I know, what's weird compared to normal as we can't define normal. But I think we have a pretty good idea what it is.
The neighbours who live opposite us spent an hour or so of their Saturday night putting up Halloween dec's in their porch. Skeleton hanging from ceiling, black plastic pumpkins, coffins, the works, all illuminated by a spooky light cycling red, green and blue.
Halloween is a fair way off so I'm saying this is weird.
Halloween already, blimey. My neighbour is just an annoying self employed builder that likes to leave rubbish at his house. Hires a skip, then it stays on his drive for months until he fills it from various 'jobs' !
My neighbour stands at his window watching us put decorations up.
Mine buy expensive things (Isla bikes, gas BBQs, wet suits, inflatable hot tubs, dogs etc...) and leave them on the patio until they rot.
Thousands of pounds worth of gear that could easily be stashed in their garage.
Set the burglar alarm, go away for the weekend. You know what happens next.
my neighbours all run away when i try to talk to them-theyre weird!
Set the burglar alarm, go away for the weekend. You know what happens next.
They have a lovely peaceful weekend away?
Ours has been doing massively-invasive house remodelling and extending project (that took almost two years) then had a garden room fitted (WTF didn't they just extend a bit more rather than put a wooden box up about 3 metres from the house). Then they have had their garden completely redesigned so it looks like something out of Chelsea Flower Show (but neither of them like gardening so it'll all be dead in a few months). Then they have all the front of the house done including relaying a drive. It would have been cheaper to just buy a bigger house that suited their needs.
Still, they are nice people (despite the continual mess we have had to put up with) so I shouldn't complain.
The people at the house opposite park at an angle on their straight single car drive and overhang their adjoining path. Really annoys my OCD.
Mine who I share a driveway with are a bit "rough".
To be fair the bloke works hard and loves his kids so that excuses a lot. Even if he does shoot his air rifle on the back garden.
The wife/ girlfriend however spends most of her time shouting at the kids and smoking at the backdoor (even when pregnant again).
It's like the first minutes of Idiocracy in real time.
Finally I get to vent....
Old fellow next door gets the hose out and washes his driveway (about 20' of monoblock) almost immediately after it stops raining. sometimes it can be 3/4 times a week. We're pretty arms length neighbours so i've never felt comfortable asking him why.
My neighbour is just an annoying self employed builder that likes to leave rubbish at his house. Hires a skip, then it stays on his drive for months until he fills it from various ‘jobs’ !
Yip. Next door but one decided to basically rebuild their entire house from the inside out at the start of lockdown. 3 years later it’s still a building site. Piles of bricks, breeze blocks and a cement mixer in the front garden. During this time they’ve rented the house across the road to live in as their place is still an uninhabitable shell
Go figure? 😳
Ha - mine have bikes! Which they actually ride.
Ridiculous - the sooner we get American style home owner associations in the UK the better. They would have the power to ban this madness. Bikes are for looking pretty hung on the garage wall not for riding (next to my canoes, kayaks, kites, tents etc).
Won't block access to their own garage - despite the fact they've not opened the door to it since they moved in - then mutters about other people using the other available space to park (they're quite keen on referring to the one beside my wall as "their space" when they moan about it despite every conversations with them about involving pointing out its actually on my deeds)
On the subject, why does almost no one park on their drive these days? I guess it makes me weird that I do!
Nothing that I have noticed, maybe we are the weird neighbours 🤔 😆 🤣
Bloke out the back of mine has about 6 cats and his day is basically spent herding them. Cat 1 will go out - usually onto the shed roof next door or something - so he'll be out there calling this cat back in. Meanwhile Cats 2 & 3 take the opportunity to nip out so just as Cat 1 finally comes down off the shed, he'll be back out coaxing Cat 2 out from under a parked car and Cat 3 down from the garden fence.
This process repeats throughout the day with each cat in a never-ending circle of calling his cats back from wherever they end up.
All you can hear out the back is: "Izzy! Izzy! Come on then, tch tch tch, come on down!"
5 minutes later: "Freda, come on then, come out from under there ye daft thing! Tch tch tch, Freda!"
People opposite me had a drive big enough to park 6 cars on (2 x 3), plus a double garage, they have 2 cars.
They have had gates installed about 1/4 of the way up their drive however, creating a pinch point, and now park one of their cars (Honda Jazz) out on the main road most of the time.
My next door neighbour will not leave me alone, constantly coming around or leaning over the fence making observations or trying to involve me in shit I don't care about. 7 foot fence going up soon.
Instead of trimming his hedge in one go, most weeks my neighbour cuts littles bit of hedge off and 'hides' it in his normal dustbin.
He says this is how he gets his own back on the government.
I briefly knew his name when we first moved in 15 years ago, but then my youngest started calling him Mr Muffin and that has stuck.
Mr Muffin who cuts his hedge, one tiny twig at a time.
We have newish neighbours, moved in a year ago. I'd say they're early to mid 30's so I initially thought they'd be fairly outgoing but no....Have spoken to the guy literally 3 times and his other half has purposely avoided me for some reason. She wanders about the back garden with headphones on and when I or my wife go into the garden she disappears. Both will ignore my 5yr old son who's as polite as they come which kind of p*sses me off. Thankfully its not just us they ignore, its the same for the neighbours on their other side.
We have some odd recluse neighbours, you never see them, net curtains are bright yellow from smoke, and they have put far to deep gravel on their driveway, so whenever it rains it runs over path and road, people complained that kids and dogs walk on the path, so they covered the garden part of the stones with a too-small piece of artificial grass, they didn't remove the gravel or even level it, just put it on, so it looks like surface or a bright green plastic moon....
Tried to have our three kids baptised.
Not my Neighbour, but my neighbour's neighbour is pretty weird...!
My nextdoor neighbour has 4 comvertible cars. That in itself is a bit weird as there are only 2 of them and as a retired couple they only ever go out together. He obviously must really like topless motoring....except in the 4 years he has lived next door I've never seen him put the roof down on any of them....literally never. I've seen him driving around the local countryside as well when I've been out biking and never once with the roof down! Why????
back neighbour mows their lawn every other day throughout the whole summer. Huge house, huge garden, never use it recreationally.
for some reason all of the neighbours have petrol powered mowers/strimmers. not mush of a problem, but one of them uses their strimmer by continually revving it, like a chav on a moped, for about an hour at a time.
One of our row of cottages has an open fire, uses coalite, but stores it outside, in it's open bag, so when it does take it produces so much smoke and smells like a gasworks. I've so far tried the subtle approach. 'what is it you burn? oh, coalite, do you not find it a bit smokey?'
Mine has a lot of bikes and hangs out on an internet forum about them all the time. Weirdo. 😜
Thousands of pounds worth of gear...
...patio....
Where *exactly* do we find this all?
I’ve seen him driving around the local countryside as well when I’ve been out biking and never once with the roof down! Why????
We live in blighty, there's half a day a year where a convertible is appropriate.
On one side I have the typical disgruntled retired pensioner who loves to moan about parked cars on the street out front (has taken to putting cones in the road around them to stop them getting clipped). That and endless air rifling.
For a sense of balance on the other side of us are the nicest neighbours you could wish for. Lovely family, polite young son and very easy to chat to. Will often pop round for a beer in the sun just to hear their latest.
Oh and at the back of us is a 90 something nan who I’m not entirely sure is still alive but her grandson lives in the garden shed by the front door and seems to be doing a side line in narcotics.
My neighbour puts cones on the road to save his parking space outside his door when he goes off in the car (residents permit parking bays in which anyone can park as long as the car is on the council system) To be honest it doesn't bother me as they are great neighbours but I'm waiting for the day when someone just drives over them in a truck!
Our old opposite neighbour was pretty mental. Once immediate next door neighbours spotted him sitting stark naked in his van, she was WFH so sitting in the upstairs room they were using as an office. He chased another neighbours son down the road threatening him with a hammer one night. He had a feud with his next door neighbour and they were having a row at 3am one early morning. He was messing about with one of his scrap VW vans out the front...at 3am. I went to ask him to please be quiet then he went off on one at me...there was a whole ruck of stuff with him throwing bricks at the house behind him etc.
Anyway, one day most of the local Police force turned up, kicked his front door in and carted him off. Not sure what happened but it went very quiet and we moved house. Our new street is quite dull in comparison but I'm not complaining!
To be honest it doesn’t bother me as they are great neighbours but I’m waiting for the day when someone just drives over them in a truck!
Aye I don't reckon the cones would stand much chance in Taunton
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I'm the weird neighbour. It lets me do my own thing without giving a toss what any of my neighbours think of me. Female neighbour caught me trying to slip from garage gym back into my house the other night (10pm) in just my boxers. It was bloody hot and i stripped off and couldn't be bothered to get dressed again. Timed it for her to be staring out of her window :-O Havent had any feedback yet.
Next door neighbour scuttles about doing everything she can to not have any interactions and her weedy little husband who gets daddy round to do anything manly about the gaff. I just cant be arsed with them tbh. I try to be a good neighbour and i am the go to guy if a neighbour needs their car jump started or borrow a tool etc but that comes with common courtesy to communicate in my book.
Our old neighbours used to stand at the boundary of our back gardens (short gardens, maybe 7m long, but elevated about 1m from ground level) and watch our kitchen window. We'd walk into our kitchen to find the mother and all 3 kids leaning to look inside. That was odd.
oh, yeah and the dad used to beat his daughter, who woud have been about 8 at the time. Did it in front of my daughter once, and it scared her enough not to want to be anywhere he was. (I did report it, but nothing happened)
He also started digging a hole in his front garden. About 8m x 4m and ended up about 4ft deep. Said he was digging a swimming pool. Couple of years later was rebuilding his roof, and decided that the hold in his garden would be a great place to put the rubble.
He'd pick up and throw anything nearby if you challenged him in any way. spades, hammers, saws, ladders...
Top floor neighbour has "relapsed", I think. He has his electricity cut by the authority. Today, noticed that since yesterday, he has two bicycles parked in his garden. One green gentleman's bike with Brooke saddle while the other is a mt bike with I think electric hub. Does not cycle as far as I know and probably jobless. He is frequently visited by his friends who tend to shout a lot and probably "high".
The other neighbours are retired couples who love to "party" at least twice a week and sing karaoke 2am to 3am in the morning on Thurs, Fri and Sat.
They don't bother me and I don't bother them.
I spoke to the neighbour directly opposite last week for the first time in the almost decade that we've been living there. How weird is that?
Actually, I didn't speak so much as mime. I approached her as she was sat motionless in the car on her drive. She looked over, pulled her phone away from her faraway ear, and I mimed..
" are you ok, my son was worried that you were dead, but I see you were just on your phone! Ho ho. Sorry to bother you, bye"
Actually I can't have mimed all that. Maybe I verbalised some of it. Or maybe she now thinks I'm completely barmy.
Either way, who cares, we'll probably only 'speak' once or twice more before I die of old age.
Various of my other neighbours are ****s with noisy dogs, but apart from that I don't have a clue.
Well, the same neighbours who put up the early Halloween shite are also extremely ignorant.
They've been renting the house for about 18 months and we've not had a single hello. When outside they completely avoid eye contact. The husband looks VERY MUCH like a young Rolf Harris which doesn't help. Nor do his wife's leapord print boots. I guess they are mid thirties but act like a couple of miserable pensioners. I believe they are from Cornwall. Is there a connection?
They had a van abandoned outside their house five months and did nothing about it. I phoned 101 five times and eventually persuaded the police to recover it. Not a word of thanks.
Anyway - they can just nob off.
My neighbour has a garage full of bikes and parts and spends half his life working on them with varying degrees of success.
Oh, hang on...
Waiting to see if I pop up lol.
Wife and granddaughter have slept in the camper for the last 3 nights as it's cooler.
My front garden is currently a building site and has been for months.
I keep getting my telescope out looking at Saturn ( currently just left of the house over the road bedroom window)
This was explained to her and she is more than happy.
Back garden is a jungle as I've left it wild this year.
I work on 2 old cars when I get time.
Old bill are in regular attendance at odd hours. But that's mainly because the next town over has a road with the same name and a wrong un lives there.
I promise I'm normal ish.
Edit* the cars are actually garaged so it's not like they are on bricks with ripped tarps over them.
@Harry_the_Spider
I'm amazed no one else has asked this question. You say
They buy expensive things (...dogs etc…)
Dogs? Actual, hairy, barky dogs? And then leave them to rot on the patio? Crikey, yes, that is pretty weird, granted.
Our next door neighbour collects bog standard 80s Sierras. He has 5, and they all have personalised plates!
He also often comes round every house in the close with colour printouts of random planning applications (often nowhere near our houses), and last week he posted some A4 colour printed photos of his shit filled blocked drain through our door 🤷♂️ thanks neighbour!
My neighbour has a garage full of bikes and parts and spends half his life working on them with varying degrees of success.
Oh, hang on…
LOL my neighbour on top floor loves to collect stuff ...
Nor do his wife’s leapord print boots.
Stylish!
There is a baptist chapel opposite the house. Not the sort of place where you expect two church goers to come rolling out the door fighting. Never did find out what caused them to come to blows.
🤣🤣