I had a name for one set of neighbours, I used to call the couple next door Mr and Mrs Sprat (after the nursery rhyme Jack Sprat). They seemed like people, who could suck the joy out of everything.
Omg!! I can’t even imagine!My next door neighbour is my ex....so...there’s that
This is the best thing I’ve read today and put a proper smile on my face, thank youI love this thread!
My grandma is a little old woman in her mid 70s, rather large lady and she’s not scared to speak her mind, she lives on a row of terraced houses. She once had a spat with someone down the road Over something and nothing and her teenage daughter called my grandma saggy tits. When she was telling me the story her actual words were “so I threw my tits over my shoulder and got on with my day” and it bloody cracks me up.
all the family have her saved as grandma saggy tits now and it’s been years. All the street refer to her as saggy tits too
It still makes me laugh and it’s been yearsThis is the best thing I’ve read today and put a proper smile on my face, thank you
Goodness! I remember that story line.Bless you x not nice is it, I feel for you too. Thing is, if I'd not noticed those bits of loft insulation on my landing, they could have been coming through any old time. It was around the time Les Battersby on Coronation Street crawled through into next doors house, we reckon that's where the druggie thickos got the idea from
Funnily enough, the same tactic worked with me some years ago. My then-ex who was a strong, tall, well-built bloke made his presence known to the mouthy gobshites next door and they left me alone after he moved in. In fact one of their gobshite mates came round one day, mouthing off to my boyfriend and he walked up to gobshite and said, “yeah you want some then?” Gobshite backed away with his tail between his legs and his friend who lived next to us, also got the message. They were really nice to us after that and we never got any trouble from them. But before my ex moved in, they would ride roughshod over me and the anxiety I suffered because of their awful behaviour, nearly drove me mental.Yeh I agree, not very feminist of me but when my bf (who is very strong and tall) moved in I made sure that my problematic neighbour knew about it and since then issues with them have stopped (fingers crossed until now anyway)
They are the kind of neighbours who deserve to be hung, drawn and quartered.Mine are pretty tame compared to some. One of our next door neighbours is a nosey witch my husband refuses to cut the grass when she's in as she stands in the window watching him, also when her husband is doing anything in the garden she watches over him overseeing everything, she also thinks she owns the street.
Before we had kids we got a new car, a neighbour came and complained and said we were showing off the way he was going in you'd have thought is was a Bentley not a chuffing hyundai, said neighbours wife has had god knows how many new cars since then.
A few years ago a family moved in directly across, they had 2 dogs that would just constantly bark and when they were let out they would get out of the garden and just run around the street, they would also argue especially after a few drinks then last year the bloke was clearing out the house and was doing work on it then just before lockdown the bloke who brought it moved his in laws in and christ they are something else whenever it's not raining the woman just sits outside with a crate of strongbow and works her way through that, she also keeps accusing the bloke of having a affair with her sister the argument has been going on for about a month and most nights she's screaming at him she likes to call him a bleep ALOT
Yes, I use nicknames for neighbours too.We have nicknamed one of the houses near us Shameless. Always has 3-4 hoodies stood outside, honks of weed when you pass it and usually a blazing row the middle of the night
Does anyone else nickname their neighbours? Funny things mind not nasty. My mils neighbour 4 doors down got this Jeep thing once and she nicknames him safari and its stuck ever since.
We nickname our next door neighbours just eat as they always seem to have food deliveries. Example... "Courier left the Parcel next door at just eats....i'll go get it now"
I often wonder what the neighbours nickname us
out neighbours hate mycats too and I find it hilarious that one stares into his porch from his own fence she winds him upMy neighbour asked me to stop our cat from going into his garden. Am I supposed to be watching his every move and stop him from doing what cats do?
if you don’t like him in your garden, just shoo him away! something so small and trivial, but he’s a miserable hole and I’ve never liked him so this annoyed me even more. Bear in mind here that he is literally only wandering around sniffing things, just being a cat, not doing anything wrong.
Oh wow she sounds horrible! That’s so greedy! And she offered to do it....Has anyone lived next door to someone who is a little odd? I would love to hear stories to this effect or anything about dodgy neighbours!
I live in a rented barn conversion on a farm. The neighbour’s family used to own the farmhouse, the property that I live in (now owned by her sister who lives abroad) and the barn on the other side of me, which she lives in now. They have a horse in stables opposite our house. When we first moved in a couple of years ago, they would come through our garden gate and go across our patio with the horse in order to put him in the field behind. It didn’t matter what time of day this was. It annoyed us pretty quickly, especially when we would be eating our dinner only to suddenly hear a clattering of hooves. We started putting our wheelie bin in front of the gate as a gentle hint, but they would pay no regard and move it out of the way to come through. After a couple of months, we asked if it were possible for them to ask us whenever they wanted to come through, as we knew they had access to the field another way. Obviously this didn’t go down well. A couple of weeks later things were fine and they haven’t bothered us since.
Cut to today. I get a text from the neighbour that she “will be coming into the garden to trim the hedge as it’s getting a bit overgrown”. For clarity, this hedge sits on the top of a wall. The wall is not adjacent to her house, it’s on the other side. It was now only slightly above the wall, but it obviously had bothered her. I texted her back to say, “only do it if you would like to, I can probably do it on the weekend”. I then get a phone call basically saying she’s going to do it today, so I said OK and let her do it as I figured it would be easier. We had a chat whilst she was cutting the hedge back and once she was done I said thank you and that I felt a little bad that she had done it. She smiled at me and said “well if you feel that bad about it, you could always get me a bottle”. I thought that this was a little cheeky considering I had never asked her to do anything in the first place, but for the sake of neighbourly relations, went in the house and grabbed the only unopened bottle I could bear to part with, which was a big bottle of Baileys. She looked me dead in the eyes and said, “oh no, not that, my drink is Gin - I really like ginger and rhubarb”. I laughed this comment off, but the more I think about it, the more it has annoyed me. Firstly, when someone offers you something, just accept what you are given. Secondly, I know we are all missing the pub but you can’t really expect me to buy you a thirty quid bottle of gin when you offered to do something I never asked you to do in the first place. She will be waiting on that bottle forever now! It’s a principle thing! Anyway, we ended our conversation nicely but it has irked me.
Please share your stories too!
I had a similar (less extreme issue) I live on the ground floor and have a balcony which I often used to sit on. After about a year of living here I finally saw some neighbours to my left on their balcony, so we had a chat, all fine they seem nice, but bearing in mind I had never seen them on the balcony before this, now EVERY time I go out they are there. I feel bad for the woman as she has young children and clearly has very few friends but it is so annoying not to be able to just have some time I can sit outside in peace!I’ve got a cracker sorry long story here -
We moved into our house about 18 months ago and when we first moved a neighbor across from us mentioned we should watch out for our immediate next door neighbor (semi detached) and that the lady who owned the property before us had a whole host of issues with her and had bought it as an investment to be an air bnb but due to problems with the neighbor decided to just sell it on (and we bought it). We decided to not take much notice and had always found her very polite to us albeit a bit too chatty.
Fast forward to a year later, this summer, we spent a lot of time in our garden which was just all stone gravel and our next door neighbor was always out in her garden (she’s retired) the boundary wall between us has a waist height stone wall so we couldn’t go outside without having a 30 min convo with her which I know sounds trivial but not being able to go and just read a book or listen to a podcast in peace or when you have friends over and she’s just there it began to feel quite intrusive. We had planned on doing so anyway but decided to do our garden up put in decking, plants and grass and also a higher fence on our side of the boundary to give us some privacy.
We told her of our plans beforehand but kept what we were actually doing vague as she is very nosey.
Once we actually started to get the work done and put up the fence etc she stopped talking to us and ignoring us if we passed and waved then one day I met her on a walk and she said she wasn’t happy with what we had done to our garden and she’s annoyed that there’s now a fence up blocking her view (of our garden, nothing else!) so I just explained it wasn’t personal it was just because we wanted a nice garden we could enjoy and wanted a bit of extra privacy. Throughout the rest of the work she either got a ladder and went up onto her garage and looked in on what was being done or we saw her watching from her window inside. She would come out and make comments on what we were doing as well and then wanted to paint a fence that’s got nothing to do with her is an the opposite side of our garden as she had painted it every year for the past 20 years saying she has access to our garden and making up some lies about the boundary. Anyway the garden is now done but if he go out to sit or even put something in the bin she opens her back door or mysterious appears outside! The lady who we bought the house from got in touch via Instagram to ask how she was and told us a whole host of stories of what she did when she owned the property.
Hopefully we don’t have any issues going forward but it’s not nice having issues with a neighbor!