Neighbours

I've had good and bad; but mostly, those to shake your head at.

Like the neighbour who was covinced my dog's dish of water outside equated to standing water - I was going to be the cause then of her contracting West NIle virus via infected mosquitos. The same woman used a towel to sop up the puddles on my driveway.

The neighbour I caught watering his lawn at night by hooking up to my water supply.

Oh and the chap who came over to borrow snifter glasses for the expensive gift of scotch he had - but didn't offer to share.

I've had good too, but it is the sad and bad which are so humourous

Justafriend, I believe there are neighbors like yours no matter where we live. Neighbor on one side of me is flat out weird. She sees of hears something, it get twisted around in her brain and comes out just plain nuts. example - once I started getting phone calls from people saying they were sorry one of our horses died (we live in the country). Thing was none of the horses died. She'd seen my husband out on the tractor after dark (he was mowing) and decided he was burying a dead horse.

Neighbors on the other side have anger management issues. They argue at the top of their lungs with frequent use of the F-bomb. I'm so glad I live out in the boonies so there is some distance between us.

I'm laughing reading that your neighbor soaked up puddles in your drive with towels. She would partner well with the one that said a horse died.

This post made me laugh! I too have had some neighbors who were less than well...neighborly.
The one's we are living next to now...they're something else.
If we're having a bonfire in the back yard, these a holes will turn their hose on, and spray out our fire from behind the fence. Says the smell of the smoke makes them nauseous. Like, oh well! We aren't burning in your yard.

They are also quite strange. My husband and I think they're body snatchers or something (lol I know). They will leave at least once a day, and come back with a trailer full of huge deep freezers. Sometimes they'll have one. Sometimes they'll have 5. The whole back of their house is loaded down with these freezers, and they all have locks on them. (yes, I've tried to be nosy)

While I don't know for sure, they're definitely a strange group of people, and I honestly can't wait to move out of here next month. I like my body, and I wanna keep it!

We've been mostly lucky but there was the one guy who didn't see the problem with playing his drum kit in an apartment...

There was another who had substance abuse issues and would blast his music at 2am, those were not fun times.

So glad to have nice considerate people around us now.

I have couple living by me that are the type to peer through their blinds constantly and be in everyone else's business. Fun stuff.

Gee, I feel deprived.

Had a lady across the street who was a "free spirit". Most mornings she would do a big stretch at the large picture window...naked!!!

My next door neighbor loves to play his music ridiculously loud. Which is odd because this is a very quiet neighborhood. There aren't even any kids around here, so it gets to be annoying. It's like he's throwing a rave over there, and this guy looks like he is old enough to be my father.

hahaha, thankyou everybody!

Jeez. Those guys are nuttier than PC combined. I've had some pretty bad neighbours too, but nobody soaking up any puddles with towels. If we're counting living in shared accommodation which is sorta like having a neighbour... well, I lived with one guy who was an absolute nightmare. He was a pot head, for one thing, liked take out the hoover in the early morning (1-4am or something stupid like that) and would persistently tell me I never did any cleaning, when he himself was treating the place like a slum, despite my cleaning. I stopped cleaning HIS mess, which ticked him off, and so he translated that as I never cleaned. He was a **** and deserved what happened. Once I moved out with someone decent, lo and behold, my new place was spotless and his place was a massive tip... I wonder why! HUH... FANCY THAT. ¬_¬ I still hate that guy with a passion.

I had pretty cool neighbours too. Like the "Beer Fairy" who lived down the street. He was a rep for a domestic brewery and would regularly drop cases of beer at the front door of us and a few other neighbours. In return, we just had to walk into places that didn't carry his brand and ask for it, and turn around and leave empty handed. Really great neighbour to have.

I know I'm stumbling upon this thread a bit late..
.but Justafriend! This is a great one!
I've had some seriously wacky neighbors! Good, Bad, and UGLY! ...I'll just note a couple of the top winners I've encountered...
1. The 50 yr old guy who lived downstairs from me n my roomies when I was in my 20s: Had no clue that ANYONE had even moved in until 1 night my BFF n I were out on the porch late (I think it was halloween)...yes we were being a bit loud, but I was never home (3jobs) and Never had company...all the roomies were like that..DEF. NOT THE PARTY HOUSE!!...newayz...this guy comes stomping up the back stairs in a RAGE! Yelling about how he was at the end of his rope, can't take another night of all this noise, works early, has a sick Mum dwnstrs confined to a bed, and he's calling the landlord NOW!..I just looked at him and said.."I'm sorry, but Who Are You???" Apologized for my friend n I...sorry it is getting late we will keep it down...He went into another rage "THIS IS EVERY NIGHT!!".... explained that I was very confused given (above sed info^^^) and asked What was every night?..I work overnights job #3.. 3 days a wk and other than that..I'm never home from job#2 until at least 3 am...and I usually go staight to bed n I've never come home to any partying??? So what noise??..No reply.He stormed back down the stairs.. ..a couple of nights later just walked in door my landlord called cell@ 3am..was sleepy and cranky obv. Said guy just called him screaming about "the noise" for the 5th × in 2wks..and this is not a party pad and if we can't learn to keep it dwn, if he got another complaint he was going to evict us!! I got a bit angry, told him the story, and said I literally just walked thru the door, and there is no noise here! Idk if the roomies were even home if they were they are sleeping. The whole apt is quiet and dark!..so wtf is this guy on drugs?? What is he talking about??? My landlord had no answer! ...me confused AGAIN...asked point blank ...US this guy just calling and saying it's loud up here or does he have specific issues??..LL said both. I said What exactly and When? ....come to find out besides that 1 night, his complaints were about low muffled music that played all night every night (a roomies that couldn't sleep w/o calming music, not loud, not crazy or angry...we're talking practically a white noise machine!!) And my room was next to his and I couldn't even rarely hear it!!...then there was the MAJOR PROB....and I QUOTE..." I can't take it. They walk around up there all hrs day and night in THEIR SHOES!!!"...Yup. Shoes.
That was longer than expected so won't get into much any others...like the ppl who yelled at my husband for washing his car cuz the spigot outside the house(they didn't own or pay water) was THEIR and HOW DARE HE JUST ASSUME TO USE IT W/O ASKING!!!...soon many more..I could go on. Ppl are FREAKIN WEIRD!

Then there was the neighbor who put anti-homosexual/"you will burn in hell" literature in my mailbox after every church meeting ...

I would personally write "Judge not, lest ye be judged" on a piece of paper, and put in their mailbox, if they still live in the neighborhood and do that sort of thing, Notz.

My next door neighbor has a lobster fisherman as a father, from Maine, so they sometimes cook up lobster, or give us lobster to cook. Nice neighbors. They also sometimes give my dad free beer.

I live on the edge of residential zoning abutting that of commercial. They, don't have to abide by noise regulations. The property management company for the dentist's office next door has taken to doing lawn and building maintenance over night. Yes, I have phoned the city but there is nothing against them mowing the lawn beneath my bedroom window at 2am.

I was eight months pregnant with my second child. My first son was nearly two. We have a glass block window in front of the bathtub. I thought it was opaque.

My lovely neighbors called me up to tell me how much they enjoyed watching me take a bath. The wife said she and her husband stood there and watched me with my big, pregnant belly wash my son and how precious it was!

One of my neighbors is a nice older gentleman who says hello when he sees me outside. The other likes to run his wood chipper after 10:30 pm. My boyfriend has to be up for at 5am so he usually goes to bed around 10pm. After numerous times of asking the neighbor to stop I had to call the police and file a noise complaint. The city I live in has restriction on what times of day you can run equipment like that and he was not following it. Now in return he throws trash over the fence into my yard.

wtf??!! Tisha i hope you called the police on those creepers!! Eeww!*shutter*

Several years ago I tore numerous ligaments and tendons in my ankle in the winter. I was on crutches and when my trashcan blew into my yard I left it. Then it snowed and I couldn't get to the trashcan because of the crutches and a boot.

Every morning I had to shovel my car out while hopping on one foot. My neighbors saw this but never came and helped. That's fine, it's part of living on my own.

I was pretty confused the day I came home and discovered that my driveway was still hazardous but the neighbor had tromped through the 12-18" of snow to pointedly put my trash can back on the porch. Because an almost buried trash can is SO offensive??? And it was on my property anyway.

So weird.

My neighbours don't talk.. they only shout at each other.. :/

This thread made me think of The 'Burbs with Tom Hanks. That movie cracks me up every time

Oy, neighbors. Don't even get me started.

The weird? We had some neighbors a few years back that were very... eccentric, to say the least. Once my mom caught them in the huge field next to our house. There's nothing in the field. No water, no flowers. It's just an empty field that sometimes gets really long grass. Anyway, the woman was laying on a beach towel in a bathing suit. She was sun bathing. In a big, empty field.

Growing up we had a neighbor who was an elderly woman. She lived with her sick husband. I don't know how he was sick, I just remember that he had to have an oxygen tank and it was smoking related. Anyway. She was friends with my mom for many, many years. She and my mom would exchange cassette tapes (they both loved country music), and she would babysit us sometimes while my mom was working. Around the same time she lived there, our newspaper would disappear every Sunday. My mom never thought it was her, had no reason to. Until she moved... and it no longer disappeared. lol

Oh, and the bad? Oy. The bad. Recently we had neighbors across the street who had a dog. The dog was a cute little guy. They weren't very nice to him, though. They would tie him to the back door on a short tether and ignore his barking. My mom, being a dog lover, gave them a long tether and a dog house. They used the long tether, but put the dog house back in our yard. We complained to animal control and the landlord about the dog. Little was done. The landlord did threaten to evict them if they didn't either rehome him, or keep him inside. They moved eventually, so I'm guessing she's a woman of her word.

I have a facebook memory today of former neighbors having cookout and shooting the skunk that came around every evening, to great applause. Not too long before that they had shot their dog. At least they didn't clap then.

Oddly I don't miss the neighbors in that town at all...