To not vacuum neighbour's car

[TheUnexpectedPickle]

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?

I live in the suburbs of Liverpool and the only neighbourly thing I have ever done is being my neighbour's wheelie bins from the side of the road and took in parcels. DH has borrowed next door's ladders.

What do neighbourly things entail?

Your neighbour is batshit OP

Hahahaha, she's is one cheeky person!!
Avoid, avoid, avoid

Good grief! I can remember as kids we use to clean next door's (very old man on his own) when we'd been coerced into ours but that was mainly to make up for all the times we'd kicked our ball over the fence and it quite often ended up with us being given a choc ice in 'payment'...proper neighbourly relationship. She sounds nuts- wanting to call your employer? Definitely a wide berth job!

Has she brought you a cake when you’ve moved in to welcome you to the neighborhood? No? She’s very rude then, don’t vacuum her car.

She sounds crazy. I agree with PP’s advice: ignore and avoid.

Ignore her. She sounds unhinged. Don't even engage in conversation with her. Don't lend her your Hoover or anything else, ever.

@chunderwunder

She huffed off before agreeing to take my vacuum and I'm leaving for work at 0515 tomorrow so should be safe.

RE employer- when she corned me to interrogate me introduce herself, she asked what I do. I later heard her relaying the conversation to her husband (layout of our homes mean I can hear them a LOT) and saying that I look too young to do my job, come and go "at all hours" and that she's never seen me in work clothes. She was talking about ringing to ask. No idea if she did, but I know what response she would have received

I used to live on a super neighborhood urly street. When I had my baby the neighbours took turns to bring me meals. We would bring in each others bins, borrow garden equipment, check if someone ill needed something from the shops, feed cats when on hols ...your neighbour is just a CF. How bizarre!!!

I'm surprised someone hasn't been along to tell you you're being unreasonable for some batshjt reason yet

@thetaleunfolds wtf!!?? 🤣

She sounds very odd. Why would she not believe what you job was?

This is the trouble with fancy city folk moving to the countryside. They refuse to vacuum neighbours cars, get upset when they call up their employer, refuse to join in the traditional wicker man celebrations....... Shame really.

Sorry I see you have explained about your job.

I’d have thought she was joking 🤷🏻‍♀️

@neverknowinglyunreasonable at this rate I'll be IN the wicker man 😏

Basically now playing "guess the unfeasible job" 😂

Ah. Just me who mis-read it as cat then? 🐾

Gobsmacking cfery

wanderers off to get eyes tested

There's friendly and there's cheeky fuckery, your neighbour is guilty of cheeky fuckery. I live in a very friendly town and none of the neighbours would dream of asking for that kind of favour.

Given all you've written I think you should aim to keep her at a civil arms length. I wouldn't be lending her anything after this one time. She's a bit odd and will be trouble if you don't maintain boundaries.

@RogueMnerHidesUnderABigHat I would rather vacuum her cat then her car!!

She has a bee in her bonnet about my cat too because her dog keeps barking at her as they're going out. Cat is a Londoner though and just sits and hisses.

She's also called my landlady about my bins (I missed the first bin day as hadn't sussed it out) and moaned both to the landlady and to me about some things on my driveway

Say you’ll do it as soon as she cleans your oven.

You know. To be neighbourly…
🦇 💩 😜

I wouldn’t lend stuff out.

'Hey neighbour. I've brought the hoover round and also a ladder so you can fucking get over yourself'

@iklboo LOVE this!!

@SheldonesqueTheBstard love this too

@Fluffycloudland77 don't worry, I'll be lending her nothing- except perhaps a grip!

Just checking you haven't moved to a small village in Norfolk and neighbour's name begins with an M? If so AVOID,AVOID,AVOID!!!🤣🤣🤪

What a CF!