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?

Do it! Afterwards, stand upwind and very accidentally press the button that empties the hoover and dump the contents all over her - oops! So clumsy! Never mind me!

Hahaha how cheeky of her!

I was going to loudly slam my car door a couple of times when I left for work at 5 this morning, but I didn't want to annoy the sane people on the street.

I'm going to get fully changed before I leave work though to feed into her weird I'm-too-young-to-do-a-job-that-is-literally-full-of-young-people-and-sadly-I'm-not-actually-young-anyway theory

OP, as someone who has lived in London but comes from a tiny Cornish town, this has nothing to do with a change of what it means to be a neighbour given your new location - she just sounds deranged! No way should you clean her car, avoid her as best you can.

I saw the posting where you said she had whinged to your LL. When neighbours go snitching to an LL about something that is a purely personal dispute or difference you need to lash back hard and put them in their place.

Years ago when I was renting an NDN did this about petty things which had nothing to do with the LL or my tenancy (bins and parking spaces). I went nuclear and told her that it was malicious and vexatious gossip (harassment) and would lead to legal action if she did so again. LL also threatened her with further action if she contacted her on any subject that was not strictly her province as LL. She changed her number and gave LL the number of the agency knowing they would give a NDN short shrift for anything that was not within their remit.

You need to knock this on the head right away!

OP, get changed into clubbing wear, really get her thinking

What a complete fruit loop! I live in a small village and have never vacuumed a neighbour's car! Definitely NBU

She sounds like a right cnut!!! Ignore the batshit crazy old fcuker!!

She is mad in the head!! Why are people like this?!

But please OP; this is the kinda stuff I need to hear on a weekly basis, so if you could have your own thread on your crazy neighbours, that would be great! 😁

Absolutely not! There are no small towns where that is not a CF.

CF 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪😱

I'm really fortunate that I've always got on fantastically with all my neighbours, but I've never cleaned their cars for them! Just ignore her, she sounds best ignored!

Sounding warning bells for me...years ago we moved into a flat above a woman who had a partner who was a nightmare...they were just the same when we moved in asked why we hadn't 'made ourselves know to them'. His behaviour escalated rapidly we had three years at least of hell, he had done it to the previous occupants. He had a personality disorder and was a mad bully but very clever at hiding his activity and playing the victim. Eventually we got them moved out by the council, having a 5cm thick file of his activities. After that I came across him by chance in the supermarket while I was 7 months pregnant (we put off having a second child because of the strain we were under) and he knocked me over in front of everyone. He was fined. Years later he was jailed for further misdemeanors over Xmas. I was delighted.
I say this not to frighten you but to advise you to start recording these incidents, now. I sincerely hope you won't need to use it. Hopefully she is not as bad as he was. Good luck OP stay firm.

Looks like she was maybe hoping to be more than neighbours with you and you scuppered that. Maybe she wanted you to go to her gym, maybe she had given far too much time and energy into thinking about how the two of you would be best mates and you’ve messed that up so she knows little about you (how annoying!) and has to make up theories about your life which are much more intriguing than it actually is. 😆

You will vacuum her car...then you will be washing it...then you will be vacuuming her house carpets before you dust and make the beds....where will it end?

YADNBU

She was really cheeky and quite rude. I would not have even offered to lend it to her. You don't want your lovely shark stick cleaning up her dirt. If she wants it clean, she can buy one or get her car valetted.

It's hard enough to clean one car .
I definitely wouldn't want to clean two.
Especially if the second car was not mine or a member of my familys

No ignore her the freak!

Ha ha ha! No

Steer clear of her at all costs! Sounds an absolute fruit-bat!

Avoid,avoid, avoid!

She’s clearly bonkers.

Stay away!!!!!

How old is she OP? Touch of dementia maybe?
Definitely not unreasonable of you and very odd of her.

She sounds like a mental definitely avoid all interactions