Weird Things Your Neighbours Do

Dis86

Dis86

Dis86

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So, not necessarily talking unpleasant or offensive, what do your neighbours do that you find weird?

First is guy opposite who has a double drive but parks his car in a visitors bay.

Second is the bungalow behind who despite living in rural Northumberland, surrounded by farmland and woodlands have a garden filled with plastic tat. Fake palm trees, flamingos, lizards. That kind of stuff. Totally not in keeping with the village etc. None of it matches though. The fake palm is next to a fake box for example.
 
One of our neighbours has their front living room window filled with children's toys. They are piled up so high on top of each other it looks as if it's a house of child hoarders. In fact, now it's got so bad that the toys are starting to spill out through their back door and onto the street.

One day I was walking past their house with my mum and said, "see that house, their window looks horrible, they should clear it up" and a guy on the bench we were walking past said, "that's my house actually". I just said, "OK" and carried on walking. It is very strange.
 
sit things that would easily fit in the bins on the ground next to the bin - no different coloured recycling etc here just the grey ones so anything can go in them!

there's a guy that goes and stands in the far corner of the carpark to smoke dope - it stinks and it's obvious, dunno why he even bothers leaving his flat :p
 
I live in a flat and there is a communal bin area. It sounds like one of the neighbours likes to dig through the bins for some reason.

Immediate downstairs neighbour has been in his flat a grand total of about 20 times in the last 6.5 years I’ve lived here. Obviously not his main home but I do wonder why he keeps it.
 
My neighbour has spent the last two years building complicated decking structures and gravelling around 100msquared of former lawns/ undergrowth.

In that two years, he and his family have been out in the garden once, for a barbecue last summer.

Does make me wonder what is the point of it all...
 
A recent neighbour used to go out in his car, with his partner, for about 10 minutes max. This would happen a few times during the evening and multiple times during the week.

We were convinced they/he were/was the neighbourhood pharmacist.
 
potatolord said:
My neighbour has spent the last two years building complicated decking structures and gravelling around 100msquared of former lawns/ undergrowth.

In that two years, he and his family have been out in the garden once, for a barbecue last summer.

Does make me wonder what is the point of it all...
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Maybe so he can post about it on forums...
 
I see my neighbour out riding her bike all the time with one of these kid bike trailers attached to the back of it. But, her kids are older than mine (11/13) - so I'm really not sure what she's got in there. Unless she's just using it as ballast?
 
Refuses to acknowledge my existence. One time it got super weird as we went to an event at the local church, and he was there with another neighbour. I ended up at the urinal next to him. I've never seen someone so awkwardly duck and dive to avoid acknowledging I was there. I piled the pressure on by trying to dip, dodge, duck, dive, and dip again into his view as we fought for the single space at the hand dryer.

One of our other neighbours had premature ejac spray delivered to our house as they were out, which was a fun collection for them.
 
Kenai said:
Been out in the garden for a couple of years building some beautiful decking, really making it nice, but only really had the opportunity to enjoy it once or twice because the neighbour keeps staring out of his bedroom window at us in the garden.
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Can you tell me again just how angry you were when they didn't have the screws you wanted at the builder's merchant, as you wanted all the screws to be matching?
 
Bug One said:
I see my neighbour out riding her bike all the time with one of these kid bike trailers attached to the back of it. But, her kids are older than mine (11/13) - so I'm really not sure what she's got in there. Unless she's just using it as ballast?
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Going out on a limb and saying a cat or small dog
 
potatolord said:
My neighbour has spent the last two years building complicated decking structures and gravelling around 100msquared of former lawns/ undergrowth.

In that two years, he and his family have been out in the garden once, for a barbecue last summer.

Does make me wonder what is the point of it all...
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Long term project, something to keep himself busy during the various lockdowns, planning ahead for something?

My father would often do some fairly long term projects that wouldn't make sense to people who were not aware of what he was doing until it reached a certain point.

Although given the nightmares we had with gravel (lawn if far easier to maintain!) I'd question the sanity of anyone who does it with a large area unless they're going to be weeding/spraying every week:p
Because of the rest of our garden and the wildlife any gravel would get huge numbers of weeds within weeks - I swear the birds were deliberately dropping seeds on it.
 
Lysander said:
One of our neighbours has their front living room window filled with children's toys. They are piled up so high on top of each other it looks as if it's a house of child hoarders. In fact, now it's got so bad that the toys are starting to spill out through their back door and onto the street.

One day I was walking past their house with my mum and said, "see that house, their window looks horrible, they should clear it up" and a guy on the bench we were walking past said, "that's my house actually". I just said, "OK" and carried on walking. It is very strange.
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Chance of a photo perhaps?
 
Werewolf said:
Long term project, something to keep himself busy during the various lockdowns, planning ahead for something?

My father would often do some fairly long term projects that wouldn't make sense to people who were not aware of what he was doing until it reached a certain point.

Although given the nightmares we had with gravel (lawn if far easier to maintain!) I'd question the sanity of anyone who does it with a large area unless they're going to be weeding/spraying every week:p
Because of the rest of our garden and the wildlife any gravel would get huge numbers of weeds within weeks - I swear the birds were deliberately dropping seeds on it.
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My wife made me gravel the raised bed next to the lawn. I swear gravel is some sort of slow-acting weed fertiliser.
 
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