Friendly neighbour or no?

[LaughingFace]

Met a neighbour today who's supposedly lived across from me for a year, although never seen him before.
He seemed friendly at first, having a nice chat. He then started telling me how he sees me on the school run and telling me what times I leave my home throughout the day and that he watches me while he's in the bathroom. Honestly creeped me out a bit.
He then took some drinks from my shopping and left. Should I be concerned?

He took drinks from your shopping? So he stole from you?

Hang on, he took some drinks from your shopping? What do you mean?

Which part do you think you should be concerned about the most

Nope nothing strange about that at all. You should invite him round for a cuppa OP.

He helped take my shopping to my door, I had some drinks in the bottom of the pram, he picked them up, and left with them. Didn't really feel comfortable confronting him about it

I think he sounds nice. This is all perfectly normal behaviour. I actually buy extra drinks when I shop for this very situation.

So he stole them then.

I don’t think you really need us to tell you to stay away from do you? That’s obvious

He sounds like a real creep

He took drinks you bought and walked off with them? What drinks? He literally stole from you unless you said "why don't you take these colas/ bottles of wine ?" Which would be bizarre given you'd gone out to buy them!

He sounds a creep and a thief.

Blank him and don't let him near your stuff. It's ok to be rude in this circumstance- he stole from you and told you he watches you several times a day from his bathroom.

If he comes near or tries to take anything from you again be ready to say "Don't you dare steal anything from me again - step back please and leave my shopping alone - as I will call the police this time"

And on todays episode of things that didn't happen....

He took drinks that you’d just bought and kept them for himself?

ffs OP, stand up for yourself.

To access my home I have to go down a little alley, which is where he approached me, I'm more concerned about if it happens again I don't feel able to tell him to leave me alone or just ignore him

No he sounds lovely … the kind of lovely that you see at the beginning of a slasher movie before it all goes tits up ☺️

He sounds like he is deliberately trying to scare you and is testing to see how you respond. The taking of the drinks seems to suggest he feels confident that you won't question or stand up to him. He probably got a rush of power from it. Pathetic creature. I would say if you don't draw firm boundaries with him in your next interaction his behaviour will become more problematic. Stand up to him, OP.

Bizarre that you just let him take your drinks and didn't say anything 🤔

He may be socially awkward. He may have held onto the bottles without realising because he was too focused on trying hard to create a good impression or trying not to say the wrong thing. Clearly he failed, but if he has social anxiety walking off with your bottles by mistake is something that could easily happen.

I honestly felt uncomfortable being alone with this guy I had never seen before, i didn't feel as if I could just take them back off of him

I’ll remember that excuse next time I “accidentally” walk out of Tesco with a few bottles of wine that I’ve not paid for 🤦‍♀️

I think the peeping from the bathroom window would bother me more if this did happen

Can you get a make friend to come with you and knock at his door to say "you need to pay for the bottles you stole out of bottom of my pram yesterday" - (you'll still have the receipt)

At least you know now to perv proof all your windows.

Obviously stay away from him

Blimey I want to live in your rose tinted world.

@LaughingFace not normal, none of what you have posted is, do you know where he actually lives?

😂

I thought @ImpartialMongoose was taking the piss.