Post by honeydew1894 on Jun 20, 2012 7:17:28 GMT -5
We all have them. What are yours like?
We have one guy who never speaks, is on disability for back issues (but I think they are mental bc he mows the lawn, weeds, and rides roller coasters), and walks around the neighborhood all.day.long. Seriously, anytime I look out my window, there is a good chance he will be going by. If we are out, he crosses the street to avoid saying hi.
Post by darkling_glory on Jun 20, 2012 7:20:19 GMT -5
My neighbors are all okay except for one family that I swear has 5 people living in a tiny one bedroom apartment. They are loud, and they are inconsiderate. Everyone else is super nice, but these people.
They used to just let their dog out the front door whenever the dog wanted to go out. After the second time I almost hit it with my car, I went over there and started SCREAMING at them. My other neighbor came out to calm me down, but I was not having it.
After that, I never saw the dog again. I feel like it's my fault, but hopefully they found another family member to take him.
Ours are all good as well. We live in a culdesac where there are 6 other houses. Everyone keeps to themselves for the most part, but we all wave and say hi, and occasionally will chat a couple of minutes. No one is loud or obnoxious and everyone keeps their house and yard looking nice. A couple of them have young kids, but none of them are outside running amok or being disruptive in any way.
Now in our old neighborhood, all kinds of crazies in there!
Post by OrangePixyStix on Jun 20, 2012 7:34:04 GMT -5
I haven't had any beef with any of ours. Neighbors to the left are a couple of gay guys who keep to themselves. The ones to the right are a young newlywed couple with no kids, who I've been meaning to invite over sometime for dinner or something. They did tell us they don't really drink (we've invited them over when we had a party once) but they seem nice.
There's several families around the cul de sac, and across the street we have a detective. One time the detective had one of his cop friends over and the car in the street had a license that said "DA POPO", and I couldn't help but laugh.
Our immediate neighbors are D's family (gparents + mom/stepdad).. after that - we can't see anyone. I do miss having neighbors it was always interesting
Post by charitylynne79 on Jun 20, 2012 8:28:22 GMT -5
We have all sorts of neighbors. The neighbors downstairs let their kids run all over the place, screaming in the hall, leaving their trash there, etc. I get a long with my neighbor that lives across from us. We have been friend for 5 years and do stuff for one another and hang out. Other than that, we pretty much stick to ourselves.
Post by charitylynne79 on Jun 20, 2012 8:31:17 GMT -5
Oh we have this guy that lives in another building and he's a little off (mentally challenged in some aspects). He walks all over the place. Is always at the pool and says nothing and likes to hang out in the shaded tree house at the playground all day long.
There's these old guys that sit by the pool every day, but they think it's highly disrespectful for women to wear a swimsuit, so they glare at you when you're swimming. Um, WTF are you sitting by the pool then?
It makes me want to get a skimpy bikini and wear it around them, even if it means letting all my fattiness hang out.
I get not liking women wearing swimsuits in public, but seriously...don't sit by the pool then. They don't even sit with their feet in the water or something, they just sit in these chairs and talk and then leave.
Post by alabasterangel on Jun 20, 2012 8:51:24 GMT -5
Lawn Guy is obsessed with his lawn. It was being mowed at 8 o'clock this morning.
Chatty Lady practically pounces us every single time we open the door. Always pleasant, but always talking.
Dog Guy has at least seven barking dogs in his tiny fenced in yard.
And down the alley they rented a house to Hoarders. They bring in car loads of junk multiple times a day. They put up a fence of pieced together, miss matched old fence panels that they collect as they go. They're extremely rude and dirty.
We have a crazy lawn guy, who refused to talk to us if our grass hasn't been mowed for a week, and when he is not going to/from work, he is wearing boxers. Which was a very unpleasant surprise when I came home after a show, and he was hanging curtains (facing the road) in nothing but boxers. Yay for letting everything hang out. And he does not speak English.
One of his children also eats breakfast every.single.morning on the front porch, in his pj's. (This wouldn't be weird if they didn't have a HUGE deck.) Same child also blows bubbles at my dog, and talks to him (not the humans, just the dog) in full on conversations, which is actually incredibly cute.
We have one guy who never leaves his house when he is home, but travels a ton for work.
We have one woman who lives with her bf and is actually clinically nuts, who burned all of his belongings in the fire place one night, really recently. She also impalled herself in the main artery in her arm, and was squirting blood everywhere. Rather than calling 911 herself, she ran out the door, and knocked on two different neighbor's doors spraying blood everywhere until she found the first neighbor I listed actually home. (It was 3:00 pm on Easter Sunday.) He called the ambulance for her.
Thankfully, out of the 80 some odd neighbors (townhouse complex) these are the only really crazy/odd ones.
The only ones who really suck, live right across the street. They get really angry when anyone parks in front of their house (even though they have a corner lot, so they have tons of parking). One time we had a friend come over and she parked in between their house and the next door neighbour's house, and some time while she was over, they had shovelled snow onto her car. They also used to let their dogs go to the bathroom on other people's lawns when they were leaving for work until I started waiting until the dogs got on my lawn and then I would turn the sprinkler on, leaving them with wet dogs.
Post by stingsharkruns on Jun 20, 2012 9:23:18 GMT -5
One of our neighbors has "I SUED {insert my dads name here} and won" on the tailgate of his truck. He is a total douchebag. There is a super long & stupid story behind it, which I don't know all the details of.. He also called to have DH's truck towed bc DH parked in another neighbors driveway for 10 minutes so a Lowes' truck could make a delivery at our house.
The other neighbor built his own house and it looks like shit. He does a lot of weird things, but nothing really worth talking about.
Chatty Lady practically pounces us every single time we open the door. Always pleasant, but always talking.
Oddly enough, my silent creepy guy is married to a chatty lady. I know she is probably starved for attention, but she is so annoying. I look out the window before getting the mail to avoid her. And I'm going to hell.
Post by lizardesque on Jun 20, 2012 10:26:44 GMT -5
We don't have any particularly weird neighbors right now, but when we lived in an apartment, we lived below noisy sex people. They had very loud, moaning, sometimes shrieking sex just about every night. I mean, hey, good for them, but sometimes I would just lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking "Really? Is it really *that* good every single night??" I also felt a little weird when I would see them around the building.
Post by ILikeSloths on Jun 20, 2012 10:42:45 GMT -5
We live in a large apt. complex so we have a lot of odd people here.
There's a middle aged couple who sit in their lawn chairs watching the cars go by on the street, all day every day.
There's a woman similar to the man you described in your OP - she walks everywhere but rarely talks to anyone and you can tell she tries not to make eye contact.
There's also an overly friendly man who's mentally handicapped. He's a nice guy, but I always feel bad because no one can understand him when he speaks. He's constantly talking or singing, sometimes to himself.
A woman who has 3 generations of kids living in her home and she's only in her 50s.
At our previous apt. there was a couple next door who would have loud fights and then make-up sex almost every night. I'm so glad we have better insulation here.
Post by wineenthusiast on Jun 20, 2012 11:59:14 GMT -5
Most of my neighbors are weird.
Across the street some like 70 year old guy lives with his like 90 year old mom. They are super weird and dont take care of the home well.
Another across the street was our good friend til she started cheating on her bf (who we liked better) and once he moved away we stopped talking to her.
The a-holes next door to me are white trash. Their yard looks like shit and they have a zillion yappy dogs that bark all.day.long. Their daughter recently threw a pair of bloody underwear in our yard. SICK. We know it was her b/c it could have only come from their yard in a specific spot.
Our other next door neighbor is our friend and has brain cancer. He's losing it and we are sad about that. He's a great neighbor/friend.
New backyard neighbor (new house) is a girl in her 20's with a 5 year old. Her boyfriend/FOC lives in another state and pays for this house for them to live in. He visits about 1/x month and I think he prob leads a second life. His parents just bought the house down the street... I can only assume so they can keep tabs on her/gc.
My next door neighbors were in a serious motorcycle accident years ago where they both suffered "traumatic brain injuries." The ONLY way they know how to communicate with one another is to scream at the top of their lungs.
Across from us we have the "Situation" and "Olive-Oyl."
Post by darkling_glory on Jun 20, 2012 12:56:53 GMT -5
I do have a chatty neighbor, too. But she is a chatty, CHURCH lady and she's always like "Praise the Lord!" or "Have a Blessed day!"
She's super nice and really the best kind of neighbor to have because she doesn't put up with anyone's crap and she'll always be there to call the cops if the crappy neighbors get too loud. It's just the god stuff.
I live in an apartment 4plex so I have 3 direct neighbors. The guy next door has a wife and two kids but they only stay with him on the weekends which I think is weird. I never see one of the downstairs neighbors. The other is a family of four. The preschool daughter runs back inside her apt every time I pass her playing outside. She'll watch me from inside via the door slightly cracked open until I either get in my car or get in my apt.
Post by louietunes on Jun 20, 2012 16:09:55 GMT -5
Most of our neighbors keep to themselves and are pretty cool. One guy creeps me out, though. He's just got a creepy vibe and once he said "oh, yeah, I forgot you had a husband" and then stopped talking to me. He says he's a motivational speaker, but we're pretty sure he's a meth dealer.
The girl who lives 2 doors down is really nice, but her friends are crazy. She has parties and they all end up screaming at each other in the parking lot at 3am on a Tuesday. Also, her ex bf came around once and spray painted her car, then spray painted a bunch of other cars in the parking lot, including D's, in order to cover his tracks.