This is cheeky fuckery right?

[MNpenisadvisor]

I live in a block of flats, one of my neighbours knows that my car is fucked and had to be recovered from the hard shoulder on Friday.
The recovery guy said what he thought it was but I wanted to know for sure so I booked (and paid) for a mobile mechanic come out to have a butchers.
Me and DH go out to meet them and neighbour comes out instantly and starts asking the techs loads of questions about his own car! Obviously the mechanics don't know he's just a random neighbour so they answer but I can see they're thinking erm you paid for us to do one thing not diagnose multiple cars.
I turned to neighbour and said oh you are a nosy neighbour aren't you and he pretty much huffed off. But that's a rude thing to do right? Or is it just me.

"Oh, you are a nosy neighbour, aren't you?" 😅

I like it.

That's exactly what my neighbour does whenever I have tradespeople round!

Don’t feed the trolls guys! They’re just after reactions.

YANBU OP. Neighbour was a CF. Thought he could get a free consultation!

@Keyanski
@BlondiePortz

Oi you two! Haven’t you still got homework to finish? Get on with it.

Eh? Have you been on the wine or something?

I don’t think it’s that bad to ask a mechanic a few questions, as long as it didn’t cost you anything. If the mechanics answered, I’m sure they didn’t mind. It probably happens a lot.

You spoke rudely to your neighbour. IMHO it’s important to be kind, friendly and generous with neighbours. And he wasn’t being nosey. He was asking for a little advice from a professional. I think it was better to let it go, unless he was engaging them in a lot of distracting conversation. In which case, I’d have politely let him know if I was being charged by the hour.

Agreed.

Yes, it's cheeky of your neighbour, but it's not your responsibility to police him. It's up to the mechanic to say "sorry, I'm here to deal with this car" if he doesn't want to answer his questions.

*wouldn't of wrote it

Because mechanics charge for they’re time and the op is paying for the mechanic to give the neighbour advice!

HOW can you not see that?

Why be nice to someone who’s taking the piss.

Its ok not to understand. Just skip it and leave OP be.

*written

Eh? Is this a joke?

Um, as annoying as that poster is, their use of ‘have’ is correct …

Edit - Ah, ok. I see what you did there😁

Yes, it is.

Your neighbour was very cheeky. Well done for speaking out.There would be a better way to speak to him but its not easy to word it, a lot of people dont know how to /including me/. Thats why I love to read on here peoples suggestions on good wording.

Exactly

Eh? How did you come to this conclusion?!

My neighbour did this! We had some work done to the house. The contractor was visibly very busy working on the house, up to ears in equipment etc and the neighbour asked if he could stop and pop round and look at something for her. He said he was busy but she could book an appointment 😆

A "nosy neighbour" is someone who spies on you and tries to find out all about your life. That is not what OP's CF neighbour was doing - he was trying to get free advice from the mechanic and distracting him from the work OP was paying for. That is very annoying of him and he had a nerve, but it’s not being a "nosy neighbour".

Well he was nosy enough to clock that the OP had a mechanic looking at her car. His curtain twitching brought him there!

My goodness you're taking this far too seriously. Why did you even come on the thread if you're so annoyed by it?

Then what's the problem...? Seriously.

Point being, the OP paid a premium for a mechanic to come to her house to fix her car. She didn’t pay a premium for cheapskates to ask the mechanic questions when the neighbour can take their own car to the garage and pay for the service, just like the OP did. These mechanics often charge by the hour so it’s wasting his time by doing this.

Imagine sprinting outside to show the paramedics your rash when they have turned up for your neighbour's heart attack 🤔