Ignorant neighbours.

ANONANON said:
For the record, they let their dog loose over our and next doors garden, it craps everywhere, it's not a small dog either (German shepard), their neighbours regularly block our driveway off, and i think they're growing/selling weed as i keep getting whiffs of it throughout the day. So no, i'm not a judgemental snob at all.
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And instead you're upset because they don't say hello? What a strange chap you are :p
 
Gotta be honest I rarely say hello to anyone anymore, used to be quite a lot more open/friendly but got quite standoffish responses from a lot of people so unless I already have some kinda aquaintance with them I don't bother any more.
 
ANONANON said:
I can understand people wanting to keep themselves to themselves, but come on! A simple hello as you walk past me in the street? I think i've come to terms that they just don't want to know us, talk to us, have nothing to say or whatever. I just wish i could be so stone faced as them so it didn't bother me as much.

For the record, they let their dog loose over our and next doors garden, it craps everywhere, it's not a small dog either (German shepard), their neighbours regularly block our driveway off, and i think they're growing/selling weed as i keep getting whiffs of it throughout the day. So no, i'm not a judgemental snob at all.
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They're producing drugs?

Tell the police. Why your first call would be OcUK I don't know
 
R.C.Anderson said:
Think you mean "Independent"...

Get over it, not everybody says hi to everyone they see.
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This, I don't talk to my neighbours as I don't want to or see the point really, if they say hello I say high back, we don't all have to be friends with our neighbours, life is mad enough without everyone knowing your business cos your pals with them next door
 
Spook187 said:
I would be straight over telling them to set the hot knives up:):)
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This made me laugh,reminded me back in the day,over 30 bits lined up on the fireplace,mates mums house. All good,until on one go,it dropped onto the white rug,where he then went to get it with the hot knife,as you can imagine the rug was ruined.
 
why wouldnt you say hello to your neighbour?

why not make friends and not enemys..

so aswell as not saying hello, they make druggs and let their dog go in your garden..

i think theyre asking for it tbh.. may as well call the police if they want it that way..
 
I don't go out of my way to say hello to my neighbours,especially if there doing something ie getting something from the boot, I will only say hi if notice they have clocked me. Some of my neighbours I'm more Friendly with, some I won't say hi until they say hi to me.
 
Yeah I got a neighbour on one side of my house who is like that. Middle-aged woman. Except that she doesn't return my 'hi', in all 6 years that I've been here. Yet she had the cheek to pop a "you're parking in my spot" note under my friend's windscreen when he came to visit me. (we have off-site parking, so friend didn't know which space was allocated to my house). Gladly, the neighbours on the other 2 sides of my house are sound. One young couple and a divorced lady with a child. We'll stand in for each other on courier deliveries, send Christmas cards etc.
 
Pleased I don't work with you. When I go into work on a morning, I work in a seperate office to the rest, and don't bother going next door to say Hi, one lady always comes through later and says sarcastically, Hi .... never seen you come in. It's like when I come in on a morning, I should go next door first, and say Hi to her instead of just getting on with my work.
 
This is a very interesting thread as I am the quiet neighbour, I don't really speak to anyone unless I have to and for that I'm usually vilified for even though in my mind I show know ill towards my neighbours, I have difficulty understanding social dynamics, basic pleasantries etc, thus I choose to keep to myself but many people seem to accuse me of being antisocial although I don't feel that title is befitting of someone that just chooses to keep to themselves.

If I see someone I'm familiar with on the street I don't feel compelled to say hello to them, in fact the feeling of being compelled to do so makes me feel uncomfortable and often leads to stagnant conversation with said individual, please spare a thought to those of us that just don't feel like interacting, it's not because we don't like you or think we're superior in anyway (which I've been accused of).
 
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Believe me it could be worse - in our village (of about 100 houses) there's one council house whose occupant lives quite happily on the dole. He has nothing to do all day so wanders up and down the road randomly talking at anyone he finds.

Note I say AT, not too. I've been out cleaning my car and he's talked AT me for about 2hours. I'm a pretty civil guy so will chat with him a bit but he insists on telling me all about the national cricket matches, how his son is doing in the local cricket. I have absolutely no interest in cricket, none whatsoever, and yet he keeps talking at me long after I've gone silent :(

So yes, think yourself lucky they don't just talk at you incessantly!
 
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