Is it suspicious and should I report? Not Covid!

[pipsqueakbollock]

I say report - I mean the police but it is only suspicious to me - I moved here from London and have street cred awareness of surroundings.

I live in a super Naice Area. A stepford wives type housing estate. Well heeled, well to do, polite people, fashionable dogs and very quiet blah blah.

It's a complete dead end but has two roads in and out. It's quite large and has a supermarket in the middle so the main road at one end is busy but the rest is quiet.

I first saw this car maybe in November lockdown whilst walking with kids. Again in December twice. And again today. 4 times.

A man parked up. Windows open. (It's cold!). A 15 plate sporty Merc - nothing to note.

First time - parked up
Second time I saw him when I was driving home from work and he was driving out the estate (wiping his nose) right near where he parks.
Third time parked up - same place
Fourth time today - parked up same place.

Time always between 3-4pm.

When I saw him drive out he was alone so not picking someone up.

There is nothing to do on the road. It doesn't go anywhere. No schools are open.
He just sits there. Not on phone. Not talking. Just staring ahead.

Today I took a pretend photo of DC but actually was taking his number plate.

AIBU to be suspicious?
What do you think he's up to?

Either this is satire or OP needs help.

It has to be an attempt at satire i hope....or its someone op has "taken a'gin" and is desperate to find something to report them for! I must be crap at surveillance type stuff as I really wouldn't know if I'd seen the same car on 3 occasions over such a long period!

Are you sure he was just wiping his nose?

I would image that street cred people often cover their phones with a hanky to

1. disguise the fact that they using a mobile phone whilst driving,
2. distort their voice in an unimaginable manner whilst operating some sort of a scam.

Are you sure he was wiping his nose and not his ear - that's the giveaway?

I like the way OP gives a accurate description of how the man 'wipes' his nose. Maybe it was itching, maybe he didn't have a tissue, maybe he really had been taking cocaine. Or whatever the term is, I'm afraid I don't have the 'street cred awareness' you can not get in London.

Dear Hyacinth Bucket,

Your London Street Cred Awareness status has been revoked.

Yours sincerely,

An Embarrassed Londoner

Evening all
I didn't go down there today. It is about a mile away from my actual house (a semi but the smallest one here)!

I don't have time to draw a map today but I might in the morning.

Thanks for those with humour who totally cheered up my Friday and made me smile on a Saturday!!

Basically I think he's waiting for a coke drop. It's so bleeding obvious even Hyacinth would notice. He stands out like a sore thumb.

For those that care, he isn't white but he isn't black. I would think he is either southern European, North African or Indian but not obvious enough of any to determine without knocking on the window and singing about prawns.

Such street cred. Who needs police when the neighbours are conditioned to suspect everyone else.
You say there's a large supermarket, maybe he's having 5 mins peace while turning around?
But, oh, wiping his nose? In Winter?
Must be drugs 🙄

This is bonkers. That you'd even notice this, let alone think it was odd. I don't know what is going on!

Was he wiping his nose with a paper tissue or cloth handkerchief? Or maybe something else entirely?

You have been in the same area at the same times as him to see him.. So maybe its you we should be reporting!? 😂😂

Please tell me this is a joke.

Wiping his nose huh? Drugs. :)

He could be a private investigator
Having some time to himself if he lives in a house full of people
Between appointments- these could be at the same time, some people like to keep the same time slot for appointments.
Waiting to pick someone up from somewhere nearby

My best friend, in normal times, parks on the quiet road up from our house and waits sometimes because we often look after her step children but she doesn't want to run into the ex wife so if she's picking them up from us, my friend will wait on the quiet country road just up from our house.

There could be any number of reasons.

Ooh just had a thought. Every 8 weeks at around 9am, I behave suspiciously. I return home from the school run, notice the window cleaner is at our house, drive past, a bit further down the road to the farm and park up where I can see when he leaves 😂 I just find it really awkward when he's there, he brings 2 others with him and it feels like there's someone at every window. So the people in the houses that I park opposite for 5-10 minutes every 8 weeks probably think I'm really suspicious 😂

God I hope my life is never so boring that I give a shit what some random high end coke dealer is doing sitting in his car of an afternoon

Basically I think he's waiting for a coke drop. It's so bleeding obvious even Hyacinth would notice. He stands out like a sore thumb.

He’d have to be a pretty daft dealer to be driving around a naice estate (full of nosy fuckers) with a car full of coke and an expired mot. Either he has zero street cred awareness or he thinks he can get away with it because your supermarket isn’t a Waitrose. Report the liberty taking bastard! You might live two doors away from a Lidl, but it’s a semi detached ffs!

I can imagine the conversation if OP goes to the police station to report:

Police officer behind desk: "How can I help you, Madam."
OP: "I moved here from London and have street cred awareness of surroundings. I've come to report a man who I have seen parked in my cul de sac four times in the past four months."
PO: I see, can you provide further information?"
OP: Yes one time he was blowing his nose."
PO: "I see, and.......?"
OP: "He doesn't actually do anything, like read a newspaper or listen to the radio, he just sits there."
PO: "I see, anything else?"
OP: Yes I've checked out his car and he has no MOT!"
PO: "thank you, I will forward this information to one of our senior officers.
OP leaves and PO shouts: "Oi, Fred, take this and file it under Bonkers."

Seriously OP, there is nothing to report and you would embarrass yourself.

I might start doing something similar in my local naice area just to see if I can live rent-free in some curtain twitcher’s head

So you’ve seen him four times in almost four months?

1. Someone trying to catch his wife cheating in one of the houses in the naice area.

1. Private detective.

1. Cocaine/Drug user taking some time out with his favourite substance in a naice area. Can't enjoy cocaine if you're not doing it in a naice area, hence that's where you see most cocaine users.

[quote pipsqueakbollock]@viques everything you have written is completely normal in London.
This is completely abnormal here. Hence noticeable.[/quote]
Is it Stepford?

But with crime?