Odd things your neighbours do?

Odd things your neighbours do?

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Spare tyre

Original Poster:

10,333 posts

137 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Sure there are some good stories on here.

He's passed away now, but a few years back we had a neighbour who'd use his astra once a week to go shopping then use the bus for anything else

Every morning around 7 he'd get the astra out of the garage, reverse up the large drive and park it on the road out side his house. Then around night fall he'd go out and put it away.

If you had friends arrive after dark, if he spotted it, he'd often get the car back out and park as close as he could to their bumper, if they were parked outside his house

Was a lovely guy, just seemed to like his spot. I was always hoping someone would abandon a car in his spot to see how he'd react

HorneyMX5

5,421 posts

157 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Really noisey sex in the middle of the day with all the windows open.

BHC

17,546 posts

186 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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At uni I had some druggie neighbours who used to love kicking our door in. They never came in, they just used to kick it in and go home.

Dr Murdoch

3,585 posts

142 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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HorneyMX5 said:
Really noisey sex in the middle of the day with all the windows open.
Apt username...

My neighbours son (40ish) comes to visit fairly regularly, all he does when he is there is walk up and down the front path, for hours. He will get to the front gate, look right then left, walk back towards the house.....then repeat.

Most bizarre to witness, I think he is a bit mental, poor bugger

Lemmonie

6,314 posts

262 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Start burning garden waste on a Saturday afternoon despite being at home all week to do it and living next door to a busy pub with a nice pub garden full of people eating and also next door to my house with windows, doors open and washing on the line.

To make matters worse I live next door to my parents. FFS shoot

Spare tyre

Original Poster:

10,333 posts

137 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Lemmonie said:
Start burning garden waste on a Saturday afternoon despite being at home all week to do it and living next door to a busy pub with a nice pub garden full of people eating and also next door to my house with windows, doors open and washing on the line.

To make matters worse I live next door to my parents. FFS shoot
some outstanding disagreement with the pub?

wildcat45

8,110 posts

196 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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A now deceased neighbour who would sprinkle his car with a watering can. At night.

Spare tyre

Original Poster:

10,333 posts

137 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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wildcat45 said:
A now deceased neighbour who would sprinkle his car with a watering can. At night.
did it grow?

Lemmonie

6,314 posts

262 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Spare tyre said:
Lemmonie said:
Start burning garden waste on a Saturday afternoon despite being at home all week to do it and living next door to a busy pub with a nice pub garden full of people eating and also next door to my house with windows, doors open and washing on the line.

To make matters worse I live next door to my parents. FFS shoot
some outstanding disagreement with the pub?
No they are just dumb

BHC

17,546 posts

186 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Spare tyre said:
some outstanding disagreement with the pub?
When I was growing up the landlord of a nearby pub fell out with his farming next door neighbour so he reserved all his dirty/loud jobs for Saturday and Sunday afternoons too. It's quite common I imagine.

Steve vRS

5,037 posts

248 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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An old bloke across the road from me doesn't like my next door neighbour.

He whistles to annoy my neighbours dog and make it bark and then complains about the dog barking!

It only bloody barks when he whistles. Loon.

Hammer; sausages etc.

Steve

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,683 posts

207 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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HorneyMX5 said:
Really noisey sex in the middle of the day with all the windows open.
Which part do you find odd?

HorneyMX5

5,421 posts

157 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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DrDoofenshmirtz said:
HorneyMX5 said:
Really noisey sex in the middle of the day with all the windows open.
Which part do you find odd?
Having the windows open knowing full well the rest of the flats can hear them.

thetapeworm

11,884 posts

246 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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One of my neighbours waits for me to start doing jobs in the garden then without fail leans out of his upstairs window and shouts that he has a <insert name of a tool for a job I'm not doing> I can borrow if I want.

Last night he wanted to lend me a breaker bar to tidy up the edge of the lawn (I was using a lawn edging tool at the time).

aka_kerrly

12,490 posts

217 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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HorneyMX5 said:
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
HorneyMX5 said:
Really noisey sex in the middle of the day with all the windows open.
Which part do you find odd?
Having the windows open knowing full well the rest of the flats can hear them.
That or someone has had the great idea that if you need to go out in the day and want to leave your windows open leave a loud p0rn video on at it will ensure people keep their distance, and keep HorneyMX5 (Nick) occupied whilst he is meant to be "working from home"?

Bill

54,200 posts

262 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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My 86 year old neighbour gets his crappy Chinese 125 bike out to go get the paper in the morning. Both he and his wife have cars, and there's next to no traffic, but he still puts on a sturdy jacket and gardening gloves and gets the bike out of his garage. (Don't get me wrong, I'm all for not giving up and if it was worth riding I'd applaud him, it just seems daft.)

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

213 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Empty the entire contents of his house into his back garden.
Chop down every tree and plant and chuck that onto the pile too.
Start knocking down the boundary walls.

His wife left him and he went a bit doolally.

Unfortunately we are trying to sell our house - difficult when it appears we have Mr Trebus living next door.

Oldandslow

2,405 posts

213 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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I love my really odd neighbours.

Means that I'm the normal flibble in the street.

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

130 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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I live on a narrowish, private road with about 8 houses on it. two of my neighbours are locked in a battle with each other over car parking:

they can only get their cars (2 per household) on the drive in line. because their houses have land that is pie shaped (so narrow part on the road, then fanning out) they struggle with road parking and of course when they have visitors its worse.

they both obsessively try to pinch parking gaps and park badly to cause problems for each other.

I watched one of them get a string line the other day, pin it the house fascia board, walk down the garden with it, to establish the exact centre point of the hedging line.

and then pin a private property sign to a tree in the garden.......... like its not bleedin obvious two cars parked on a driveway in a domestic setting are not on a private property.

Torquey

1,915 posts

235 months

Tuesday 15th July 2014
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It sounds like we all have similar neighbours.

I have the same problem as the OP. Angry neighbour (with an Astra) likes to defend his territory by parking his car on the road outside his house, generally when others require parking on the road nearby, leaving his garage and double driveway clear!

He also likes to whistle on his way home from the pub each night but his speciality is creating as much noise as humanly possible when putting wheelie bins out, again after returning from the pub around 11.30pm.

Poor bloke obviously has some anger issue, with my next door neighbour I think but he's not in the best of health so the spells he has in hospital make our life easier.