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?

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Put their bins out a full 24 hours before they’re collected.

More than one neighbour does this.

personalNonGarter

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I used to hang out clothes on hangers in the last two Aussie rentals we had. In the standard Aussie house it is a rule that clothes lines are in the sunniest place in the yard that cannot be seen from the house.

When we bought a house, we found the cross winds are shocking and blow the clothes off the line. It was soooo much easier putting out stuff on hangers.

Only one weird neighbour with petrol-driven leaf blower used incessantly. I want to shout: use a broom, you'll live longer, ya moron. I especially love the way leaf blower enthusiasts protect their own ears but have no thought for their neighbours' comfort. Wankers.

Have one neighbour who refuses to park their car up to the kerb and just leaves it in the middle of the road. It just looks abandoned and takes up more space than is needed causing an obstruction to the flow of traffic.

Another neighbour erects a gazebo over his car and spends at least 3 hrs every. single. day. (no word of a lie) cleaning and polishing it to within an inch of its life. I've never actually seen him drive it though. Doesn't bother me, he's causing no harm. But it is odd.

Have another neighbour who likes to eavesdrop on the occasional quiet evening chats I have with another neighbour by pretending to polish her car... in the dark.

Ndn is a raging alcoholic (had a thread on here not so long ago about her). She agreed to us paying hundreds for her side of the dangerous rickety fence to be replaced, as she couldn't afford it, and is now causing havoc because she hasn't got 'the nice side' and keeps threatening to damage it and swearing at us in drunken stupors every day.

Other ndn's mother (who babysits for them a couple of times a week) comes and stands out in the front garden if we're out and just stares at us with an evil glare. Never spoken to her, never done anything to her or her family. We're not loud or disruptive. And she's never said anything to us or explained what her grievance with us is. But she seems to be utterly incensed and has given us these nasty glares since the day we moved in.

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. She's also a childminder.

A family over the back of us scream and shout obscene insults at each other all day long, including the kids. Like "FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING CUUUUNTS!!" and other such affectionate family bants.

One complained by an extensive email to the builders who refurbed our garden, that they were causing traffic chaos on our street. The builders parked on our double driveway off the road and nobody ever had trouble getting in and out of their drives or the cul-de-sac. Literally a couple of days later she had some building work herself and had vans and lorries parked all over the street in front of neighbours driveways and blocking the road. Causing traffic chaos. But that's ok apparently, because she's lived here longer than us.

One of the neighbours kids constantly attacks my DS to an extent of causing bruises and marks on him. His DM refuses to discipline her DS for it and has now started sending him to boxing classes!

They're all batshit and we will be looking to move on pretty soon.

Ours feeds the sodding seagulls!!! And now they have a nest on their chimney!! So we have seagull cries 24 hours a sodding day.

Wankers

Im loving the cat poo ideas. Hate to chuck it over fence but I need a way to inconvenience the neighbour and her cats the same amount as I’m being inconvenienced.

And cats don’t always bury poo. In fact I’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of seeing cats never bury their poo.

Guy over the road is obsessed with cleaning his car. Does it every weekend, and takes up to 6 hours cleaning it, he must have every type of cleaning product going. Special brushes for each part of the car, different coloured buckets.. the lot.

He now gets the kids involved too, except they get bored quickly and end up running up and down the street screaming whilst he carries on buffing the paintwork.

Previous house, our neighbours had sons in their late teens/twenties, they would return home at about 2am from their parents' restaurant, rev their Subaru sex-symbols for a few minuites, leave it running while they opened the garage door, rev it and put it away, slamming the garage door. When a neighbour with young children asked them to be a bit more considerate they reported him to the police for a race-hate crime and guess who has it recorded for future reference.

There is a house a few doors down (new builds) which has never been lived in. They come most days and clean the house, tidy the garden, wash the doors and windows, but don't actually live in it. I can count on one hand the amount of times they have stayed overnight. They don't ever put their bins out (they are basically brand new) and I can only assume they take any rubbish anyway with them?! It's really weird, it's been almost five years - it's like they keep it as a show home / doll house. It's not even like they rent it out or anything, it just sits there and they clean it?!

Next door can go months without cutting their lawn, finally relenting when it resembles a jungle or one of their relatives tells them to sort it out. When they do cut the grass, they randomly strim the entire thing, even when the grass is quite short, then go over it with a lawn mower. It takes them over an hour, we can do ours which is the same size in under ten minutes.

They also leave clothes on the line for days and days, even in the rain.

Across the road is a guy who I think is a bit obsessed with cleaning and things being in order, he cuts his grass with scissors and a ruler to ensure each piece is the same length.

There is one guy on our street who is lovely but is often seen walking a lawnmower down the road. I can only assume he borrows or lends it to someone but it’s a great source of entertainment to a few of us. I once asked him about it and he said “i haven’t got a dog”.

There is another who I think is a hoarder. He never uses his front door but is in a terrace so goes round through the next door neighbours garden. He lives alone and has two cars, one of which is FULL of newspapers and in the evenings he sits outside in his car reading the newspapers. I believe he is a teacher at one of the local grammars.

One set of neighbours write messages on sheets of loo roll and drop them out of the bathroom window for whomever is in the kitchen. We vaguely assume they find this better than shouting. Unfortunately they don't take wind speed into account and these messages sometimes land in our garden. Including the one requesting more loo roll

Male neighbour comes home from work, puts car in the garage, then rings doorbell for his wife to answer.

• uses a noisy car buffer until close to midnight, in the middle of summer. Did this each and every Saturday for about 4 weeks, at which point another neighbour screamed at him
• Same neighbour feels it's perfectly reasonable, on a very busy road, to allow his very young children to play out in the front garden, loudly, until very late at night. He shuts the front door on them. We all have lovely sized, secure back gardens. When they broke fast, they had loads, I mean shitloads, of people over every night, kids running up and down the street, banging bins and screaming (to the point I thought one of the kids was being snatched). Then come the cabs beeping and the loud convos as people leave. Not to mention the men all stand outside my bloody house having in-depth, loud conversations away from the women. Now, I'm aware that breaking fast is important to them and all cool, in fact they are far from the only family on the road who celebrate it. We all tolerate it. Roll round to Christmas when lots of us put lights up and have Christmas or New Year parties, and he goes apeshit about people not respecting his family and that they don't celebrate the season. He went mental at an elderly neighbour who put Christmas cards through everyone's door (it's a small street). He's a wanker. We all got excited when he put the house up for sale but after a year trying to sell he gave up. He is the only one who doesn't attend the local community street party with the street parallel to us, despite there being all manner of families and cultures represented. He's just rude. No need for it.

Mine has a piece of old wooden furniture outside the front door to keep dried foods in. Even though it attracts mice.

Someone around the corner has a few webcams and spends his time bodybuilding in front of them. Once seen doing this naked

Mine takes every single landline call... outside.

I can hear the landline's ringer through my walls... and I then get to hear, word for shrieking word, of my neighbour's side of the conversation.

Their (adult) sons also smoke weed right outside of my house. Specifically below my daughter's bedroom window, whenever it's open. She's actually allergic to the smoke, with it triggering migraines, so I've repeatedly asked them not to - they have a back garden, after all, why smoke it in the street, outside, on someone else's property? But no.

And the husband repairs cars on the drive. Loudly. All Sunday. Other people block our road waiting for him to finish one, so that he can start another. He's only there on the Sunday (ie, he lives elsewhere), and I understand - perhaps - the need for some extra cash, but... it's noisy, it's intrusive, and everyone's more than slightly fed up with it.

They're a very odd family.

One male neighbour can seemingly live without sleep. He'll be on a run of nights and an hour after getting home in the morning, he'll be out polishing his car or doing some gardening. How is this even possible?

Two middle aged women live together next door. Maybe a couple, none of my beeswax. There’s a very strange squeaking noise though that sounds distinctly like a bed squeaking during sex (I cannot think of anything else it could be) and it happens every single day sometimes up to five times a day.

I don’t actually see them leaving their house very often but that noise is ever present... They’re either nymphomaniacs or there’s something else the strange noise could be, we can’t figure it out.

Ours seem to go into their back garden every time we have our patio doors open
Then they stand at the bottom of their garden so they can chat to each other whilst occasionally looking into our living room
Pisses me right off
They also lower their grandkid down over the fence to get frisbee. Ball. Toy. Etc etc

Neighbour at the end of the corner owns a car park. Keeps it locked..
Empty..
And she parks on the street and purchases a permit to do so!
Also same neighbour has the sills etc painted a different colour every summer and buys a new composite door to match.
Which requires planning permission at cost of £70 x 2 to do so.
Ndn is far too much of a twat to list everything....

Neighbours 1 decided to hang out their entire wardrobes a massive load of washing 2 days before moving out, during the middle of a very widely advertised spell of storms and heavy rain. They ended up taking it all with them, absolutely soaking wet.

Neighbours 2 work part time, but specifically chooses to go food shopping every Saturday lunchtime.

One of our neighbour's left a large carrier bag of rubbish directly outside our back gate on the day the bin men had been. The bag wasnt closed properly so could see a large hair ball and empty tablet packets, it was really disgusting but I've just left it there as it is in the entry. I just don't know why you would do that, it's not like there wasnt any room outside their own door. I feel there was some sort of point being made but I don't know what?

@TotheletterofthelawTHELETTER I see your ten days and raise you 3 months! They've added but never taken away. There's actually one item that's been on there since before November

@PersonaNonGarter I'm with your neighbours here on the takeaway issue 😂