed really late or early morning and all off a sudden they will be really loud clapping or shouting. You can often hearing him screaming for his mum (she must be late 70s early 80s). She is lovely though and the amount of noise our kids make refusing to go to bed and paddling at the moment we can't really complain🤦🏻‍♀️.

Well, our NDNs have :-

1. accused us of killing some of their fish.
2. accused us (several times) of scattering nails/screws over their drive.
3. accused us of stealing a delivery (even though our Postie has been told not to leave anything with us and didn't).
4. rang the police and complained about the privacy panel (on our side of the wall) put up between the porches.
5. rang the police and complained about a small wooden butterfly ornament on the fence post between the back gardens.
6. told all our neighbours that my DP is a schizophrenic alcoholic (no, he really isn't).
7. removed our bathroom pipes from the shared downspout, so bath and sink waste water was pissing all over our patio and conservatory.
8. grilled our neighbours for information about us.
9. screamed and yelled at us and generally been abusive.

A really lovely pair don't you think

I love this one : “Another neighbour is a self-confessed prostitute. Claims she's a "business woman" though, because sex for money is just a business arrangement like any other. “
Not sporting judgey pants : but I DO love a double entendre I would have pulled out my best Kenneth Williams/ Frankie Howerd impersonations and asked if she was “ an entry - preneur “ < I’ll fetch me coat >

One of my NDNs keeps the curtains closed all the time and the door is always locked. We've taken in parcels for her a couple of times and, when I go round to take them to her, a head will appear out of an upstairs window shouting "yes?" She does answer the door eventually though

I do wonder what's wrong with cleaning your bin and keeping your door locked. I'm a self confessed weirdo, but I didn't think either of those things added to that. (please enlighten me! )