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?

Take 4 hours to mow a lawn that must measure 20 feet by 30 feet. Every single Sunday between April and October.

My neighbours have a lovely, big garden yet whenever they have guests over in the summer, they move their car and have a BBQ on the drive.

NDN , parents and teenager. Why does the washing machine have to be on at 6am, last was 10pm. Every. Day. And when the washing is on the line it's 2/3 items max. I've commented on the noise their washing machine makes as it bangs and vibrates through our house. According to them it's fine as it's integrated and they can't hear it.

hi replying to one of previous messages I hang a lot of washing i.e. T shirts on coat hangers I AM NOT ODD! But don't like ironing.

My old neighbours had a cat flap put in their front window double glazing. Not in the door, in the window, with a table underneath it adorned with a Christmas themed mat for the cat to wipe its paws on before (supposedly) coming inside straight on to their sofa

Why's that odd?

I hang clothes on the line on hangers,why wouldn't you?

I have great neighbours but one has very bad mobility issues and he shuffles slowly rather than walks as walking is so painful for him,poor man and he has fallen numerous times BUT he insists on having his hosepipe on the ground right across his front door mat- it makes me so anxious that he's going to go arse over tit AGAIN . I actually mentioned it the other week and the next day it had been moved,I am so relieved!

Mine insist on leaving chicken and bread etc other lawn for the badgers. My dog smells it and fights through and under the chicken wire we have pegged under the boundary next to our hedge to get to eat, eat it and make herself ill. Neighbour complains that friendly dog is in her garden. She has no issue with a vicious badger or urban rats it seems.

I can hear the couple fighting right next door, their angry words sound clear through these thin walls. Around midnight I hear him shout unfaithful woman, and I knew right there the axe was gonna fall.
It's because of me. It's because of me

eh?

Cleanasawhistle - I have those kind of neighbours too. Always wants to talk (actually talk to my husband) and is positively furtive on her own drive if she sees me. Probably hates me.

My old neighbor band us from using the toilet during the night or at least flushing it(old houses their bedroom was next to bathroom. Asked us not to run up and down stairs. My mums neighbor had a break down after I washed my car and the water ran on his drive. Another neighbor hangs out the window shouting and swearing cos we had a small fire something they have also done but is fine for them. Kicked off because we had a bbq two days in a Row. They have then all the time. My dog barked one morning as my mum was working that morning, complained about it. He goes to my mums everyday so this was literally the once but felt the need to complain even though her partner plays call of duty with the base on so it sounds like we have bombs going off in our house but this is ok 🤷🏻‍♀️
My other neighbor has agoraphobia but bought a soft top car and constantly goes out. Didn’t want me building an extension cos she felt the builders would cause her anxiety but goes out to talk to them everyday then moves drug dealer boyfriend in and half of the towns druggy mates. I darent move as they seem to get worse each time lol

Mine park on the road, not up their drive like every single other household on the street!?
I have no idea why. Two young kids too

Steal my flipping garden waste bags!! I don't get it. You get 4 from the council for free, but I can guarantee when I get home from work on collection day, my bag has mysteriously disappeared! Not sure which neighbour it is. I have emblazoned my house number on the bags. I have to go to the council every few weeks cos someone has snaffled them all! I feel like I supply the whole street in effin garden waste bags! 😖

My NDN had taken in a parcel for me, so I knocked on and when she answered, said pop in, I'll just go get it. So I stood in the inside porch and was met with a HUGE cardboard cut out, showing both her and her husband smiling manically with their arms around each other and a speech bubble saying WELCOME TO OUR HOME
I'm talking at least 7 foot tall. I absolutely shit myself, not gonna lie.

Everyone that lives on the opposite side of the road drives a mini. There are five all parked up in a row... we’re talking several houses here. I know it’s not odd in comparison to things posted here that the entire street has independently bought a mini, but it does make the road look a bit obsessive

Guy across the road washes his car almost daily with a loud powerwasher, fucks about outside until sunset, annoys the shit outta me. Get in yer house and chat to your wife noisy bastard!

Our neighbours are keeping up with the Jones’s types and get a new car if we do, etc. We renovated our house when first bought is as it was derelict. They’d stand at the windows all day taking photos of the progress. They also asked a lot of offensive questions, such as:

Is your building company a proper company? Is it registered? Do you pay tax? (My dh owns/runs building company, we renovated house when we first bought it)

Are you a proper builder? Are you a labourer for a builder? Do you know what you’re doing? (My dh is ceo of building company he started from scratch 20 years ago, he’s was a chartered surveyor)

You’re going to have money left to renovate the house aren’t you? (When we did up the garden first while waiting for planning)

Where is all your money coming from? Why are you spending so much renovating your house?
How can you afford those paving slabs? (And on and on ad infinitum)

The man was caught on our cctv repeatedly trying to climb in when the house was a building site, when he got in he’d walk round the garden.

We built a bin storage to the left of our drive as right side is where you drive in from road. They said ‘you’re not putting your bins on our side are you?’ (They live to the left, their bins are on ‘our side’ next to our bins which are in our front garden).

They also called the council to say we were building a summerhouse with kitchen/toilet facilities that we were going to rent out to another family (it’s my office as I work from home).

Park one of their cars crossways on their double drive. (Please don't ask for a diagram!)

@Benjispruce to be fair I think your dog needs training (although I do understand how annoying it must be!).

My neighbours kid liked to "encourage" our tatty fence to crumble so our dog and their dog can "have play dates" the fence is pretty rotten but I've seen her pulling out panels. I've given up, they both share both gardens now

In the never ending story when the white horse gets sucked up by the mud/quicksand. I was terrified of walking on mud incase it got me after that.
Also sharks in the swimming pool.
I used to have a nightmare that a shark lived in the wall next to my bed and would eat the bricks to get closer to me and the bricks would be all stuck in his/her shark teeth. I used to take my duvet and sllep on the floor just go get away from the wall shark! I watched jaws when I was 5/6 and it was obviously traumatic!

Well, we have made the garden secure but the badger, lured by yummy chicken, digs up the fence but it's behind a deep flower border so unless we wade in every morning we can't tell. Our dog is not normally in the garden without us and she is very good normally, unless food is on offer or a squirrel is in front of her. I fully accept it's our job to keep her in but just find it bizarre that wild, dirty animals are welcome but small, cute dogs are not.

Sorry wrong thread.

Ha ha ha I was wondering what you were on!

We used to have the wonderful Beeping Lady.

Every Saturday around 1 she'd arrive in her car, hover in the car park (not parking, just blocking the whole area) and lean on the horn for upwards of 10 minutes. Just endless long beepings. Eventually a very elderly lady would hobble out from her downstairs flat and get into the car and they'd leave.

Beeping Lady was also quite elderly but upwards of two decades younger than her very elderly friend. Would it have killed her to get out and ring the poor lady's doorbell? Every time it happened I'd be at the window watching and would see every other curtain twitching as the other residents of the block tried to work out what was happening.

Haven't seen her in a while :(

Purchase a residential caravan with the intention of turning it into a burger van, painting it pink, leaving it to rust in their front garden for 3 years, and demolish it one evening leaving a pile of twisted metal in the back garden.