Tell us about your strange neighborhood "characters"

Originally posted by 4cruisin
. The wife is the scariest thing I have ever seen. She weighs about 65 lbs and looks like a 12 y o boy. I think they live on coffee and butts. I feel bad for the son, but he is as weird as the parents.

Please oh please tell me they drive a faded blue 87 camaro with mis-matched mag wheels.:smooth:

4cruisin....you've painted quite a mental picture with the above description....
 
There is a guy in our town known as Mad Terry. He has been given a house to live in but won't. He seems to suddenly appear in places and then won't be seen for a while. In summer he likes to wear jumpers and in winter he wears shorts.

There is also Bag Lady who likes to wonder around collecting empty plastic bags!
 
Crazy lady near my work sweeps leaves from the middle of the road in the dark.

Crazy man used to lock his car, walk round it twice checking all doors were locked, dropped his kids at daycare, go back out to car and walk round it twice checking doors were locked again!!! No-one was ever going to steal this car it was held together by rust and didn't appear to go any faster than 5mph.
 
Not in our neighborhood, but on the next street over from ours. There's a guy who has his entire family living in a trailer, and they keep pigs in an old school bus on their property. He has some other farm animals (Auburn IS called hicksville for a reason). One of his cows managed to get loose a few months ago (I think its name was Whisper), and caused a lot of problems along the road, particularly at the llama farm across the street. After awhile the cow disappeared, and this man was seen on TV and in the paper, in his overalls, and with cigar hanging out of his mouth saying that "Whisper would find her way home, because cows are just like teenagers. They like to run away but they come back eventually". The cow DID make it "home", and the owner faced serious charges in court.
In our neighborhood, we have my divorced parents living with just 2 houses separating them, and my dad's sister next door to my mom. Enough said.
 

Our neighborhood is made up primarily of my family! My parents, me, my sister, and then my two brothers all live down one side so I'm sure the neighbors on the other side talk about us!! We're a nutty family!:crazy:
 
Next door to my sister there is a family of approximately 1000 people!!! They are all of Mexican desent. At all hours of the night they sit in their (shared) driveway, drinking beer, and listening to what my sister describes as "Mexican Opera Music" at full blast. They then throw the beer cans in my sister's yard. They also transport coolers in and out of their house at all times of the day and night. They have a swimming pool (above ground) in the back yard that they left the water in all winter last year. The water froze and broke the pool. Then, when summer came, they left the water in there and it became a breeding ground for mosquitos. So glad they're not my neighbors!!!
 
I lived in a condo in CA. A neighbor in our building came pounding on my upstairs neighbor's door at 4 in the morning - screaming that she had to turn off the music. My neighbor (the good one) had guests visiting - everyone was sound asleep and there was NO music anywhere.

So the next day she writes me a note and says that she made a horrible mistake accusing the upstairs neighbor and it is now ME who is playing the music in the middle of the night. I had been out of the country and woke up very early the next morning and went outside to listen to see if maybe there was some noise coming from across the water - DEAD SILENCE.

So I go to see her later that day - she doesn't answer the door and I leave her a message that there is NO music or any other noise and that she needs to get professional help. She is probably still hearing things. A true nut case.
 
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Originally posted by JayCT
On our other side is a single woman who keeps to herself. Why she would buy a big house in a family neighborhood is beyond me.

So where is a single woman supposed to live? - in a tiny apartment as opposed to a large house. Most single women with good paying jobs usually end up buying a home.

Just because someone is not married doesn't mean that they don't deserve to have a nice home. Resales for tiny little homes are the pits - that's probably why she bought a larger home - as a prudent financial decision. She probably bought in a "family" neighborhood as the alternative "non-family" neighborhood often conjures up something not so safe.

How sad that being a single woman (who you admit keeps to herself and doesn't bother you) qualifies her as the neighborhood misfit right along with the devil worshipers.
 
People are so funny. I've gotten a good laugh from these!

We have "walkin' man" who walks everywhere. Now, we are not in a walking-friendly area - the closest store is several miles away. He walks back from the grocery store (probably about 8 or 9 miles) carrying huge bags of groceries. I've seen him way across town (maybe 15 miles or so?) walking down the busy highway to go to the mall. Maybe he doesn't drive (and I'm sure he's not doing it for the exercise, although he must be in great shape) but I always wonder why he doesn't take the bus, at least when he's carrying heavy bags. He wears loafers on his feet and Dockers - I always wonder how quickly he goes through shoes. I wish I knew him, I'd like to offer him a ride.

When we first moved in, I was sure that the family across the street were the Sopranos (if you know what I mean, :smooth: ). Once we got to know them, we now know they are the nicest people you'd ever want to meet - not like the Sopranos at all.

Our old neighbor was completely covered in tattoos (NO skin showing at all). They had about 20 family members living with them and he fixed cars in his garage even though the town kept telling him it wasn't allowed due to zoning. He also built an illegal apartment on the property which several more family members lived in. Is it any wonder we moved?
 
We have a guy who live 2 blocks away that likes to wear panty hose and nothing else. Sometimes he runs around in a housecoat with womens underwear on underneath. He also likes to sit on his roof with his guitar and sing. He just amuses me and sometimes gives me my laugh for the day.
 
Originally posted by CindyKansas
We have a guy who live 2 blocks away that likes to wear panty hose and nothing else. Sometimes he runs around in a housecoat with womens underwear on underneath. He also likes to sit on his roof with his guitar and sing. He just amuses me and sometimes gives me my laugh for the day.

:tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
 
He's not my neighbor, but we have a guy in or town we call "Red Man". He always wears red. In the winter, it is red sweat pants, red sweat shirt, red coat, red hat, red gloves. In the summer, it is red t-shirt, red shorts, red sneakers. The seasons in between are any combination of the above, depending on the temperature. He walks everywhere...you will see him all over town.

We also have a little old lady who walks everywhere. She is a slim, petite woman who dresses very young for her age. When you see her from the back, you think she is going to be young, and when you get up close, she's like 85!!!! She has long hair and it is dyed Lucille Ball red.

I have crazy neighbors diagonally across from me who are giving their next door neighbor a run for her money over the property line thing. It's been an ongoing battle, and these kooks are like obsessed over inches. They haven't lived in the neighborhood long, and when they first moved here they started with me with dog barking. I told them off, so they moved on to harass my other neighbor. She's been much nicer than I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My mother used to have a neighbor who would sneak around the neighborhood at night during bulk garbage pick-up and take people's garbage. We had an old pool that we took down...an 18 ft. round pool. We put the wall of the pool out for bulk pick-up night, and this lady dragged the thing up the street to her house, and used it to wall in her garden!!!!!!!!!! It had to weigh a ton and she was in her 80's at the time. She also put glass in some pebbles that were in front of our house because she didn't like the fact that when my brother came home, he would park his car in front of our house. She figured that if she put glass in the rocks and he got a flat, he'd stop parking there. What we did was actually shovel up all the rocks and dump them in her driveway. That solved the glass problem...for us anyway! We had a big tree in our front yard that was on our property, but because it was close to the property line it hung over onto her property. In the Fall, she would rake the leaves back onto our front lawn. And she'd usually do this when it was raining out. When my DH and were dating, he came over one Fall day when it was raining and came into the house and said "Your neighbor is rakiing wet leaves onto your front lawn". My parents and I were completely unfazed by this, as it was a common occurrence. She also called both my mother and I by the wrong names. My mother's name is Carol, and this lady called her Betty. When my mother corrected her, she said "You don't look like a Carol, you look like a Betty". My name is Patty, and she called me Carol. The funniest part about that is that we answered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To the wrong names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
We had this interesting neighbor when we lived in Ohio.

He was a sweet retired music teacher that still taught violin and viola out of his home. His wife was one swwet woman though.

One day, he asked my DH to look at his photography collection. It was old porno pictures from the 50's!

:eek:
 
Originally posted by Cindy B
We had this interesting neighbor when we lived in Ohio.

He was a sweet retired music teacher that still taught violin and viola out of his home. His wife was one swwet woman though.

One day, he asked my DH to look at his photography collection. It was old porno pictures from the 50's!

:eek:

Whoa!:eek:
 
In the small town I grew up in we had:

Crazy Louise. Don't know what happened to her, but she lived with her mom. She was in her 50's when I was a kid. She would wear jeans and a white button down shirt and wander the streets, talking to herself. Sadly, she didn't like black people and would stop to cuss them out or worse. Rumor had it that one day she encountered several black people coming out of a department store and got in a fight with them. She hit them with her purse, which happened to have bricks in it and put them all in the hospital. Whether or not that is true, I don't know. I do know that a truck driver picked her up one time thinking she was a hooker and once he took off he realized she was crazy and tried to get her out of his truck. She refused and he had to take her to the next city over before she would get out. Another time she ended up in Las Vegas and apparently was terrorizing the town. My uncle was the probate judge and got a call from the LV police to send someone to come get her.

Then there was Joe Namath. Don't know what his real name was; that's what he liked to be called. Skinny as a rail, sweet as could be and absolutely bonkers. He came to every home high school football game every Friday night and stood on the track yelling at the coaches and players. Supposedly, he was a volunteer fireman when he was young and was called to a house fire. He went in to save the children, and when he came out he was never right again. The children burned up in the house.

We also had Bub Freeman. He was bald and had huge ears. Very harmless, mostly just walked around town talking to himself. Occasionally showed up at the public pool to go swimming.

In the neighborhood I live in now, people don't talk to each other so if any of them are crazy I wouldn't know it.

:hyper:
 
We have a neighborhood character that some of you may have seen on TV. He's appeared on the Howard Stern show a couple of times that I know of. Anyway, he's approximately 50 or so, about 6'2" tall, incredibly skinns and has long hair that he wears in an incredibly tight bun right on the absolute top of his head. He jogs about the area wearing a woman's leotard and torn fishnet stockings.

I first started seeing him in Manhattan until we saw him in our immediate neighborhood of Queens. Apparently he lives here!

He also has an incredibly strange habbit of standing on a rather busy street corner and jogs in place for hours and hours, working up an incredibly sweat, huffing and puffing.

All this and he becomes a celebrity!
 
Originally posted by snoopy
My next door neighbor is a 75-year old retired government worker, yet every day he goes out to get his paper in his bathrobe and hardhat.


:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
 
I can't tell if they are characters or not - YET! The house beside of us was foreclosed on about a year ago - and it was only about 4 months ago that anyone showed any interest in it - my DH and the guy on the other side would trade off mowing and trimming - just so the place looked nice. The house sold about 7 weeks ago - For Sale sign went up - SOLD sign went up - sign went away... then people started showing up... LOTS of people, they would move like two things in and then leave.... there are bunches of kids with them, playing and having fun... then everyone leaves.... no one has yet to spend a night there... we haven't asked any questions as no one we have run into speaks any ENGLISH! I believe it's Russian (not that I'm an expert). Last night they moved in a washer and dryer, then left. So, we have all of these theories.... are they setting up the house for immigrants who haven't made it here yet? Do they ever plan to spend the night? All I want to do is know when so I can make them a cake!! If I had bought a plant, it would have died by now!! lol!
 
I've got 2 winners in my neighborhood

- "Loud red car" (as my ds calls it)
Dude has a red Corvette, which he cashed out his 401K to buy. His driveway is pretty steep. Whenever he comes home, he stops at the end of his driveway & then peels out & hauls a$$ up his driveway. Once he's in the garage, he sits there for 5 minutes revving his engine as loud as he can. Why he does this, I have no idea, but he scares the bejeezus out of my ds whenever he does it. Jerk!

- boy next door
The kid next door is about 16, I think. I have never seen him in anything besides gym shorts & knee high rubber boots. No shirt. Doesn't matter if it's 40 degrees outside, if he's out there, it's in shorts & boots. Wierdo!
 
Unfortunately, we have a convicted pediphile on the next street over.. he's an elderly man.. in his 60's early 70's.. but he walks around the neighborhood with a parrot on his shoulder. He's about the strangest character around here that I know of. All the kids know about him, and are on alert. We just go inside when we see him coming. A bit scarey, really.
 





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