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?

Personally I would of said I was being neighbourly offering her to borrow my hoover seeing as she has not got a suitable one. The other option is clean her car and hide a few kippers in the air con vents. Nice warm sunny days are coming. The cf might not bother asking again after that.

@SarahBop

She is insane.

I can hear my neighbour getting her brains screwed out by her boyfriend..might ask if he can do me too..is that neighbourly

That really made me laugh.

(Might be worth a try though...)

When I get asked something like that my response is:-

"Well I hadnt thought of doing it commercially/selling them but Ill think about it and give you a price."

Wonderful conversation stopper.

Thanks to all who are admiring my hard London cat. I'm a beautiful worried she is bullying the local cats with her hissy London sass.

She has a suitor though, a majestic fluffy ginger cat who comes to sit under my car. She sits outside my bay window and growls and hisses but he perseveres. The other day he was standing outside the window looking in, then settled down under my car. It wasn't till later I realises that my cat was asleep in the sun under the window- he was literally waiting for her to wake up and yell at him!

*a bit worried 🙄

I nearly want you to clean her car so you can feed us more updates about her batshitness!

@TheUnexpectedPickle my friend has a cat like that. She was a stray and adopted him All the male neighbourhood cats come over to flirt with her and she allows them close enough just so she can punch them in the nose.

My friend named her Jenny. I call her Jenny Soprano

Your cat may be talking dirty to her male admirer, something is keeping his interest.

@Sparklfairy DP and I have called the majestic Ginger Maxwell, but as my cat is called Cleo(catra) maybe he should be Mark Antony!

@Enough4me she is clearly enticing him somehow, he keeps coming back. He was so sweet though not waking her and just waiting, I now have a huge soft spot for him and want her to accept his love

She is one weird neighbour!

I expect everyone else knows she is batshit.

Of course you didn't have to vacuum her car, the cheek of the woman.

@30degreesandmeltinghere

As a young dm I lived nd to a quite intimidating lass about 20... Every Saturday she would knock for me to clean out her canary. She was terrified of it but apparently she begged her bf for one as it matched her yellow kitchen..she also bought food items in mostly yellow tins /packets and left them out in baskets on her worktops...

Did you actually do it? At least she was a colour coordinating crazy.

@Mylittlepotofjoy

Congressdingo I want to move to your street it sounds just lovely

It really is. Only a while ago one neighbour was wandering round with massive bags of pears for us all. When his farmer son brings eggs, we all get given a dozen. I share my berries and rhubarb out. We all sang happy birthday to the 100 year old who has no family left (from a safe distance of course) everyone rallied round for looking after a dog when the owner was in hospital with life threatening stuff. Just so owner had one less thing to worry about and the dog wasnt left alone too long.

It is slowly changing and I will be gutted when it's not the same, but it's been a fabulous time here. I will probably have to move I will miss it so much.

Yikes! She's a nightmare in the making. Don't lend her anything again and don't inviter her in, you'll never get rid. Double check with the landlord if she has ever had a spare key to the property...A few discrete cameras maybe useful too.

She sounds absolutely batshit. Need to think of something bizarre (but completely innocent) you could do that would drive her insane 😈😈.

Oh the idea of a Londoner cat has me picturing Danny dryer in cat form! and the cat looking and said dog and speaking to it in his voice.

Whilst your cleaning all of MNs cars seeing as I don’t have one could you clean my kitchen- all the cupboards etc? I mean I still live in London so we are practically neighbours

She’s nuts! If you’d have been washing it with a hose and she had asked you to whack the water over her windscreen that would have been “neighbourly”

Danny dryer the dry cleaner of the east end 😂

I’ve lived in a small town for 12 years and have never hoovered a neighbour’s car for them 😆

OMG!! move house!!! She's batty!!!

@Congressdingo

Jaysus I live on probably the nicest street in the UK. We swap food, look after cat/gerbils/mice and a snake when people go on holiday. Theres a rota for the really lovely neighbour who needs to go shopping or whatever but cant leave because the other half cannot be left alone cos alzheimer's, we water plants, we give lifts places, we shop for the 98 year old and take her to drs or podiatrist etc. We cut grass for others, we really are a lovely street, but no one in the last 24 years has hoovered out someone else's car. That's just too far.

That sounds a lovely street to live in. We have friendly neighbours who will help if asked, or know someone who can help. On the corner house the lady there makes the most amazing smelling Indian food. Her husband was such a lovely man. One day we were walking the past to take the dog for a walk and he gave us some pears he'd grown in their garden. Sadly last year he passed away. His widow always waves at us when we walk past, and now even says hello to us in the garden. Yesterday her son I think came round with a bag full of takeaway tubs and gave us one with some lamb biriani in. I was a bit taken aback, but remembered another neighbour mentioned they'd been given food in the past. It was really delicious, so must send a card saying thank you and introducing ourselves. We've only been here 4 years!

Anyway, no ywnbu to not hoover your neighbours car. Could you imagine if you did! She would probably complain you didn't take out the seats and get all the crumbs from underneath them or something.

Is this a wind up?
She's mental.

OP, I'm a bit busy today, but understand you have a vacuum cleaner so please pop around anytime. I will leave the door open, oh and if you can do the windows while you're at it...you know we live on the same continent so it's neighbourly and all.

@Congressdingo our street is like that too. It's absolutely lovely.

Perhaps she would like you to evacuate her bowels for her if disinclined?

Avoid her like the fcking plague!!

korma
Perhaps she would like you to evacuate her bowels for her

She’d need a Vax wet and dry for that.

A Shark ain’t gonna cope.