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?

One of mine now totally blanks me in the street because their dog attacked mine (and me) and I called 101 at the time. The police only offered advice, didn’t even go near them!

When I went over to speak to her about it she said ‘to be fair, I have seen your dog looking at mine’. Oh, so fucking sorry, I’ll blindfold him, shall I? 🙄

My neighbour so far this week has thrown something in temper and smashed my windscreen (and denied it) and today threw a bad of shit (nappy sack full but no nappy, just shit) into my garden... she's lovely to talk to so I've no idea what it was all about tbh.

Moved here last year, they all seem ok.

Round the corner though is an older man who lives on his own with 2 cars. One a bit boy racer like and another less boy racer, he has a long, but narrow drive, so needs to park parallel to the house. The first has pride of place on the drive (he has an entrance and an exit) and the other on the road, it is a very narrow road so it is quite in the way.

Old house ndn was running an illegal business from the house and one further up pretty much thought they owned the road, friends would visit and literally just park in the middle of the road, they also used to let the dog out to poo in our gardens. However they weren't people to mess with, so keeping on the right side was a good idea. Also there was rarely any trouble in the road, so you know, silver linings and all that.

I must say that I love my washing line dried, and especially towels which I aim to make as stiff and hard as possible. No fabric conditioner and never tumble dried. They dry so much better like that. If they can stand up by themselves so much the better!

My NDN always puts their bins in front of the driveway every time they go out so 3 bins lined up . I'm assuming it's so that no one attempts to use the drive to do a 3 point turn but still odd . My previous NDN used to put a very old tatty blanket over his car in all weather not to cover the windscreen from ice but the actual engine. I again assumed it was to protect the engine from cold but I thought it was odd especially when not particularly cold .

@sheshootssheimplores my parents used to pay for my nan's train tickets so she could come up from the coast once a week to stay for two nights, where she would help round the house and garden. I think they might have paid (or tried to at least) for her help. For me, it was just ace to see so much of my nan, we were close. Your neighbours could have an arrangement, or maybe their parents don't have gardens and miss pottering about. It still sounds batshit though doesn't it.

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist I completely misread your post about what you do and thought it said that you wee the road, not weed it. I was thinking that you were clearly the weird neighbour 😂😂

None of my neighbours ever put washing out. I've lived here for 9 months and I'm the only one who ever does. They also never put their bins out.

Also, I'm in a 4 in a block building, I know two of the neighbours (the guy upstairs and the guy across the hall) and ive always assumed the other flat is empty. The guy across the hall hold me a couple of weeks ago that a bloke lives in it (9 months and never once seen or heard any sign of him) and that the only reason neighbour across the hall knows this is that he hears him yelling at his hoover all the time?!

Lol @Meggie2008 we're in a 4 block too. Difference is the flat above my neighbour is definitely unoccupied and has never been let out in at least the three years we've lived here. (No council housing shortage in our wee town, plenty of three bed places for everyone!) It's the first time in most of my adult life that I've not lived in a country cottage or farmhouse so I now have neighbours and it's irrationally annoying when they don't keep it looking neat and tidy. I even pick up cig ends from the road outside 😂
I'm not even a good gardener either. I have 2 different plants in my whole garden and that's it.

My other weird neighbour quirk is that I don't let snow fall on the pavement and road outside our block either. I shovel all the snow away and grit it all. It looks weird tbh having 2ft of snow everywhere and a completely snow free section of road when you hit ours. I am totally the weird neighbour.

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist
I don't let snow fall on the pavement and road outside our block either.
I have this vision of you shouting at the snow , DONT YOU DARE LAND ON MY BIT OF PAVEMENT OR ROAD. and the snow actually going somewhere else to land , , , then I read the rest of your sentence

Ps will you move next door to me you sound like a ace neighbour .

Ha ha ha! I reckon there's a good reason my upstairs neighbour stays elsewhere. I can be found quite regularly screeching at my kids. I wouldn't wanna live near me

(Though I do bake my neighbour's cakes and fresh bread to make up for the noise)

We have a neighbour in our block of flats who wedges the main front door open. Which if it was just for a moment while taking shopping in and out or something fine but he forgets he’s done it and leaves it like that meaning anyone can come into the building without being buzzed in. And that isn’t even the most annoying part, he wedges it open using small stones which sometimes isn’t enough and the door closes but with the stone stuck in the frame so that it jams the door. I once left to collect my son from school only to find I couldn’t get out of the building because the door was stuck. We had to get neighbours from the next building to kick it in. He’s been sent multiple requests by the landlord explaining that it is a safety issue for him to do this but he still does it.

He also for some unknown reason leaves his own front door open all day every day and empties all the grease from his frying pans outside, not onto a bush or out of the way or anything literally right outside the main front door on the pavement. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t know why.

We have another neighbour that can be on his way out and if anyone else walks in the stairwell he will go back indoors but as weird as that seems to me I’m assuming that’s maybe a mental health issue and is a normal way for coping for him.

We have another neighbour that seems to think she’s the queen or something and puts her black bin bags outside her front door with a note requesting the other people take them down when passing. She isn’t disabled or even up loads of stairs, she’s on the ground floor. She also seems to think that the communal courtyard is just hers because her kitchen window looks into it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

New neighbours moved in three months ago. Once a week. Every week, he cuts the grass and takes around 2 hours to do a small garden. (I have the same sized garden and manage it in 15/20 mins once a month)

Their grass is all brown now as it is cut so often, yet he continues to do so. He's out there now. Cutting the dead, brown grass.

This has just reminded me of a post ages ago about a woman who came home to find her new neighbour had knocked a patio door through into her garden. Does anyone know how that ended?

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist I’d love to live near you. I make cakes just fine but I can never seem to get bread to go right and nothing beats the smell and taste of fresh bread!

@Dungarees

Maybe she was a spy?

@jessebuni eventually an interior wall connecting the properties collapsed due to the massive building work by cowboys next door. She had to move out. It's in the hands of solicitors now. I'm betting she's still not back in because that crap can go on forever.

Oh and use this for the best foolproof bread.

Mine do not seem go outside from Saturday - Sunday at ALL, no washing out, no kids playing, no gardening, no guests over, nothing but they take their youngish DC out to play swing ball about 9.30pm most nights for about 10 mins. It doesn’t bother me it is just slightly quirky

I line dry my washing and it does occasionally get bugs on it I shake it out before I bring it in

My neighbours bought a brand new campervan £55k plus but still go on weekend b&bs , whilst it sits on the driveway. They both clean it every Wednesday though😕

We've got some rather strange neighbours. When we moved in and introduced ourselves, their first comment was: you need to water your plants. They're too dry. Then every few months, they'll comment something about what we're NOT doing in our garden (e.g. you need to weed, tidy up a tree etc). All of this would be kinda understandable if a day earlier, I had been doing the exact thing they were on about!

We also have another neighbour who likes to play hardcore rap with his windows open. There's nothing quite like hearing expletives with your breakfast on Sunday mornings.

I’m guessing OP that the back of poop doesn’t make it into your bin to make a point. If they had been putting it in your bin you may have not even noticed it was doing this. So they are leaving it for you to dispose of properly after they have told you yet again that they are sick of it - by hanging it wherever. Maybe have a conversation with them.

At least your cat doesn’t wander into their house or make themselves at home in your shed. My neighbour’s cat does this. It’s climbed in my car whilst I’ve been collecting my shopping and then jumped out on my whilst I move the bag it is hiding behind, its wandered into my lounge on a hot day when I had the patio doors open for some air. It seems to enjoy living in my shed.y shed is old and slightly tilting to one side so the doors don’t hang anymore. I can’t afford to replace it or do anything with it. Every time I go into the shed to get the kids their bikes - not daily but odd days they want to cycle to school when the sun is out and we are not running late - there it is and then it jumps out on us. One day it just sat there whilst I tried to take my camping equipment out to pack in my car. It would move and hissed when I went near. I went and got neighbour and said it could have been trapped in there for days as this was the first time I’d opened my shed in months and there was poo inside too. Neighbour couldn’t even get cat to move and would go and pick it up, just said ‘she will move when she’s ready’. I told here this wasn’t good enough as I was packing for my holiday and the cat was sat on my stuff and I was planning to leave shortly. I ended up getting a brush to poke it til it moved.

We're in Scotland, our neighbours are from southern africa but lived in UK at least 15 years.

They never do any of their own gardening - never mow lawn, sweep path, trim shrubs or hedge. They have a gardener that comes & keeps it mostly under control, but they could just do it themselves with not much effort (one of them is not working, but in fine health)

Also they never grit the path or sweep snow - such that they have a treacherous trip down a few metres of front path. They don't lag the outside tap and get a frozen pipe most years. They just pay a plumber to come and fix it - but it would take 10 mins to sort.

OK it doesn't sound that odd, but I just don't get it. Their house is nice nice inside.

I think its maybe because they grew up in a slightly 'colonial' way, with lots of help in the house/garden, and literally don't know how??

Two of my neighbours are having a thing. I don’t think they are together publicly and my next door neighbour (who I am quite good friends with) definitely thinks I don’t know! She sneaks out of his house most mornings & I am intrigued about where her young children are. I assume with their dad or her friend but I’m not invested (or at home) enough to investigate!!

My brothers neighbour kidnapped their cat and took it to an animal shelter because he was fed up of her crapping in his garden. When they tracked her down and got her back, he put barbed wire across his garden fence. They moved not long after to somewhere with much less bonkers neighbours.