You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
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
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-somerset-66775434
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.
🤣🤣
Never did find out what caused them to come to blows.
"We live in blighty, there’s half a day a year where a convertible is appropriate."
When I was a teenager I had a Triumph Spitfire - somebody nicked the hood (and the stereo and all my cassettes though it could easily have been 2 seperate thefts!) whilst it was parked outside Manchester Uni. I drove it around for about 6 months without a roof before I could afford a replacement and in that time actually only got properly drenched about twice! UK is suprisingly good for convertibles because its not too hot and you have loads of B roads.....well it was in 1989 anyway
Similar to @johndoh , next door neighbours bought their already nicely decorated property for top dollar, but now continually piss about with it doing expensive DIY projects to improve it.
Don't get me wrong, the work they do is good, and it's their money they can do what they want with it.
But I just can't fathom the logic of chucking tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of pounds at a house you presumably bought because it was already done to a good standard??
Surely if you want a project you buy a wreck for bargain basement prices?
Last year they ripped out a very expensive ~3 year old kitchen the previous owner put in only just before they moved out!
We had some ex-students on one side who acted as if rather than living in a quiet residential street, they were still in halls. I had to have a word on a number of occasions which got progressively shorter. I didn't mind them having parties and even said as much, as we "agreed" that it'd be Thurs-Sat and finish 'at about' 01:00 AM, Eventually gave up after I had to go in the back door at 07:00am on a Sunday that had started the previous evening around 6:00pm and my wife was almost reduced to tears, and shout over the music to get them to stop. I started to call the agency it's rented through each time and and then (after I insisted to get the number) the actual owner. Their lease wasn't renewed, and as they all traipsed out one weekend, I made sure I told each one of them that it was me that had made sure they were getting kicked out, so maybe that makes me the weird neighbour? We've more students in there now, but they're like church mice by comparison and a great bunch of kids, so we're cool.
We refer to the woman round the corner as Technophobe. Really nice. Always chats with my boys and she decorates her front garden with toys and rainbows. She had a gizmo in the bushes in the garden and when it rained put an umbrella over it.
She also has an anatomical skeleton in her dining room with a blue wig and boob tube in her dining room.
I quite like her as she is good nuts.
The guy who lived next door to us was nice but odd. He died over lockdown (and was due me a tenner for some daily records and tonic water). He was off but took everyone in the streets bins in each week to keep the street tidy. I quite miss him but the family who are in now are nice and not odd.
My neighbour stands at his window watching us put decorations up
great answer
I had to go in the back door at 07:00am on a Sunday that had started the previous evening around 6:00pm and my wife was almost reduced to tears,
I’m not sure if you’ve posted that on the right website 🙂
We're fortunate enough that we have no neighbours, not nearby anyways.
Growing up we had two sisters and a brother on one side, two were deaf so other than the TV being loud they were really good neighbours. The other side saw us with some questionable neighbours over the years. Sneaking a horse into the back garden was probably one of the most WTF moments.
Chap opposite – early 80s, was obviously a bit of a geezer in his day – goes berserk if anyone parks anywhere near the entrance to his driveway and makes a huge fuss getting his car off the drive. But is quite happy for his visitors to do exactly the same to the rest of us. Also spends hours power washing his block paved drive.
Bloke round the corner – owns two jetskis (which says it all) has them idling/running for hours Sunday mornings whilst regularly revving them – they sound absolutely awful – the noise really grates.
Girl over the back – late 20s, bit of a chav – tan that looks like fence paint and huge fake lashes – often has a group of look-a-likes over to get drunk in her garden, which is slightly higher than ours – the voices carry directly to our patio where we’re treated to detailed discussions on the performance of current boyfriends, recent experiences with STDs and what cosmetic procedure they’re considering next.
However this was surpassed last summer when she brought some lacky lad home from the pub who proceeded to give her a good banging in the conservatory with the door open - we thought it was a fox being shagged initially.
we have boring neighbours, I am jealous
We could be the PitA neighbours... I work on my van one the drive, no one does this around here. I work on my own house, no one does this around here. We have noisy 12 years old boys, that will only get noisy'er.
Witch next door tells me off for doing diy and mowing lawns on sunday etc. Witch and her odd boyfriend (she is 60+) sunbath naked, well they did until we moved the Peloton bike so we could overlook their garden, now we watch her scamper off when "Whats up Peloton!" is announced
They've grown a decent sized bush of pampas grass this year.
She had a gizmo in the bushes in the garden and when it rained put an umbrella over it.
It's very important that he not get wet
I think I'm the annoying neighbour. front (well side garden) has had remains of a conservatory stacked up for a year now. and my kids (6 & 8) go on their swings every morning at 7am and are incapable of less than maximum volume.....
When I was working on the roof my neighbour with exhibitionist tendancies used to try to distract me. In fact it helped me concentrate on my work - she was mid 80s. The house is empty now, she was so odious with the home helps, nurses and meals on wheels they refused to visit and she ended up in a home.
Amazing how similar behaviour is replicated across the land. My favourite is the guy who owns a massive pickup and only drives 1/2 mile to work each day. Then goes running 'for his health'...
We have lovely neighbours.
Opposite are all older households, they forget when they’re standing at the windows watching us in the front garden that net curtains don’t make you invisible. Especially if the light is on,
To the left, he loves his hammer drill. There can’t be much left of the house, I dread to think what damage he’s done to the party wall.
The eldest son can’t play a video game or have an argument without screaming obscenities. He also did his best to try and put a football through a fence I’d spent a months wages on. I’ve since replaced all the posts and used all old football damaged panels on their side, with new panels to the rear.
I think he has issues so I don’t make a fuss over it, I just wont spend money on it.
To the right, lovely family. Only issue was when they started feeding the Red Kites. It made awesome viewing, however being bombed by partially eaten chicken portions when sat in the garden was a bit inconvenient.
But I just can’t fathom the logic of chucking tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of pounds at a house you presumably bought because it was already done to a good standard??
Absolutely - that is the same for our neighbours - the house was lovely before (albeit the kitchen did need redesigning) and their eldest is about to move out so they are about to need less space. They have easily spent £200k, if not significantly more.
We’ve got great neighbours apart from the new ones. I’m happy we’ve now got some weird types. Bought a massively over priced, badly done up house. Moved in, put blinds up and have never opened them. Collared the guy one Saturday morning and managed to prise a conversation out of him. Just miserable and a bit of dick. His other half is even worse. Surprised they’ve stayed as everyone else is really friendly.
The neighbour who shares a garden wall has just moved out. She was lovely and I’m hoping we’ll get another nice neighbour to replace her. Whoever it is they best be prepared for having hundreds of questions fired at them by my kids. My son would make an amazing interrogator.
I also need clarification on the leaving dogs outside to rot away thing.
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.
I dunno, we had a TL at work that was a born again ex-Blue Angel. That's exactly the sort of thing I'd expect. He got flung out the Baptists for being too preachy IIRC 🤣
My neighbours are sound and normal. Quite lucky.
Annoys me that opposite insist on parking an Audi Q7 and a ford ranger on the road outside mine when they have a big drive. First world problem.
We are the scruffy house with flaking fascias and cars jacked up.
I'm the annoying neighbour (even though I haven't lived there for 20 years) at my parent's house, or at least according to the guy over the road. I think it's because I seemingly only ever turn up to work on one of my cars or do some DIY for my parents. Or more likely because I successfully got his planning application turned down for a driveway and summer house a few years ago in the basis that to access the driveway he would have to cross the plot of land my parents own in front of the house and that they would not grant him permission to use it. Which was a massive success considering his wife is head of the planning committee 🤣
At my place the weird neighbors are everywhere seeing as it's a group of blocks of flats with the odd house in between. It was me for a while but I've definitely been out-weirded by the new couple in one of the houses who never talk to anyone, only ever go out when it's dark and seemingly never have any visitors.
I think I’m the annoying neighbour. front (well side garden) has had remains of a conservatory stacked up for a year now. and my kids (6 & 8) go on their swings every morning at 7am and are incapable of less than maximum volume…..
There's a family like that a few streets across in my estate, except that there's a lot of swearing between the parents and their neighbors at roughly 7.10. Thankfully out of earshot for me!
We can’t see the neighbours at our place. We think they’re all weird and they think we are, but they all need to use our bridge to get to their houses so they’re nice to us. Apart from the earthworks contractor. But he hasn’t spoken to me since the first time I spoke to him to inform him I’d shoot his Doberman if it came near my kids again.
Our only neighbour died 3 months ago so that's a bit weird. He was pleasant enough just very old.
Previous house had a good variety of neighbours. Folk across the road were pleasant but their vice was spending all Saturday waddling about in dressing gowns. I only know this because they'd waddle out of the house around 5pm in their dressing gowns, get into the car and drives to McDs drive through. They had young kids, not shift workers either. Used to make me feel ill by proxy.
Other neighbour were a gormless young couple who got given the house by their folks. Waddling to the car to go McDs would be too much for them - they'd have it delivered. The weird and annoying thing was they got a large dog (golden retriever type thing). I saw them walk it once in 3 years - spent it's days wrecking the house and garden. A few neighbours did try and intervene with the dog but they were just lazy, useless people.
My neighbour rides home after his ride stops Strava and then goes and rides a cool down. All to ensure his average speed on rides is higher....weird, I could understand it if he was training hard for racing with intervals etc but he is just a normal weekend warrior like me.
A previous neighbour of ours asked me to tell our cat not to go into their garden. I obliged them.
Current neighbour brings us homemade cake every weekend.
People up the road are old and paranoid and historically quite toxic. I think they've gone mad. They think people are trying to steal bits off their car so have places a temporary wire fence across any entrance to their property making it a no entry zone of all. They dismantle the fence if they go out in their car and replace it when they get back.
Since we moved in 10 years ago my next door neighbour a retired guy moved out to live with his partner who lives in the same town.
He still owns the house next door and comes back every once in a while to mow the lawn and dig holes in the garden and saw things up in the garage.
We have a few wild theories that he is a murderer and comes back to bury / dispose of bodies in the garden and feed his hostages.
It’s the only logical explanation why would he not sell the house or rent it out?
Anyway it works for us as we like having nobody next door…
Next door have an ivy fetish .. built a screen wall ( 1970s ‘see through’concrete must be 2m on their side! ) then planted ivy against it ivy is now a foot higher than wall ivy is kept trimmed on their side we have to trim their bush 2or3 times a year small tree in their front garden is now fully covered in the bloody stuff. They also keep 2of 5cars in their double garage now that is weird 🤦♂️which leaves a lawn of 3x5m cut by large petrol mower !
Anyway it works for us as we like having
nobodydead bodies next door…
They also keep 2of 5cars in their double garage now that is weird
Are you suggesting they should stack them or something?
My neighbour at the back is in his eighties and is always working on his garden with lethal looking tools, saw him cutting a tree with a chainsaw whilst being up a step ladder. We deliberately went out as I did not want the family see an old man decapitate himself.
He won't be told and is a bit of a horrible git in general. His wife was a lot friendlier but she died a few years ago.
Other neighbours generally keep themselves to themselves. It was a different story when we lived in tenament flat, wouldn't want to go back to that ever again.
We have a few wild theories that he is a murderer and comes back to bury / dispose of bodies in the garden and feed his hostages.
house next street over currently empty known as the murder house cos that’s what happened! police found bits of body in flower pots and under the floor strangely not under patio. So you might be right😱
Our only neighbour died 3 months ago so that’s a bit weird
Only if he's still there!!
It was a close call tbh - he refused to go into care even though he needed it so relied on various combinations of neighbours and his gardner to rescue him off the floor after another collapse. Was found at one point after a few days I think. It was a genuine concern when we were away on holiday that we'd come back to a great many flies in the area.