To ask my neighbour to wash her car?

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It is so filthy, and looks especially bad in the sunshine. We have a shared driveway and I hate that my guests have to see it as they arrive.

If she can't be bothered to wash it (and she spends enough time smoking in the garden every day to wash it ten times over fgs) she could at least park it in the garage.

Expat..you do know you are talking about the older generation of germans there, don't you!

Although some things are rules...like no washing out certain days, etc...

as for op...get over yourself, yabvu

my ex is sort of like that, though, 3and.

he is a very tidy person who has a lot of social conscience.

he's ONLY 42!

no particular days for doing stuff, though, that was his mother.

but boy, he keeps his things in good working order.

Has anyone mentioned how in the 50s and 60s women would regularly insult each other by shouting 'wash yer net curtains, you dirty bitch!'.

This is the modern new-build housing estate equivalent, isn't it?

By the way: "WASH YER CURTAINS, YOU DIRTY BITCH!"

lol at wilf...

expat...to my shame the tidy gene has never passed over to me....it aways made me giggle when people said, oh, you are german, your house must be spotless ...........erm...nope, shittip really, lol, but there you go!

i got a tidy gene from my dad.

so you should have seen the ex's and my house .

to him, keeping your things in good order means they last longer, that makes sense to his German mind.

oh it does, I don't disagree...tis just...I can't keep tidy...and add to that an extremely untidy dh and 3 extremely untidy Children...well....no matter how hard I try...it's untidy within a day....no matter how clean/tidy it was....sigh!

i keep everyone in line .

my dad was an Army drill sergeant.

he grew up in a chaotic, messy household and i'm afraid it drove him right round the twist.

I'm in a similar position actually. One of my neighbours has a Ford. It's deeply embarrassing. We paid a premium to move here, we were sure that everyone only drove mercs, bmws, audis or saabs. There's one bloke with a lotus but we know that's a midlifecrisis. This Ford just rolls up and down the road, without any shame. Just lowers the tone. I was planning to enroll the help of the neighbourhood watch.

funny thing is dh was in the Army for 24 years (only just retired from Army)...so, tis not that he doesn't know how to keep things tidy...tis just he can't be bothered...here everyone seems to confuse the floor for the place where you randomly throw paper/rubbish/clothes/toys....anything....
but ha...Kids won't know what has hit them...I am planning a major clear out...surely if we have less stuff there is less chance for things to get so messy [right...[hopeful emoticon]

ooops, phone rang and was interupted from sending the message...lol....

It is a sign of real class when you drive an old banger - I know an Earl who drives a 25 year old Escort.