Strange things your neighbors do..

[connorlevismom]

Here is one pic of half of the car in the back of the pick up truck...

This looks like a scene right out of COPS.

Kristine

 

[Jack-Jack]

In nice weather, my neighbors sit on lawn chairs in their garage. It's really weird--they have a beautiful back yard with a deck that they never use. And it's not like they have a ton of neighbors stopping by--I'm usually the only one who stops by to say hello as I'm pulling into my garage right next to theirs.

hey neighbor! That's me and my SO in our lawn chairs in the garage. We like to watch our kids riding bikes in the cul de sac. I always suspected that people thought we were odd. Now I have confirmation.

 

[Mayl]

One word: Nudists

I know waaaay more about my neighbors and their family then I care to /blush

 

[HelenePA]

The young boy (maybe 20) is very nice, the mother is wacko to put it nicely. In their front yard by their house they have a HUGE old oak tree.. its VERY beautiful! But it was trying to smash our widows when the wind blew. actually it did knock one of the windows in, but it didn't break last winter. We asked them to cut it last year they told us their chainsaw blew up... uh okay, so we put up with it for another year. So I asked again about it, the boy got this brilliant idea how to get the tree limbs down.... ya see that black truck?? well they got a chain and tied it to the tree branches and hooked it on the axel of the truck... yes that is how they "cut" the tree down away from our windows... It was interesting... very interesting... honestly I didn't care how they got the tree limbs down as long as they didn't hurt themselfs or my house..

 

[minnieandmickeymouse]

When we lived in our previous house, the neighbor down the street would vaccum the front lawn - I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it myself. Talk about clean freaks.

I have a neighbor that vaccums her driveway!

 

[connorlevismom]

In my old house the neighbor had that indoor/ourdoor carpet (ya know, that green prickly stuff?) as his LAWN and he would go out and sweep it!

Kristine

 

[connorlevismom]

OH, and my current neighbors cuts the lawn with a scissors! Not kidding. After he mows (which is about 4 times a week) he goes out there with a scissors and cuts any strays.

Kristine

 

[NMAmy]

hey neighbor! That's me and my SO in our lawn chairs in the garage. We like to watch our kids riding bikes in the cul de sac. I always suspected that people thought we were odd. Now I have confirmation.

Their kids are adults and we aren't on a cul de sac. Their cars are in the driveway because there isn't room in the garage with the chairs so basically, they're looking at the grilles of their cars.

Believe me, they are wonderful people and DH and I have spent a lot of time speculating on the reasons they might be doing this. Some day, I'll get up enough courage to ask them.

 

[juligrl]

When we lived in our previous house, the neighbor down the street would vaccum the front lawn - I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it myself. Talk about clean freaks.

Along those lines - we have a strip of woods that runs behind our houses but it's pretty much inaccessible due to a large drop-off. Regardless, our retired neighbors diligently rake the woods behind their house of all the leaves. It must be nice to have that much time on your hands.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

We used to have a neighbor that had chickens that ran free in their yard. They would wander around the neighborhood laying eggs in other people's yards. The neighbors would go around a couple of times a week and collect the eggs. They were in the shrubs right outside our front door picking up the eggs one day when I opened the front door to get my mail.

I said, "Hey, thanks for picking those up. My kids stepped on them the other day."

The neighbor said to me, "Oh, no! I hope you don't mind that we're over here getting them. I wish they would just lay in our yard. We have to go all over the place to pick them up or we don't have enough eggs for breakfast for the week."

 

[clarabelle]

This looks like a scene right out of COPS.

Kristine

If they were in my neck of the woods the Mom would be on the front steps with a tube top on screaming "you git back here Earl!"

 

[liamsaunt]

My somewhat odd neighbor sometimes takes pictures of my garbage cans on trash day. I can't figure it out--it's not like it's a special trash can or something.

 

[clarabelle]

The people next door to us managed to raise a child from birth to 8 years only letting him outside about once a month.
It was strange -the kid never came out
Maybe he was at Grandmas or something and not home

 

[Mickey527]

I don't vacuum my yard but my friend who lives in my basement does.
He is a smoker and during the winter he will sit in his car and smoke and toss the butts on the ground next to his car. By the end of the winter there is a huge pile. He vacuums them all up. during the summer he puts them into a can and dumps them. I can't understand and have asked him multiple times why he doesn't use the can during the winter but he never has an answer.
I got tired of moving my grandson's two little tykes climbing things every time I wanted to mow so I went out and bought a dark green indoor outdoor rug 12' X 24' at the clearance area of Home Depot. I put it on the lawn and placed all his toys on top. I know the grass is dead underneath but I don't care, the area is nicer looking with the rug. I vacuum that every once in a while, but a quick once over, not a heavy duty like in the house. it is right next to his 8'X10' sandbox his daddy built.
My neighbor has complained about the toys all over my yard and just last week she said she had a great dream that I cleaned them all up and the yard was neat. this is the neighbor who sends her grandson over to play whenever he visits because she has nothing for him to play with.
This is also the neighbor who put up an 8 ft stockade fence (the ugliest fence they make) but leaves the gate open and lets her dog do his mess in my yard. I have enough to clean up with my own 2 dogs but have to clean up her dog stuff too. But I can't prove that it is her dogs stuff. So the fence goes up this summer, mainly to keep the dog out but to also block her view of the ugly toys I have in my yard.

 

[chisnpeke]

We used to have a neighbor that had chickens that ran free in their yard. They would wander around the neighborhood laying eggs in other people's yards. The neighbors would go around a couple of times a week and collect the eggs. They were in the shrubs right outside our front door picking up the eggs one day when I opened the front door to get my mail.

I said, "Hey, thanks for picking those up. My kids stepped on them the other day."

The neighbor said to me, "Oh, no! I hope you don't mind that we're over here getting them. I wish they would just lay in our yard. We have to go all over the place to pick them up or we don't have enough eggs for breakfast for the week."

Oh my gosh this is TOO funny! I was reading this to my mom and could barely get the words out.

 

[horseshowmom]

Our neighbors put gas in their cars - EVERYDAY - with a 5 gallon gas can. The husband drives a newer style Toyota wagon - and he wrenched the gas compartment lid off (all you see is the gas cap). I'm assuming this was because it was on a hinge making it difficult for him to get the gas from the can into the tank. It is so odd to see his wife out there in her dress (she always wears a dress) filling up the tank of her mini-van with a 5 gallon gas can. The husband works at a Tire Service Center - I'm wondering if it's a "perk" of the job??!!

It kind of sounds like the high price of gasoline may not be impacting him as much as the rest of us...

We used to have a neighbor that had chickens that ran free in their yard. They would wander around the neighborhood laying eggs in other people's yards. The neighbors would go around a couple of times a week and collect the eggs. They were in the shrubs right outside our front door picking up the eggs one day when I opened the front door to get my mail.

The neighbor said to me, "Oh, no! I hope you don't mind that we're over here getting them. I wish they would just lay in our yard. We have to go all over the place to pick them up or we don't have enough eggs for breakfast for the week."

 

[theycallmered]

I work in the same co-op that I live in so I see all the extra 'fun' stuff that happens here. Last year right around this time of the year one of the residents was hanging raw sausage and raw chicken out of their window. It was there for about two weeks. I was calling it the "Meat Watch of 2007". Finally the General Manager of the complex wrote the residents of that unit a letter instructing the residents to "remove the food stuff from the outside of [their] window." The whole ordeal when thinking back as to how absurd it was makes me smile.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Our downstairs neighbor likes to knock/bang/hammer in the middle of the night. It sounds like someone knocking on a door. Sometimes just 5 or 6 knocks, sometimes 20 in a row. This usually starts around 3 AM and goes intermittently until 4 AM or so. And she doesn't just stand and knock in one spot, either. She goes from room to room and knocks on different surfaces. And as she travels around the sound changes. Sometimes knocking, sometimes more of a "whumping" like she is slinging a bag of laundry against the wall, and sometimes full-on hammering like she is driving nails into a 2x4. I think she is insane.

The first time it happened DH was home (he works VERY odd hours and he is usually gone when she is knocking). I was very groggy, but I asked him "Is there KNOCKING?" He said yes. After several more nights of this I called and complained to the leasing office. They sent out a notice telling her to stop.

A few weeks ago she was knocking again. I called to complain again. The property manager told me the woman below me is knocking to make the woman below her turn her television down. I can hear the TV, too, but I thought it was background noise for the Knocker. Really, the woman with the TV must be near deaf because if I can hear it on the 3rd floor it must be blasting loud.

I don't think the woman below me just knocks when the other woman's TV is too loud, because I heard knocking the other day and I didn't hear a TV. Not sure what her deal is. I am tempted to knock back at her, but I am always too tired to get out of bed and find something that would make a suitably loud noise to get my point across. I am also tempted to march down the stairs, bang on her door, and tell her to STOP BANGING. But if she is mentally unstable perhaps it's best not to provoke her.

 

[MoniqueU]

One of my neighbors puts on gloves, hauls every last thing out of his garage. Put is all on the lawn. Throws away about 2 things then puts it all back in there. Usually cussing the whole time. This has gone on every 6 months since about 99 and they still cant get 1 car in their 3 car garage. When he does it we usually go out and watch because it is so funny.

 

[clarabelle]

I work in the same co-op that I live in so I see all the extra 'fun' stuff that happens here. Last year right around this time of the year one of the residents was hanging raw sausage and raw chicken out of their window. It was there for about two weeks. I was calling it the "Meat Watch of 2007". Finally the General Manager of the complex wrote the residents of that unit a letter instructing the residents to "remove the food stuff from the outside of [their] window." The whole ordeal when thinking back as to how absurd it was makes me smile.

OK I'll bite WHY were they hanging raw meat out the window?