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?

PinkTinker i had just this noise from a flat above mine, years ago. I was confused as the woman who lived there was single and never seemed to have visitors.
A year later she moved out and due to flooding, my flatmate and I moved up into her old flat. I got out the ironing board to do some ironing.... a familiar squeak squeak squeakety squeak came from the board.
So not a frequent shagger...just keen on ironing.

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.

Isn't that what everyone does?

Slightly OT but I have been dithering over whether to get a takeaway later, and if so what one.

All these mentions of curry have sealed the deal, thanks!

Porn-style performance sex at 2am and again at 5am to include actual shouting, not a sexual moan, but an actual shout. Honestly it feels like being assaulted through the wall.

OP your neighbour is not weird, just sick of cat shit. I'd put in on your doorstep unbagged.

My ex neighbours decided to buy a house far too small for them and all their pets. They then added to the pet collection and spend most of the day loudly being pissed off that they have pets and each other under their feet an almost constant stream of "geddown" "siddown" and "fackin' mooove" emanates from their home.
They also cement fake flowers and statues on every available outdoor wall space.

Our neighbour is involved in a battle with the council over bins. It's a battle of his own making and totally ridiculous. Meanwhile several of us have to manoeuvre around his bins which get left out for up to a week at a time.
He's a low level nuisance in very many ways but thinks he's a great neighbour.

I live in a small block of flats, the neighbours at the bottom have a garden, but they take their dog to the toilet out the front of the block. Sometimes directly in front of the door. Another neighbour printed out "no dog fouling" signs and pinned them up outside. I seem to have gotten the blame for this, because when they let their dog out in the middle of the night they ring my buzzer to wake the whole family as an act of revenge! It's the only reason I can think for him doing it anyway. I have since lost the plot with him at 5AM and what do you know, the middle of the night calls have stopped. He denied it. But I've seen him doing it from the window. He's a complete weirdo.
He also stands in the doorway of the block with his top off so you have to brush past him to get through. Complete creep. He's a big guy and the thought of his man tits touching me makes me 🤢. He really seems to get a perverse kick out of bullying me.
It's a 2 bedroom flat and 4 adults and 2 children live there. None of them are small and I don't know how they fit inside. I'm saving every penny to leave as quickly as I can.

For those with smoking neighbours under your windows can I suggest a bucket of water flung out and a "Oooh sorry! I thought there was a fire because of the smoke coming in my window!"

My upstairs neighbour is brilliant. He doesn't work and his rent is paid by housing benefit but he only pops home for a night every two or three months. The rest of the time he stays elsewhere. The best kind of neighbour is one that isn't there 😉

My next door neighbours spent last year building a chicken coop in the garden. Did it properly too, digging it into the ground so the foxes can't get in.
As soon as it was finished they put a bike inside it.
A year on the bike is still there, never taken out and used and no chickens.

Wails very loudly to the heavens up to several times a day. "Jeeezuus, jeezuus, jeezuus, bless me, I am a good man, blah blah blah, right under my bedroom window & has been known to start at 7 am on a Sunday

No you're not, your an inconsiderate antisocial wanker & if you actually bothered to think about the neighbours & not be a noisy pillock & clean your filthy act up, you might find rage neighbours buy your food, instead of boycotting your antisocial ass

& don't get me started on the middle of the night fire alarms as you're working in the kitchen after permitted hours 🤬

Old neighbour, elderly man, I lived in downstairs in a 4 in the block and he lived above me. If someone shut the door loudly he would come and complain that we were going to damage the structure of the building. If I left pegs on the washing line (the poles were shared, each had our own space) he would come and tell us to take them off as they would damage the poles and end up pulling them down.

He had lived in the same flat since childhood, he rented it very cheaply from some lettings agency as the houses were originally built in WW2 (they were the original tenants) and must have had the same curtains the whole time. He was extremely frugal to the point of obsession despite having a navy pension, company pension and state pension.

He never used his wheelie bin and was proud he still had the no hot ashes sticker in place from when the bins were delivered in the 1980s. He would put his one carrier bag of rubbish a week into any neighbours bin to keep his clean.

Current neighbour is a man who needs to keep busy. At one point it was building chicken runs, no idea if it was even legal to keep them where we are. He keeps changing his front door, last one was like an ornate castle door. I caught him washing the pavement and road in the cul-de-sac the other week with his garden hose, not even a power washer. His chicken runs have been replaced with a big dog kennel and run where he leaves his hyperactive collie to bark when he is out at work. He did give permission to go in and play with her though during the day when she is getting too excited.

Bonus with this one is he is a professional gardener and does my garden cash in hand for a very cheap rate, the downside to this is the need to make conversation with him!

I'm the weirdo who takes my cat out on a harness and leash. Don't want him getting squished on main road and this way he gets out safely and is happy with the set up. I heard my wee dope smoker NDN tell his wee dope smoking buddy how sorry he felt for my cat, this is the man who keeps some kind of reptile in a cage but takes it out in the sun and sits on a lounger with it on his chest to sunbathe.

When I win the lottery I am buying a detached house in the middle of nowhere.

These are great. Some really very weird habits that some people have!!!

For people who have mentioned it, I totally understand they don't want my cats crap in their garden but still find it odd they don't either just a)bring it up with me in person or b)put it in the bin. Im not sure the anonymous point they're trying to make. I'm aware my cat shits in their garden but it's not something I can do anything about. I guess I just find it a bit passive aggeessive. Ask me to come and pick it up if you prefer, I really wouldn't mind.

If neighbours are complaining about your cats, then a fencetop barrier to keep your cats in your own garden may be a solution, something like this
protectapet.com/shop/cat-products/cat-fencetop-barriers/

Have a massive clanky windchime in their garden. Don't get it. It's really loud and irritating.

Lakielady
Re. Hangers, you use two Hangers facing each other at the top, to make a full circle iyswim.

My old neighbour used to jet wash his driveway and patio for hours on end. Perfectly average sized patio and two car driveway but he would spend up to eight hours at a time doing it and would then repeat the process the following day.

He had a gardener/handyman that used to come once a week and I was outside when he arrived one morning and unloaded a jet washer from his truck. I said hello and said that he wouldn't be needing to use that as Brian had just spent the entire weekend just washing. He said that Brian had asked him to come and spend two days jetwashing! He was as I baffled as I was as everything was immaculate but proceeded to spend the next two days jetwashing!

If someone parks on my driveway my neighbour rushes over and hovers and says hiya to all our visitors.

If someone is visiting her and I just happen to be outside she rushes out and stands with her back to me and ushers her visitors in quickly

My thankfully ex ndn were insane.
Every sunny day they would bring their sofa from the lounge outside into the front garden to sit on.
Would bugger off for the weekend leaving 2 dogs alone in the house (yes I contacted the rspca/police)
Then come home and shout at them for shitting in the house.
Brought a car even though none of them could drive or were planning to learn "well we got a drive don't we so we need a car"
The absolute batshittest thing she EVER did though was watching her 4/5 year old dd sit in the middle of the road to play with barbies
Now were not a busy road but no way should any child be playing in our road.
Thankfully new ndn are much more normal.

Our previous neighbour opposite washed his car every single day. Even in snow. Even the day he collected it from the showroom. Never his dw's though!!
At least 3 hours.

Every day.
7 days a week.

Our NDN single male washes his car every Saturday and Sunday. That's not the weird part it's that he also cleans his NDN's car, the lady across the road and I've even caught him cleaning ours all without asking.

My neighbour stands on a chair and leans over her fence with a broomstick to bash my plants because she doesn’t want them touching the fence. She also snaps off any tree branches that dare encroach onto her airspace, even by a few centimetres.

Burlea, I want your neighbour!!

The most extraordinary manifestation of cat crapping was one who used to crap on the top of the 5' privet hedges in the garden. 2x3 craps per day,7xdays a week....
Never saw which cat it was, either. Still, this was in rural Glos. Anything goes in rural Glos

Then, when I moved to the city, there was the lady next door who did the housewife stuff while her husband was a Prof of something or other at the University.Her catchphrase about her OH was "he was at Oxford,you know"...on repeat..
She hung their washing out on the long clothesline which bisected their garden.Everything went on that line - except for his underkegs.
Either he didn't change them in the 15 or so years we lived there, or...shock horror...he didn't wear any?
Do esteemed University Profs who had been to Oxford not wear underpinnings?
I'll never know

My neighbours probably think I'm the peculiar one, sneaking round my garden after dark with a torch (I'm killing slugs, of course). They mostly do normal irritating-neighbour stuff like talking and letting their dogs yap.

Mine go batshit if I ball accidentally goes into their garden. However they think nothing of driving right up my drive to my front door, to then back out & turn. Even if I'm standing in the drive they do it, as do all their visitors, happens every day.

They keep any balls that go over...AIBU to keep their cars?!