Odd Neighbours

I had a neighbour drop a few tons of sheep sh!te in my garden yesterday. I thanked him

But seriously, life's to short. Just live your life

Ugh, we moved in before Christmas and there is one unpleasant neighbour. Thankfully shes from further down the road and we're not directly beside her but shes tough to take.

Before moving in, I was around at the house dropping in some items, and she cought me coming out to the car. Full of questions, verging on personal for a complete stranger. Turns out she'd also managed to bump into my OH's parents who were over gawping at the house the previous day and introduced herself to them too.

We did some work on the house when we first moved in which involved a skip. She was full of opinions on that. As happens with skips, we'd some issues with people putting their litter in it while walking past. She came up the road and made a big song and dance about a can of coke which she claimed came from our skip. My OH, said grand, its not ours but whatever, we'll put it in our bins. She then persisted to tell us that our new roof was unnecessary and that it was only done last year (not true - was fully of asbestos and hadnt been touched in 50+ years) but apparently because she'd seen someone doing a patch job on it last year, she thought it was her place to tell us that we shouldnt be getting "unnecessary" work on our roof.

Needless to say, that was the moment I stopped trying to be polite to her - told her that her information was incorrect and we'd do whatever works were deemed necessary for our property without her input. Didnt see her for a while after that.

A few weekends back I saw her out pulling weeds outside various neighbours houses -the area between the road and the footpath. She was absolutely myrtering herself and making a big song and dance of sighing and wiping her brow due to her hard work. Thankfully she didnt get the opportunity to do outside my house as I'd actually done it myself. IMO it was the definition of passive aggressive - trying to shame people for very minor weeds that are actually beyond their boundaries and were not causing any issues and are probably along every street in the country.

There is always one.

At our previous house the road was quite narrow, so if someone was parked in the road outside their house and your drive happened to be directly opposite it was a very tight squeeze to pull out.

One neighbour across from us asked us not to park in one particular spot as it interfered with his exit, there was plenty of room in the street (a cul de sac) so we obliged by parking a bit further along.

New people came in opposite us though and would stop the car across their own driveway, a good foot out from the kerb, which made it impossible for us to get out. Each time we had to ask them to move their car a bit - and there was loads of space for them to park a car length back, but that would have involved another six steps of walking. We never got through to them, all very pleasant and cheerful to say hello, but no cop on socially - especially when their considerable numbers of relatives completely filled the turnaround at the end of the road, they just didn't get it.

Funny, sounds like my experience moving into a new apartment.
>boomers live 20 years, think they own the place
>I move in
>They leave me a note about turning off the light in the toilet. Even though you can't see into the apartment at all. You would need to have your ear to the wall to hear the fan the light triggers.
>I go to work every day, 5 days a week. A month later at 23:30 the boomer is knocking on my door, I wake up check what in hell he wants - the guy says he wants to check if everyting is OK as he didn't see me in a while. This time **** is weird, I don't answer and ignore him.


Boomers are losing their faculties.

Cyrus wrote: »

the parking out front thing always reminds me of this stretch of road, must be contagious, everyone has an idiotic no parking sign of their own design, laying claim to the area outside their house,

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2885523,-6.1417473,3a,68.6y,300.12h,66.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sB8Seoq5NM6M0HeL2UaiF2Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

if you scroll along you can see

In fairness, they must get a huge amount of people using their road as free parking being so close to the harbour. I parked down that way about 15 years back on a Sunday. Checked for parking restrictions and saw no signage. After a couple hours of fishing, car was clamped. I was furious, argued there were no signs AND it was a Sunday....free parking pretty much anywhere except paid car parks.

I kid you not, there were dozens of cars clamped as I walked up to the clampers office. I didn't notice any signage. When I checked more carefully upon returning to my vehicle, my friend spotted a parking sign......BEHIND A LARGE BOAT!! I never went fishing there again. It was and probably still is an issue there.

Is it not a footpath?

I'd definitely be organising a rave.

368100 wrote: »

Where did I say I was going to report him? It was a suggestion by another poster and I said I hadnt thought about it.
I'm not sure if you're just a troll or what with your profile just registered and that being your only post... but if you're not and you automatically think a single guy buying a 4 bedroom house in an estate with kids is justification ro call him a paedo then that's just plain weird....and vindictive, it says a lot more about you, and wouldn't encourage me to in any way respect your opinion......why would you automatically jump to the worst possible conclusion?
A scrote? What should a peace commissioner look like?

So basically from what you've said....a guy moved into a house, was called a paedo just because he is single with absolutely no other basis, and when that was found to be untrue then he is called a scrote in relation to being a peace commissioner....(which is a volunteer role with no pay and is there to do good in the community). So you and your neighbours have absolutely slated this guy for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Have you ever spoken to him or are you judging and making wild accusations from afar? You sound like more than just an odd neighbour.... you sound like a gossiping, spiteful and vindictive one. I'm actually shocked at your post. You really ago should go and take a look at yourself.

I have 3 kids. I’m not going to apologise for being aware of who is living in my area. BUT when you’re a single person in your 20’s as I once was the VERY last place I’d be buying a house is in an estate jammed with screaming kids. And when that guy moves in and makes little effort to introduce himself to anyone,kits the house out in cameras and then has the cops there daily..... it’s not long before the neighbours question what yer mans story is.
You say this neighbour of yours is in his 50’s so potentially been in the army 30+ Years and you’re going to maybe report him to his bosses cause he doesn’t say hello some days, and is odd......you call him an asshole for what exactly?
And when someone suggested reporting him you replied”never thought of that”....”not ‘ hadn’t thought about it’ Which is completely different. Never thought of that .....ie .... oh Yes I could couldn’t I? Yet he’s the asshole!