Do you have interesting neighbors?

[Micca]

Tinkerbutt you need to have a block :yes:: Your neighbors can make recipes from their home countries and the 50's lady can make Prime Time Meatloaf

My neighbor to the South used to homebrew beer , but neighbor to the North was in marketing for Coors/Wendys. The kids used to get Wendys coupons for free fries at Halloween. No Coors though

 

[Laurabearz]

I think we are the interesting neighbors.....

 

[MI mom of 3]

The most interesting couple on our block live across the street. He and his wife lived there when we moved in. She was a diabetic who was lax about her meds. Many times we found her passed out in the yard. We had to give her orange juice and sugar. She would not let anyone call an ambulance.

He left her and moved out. A few months later she apparently passed out in the house, no one knew and she passed away. Very tragic.

Within a week he was back in the house and he brought his girlfriend with him.

Lucky us, the girlfriend has 3 large parrots, and 6 smaller birds. On warm days she would lug the cages out on the front lawn. The racket those birds make is ridiculous. Then she bought a fenced dog run, but a mesh roof on it and has a da** aviary back there. They also have 2 ancient golden retrievers that rile up the birds.

The guy behind them came over 2 nights ago to complain about the noise and she called the cops on him!!

I heard her tell one of the neighbors that he ( the guy behind) was going to get a petition so she would have to get rid of the birds. I'll sign!!!!!

 

[Pin Wizard]

chrissy...LOL! That is too cute!

Micca...hmmm...sounds like your beer making neighbor could have traded with my Dad. He made wine.

Laura...

MI mom...That is so sad! The birds would get to me also.

 

[Rippington'sFan]

Originally posted by AllyandJack
In my subdivision, we all live in these 10 acres pods of two homes with a shared driveway. We own the driveway and the neighbors have an easement to drive across it. Lately, a puddle has been forming in a spot of the driveway. We've been really good friends with the husband, but I never see the wife. Anyway...my DH and the neighbor husband have been discussing what to do to fix the puddle. One day, while DH is working OT and neighbor husband is away on business, neighbor wife decides to hire someone to fix the puddle - and not give me notice. So, there I am driving down my driveway only to discover a dump truck and massive pile of dirt. So, I start to back up to go back to my house. The driveway is about 400' long, 6' wide and curves in various places. So, it wasn't a smooth ride. As I'm rounding the last curve, I see her and her sister standing between my driveway and hers. I decide that I don't want to get too close to them, so I stop the car and drive up my lawn. My rear tires spun and I had to put the car in 4-wheel drive to get up the hill. I yell "Thanks for the notice!" to her and go into the house.


Holy Cow!!!!

About an hour later, there is this crazy banging on my door. I assume it's them and ignore it. An hour later, same banging. I call DH who was close to home. About 4 hours later, we're getting into my car to get pizza and there is a note from a police officer telling me that without my "side of the story" he's going to issue a warrant for my arrest! So, he comes the next day to tell me that she said I got close to her in my car and that was reckless and I could be arrested, yadda, yadda. So, I jump into Lawyer Mode and tell him that I stopped 28 feet from her driveway and, if she says I got closer, she was on MY driveway. She knew I had nowhere else to go other than back up my own driveway, so she should have gotten off MY driveway and let me pass. When you stand in someone's driveway, you run the risk that a car is going to come at you. So, he stops acting all NYPD and says she thought I should be spoken to about my reaction because she didn't think I should have gotten angry!! HELLO! This lunatic called the cops on me because I GOT MAD AT HER!!! Then he tells me that if it happens again (this was the 2nd time they blocked my driveway), I should call the cops on them!

Anyway....neighbor husband comes over to apologize and said he told her never to call the police unless she wants that person arrested and prosecuted for something and that she should have given me notice about the work on the driveway. So, we worked it out with him, but she's a nutcase and I'm going to avoid her like my life depends on it!

:space:

That would be enough to drive me to drink. Yikes!!!!

 

[olena]

I wish I had interesting neighbors. I'd settle for outgoing though.

 

[Phrebert]

Our neighbor who lives a 1/2 mile away has only been to his house twice in 10 years, his other house is in Hawaii. When I met him the first time he complained about how our trailer ruined the look of the area. So when we moved a 1916 farm house onto our property to restore it, the second time he came didn't talk to us.

 

[ilovepcot]

According to the minister and his wife next door, there must be 4 of us that are strange in this neighborhood.......DH and me as well as the couple (our good friends) across the street. The couple across the street and DH and I play practical jokes on each other. Always funny stuff, never, ever malicious.

DH and I were invited one Saturday morning to go to WDW with the "across the street neighbors". DH had to finish a project for work and we had to turn down the invitation. Neighbors teased us about having to stay home and made a few jokes about it. DH said not to worry, he'd ruin their day and the laugh would be on them.

Okay, the minister's wife was in her side yard gardening. We'd seen her but she didn't know we were outside. Our garage totally shielded us from her sight. As our neighbors backed into the street and their car came to a stop, they looked over to wave good-bye to us. At that very moment, DH jerked his shorts down and mooned them with his big lily white a$$! They hollered out, "You sick perv! You disgust me! I could just puke! I hope you burn for that!!!!" REMEMBER....minister's wife COULDN'T see us and thought they were hollering at HER! She jumped up from her garden and with tears running down her cheeks asked what had she ever done for them to speak to her that way??????? DH and I ran in the house and left our neighbors parked out in the street to deal with her!

Never in a million years could we have planned what actually took place....it truly was a "fluke". DH only intended to "sicken" our friends showing his a$$ to them. They were still hot with us when they returned later that night!

 

[WeirdEyes]

Okay, the minister's wife was in her side yard gardening. We'd seen her but she didn't know we were outside. Our garage totally shielded us from her sight. As our neighbors backed into the street and their car came to a stop, they looked over to wave good-bye to us. At that very moment, DH jerked his shorts down and mooned them with his big lily white a$$! They hollered out, "You sick perv! You disgust me! I could just puke! I hope you burn for that!!!!" REMEMBER....minister's wife COULDN'T see us and thought they were hollering at HER! She jumped up from her garden and with tears running down her cheeks asked what had she ever done for them to speak to her that way??????? DH and I ran in the house and left our neighbors parked out in the street to deal with her!

THAT is one of the funniest things I've ever heard!

 

[JayCT]

ilove - Seeing your post reminded me of my now deceased uncles who lived next door to each other and had an on-going practical joke feud. One time DU1 put an ad in the local paper to sell DU2's beloved, but unused, boat that sat in the driveway. My second uncle kept getting calls for selling the boat and couldn't figure out why.

One year DU1 decorated his house with every Xmas light he could find and borrow. The house was stunning and everybody loved it. What nobody knew was that DU1 ran an extension cord across the yard under the snow and plugged it into the plug on the side of my other uncle's house. DU2 didn't know it until the electric bill came a month later.

There were hundreds of other stories about these two. Fortunately they had a good relationship and it never got too out of hand. Thanks for reminding me of them. I do miss them both. Jay

 

[ilovepcot]

Jay, I would have loved your uncles! They could have really appreciated some of the things our neighbors, DH and I did. Some were extremely funny but too embarrassing to post here.

 

[oddball27]

my neighbor cuts the grass in her housecoat/robes, with her hair in rollers

 

[Pin Wizard]

olena...Sounds like you live in a sleepy neighborhood!

Phrebert...That's too strange.

ilovepcot...

Jay...Sounds like your uncles were a couple practical jokers. LOL!

odball... I can't stand being outside for 5 minutes with the pups in the morning dressed like that. And I don't even use rollers. LOL!

 

[diznee25]

We live in a codo setting and have neighbors above and beside us. Oh yea, and from our balcony we can see distant neighbors who would be considered hicks! These two guys drink beer at 9am, talk loud, curse, and fight which wakes me up because our bedroom is close to their blacony! (One morning I saw them giving beer to their dog.) They also blast music.) It's funny because we live in a good middle class neighbor hood. They really stick out....

As for the neighbors within our building.....Use to have a nice old lady above us, but she was always blasting her tv so she could hear it, but then we got to listen as well! She also had a piano which was played frequently.

Next door to us is a guy who is maybe 19 yrs old. He plays a drum set, but in fairness he asked us what time would be ok for him to bang his drums. Before him, there was a couple who lived next to us who fought all the time! Cops came out frequently, and finally the landlord kicked the couple out. The guy who now lives there and plays the drums is the son of the landlord. So that worked out well.

We've got to sell our condo and get into a house! I can't take some of these neighbors!!!

Diznee25

 

[Kendra17]

We live on a cul de sac with 7 houses in a really child-friendly neighborhood. All the kids play outside, they're all friends, and everyone is kind and considerate.

About 6 months ago, however, a new family moved in. Before anyone had the chance to even say hello, the wife came over, knocked on my door, and said, "Hi. I don't mean to be rude, but I don't want these kids on my lawn. We just moved in. do you understand? I don't mean to be rude, but they cannot play on my lawn. There's toys on my lawn. I need you to remove those toys"

I was so surprised! She didn't even introduce herself, anything. She just repeated herself a few times. So, a little perturbed, I said, "well, they aren't playing on your lawn now, and I'll be sure to tell my son. But, those aren't his toys." Then I said, "Can I ask you why you moved to such a family neighborhood?"

I kind of made the conversation end abruptly, and implied that I didn't think she was very friendly.

Anyways, we never saw these neighbors. They were never outside, never said hello to anyone, nothing.

Sure enough, about a month ago, they moved out in the middle of the day QUICKLY! I mean, they carried their clothes out on hangers and in piles, they didn't have anything in boxes. They carried everything out in garbage bags or without any packing.

Very weird. Nobody even knew their names.

 

[JayCT]

When DW and I were first going together, a very good-looking preppy type couple rented the condo above mine. They seemed very nice, almost perfect (kind of like Barbie and Ken). We weren't around a lot so we didn't get to be friends. Not long after they moved in we started to hear them fight. I mean the knock-down dragged out kind of fights. We were shocked. DW use to listen just to make sure it didn't go too far. We finally called the cops one night. The girl would not stop going after him. When we called the cops they said "Oh them again". I guess they had a reputation for fighting.

When I first moved into the condo a single guy rented the unit above mine. He was there about a month and he and I would talk every so often. One day he told me he was going on vacation for a couple of weeks. I can't remember where. Well he never came back. It was months before somebody came and cleaned out his apartment. I don't know what happened. Very strange.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by diznee25
We've got to sell our condo and get into a house! I can't take some of these neighbors!!!

Diznee25

LOL! That would be me!!

Kendra...Wow! You do wonder why they would move to a family type neighborhood. Are there little kids who would be out all day, too? Maybe they looked at the house when kids weren't around.

Jay...Yikes on the guy upstairs! And the couple...geez!

 

[mmausse]

Well I have some neighbors that are truly animals. No, really.

First, there's "Looney Bat." He loves to divebomb me when I go out at night with the dog. What's even a little stranger is I can call him at night and he'll fly around me and even hover in mid-air as if to say "Here I am, what do you want."

Then there is the Fox Family. They live behind me. They actually live in my back woods - nice family of 5. They come to the back door in winter to complain if I haven't left enough food out for them. They just prance around on the side deck and bang on the glass doors. To this day, I ALWAYS make sure there's food in their bin after the first frost.

I try and keep all the wildlife around me happy, after all, we are out here together trying to make do in life. They reward me by allowing me to photograph them and by keeping the rodent population down and away from my house. So I guess we're simpatico.

 

[disneyeveryyear]

While working a very stressful job, I was up one morning at 5:00 and DH and I took a walk.

Saw next-door neighbor, 80ish, walking down road toward us.

Me: " He doesn't have any pants on."
DH: "Yes he does, he has on running shorts, you just can't see them under his white button down shirt."

Neighbor gets closer.

Me: " He doesn't have any pants on."
DH: "I am sure he does."

Lo and behold, he didn't have any pants on. Just white button down shirt, socks, shoes and BVDs.

It was all I could do to not burst out laughing then and there as he stopped to speak to us.

On our next go around, he was still out walking and his friend from 2 doors down, also 80ish, had joined him. Still no pants.

Wouldn't you tell your friend that he forgot to put on his pants? I would.

All I can say is I thank him or helping me keep my sanity. The laugh I got that morning was the cathartic release I needed.

 

[Laurabearz]

We just found out we had a child molesting husband and wife team a couple of blocks from us......