Weird Things Your Neighbours Do

There a new bloke moved into a flat upstairs and once of week or more a gang of guys hang out in his garage all evening talking hes got an enormous mud plugger parked infront a suzuki vitara or something but with enormous jacked up suspension and wheels you'd need a step ladder just to climb in the door its a metre or more off the ground so I assume they're all off roading enthusiasts, but why they don't just go upstairs and talk in the warm instead of spending their time in a freezing garage is beyond me I've seen in the garage theres nothing in there bar a bunch of deck chairs and a small bit of carpet maybe its part of the ritual

DXP55 said:
Every year the fence panels have to come out to be painted - the list goes on.
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Come out as in physically remove each panel in turn before putting them back in? Ok thats a special kind of special.
 
squerble said:
Ex-neighbour now, but they would often just leave their washing out when it rained, then let it stay out for even longer to dry again. A bit disgusting, really.
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Are you my neighbour? perhaps they have busy lives, not always home when its been raining so leave it and rewash it a few days later, better things in life, like paying the bills.
 
squerble said:
Ex-neighbour now, but they would often just leave their washing out when it rained, then let it stay out for even longer to dry again. A bit disgusting, really.
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That's what I do, I'm not bringing it back after its rained if the sun is going to be out the next day or later on, depends on the forecast.

Bit of rain water isn't going to cause harm.
 
We live next to a lovely Argentinian couple, perfectly normal and intelligent, happy to have a chat without being overbearing.

But ..

For whatever reason, they don't seem to believe in curtains for their house. Their master bedroom have a street frontage so if I was so inclined, I can watch them sleep at night. Anyone can. When I'm in my garage at night cleaning my bike or building something, I can literally see them sitting in bed reading or walking around their house, especially with lights on.

The husband also have a very weird way of weeding his garden. He'd literally lie flat on his stomach, his nose about 2cm from the grass as if he's looking for a needle, and pull weeds from that position. From afar it looks like he's passed out, face first.

I tell you, People man.

Rest of the street seems to be pretty normal
 
Siliconslave said:
Our neighbor hoards firewood. He has a large log store that he uses but that wasn't enough so he built a weird freestanding arrangement that apparently the Scandinavians used to do. That was 3 years ago and since then he's built another and is making a start on the third.

He doesn't seem to use the wood from these structures but is constantly acquiring new wood from somewhere, we've seen him come back from a walk with huge branch on numerous occasions.
He's also constantly chopping his wood and always seems to have a fire going, with all the windows open half the time as well!

Tbh though he seems to be the normal one in the family...
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TBH, firewood can become a bit of an obsession. We have a log burner for heating and I'm forever looking around for anything I can burn.
 
I replaced a fence, like for like but with concrete posts and gravel boards because the old wooden ones rotted, and the panels were a bit taller for privacy. I came home one day and our neighbour's son has taken a dislike to my new very nice looking fence and had started, quite literally, ripping it all out, posts and all. He goes off on one about how I've 'stolen their land', it 'takes the ****' and 'he's not having it'... I told him I used exactly the same holes that I pulled the old posts out of and had taken pictures of everything... After sharing said pictures he had to redo the fence. Muppet.
 
regulus said:
We live next to a lovely Argentinian couple, perfectly normal and intelligent, happy to have a chat without being overbearing.

But ..

For whatever reason, they don't seem to believe in curtains for their house. Their master bedroom have a street frontage so if I was so inclined, I can watch them sleep at night. Anyone can. When I'm in my garage at night cleaning my bike or building something, I can literally see them sitting in bed reading or walking around their house, especially with lights on.

The husband also have a very weird way of weeding his garden. He'd literally lie flat on his stomach, his nose about 2cm from the grass as if he's looking for a needle, and pull weeds from that position. From afar it looks like he's passed out, face first.

I tell you, People man.

Rest of the street seems to be pretty normal
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Reminds me of a fat chick that lives across from my in laws. She often showers at night with the light on - which casts an almost comic-book-stereotype of a fat lady silhouette onto the window. You can see every movement, including when she lifts her gunt to get right underneath.
 
Our old neighbours were proper weird...

I can only describe the Mum as having permanent PMS, the Dad as liking to pretend he's a Marine, and their daughter who was quite clearly embarrassed by them both 100% of the time.

They had a big outbuilding at the end of their garden which he liked to 'exercise in' to 'relieve stress'... only one day, a few months after we'd moved in, he was clearly doing another activity in his gym, when his wife walked in. Cue her having a go at him in the back garden for flogging the bishop.

He also like to really loudly burp whenever he was in the garden to make his presence known. And loved to start stretching if you were ever having a conversation with him... though he did this more often when speaking to women than men... ugh.

He was an absolute stickler for noise as well, ironic as he now has a motorbike that he likes to start up at 6am every day, leave it 10mins to warm up before roaring off to work (according to the neighbour the other side who we go to the pub with every now and then).
 
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If we go and see the in laws on a Saturday then you can guarantee that the bloke opposite will have the front of his rusty Rover 214 up in the air on trolley jacks with the front wheels off. He'll then spend a couple of hours cleaning the inside of the wheels and the wheel arches. I'm amazed the car hasn't fallen as it wobbles about quite a bit on the trolley jacks. The outside face of the wheels aren't treated to the same luxury and they're usually covered in brake dust.

He never puts rubbish or recycling out for collection and hates anything being on the pavement or road immediately outside his house. When the water company were digging up the road he took exception to the barriers surrounding a ruddy great hole in the road so he dragged them away and dumped them around the corner leaving an open hole in the road.

He's a bit of an oddball.
 
Guy down the road goes out every morning, revs the snot out of his crappy old Peugeot, then looks up the exhaust pipe before his Mrs gets in it and drives off to work. Bizarre.
 
My neighbour spends all day watching the grass grow. Pees me off and puts me on edge because he's always out there cutting it - before me- making me look scruffy
 
regulus said:
We live next to a lovely Argentinian couple, perfectly normal and intelligent, happy to have a chat without being overbearing.

But ..

For whatever reason, they don't seem to believe in curtains for their house. Their master bedroom have a street frontage so if I was so inclined, I can watch them sleep at night. Anyone can. When I'm in my garage at night cleaning my bike or building something, I can literally see them sitting in bed reading or walking around their house, especially with lights on.

The husband also have a very weird way of weeding his garden. He'd literally lie flat on his stomach, his nose about 2cm from the grass as if he's looking for a needle, and pull weeds from that position. From afar it looks like he's passed out, face first.

I tell you, People man.

Rest of the street seems to be pretty normal
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Have you seen one or both of them naked or indeed making the beast with two backs?
 
Holy threadomancy!

Something today made me remember this thread. Our (completely) deaf neighbour has just put up 2 sets of windchimes outside their house. Why? Nobody knows, but another neighbour pointed it out to me as he was killing himself laughing.

People are so weird man!
 
Dis86 said:
Holy threadomancy!

Something today made me remember this thread. Our (completely) deaf neighbour has just put up 2 sets of windchimes outside their house. Why? Nobody knows, but another neighbour pointed it out to me as he was killing himself laughing.

People are so weird man!
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That just to annoy every one else. Windchimes are so annoying and he knows it.
 
I've never had a problem with my neighbour but he has a problem with everybody else.
He will sit on this chair facing his next door neighbour laughing at him.
On the opposite pavement to the neighbour he will do a bag dance where he swings bags around while laughing out loudly.
I'm glad we've never crossed him but instead get a bottle of whiskey every month because he thinks we look after his house.

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Not really weird but our neighbours seem to live off Domino’s pizza.

The other week they had about 8 pizza deliveries. One every day and twice on Saturday. Their recycling bins are stacked with empty pizza boxes. God knows what their insides are like.
 
robfosters said:
Not really weird but our neighbours seem to live off Domino’s pizza.

The other week they had about 8 pizza deliveries. One every day and twice on Saturday. Their recycling bins are stacked with empty pizza boxes. God knows what their insides are like.
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I imagine cheesy and delicious.
 
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