Weird neighbour

[GinisLife]

He's painted his drive swimming pool blue !!! It clashes with his recently painted garage door (which is actually a really nice shade of sage green). He sanded the paving slabs before he painted those as well. I see it as soon as I get out of bed in a morning and I can see the blue if I'm stood in my kitchen. It's hideous. He's a laughing stock. Everyone walking past are talking about it.

I wonder what he'll paint next...

I like it.
And it wouldn’t bother me AT ALL living next to it.

Tuck your nose back behind your nets.

Maybe he can’t see very well, and the blue drive is like some kind of car landing strip.

Not for a car he's driving himself, then, I hope....

It’s hideous, but quite funny really.

Maybe he's tired of no one finding his house? Now he can say it's the house with a blue drive...

Doesnt look that bad at all tbh

🤣 I have a similar strange neighbour who has painting his driveway/garden wall swimming pool blue from a bizarre shade of bright green! If he had a garage I would have thought it was the same neighbour!

The landlord might have given permission for the driveway to be painted. It's better thank a manky driveway.

Maybe he's tired of no one finding his house? Now he can say it's the house with a blue drive...

Yep. And even though they might hate it, the neighbours will probably be doingt the same - "Yes, it's just before/three doors down from/directly across the road from the blue drive"!

Brilliantly bonkers

I think it's unkind to label someone a laughing stock because of the colour of their drive.

I think it's going to start looking quite scrappy very quickly. I don't know any paint that's designed to be driven on. The tyres are going to leave marks and there is always a point or two on every driveway that gets extra wear where the steering wheel is turned to enter/leave, the paint will probably wear away at that point.

It's hideous! I wouldn't want to live next to it.
I bet the owners will go bonkers - why does anybody paint a drive?

It’s horrific. Agree with @Yarboosucks.

Blue drive looks hideous. I'd be irked.

Your drive is fine. Better a few weeds than saturated with poison.

Perhaps he did it to piss you all off.

I agree OP. It looks awful. Perhaps it's an undercoat? Odd thing to do, paint your drive? Is it not just going to get mucky and Wien really quickly with a car being driven over it??

I reckon he’s trying to make it into a disabled bay. Is there an issue with people parking over/in driveways on your street?

It's a monstrosity, OP. The people who say a few weeds in any way comparable are smoking some weeds themselves I think!

It will be useful for giving directions to your house in future - "just opposite the blue driveway".

@Lockheart

If he's a laughing stock then you and your other neighbours really need to get out more.

We aren't allowed to go out very much these days.

We have to make our own entertainment and be grateful that some eejit is prepared to paint his drive for our amusement.

Can you thank him for me, please OP?

I like it. And (to quote the OP) I ain’t lying.

When my Celtic-supporter son lived at home he painted the garage door green and white stripes.

It made our house very easy to find.

Ooh, I like it! It's cheerful.

Much better than everyone's homes looking identical.

Hahaha. All those people that are saying they love it etc.. are full of BS! They wouldn't "love" it, if they had to look at it every bloody day.