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AIBU to ask what slightly odd things your neighbours do?

303 replies

Mycatpoops · 06/07/2019 08:30

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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Boobahs · 06/07/2019 15:15

We have a family a couple of doors away. Elderly man, his son, his daughter and her partner and their young daughter.

Every single night at 9.25pm exactly, either the old man or the son head off walking up the road. Not really strange, but I would love to know where they go!

wendywoopywoo222 · 06/07/2019 15:16

The lady over the road from me comes out and holds the side gate open in the evenings until her hubby arrives on his bicycle and cycles in Presumably he can't open a gate himself.

TixieLix · 06/07/2019 15:21

My husband is the odd NDN as he's obsessed with washing our cars. He's out there every other day and has two different buckets, various brushes and special cloths. He so obsessed I often wonder whether the neighbours think he's a bit of a weirdo (he is!)

sheshootssheimplores · 06/07/2019 15:28

I have neighbours on three sides. Ages ranging from late thirties to late fifties. Each of them watch while their elderly parents work on their gardens. I find it really odd.

Birdboy to the right just watches while his 70 off year old father wields a pick axe or sledgehammer. Never lifting a bloody finger to help. The mad bitch at the back just yammers at her mother as she pulls up weeds and digs over soil. The nicer neighbours to the right sunbathe as the father gardens around them. None of these parents live in the houses btw.

In contrast my mother comes round and we sit and have a coffee and I make her lunch. My partner goes and sees his mother and helps her with DIY, heavy lifting etc. When did it become the norm for elderly parents to work for their kids on each visit?!!!

Loveislandfan · 06/07/2019 15:32

Mine still use a handbrake lock on a 3ish year old car. I find that so strange.

My son caught another shooing my cat off their shed roof with a stick the other day

We have another avid car washer her too. An older gent. Almost daily he washes that car.

One thing that’s not happening in my street but does seem to happen in rougher areas is people using front gardens as back gardens and sitting out in them, having toys etc there. Seems so strange to me.

nonevernotever · 06/07/2019 15:39

@minkies Given the combination of gardening screams and kneepads I'll bet you any money he has knee trouble and theintermittent screams are when he's pinched a bit of worn cartilage

rosesinmygarden · 06/07/2019 15:59

Our neighbours have a drone, which they fly over ours and our other neighbours gardens quite low. I wonder if it has a camera and they are spying on us.

Our other neighbours let's her rabbits and guinea pigs run freely in her garden with her cats and dogs. I'm amazed that no one has been eaten. My cat like to watch it all from our fence and I'm terrified he will go over there one day and catch something!

ByeByeBike · 06/07/2019 16:22

Our neighbours barbeque in their garden every single day as long as it's not raining. Kind of understandable in summer but not so much on a blustery day in mid January. They light up the coals at 4.45 and start grilling the meat at 5.15 (I know this as I have to bring my washing in to stop it smelling of fire). We do wonder how they cook their meat on wet days - presumably they use their kitchen?

lolaflores · 06/07/2019 16:23

Funny how many car polishes and washes there are. Purs next door does not drive his car all week. In fact, it may sit there w weeks without moving.
He washes the thing every week.

And I cant understand why.
It's a machine. Oh no...its your willy is t it!

bingbongnoise · 06/07/2019 16:29

Our old neighbours (young couple - childfree - lived in the house next door for 3 years til March this year...)

Tumble dried EVERYTHING.

Every.

Last.

Thing.

Last year we had 18 solid weeks (4.5 months) of wall-to-wall sunshine,, and they never put a single item outside. They just tumble dried it all. Some days the tumble dryer was going 5-6 hours.

Batshit.

findingmyfeet12 · 06/07/2019 16:31

This is a rather poignant story:

My DH helped our elderly neighbour and her nurse get back into her apartment when she accidentally locked herself out earlier this week.

She kept fretting about her daughter's small children who she said were asleep in the apartment.

DH managed to open the door and she invited him in. She took him into the living room where her grandchildren were sleeping and they turned out to be a row of stuffed toys Sad

SlowStarters · 06/07/2019 16:42

@findingmyfeet12 has your elderly neighbour got family that visit? Sounds like she's not mentally 100% well. :(

VenusTiger · 06/07/2019 16:50

They are putting it on the gate and on the bin to make a point so that they can tell you how often they are doing it.
I adore my cats and I love how they bury their poo, it’s mighty clever!
A few years ago, a colleague asked my advice on her neighbour’s cat pooing in her garden and how to stop it. She was going to buy one of those nasty silent alarms that only cats hear... but I hate them, they deter other animals too you see 🙁 and they’re cruel imo, so, I suggested, if you want to stop a cat pooing I your garden, buy your own cat 😁

findingmyfeet12 · 06/07/2019 16:59

SlowStarters she has some form of dementia. She was with her nurse and then a meals on wheels type company arrived.

We don't know about her family.

LittleLongDog · 06/07/2019 17:01

@my2bundles What do you think the owner should do about the cat poo?

ChesterDrawsDoesntExist · 06/07/2019 17:08
  • Tumble dried EVERYTHING.

Every.

Last.

Thing.*

@bingbongnoise I hate drying outside. Soft, fluffy towels go hard, everything loses the lovely fabric conditioner smell and smells of outside instead 🤢, birds crap on it, bugs climb inside it and if you're real lucky some arse will fire up a bonfire nearby and make it really, really stink.
I only put a washing line up this year after 10 years of not having one because I need to cut back on my electric usage. My laundry is bleurgh now.

Disfordarkchocolate · 06/07/2019 17:16

My neighbour too @bingbongnoise, no matter how sunny it is next door use their tumble dryer every day. It's next to our living room wall and some days the noise makes me murderous. When they do use the washing line to generally stays out for days too. I won't mention their parking.

hsegfiugseskufh · 06/07/2019 17:23

Nooooo chester i love hanging washing out and it smells beautiful! I have never had a bird poo on my washing either Grin

Minkies11 · 06/07/2019 17:26

nonever you could be right! He always has this long-suffering look on his face when he goes out.
He's out there right now.
bracing myself for screams

FakeTanandProsecco · 06/07/2019 18:33

I love the smell of washing hung outside! We don't have a tumble dryer so have to hang outside or on an airer in winter.

Our ex neighbour used to make his own sausages in his garden- he had a trundle table set up and he would mix it all together in a big plastic tub (like a washing basket) then smoke it in his handbuilt brick smoker. He also smoked chickens and big ham joints which he used to hang in his shed after. He used to sell them i think! Not sure what environmental health would make of it!

mydogisthebest · 06/07/2019 18:35

My neighbours seem to have every conversation on their phone in the garden. I get a perfectly good signal indoors and I know they have much newer and better phones than me. They also, no matter how good the weather is, have to have the conversation right outside their back door so we can hear every word - the gardens are over 100ft long. The back doors are actually at the side so they are right by the hedge that divides our garden.

They also rarely hang washing out. I think they usually dry it all inside as their windows always seem to be covered in condensation. They have 3 children so I should imagine have a lot of washing. They never open their windows even on the hottest of days.

When they do hang washing out it often stays there for days on end.

We have a row of houses behind ours and the people directly behind us have no blind or curtain on their bathroom window. They have the light on in there almost constantly.

There are the parents who are probably late 40's and 3 grown up children - I would guess about 23, 21 and 18. They all seem to have 2 showers a day and as their shower is right in front of the window we can see everything. Their loo is under the window so, again, we can see them using it.

The glass is frosted but you can tell which of them is in there. Their bathroom light stays on all night too even though there is a street light almost directly outside their house.

I don't see that well in the dark but on the rare occasions I need the loo in the night I have never ever needed to put any lights on. Our bathroom light never goes on. Surely you don't need a light on to be able to shower when it is light outside?

We call them The Exhibitionists.

ScaryBunnyPainting · 06/07/2019 18:47

My neighbours opposite took down the perfectly good blinds and curtains left by the previous owner and replaced them with picnic rugs. We thought it was a temporary solution but nope 2 years later and they are still there. They spend ages every day rolling up the picnic blankets and securing them.

Next door is obsessed with the stones in his garden. He has lots of gravel and just constantly drones on about his stooooooooooonnnnnneeeessssss. He sounds like the Manc Dad from Gogglebox but only everything he says sounds like it goes through a megaphone.

“Spud don’t eat the stoooooooonnnnnesssss/Ella stop sitting in me stoooooooooonnnneeeessss/Shay stop playing with me stoooooooonnnnnnneeeeessss”.
Every time I’m in the garden or in our en suite I can hear him bleating about his frigging stooooooooooooonnnneeeeessss.

A guy on our street told everyone he runs his own steel business and is always jetting off here, there and everywhere for business meetings. In fact he works in the same hospital as my husband and likes caravan holidays in Rhyl. There’s nothing wrong with any of that. Why make it up?

Another guy is petitioning the council to take up the Victorian cobbles from our street. Our street is in a conservation area and the fact the cobbles remain is integral to that. The road is in far better condition that any of the others locally that have had the cobbles paved over - and then need filling in every 6 months or so.
He comes round weekly with his petition and so far has about 20 people out of around 600 residents and business owners. He said to me “oh ScaryBunnyPainting, these cobbles will cause organ displacement, I thought you’d know better.” Grin

MiraculousMarinette · 06/07/2019 18:58

@BuzzShitbagBobbly stuff along the lines of 'clean up after your dog' and 'if catch you at it then blah blah blah'

Cheesymonster · 06/07/2019 19:27

I've really enjoyed this thread although I now feel terrible about laughing at the screaming gardener and his poor knees.

I now live in a cul de sac for the first time in my life and luckily all neighbours seem normal except for usual issues with noisy parties and shit parking.

I suspect I'm the weirdo. I take the bins out and feed my neighbour's dog (when she asks me to!) in my PJs. Am also a curtain twitcher. And DH would bbq every day if I let him.

Lemonlady22 · 06/07/2019 19:28

my neighbour works nights then spends all day banging sawing and drilling CitadelsofScience.....hes a fireman so they get paid to sleep all night if they dont have a call out which seem to be everynight!

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