[Closed] Things you do that make your neighbours think you're weird....

Going out on my bike seems to baffle the shit out of some of them

Going out on my bike seems to baffle the shit out of some of them

& perhaps standing outside in the street in bike gear with bike staring at mobile phone waiting for 'GPS OK'

Single man with a cat. 'nuff said.

Come home from work or rides really late at night. Neighbor 2 doors down keeps telling me about people scoping out my van on the drive in the early hours. Only ever happens when I finish late. Have tried explaining but he's rather elderly and I don't think he understands that people can be out and about after 10 pm & not up to nefarious deeds...

asking them not to park on the dropped kerb with the double yellow lines so i can get my car out seems to confuse at least some of them

Cycling in the dark - are you mad - I sure am fatty are you enjoying that cigarette then?

Pointing out that a one way street is one way and asking him to think of the children [ i could not resist]

For the record: BBQing is a 12-month-a-year activity. Anyone who thinks you're weird for doing it has a seriously impoverished winter palette.

Thank you SaxonRider. 🙂

JY di any of those result in you getting shouty by any chance?

Have tried explaining but he's rather elderly and I don't think he understands that people can be out and about after 10 pm & not up to nefarious deeds...

Just explain that you've been out dogging.

Having 2 cars on the drive...then cycling to work most days.

Disapearing for weeks on end confused them till i explained what i did.

Practically living in the garage/shed when im home.

When I was making the raised bed in the front garden, one of the more snooty neighbours asked what I was doing, so I told her it was the frame for a pig pen and the pigs were being delivered in two days..
Watching the colour drain from her face was a picture.. 😀

🙂

I recently dragged the whole family out in the dark to eat Sunday roast in front of the bonfire. Got some odd looks after that...
Kids loved it tho!

I walk to work like this

Me disappearing into my shed a couple of times a week dressed in a t shirt and lycra shorts, turning the radio up loud, then appearing an hour or two later drenched in sweat.

Obvious to everyone here that i'd be using a turbo trainer, but If the neighbours ever ask I'm gonna claim it's an online zumba class.

For the record: BBQing is a 12-month-a-year activity. Anyone who thinks you're weird for doing it has a seriously impoverished winter palette.

I've got a BBQ next weekend with the guys+girls from my swim class. Snow's forecast this weekend, I doubt it's going to be warm 🙂

(We won't be making use of the host's outdoor pool. At least I don't plan to, although alcohol will be involved so who knows...)

Appearing out of the bike shed at 11pm, in the pishin wet dark, with only my boxers on. Wet, muddy clothes can always wait until morning.

After finding out my wife was pregnant, one of my neighbours (who I'd had little contact with) said, 'so you do, do more than wash bikes then!'

I sure am fatty

🙄

I ride my bike to work in spite of having a perfectly good car. This confuses my neighbour.

Chase miscreants with a variety of medieval weapons.
My neighbours are incredibly polite for some reason.

Yeah riding to work weirds them out.

Not nearly as much as when I play 'windmills' in the big bay front window. Naked, obvs.

I`ve been monitoring most of my neighbours local movements for nearly a month now, they are totally unaware, its a boring but essential task.

The spirit of Harry Cross lives on.

I worked abroad and didn't want to risk bringing cockroaches home in my baggage. Third-world ships have a lot of them. I'd take my bag to the far end of the garden, take clothes out one at a time and shake them thoroughly, always in daylight.

I walk to work, then get home and thrash the bike on the rollers in the evening, and of a weekend go and get muddy come home, then wash the bike. All of that seems to puzzle them, not sure why.

It's all farms by me. My walking and cycling causes them no end of amusement.

Chase miscreants with a variety of medieval weapons.
My neighbours are incredibly polite for some reason.

POIDH.

Washing the car or van when it's dark, or raining, or both.
RC rock crawling in the back garden.
Having hundreds of fire extinguishers in my garage.

Ok you actually are a bit weird though. 😉

I used to stand in the garden in my boxers in the middle of the night shouting 'be quick!'

It was the command to our new pup to do a wee.

Yeah cycling seems to confuse people.

Taking the Dog out at 1am as he refuses to pee in the yard.

Washing the car 3 times a week, well your office is cleaned everyday isn't it ?

Wandering around the yard in my boxers whilst on the phone.

I say hello to mine, it seems to freak them out. Also once daringly offered to help them when their car wouldn't start, either they are not very neighbourly or instead of saying "Hey, can I help" I accidentally said "I'm here to kill you all"

POIDH?

Washing the car 3 times a week

I don't believe you!

Walking round the front garden in a red silk kimono and steel work boots talking to the Mrs in the mornings.
Going away most weekends.

POIDH = pics or it didn't happen. 🙂

Washing car when its raining ...saves me carrying back and forth bucket of water from the bath. Maybe one day they will undestand 😐

JY di any of those result in you getting shouty by any chance?

Its tough in the hood ...we cannot all live in a post industrial utopian hamlet

Washing the car 3 times a week
I don't believe you!

Not every week but at this time of the year I will clean it about 3 times a week, only takes 10 mins as I leave everything ready.

The cars my work so I like it being clean, gives a good impression 8)

wear their clothes, then launder them and return them to their washing line before the police arrive.

Obv the biking thing goes without saying the vast majority of people simply dont get it full stop. The void between us and them is unimaginable.

An associated activity which when you take a step back and think about it is weird is testing lights in the back garden shining them on trees etc and - double weird - taking beam shots so you can post them on forums. I mean who else does that

Away from biking I always feel more than a litle self-conscious calling the cat in at night. There are a series of noises I have to make that the cat responds to but no other adult person should have to hear them. I'm always glad when i hear the familiar dull thud as the cat vaults the garden fence and comes trotting down the path.

I once had an argument with a colleague on a uni job, his dad had sold some car part to someone in Bristol who'd then cycled over to Cardif to pick it up. He thought the guy was actually mentally ill to want to cycle that far.

I've never done anything weird in the privacy of my own home.

Best BBQ I ever had was new years eve 1999.
Had the bbq (made from a 40 gallon drum) & a brazier (made from a 40 gallon drum) about 30 feet from four (working & in use) petrol pumps on a filling station forecourt.
It was cold & it snowed, awesome night.

The neighbours were there as well.

I've never done everything weird in the privacy of my own home.

😉

Washing bike at 11pm after a night ride

Wandering round in my driveway with a headtorch and nitrile gloves on many weekends...mainly faffing with cars or bikes.

TBH Its the neighbours that are weird not us lot

Going to work...

Oh and wearing anything other than pijamas

Having a car and riding to work every day. +1000

Chris at the bottom of our garden berates me regularly because I don't constantly preen my garden.

At our old house, one side hated me, I actually have no idea why. Never worked it out. They never knew me well enough to have a good reason to hate me.

I live on a very sociable street and know all the people in all 18 houses. After 19 years, nothing I do surprises them any more. I even have a few cycling converts!

I have cleaned my car once in 5 years. It's just an occasional bike carrier.

Not smoking.

Riding a bike.

Not smoking.

Not smoking.

Riding and cleaning bikes, obviously but the thing that freaks them the most is, if I have an issue with any of them, I let them know, firmly but politely. I had an occasion to be called a "queer sod" by one neighbour because I had asked my next door neighbours to try stop their four cats, crapping, puking and leaving mutilated sparrows in my garden. I suppose I should take a leaf out of their books and go whingeing to the council anonymously. Yes, I have been reported for making a noise, welding in my garage in daylight hours, how weird is that! When I find out who it is I'll nail their balls to my garage door as a lesson to the others.

Moved in.

iainc - Member
Washing bike at 11pm after a night ride

no telly ,2 am dog walks 😕

Piemonster, so [i]where[/i] do you do your wierd stuff?

Go out running every day. Occasionally in the morning as well. I dont know what the ones think of me who happen by coincidence to see me running morning and evening!

Riding my bike. Nothing unusual there except he's a cyclist too. Isn't that right aka_gilo? 😉

I like hats.. Nothing too wild, I'm not talking avant-garde millinery couture here, just the occasional bucket or bobble hat.. Apparently this habit has led my 30 stone neighbour who I get on ok with, to confide in my wife that he suspects that I'm 'not all there'

Our street is like a Devonshire version of Shameless' Chatsworth estate though, so everyone's full of character

Taking my two year old out to play in the street in the dark on his balance bike rigged up with decent lights.

Milking their cat.

Going out running or cycling normally raises some eyebrows, ive had comments like ' i dont know how you do it' , i say its quite simple and involves getting up off your arse and walking further that to the car in the drive. 😉

I used to stand in the garden in my boxers in the middle of the night shouting 'be quick!'

Still do!!!

It's the pagan rituals that they seem to find weird

clubber - Member
Riding my bike. Nothing unusual there except he's a cyclist too. Isn't that right aka_gilo?
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A slightly lapsed one at the mo....

At my old old house whenever my next door neighbour (who was great) saw me heading out on my bike she'd take great delight in shouting out " You off to ride the Tour Dee France Gilo?" I'd grin and say "something like that".

I have two different names i.e John Brown or Bill Smith.

It can get a bit confusing when I'm in a shop and someone walks in and says Hello John. I say Hello back. Then someone else walks in and says Hello Bill, and I say Hello back. To make matters worse I've been in a local newspaper under both names.

I like hats

My neighbour has her own trolley which is on lease from Morrisons, that's weird and my other neighbour has a dog that has its walks in the back garden. I am perfectly normal.

BBQ, riding bikes, chopping wood for the burner, growing vegetables, sitting around the chimnea late into the evening, doing own car servicing. Normal things really.

Compared to my neighbours I'm the normal one. Next door are stereotypical white trailer trash. A little way up the the road is 3 generations under one roof. Not unusual, except there is 11 of them in a small three bed terrace. Others think "work" is something that happens to other people.

I try not to be judgemental but there are some weird people round these parts. 😉

Am I allowed stuff which ought to make your neighbours think you're weird, but doesn't? They've all got used to me on a unicycle, and the way they talk to me (I'm on first name terms with most) doesn't suggest they think I'm all that weird - maybe they just hide it well!

Swimming in the local reservoir in winter, breaking concrete blocks with various body parts.
Wearing shorts and flipflops in all weathers.

Pointing out that a one way street is one way

As for me...
going out on the the (communal) terrace to paint model missiles 😉

My upstairs neighbour has something that scampers around on his wooden floors at all hours of the day and night.

We have a strict no animals policy in our building and I have never seen an animal enter or leave his flat however this thing has four or more legs. We think it may be a spider-baby.

Apparently me driving the right way so that he's now blocked is me getting in his way and blocking him, and it's me that has to reverse in to a parking space so he can get by.

My street has a dog leg on it and i reckon perhaps 75 metres blind corner then 75 metres to major road[ no passing due to parked cars so its pretty daft to have a go at it doing this IMHO

Take your wife out in the front garden with a collar and lead, get her to take a poop, pat her on the head and say good girl, then walk back inside.

my neighbour thinks its weird that i have about 10 cubic metres of firewood neatly chopped and stacked especially when i explained its not burnable for another year........i think this place is changing me

Night riding in mid winter.

Walking to the shops and not using the car for every teeny weeny journey.

Not having the heating on at some stupid high temperature, thus walking around the house with layers of fleeces and jumpers on.

Other than the cycling, our neighbours are OK - guy across the road used to run a Superbike race team out of his amazing mancave, so I'm the lesser of the evils...

My Chewbacca dressing gown gets some odd looks when it's bin day though.

When we moved in my Man City footie fan neighbour said 'dont worry its really safe round here'.

I replied back 'its ok I keep pliers in my bedroom if a Burgular breaks in'.

He said 'really'?

Yes.

(He went pale and avoids eye contact ever since).

A few Mallards had taken up residence on the front road, they had no access to water and were sleeping most nights on the pavement.
I built them a temporary pool on the front drive.
I didn't realise I had blocked my 4x4 in until I woke up late for work the following day.
They were no ducks in the pool so I drove straight through it , in full view of a couple of neighbours who were stood chatting whilst walking their dogs.

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