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AIBU?

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To not vacuum neighbour's car

230 replies

TheUnexpectedPickle · 27/07/2021 18:55

I really don't think IABU but juuuuust in case...

Off work today, doing a few jobs. Decided to vacuum and clean inside of my car (which turned out to be a bigger job than I thought as I've not done it since I got the car in September 😬)

Upstairs neighbour went out as I was starting and came back as I was topping up screen wash. Said "you're doing a great job, are you ok to do mine next". I laughed, standard (not that funny but common) joke right?

Wrong. She was serious. I said I don't have time to do another car now. She asked if I can do it tomorrow as she doesn't have a hand held vacuum. I said she is welcome to borrow mind (a stick shark) but I'm back at work tomorrow. She kind of huffed and said she thought I "might like to be neighbourly" and went in.

I mean... wtf!? I've never cleaned a neighbours car. I might do DPs if he was here but only cos he'd do mine if he was doing his.

BUT

  1. I've moved to a smaller town from London and obviously the vibe is a bit different, people are more friendly etc.
  1. Neighbour already is suspicious of me, she had a bee in her bonnet about me not going round to introduce myself when I moved in and once we had spoken I heard her telling her husband she didn't believe me about my job and wanted to call my employer to confirm I worked for them! (She has also speculated that my baby nephew was my baby who didn't live with me and thought he'd been taken away from me, but that's another thread)

So... should I have given her car a once-over to keep the peace or should I just avoid her and her batshittery?

OP posts:
StevieNix · 27/07/2021 18:57

No she’s batshit

MojoMoon · 27/07/2021 18:57

Ignore and avoid

StCharlotte · 27/07/2021 18:57

Avoid avoid avoid!

SpacePotato · 27/07/2021 18:58

No, she is a cheeky fucker and absolutely batshit!

Ringing your employer? Wft.

LaurieFairyCake · 27/07/2021 18:58

Total fruit loop

Therealjudgejudy · 27/07/2021 18:58

She is clearly crazy!

chunderwunder · 27/07/2021 18:59

You and your crazy cosmopolitan London ways, OP. It's totally normal to hoover your neighbours' cars out in the sticks. I did six today.

Annoy · 27/07/2021 19:00

😱

Meraas · 27/07/2021 19:01

Wow that’s next level entitlement.

I wouldn’t lend her your shark, you may not get it back or may get it back broken.

Thank God you said no, I was having palpitations then Wink

rocketpower · 27/07/2021 19:02

She's fucking mental.

Chronicallymothering · 27/07/2021 19:03

My fee is £3 million dollars cackle

Idroppedthescrewinthetuna · 27/07/2021 19:03

Have you removed the vacuum from her Colon? That is where mine would have ended up!

Bargebill19 · 27/07/2021 19:03

Ignore the untitled cheeky fucker.

(And then update with the rest of her bat shit nonsense 🤣)

Sparklfairy · 27/07/2021 19:03

She kind of huffed and said she thought I "might like to be neighbourly"

And what neighbourly things has she done for you?

GeorgiaGirl52 · 27/07/2021 19:04

Vacuum her car and she will be accusing you of stealing something out of it and slandering you to the whole neighborhood. Avoid her.

Maryann1975 · 27/07/2021 19:04

I have never cleaned anyone else’s car! None of my neighbours have ever offered to clean mine either. What an odd thing for her to cross about! She sounds absolutely bonkers!

Angryattrackandtrace · 27/07/2021 19:05

😂😂😂

Crazy folk out there! Stay safe everyone!

EmmaGrundyForPM · 27/07/2021 19:05

She sounds unhinged.

KarlUrbansWife · 27/07/2021 19:06

She's bloody nuts! I wouldn't engage in conversation with her ever again...although you could have some fun with what she THINKS she knows about you Grin

mbosnz · 27/07/2021 19:06

I had similar with a neighbour, I was doing a great job mowing the lawn, would I come over and do theirs next? Laughed at the joke - looked at his face, and saw he was serious!

Ah, no mate, mow your own, or get your missus to do that as well as everything else I know for a fact that you never do.

Some people!

toughdaay · 27/07/2021 19:07

Wow that's almost the most CF thing I've ever seen on here.

Mayhemmumma · 27/07/2021 19:08

Oh gosh she's awful

thetaleunfolds · 27/07/2021 19:08

That is some CF-ery!!

I remember the day my batshit crazy NDNs moved in, they knocked on my door and asked if I’d go unpack with them. They’ve been just as weird since. Some people are just so odd

Moelwynbach · 27/07/2021 19:09

I don't think an answer is needed....run.

PickAChew · 27/07/2021 19:10

No, don't do it. She's likely to find something to accuse you of.