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?

A man opposite us is obsessed with his house and front garden. He waters his plants with a hose every day even if it's rained.
Another person opposite works from home and goes out and comes home with takeaways 3 times a day every single day.
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

@17CherryTreeLane That would annoy me no end. They're effectively halving the lifespan of your driveway by consistently driving on it. They're not cheap to resurface either so a driveway gate would be my solution to that. Or even a pretty white chain across.
Or if you don't drive and don't use it yourself, a nice sturdy fence.

I actually may be the odd neighbour now I come to think of it. I regularly pick litter up from the pavement, road and opposite verge outside our gardens (mine and neighbour's) I weed the road and fences of my small block and when NDN'a handyman finished I even took on doing their garden so I could tidy it up properly. It was full of half buried litter and junk even though it was regularly mowed. Handyman just mowed over the litter or up to the chunks of debris thrown in the corners. It's now a neat lawn, the fences and paths have been jet washed by me and it looks 100% better.

Mine puts notes under dog poo in the alley way our back yards open onto.

anything goes in rural Glos
It does, oh yes.

What do the notes say, MiraculousMarinette?

Who are they to? The poo fairy?

I have a lovely neighbour who is retired. He is a very keen car booter and will travel miles for them. The year round ones start very early, so even in the depths of winter, he will set out a 5am or sometimes earlier,scraping snow or ice off his car, so he can be there first for the 'bargains'. I realise it's his hobby, but I have to admire his dedication.
I only know this because I was up for a pee one night around 4am and saw him setting off in filthy weather. I thought it might have been some kind of emergency, so I asked and that's when he told me.
I suppose I am just the nosey neighbour!

My neighbour lets the foxes into her kitchen to feed them. She throws cat food out in to the garden every day to feed the badgers, foxes, crows, rats and pigeons.

Katinski our underwear never goes on the line it goes on the airer in the boiler cupboard. This is ever since we had a knicker pincher a few years ago.

When we moved into our house, I got chatting tobout neighbiur as I accidentally parked in his communal space.

He said it was fine in the evenings as he works late, foesntncome home until the early hours as he makes "...special deliveries" I locked eye with him, smiled, nodded and came inside.

I told my family and friends that my neighbour is a drug dealer.

Funnily enough I went to the kebab shop about 6 months later and there he was... a kebab delivery guy. I feel awful.

Our neighbour jumps up and down in his wheelie bin to squash the rubbish, wearing only a dressing gown.

When they moved in, he stood outside his house wearing just his pants, taking photos of his new house.
He rushed out to say goodbye to his child going to school, completely naked, with his hand covering his penis. My daughter saw him, while she was eating breakfast, I didn't believe her, until I looked out the window and saw his naked arse going back indoors.
He regularly plays the fool outside his house, with his kid, and if he knocks their ball into the neighbours garden, he makes his kid go and knock for it, while he goes in and hides.

We have a neighbour over the road who spends a lot of the summer sitting on a bench drunk on his front patio, often playing loud music and occasionally getting into loud debates with other local drunks. One early Sunday morning last summer he played classical music and it was really quite lovely!!

Round the corner is a man who has fake shutters, bright lights and a fake blue plaque on his house ‘Twatty McTwatface of Twatville lives here’ sort of thing. It’s a very ordinary Victorian terrace.

@Disfordarkchocolate I do this to , you can get more on the line , its much quicker to bring them in and be able to put stuff away straight away ( non-ironer here too )

@Minkies11 what does he scream ?

I have a neighbour that only seems to use he phone outside and he can be on it for a hour or more , I dont think he lives with anyone so why does he need to go outside to make the calls ?

@LakieLady , Have you, and the PP who does this, found a way of securing the hangers? Please share if you have!
Get some string and wind it around your washing line to create a spiral effect , keeping it really taught tie the string to the washing line post ( not the line it's self or it will bunch up after a while ) then hook your hanger between the line and the string.

The same effect can be gained by doubling back your washing line if its long enough.

sambeckett just a high pitched scream - no words. More of a shriek actually. I think he's scared of worms or something because he looks like he's going to play ice hockey when he does the gardening.

Our neighbours go away in their caravan 3 or 4 times a year, every time they come home the woman washes and hangs out loads of bubblewrap and other strange stuff. Theyre due home today or tomorrow, im going to have to ask her why.

They also go to asda every sunday at 8.15 exactly. They also buy a pack of cat treats every single week for our cat who goes to visit the man at 630 every morning and 520 every night.

Constantly hums when out in their garden, on a sunny day like this, they could be out humming for 3 or 4 hours. Drives me batshit.

Cuts grass in knickers, baggy off white ones. Why?!!!

Ours weirdly usually have a plate in the front garden. They have a little flower patch bricked in with a small wall and there’s normally a small dinner plate balancing on it. At first I thought someone had just forgot to take it in, but now it’s always there. Except sometimes it disappears again for a day, then it’s back out again the next. Sometimes it moves around the wall. I have become weirdly obsessed with checking for it every time I leave for work. What does it mean??

@Sparklesocks does it have a bit of water on it? Sugarwater for bees perhaps?

ChesterDrawsDoesntExist no from what I can see it’s always completely empty and dry, although sometimes it has a few odd crumbs on it!

Possibly a crumb plate for birds? Only used occasionally so looks like it's always empty? Whatever the case, I'd be dying to find out. It's potentially quite odd.

OP if I was your neighbour the cat poo would be deposited unbagged on your bin lid. Can you really not see that you are the unreasonable one?

I have a neighbour who sits by our fence shouting orders into his phone, he has a big garden so no need to sit by the compost and dog shit bins (his). He also shoots rats, or he did until one day I said something rude, he didn't know I was there.

Not that weird compared to some, but he is an odd sort of person.