Elderly man next door, has a wife but she’s not the problem. We’ve lived in our house 4 years now, a bungalow and the neighbours have the same. I like to think we’re pretty good neighbours, tidy, no barking dogs, don’t smoke, kids in bed by half 6 etc.
The man is noisy and an alpha type, which is irritating in its own way, but what bothers me the most (and DH) is how he’s so keen to talk to our kids, but not us. If were driving onto the driveway and he’s out the front (which feels like every time), he will delay going in and when we’re getting out the car he just says the kids names and ignores us. We used to say hiya, and make some remark about the weather or where we’d been out etc but now we don’t even bother because he couldn’t care less about us and would just ignore us and speak to the kids anyway.
His wife is quite similar, obsessed with children but she will talk to us, although it’s not her who’s always out the front.
They aren’t lonely, they have a lot of friends, family and grandchildren very close by, their grandchildren are a little older which has often made me wonder if they miss the younger years, but I can’t justify the ignorance towards us and feel it’s rude tbh, we bought our house and we’re their neighbours. It’s very annoying. Anyone else ever had similar?