My neighbours are taking the absolute piss

[Kitchendoctor]

And I’m so mad at them!

Constant stream of visitors, having chats at the front of the house while leaving engines running, then talking about what delivery services they’ve got booked when they clearly couldn’t give a toss about abiding by the instructions.
Someone today also said that in the 2 weeks before lock down they’d spent £300 on freezer food.
Honestly taking the absolute piss.

My neighbour's are the same...outside clapping for the NHS but are now having family stay for the entire weekend. We are abiding by the rules. How thick can some people be to not realise that people are dying and they are helping to spread the virus? Why do they think the rules do not apply to them? Same on both sides of me as the other neighbour currently have their grandchild bouncing up and down on the trampoline. What is the matter with people??

I'm surprised they have the space to store £300 a week on frozen food.

Although I am confused at the comment about them doing this a few weeks before lockdown and the piss-taking they did.
Are you assuming this wasn't their usual monthly shop? And tbh food bought that long ago is probably long gone so was that next delivery a part of their usual shop? And tbph if you know the neighbours shopping habits this much, maybe it's time to stop watching them.

My neighbours were out today, drinking in the garden with friends attempting to be 2mtrs apart

I’d like to say they are the same folk clapping for the NHS but they ARE the NHS! One being an ambulance driver

Oh god, I thought ranting about it on here would make me feel better, but discovering there seems to be just as many twats elsewhere is winding me up even more!

I have decided that I might now be worried about how we are coming across. Me and eldest DD have only left the house to exercise since lock down and now don’t even go every day. We are at the basic level for fitness so can do walking and light jogging on our housing estate
Younger DD is driving to a deserted track on most days for her run, sometimes DH goes with her. The are super fit and are going less than a km from our house. This DD is also the designated person to drop supplies to my parents and to check up on them which she does twice a week.

DH goes out daily, he is a key worker and is attending his place of work 3 times a week, he is the only one in our household and my parents and PIL who enters the supermarket so he has to plan the trips and is going twice a week. He also visits his parents at least twice a week.

We have had some deliveries, Tesco for slots that we had booked before they were repurposed and some other necessary items such as a electrical part and a keyboard for me as I now have to wok from home. Then maybe some items that were not so important but the companies are still trading.

I hope that I am not your neighbour

We (me, DH, two DC) decided to lockdown with my parents the day it was announced. We received an anonymous letter this week suggesting we’d had visitors, are some of the people not in this situation, having moved in with family? I’m sure some people must be judging us as we go out for walks together.
As an aside we think the letter was actually meant for their almost 90 year old neighbour who did have visitors at the time they claimed to have taken a photo, but they were his sons as his wife died in a care home last weekend . Thankful we got the letter instead of him to be honest.

Discovered today our next door neighbours thinks it doesn’t apply to him either. He’s had his parents round doing his gardening and the washing for him. I’ve always thought it a bit weird that a man in his late 30’s has his mum come to his house and do his washing, but now I think he’s an irresponsible man child. I know for a fact his sister has bad asthma as he told me she was in hospital with it last October, and she lives with his parents still.

It makes me really mad. He was saying how good it is that my other neighbours on our other side and I are all still going to work for the nhs and yet he is blatantly flouting the rules.

Interesting article for another side to the debate.

www.redpepper.org.uk/the-politics-of-covid-19-busy-parks-and-public-blame/

I see both sides. We have to social distance.

But if the death rate increases the lack of PPE and the care home scandal won't be blamed and many other failings it will be the woman who spoke to her mum 10 mins on the drive or the Grandparents delivering an inessential Easter egg.

It is possible that 30-year-old 'man chid' could need type of support. Not stuff you would normally go around telling your random neighbours about. Some people share other peoples info far easier than their own.

Protect, the sad thing is, we both know someone will be there re-creating your whole life for you, and judging their perceived objections.

The ambulance guys berated. It could be a couple of colleagues having a last-minute get together before they all go onto the clean or dirty week. Forgot which is the working/none working fortnight shifts to help them still power through. Under those circumstances, I'd be telling them to have one on me cos they deserve it. Not ideal, but a couple of more hours still around each other isn't a big deal because they know they are a lot closer to patients than they are to mates. At least there is some distance, unlike in the back of the ambulance.

My neighbours are total cunts but they were very obviously so even before lockdown. Their kids are screaming outside in the garden for hours (5 of them, in a tiny garden, aged 5-11. Not one has a speaking voice, they all shout all the time, and constantly fight and upset each other so one is always wailing. Parents either stay indoors or are outside being noisier than the kids) and if they're not in the garden they're out playing on the road - we live on a bus route, it's a busy road so completely unsuitable.

They've continued to play outside despite current restrictions and today were outside with kids from 3 other houses. All watched by the parents, none of whom were observing social distancing. The whole family go out several times a week by car for an afternoon visiting family (which at least gives us some peace) and if not they have people visiting them. Scummy fuckers.

My neighbours are the same, but what can you do, no point whinging. Just keep your own family safe as possible, it’s all you can do.

Neighbours on one side have their adult kids/grandkids round parked on the front drive having a chat several times since lockdown and he’s older age group (well he must be 60s at least) and he’s a care home caretaker still going to work.

Same where live, I've even heard neighbours brag about how they still go to the pub, but it's just as bad on mumsnet
Post after post encouraging people to break the rules, or excusing it

@canigooutyet yeh you’re projecting. He’s fine.

*@Gigabitten I really feel you have a duty to report the "carer" since the vulnerable person could end up dead .

Yours to *@LegoBloodyHurts .

My neighbours are currently having a bbq in their back yard with all other neighbours from the street.

Meanwhile my FIL is fighting for his life in hospital with corona virus

Sunshine - you can imagine that they are not exactly the nicest people to start with and I already don't get on with them.

One set are hopefully moving, should quieten their mates down that live opposite.

I've already had nails in my tyres after I complained to them about their builders leaving fencing and scaffolding leaning against my car - builders were also mates, and they've threatened my kids just for walking past their house (I was watching them go to the post box and back), they've stolen the kids toys out of my garden and set fire to one of my trees.

If I complained about the carer - god knows what they'll do in retaliation. I'm sorry for the people they are putting at risk, but they are not living close to them day in and day out.

I'm desperate to move as it's my only hope but am stuck for the foreseeable due to finances and other issues.

I’m very disappointed in my own parents today.

They have my brother over for a BBQ in the back garden. I expected better of them tbh.

I'm beginning to wonder if one of my neighbours is living on a different planet from me.

They've had family visiting and friends over to play with their children, they're coming and going every day with the children, just carrying on as normal. I don't get it.

I know this makes me sound as if I'm watching them, but I'm really not and only became aware of this because of being outside in the warm weather. We have very small gardens and their parking is right next door to my garden.

I wonder why some people are just not sticking to the rules. Do they think it not really happening? Or are they just so convinced it won't happen to them, that they can just ignore it?

I'm lucky because my neighbours are all thoughtful and are all staying home. I'm hoping that the virus will cull all the stupid people that cant be bothered to follow the guidance.

My neighbour blatantly said to me that he doesn't believe in coronavirus. I'm afraid for some people there is no excuse.

its crazy+
I am a nurse and like many see it first hand
I dont think people understand its not an extended holiday

All of these posts sound so familiar that when reading them I was convinced we must all be living on the same street.

I am a teacher looking after key worker children. The poor key workers look shattered collecting their children.

I am sure they would love to have the time to sit in the sun having bbqs with friends and families, but there is a deadly pandemic stopping them.

Next door's girlfriend has been visiting for the weekend, again. Only this weekend she's done it while coughing a LOT.

No idea what she's thinking. I'd not be visiting anyone at the moment if I wasn't 100%, even without the 'stay in your own home, don't mix with other households' advice.