Nosy Neighbours (Rant)

[P3T3R]

Getting extremely tired of bloody busy bodies wanting to know everything that is going on! I can't even refit the trim to my boot without being asked "is it broken?" and then precede to stand there and watch me and start asking about my family and snidey little comments "no work today then" to which I reply "yeh I start @ 2pm" "OH" ARGHHH. don't get me wrong I have some great neighbours and we get on really well but I am also surrounded by bloody weirdos. Even at the bottom of my road at my mates house even if we are just outside chatting or looking over recent mods you can guarantee the bloke opposite will come out and get in his van without fail every time. I really hate doing anything to my car outside my house as I feel the whole street is watching .

Whats everyones else's neighbours like or how do you deal with them?

[bushypad]

That sounds so irritating! Thankfully where I live I don't have that issue.

[Viking]

My neighbour over the wall to the rear is a complete c*nt. And he knows I know it.

[dansmith180]

Next time they're being obviously sly and snidey towards you just confront them, most if those sorts of people get scared when you look them in the eye and tell them to p**s off and mind their own business, they shouldn't bother you after that, some people have nothing better to do than sit around and judge all day.

[xjay1337]

Next time they're being obviously sly and snidey towards you just confront them, most if those sorts of people get scared when you look them in the eye and tell them to p**s off and mind their own business, they shouldn't bother you after that, some people have nothing better to do than sit around and judge all day.

Yeah, no, see that's not what I would do.

Just smile, be polite and just say that you need to get on and you could do so in peace that would be appreciated.

You both need to live there, being a dick does nothing.

[MPS]

Getting extremely tired of bloody busy bodies wanting to know everything that is going on! I can't even refit the trim to my boot without being asked "is it broken?" and then precede to stand there and watch me and start asking about my family and snidey little comments "no work today then" to which I reply "yeh I start @ 2pm" "OH" ARGHHH. don't get me wrong I have some great neighbours and we get on really well but I am also surrounded by bloody weirdos. Even at the bottom of my road at my mates house even if we are just outside chatting or looking over recent mods you can guarantee the bloke opposite will come out and get in his van without fail every time. I really hate doing anything to my car outside my house as I feel the whole street is watching .

Whats everyones else's neighbours like or how do you deal with them?

Aha!! Not just me with this problem then. Small village people with a small village mentality. Ignore them.

[usmangti]

Well said Jay, I've got good neighbours thankfully. One lady to my left, middle aged and been a long time sufferer of cancer, poor thing can hardly talk as it is, and the other is a family, 2 young children, well behaved kids very polite.

[missymckay]

My neighbours are the same. There's an old guy that lives a few doors away and always comes over for a chat when i'm washing the car etc and always makes some comment about me washing it again! Then there's the pervy neighbour that wanted me to wash it in a short skirt!!! That comment did not go down well with my fella lol.

As for my other neighbours, she sounds like a witch when she laughs and the walls are so thin I can hear all sorts of bedroom activities. Luckily I don't have to hear that very often and when I do it's always quick hahaha 

[OSB]

My neighbours are ok. Some take a bit of general interest at times or say things like 'I cant be bothered to fiddle with my car, I take it to the garage' ' 'Yeah, Thanks for sharing a bit of your life with me...'

But what does wind me up is when I'm cleaning the car I get ' Oh, washing your car then' ...... ' No I'm playing a game of footy.... what does it look like I'm doing!'
or ' I'll bring mine over you can do that as well if you like'..... 'No I don't like thanks, wash your own car!'
or ' Washing your car eh? That'll make it rain!' ...... 'No it wont you dozy being - If I had that much power over the climate, I'd be working in the drought ridden parts of our planet changing the lives of millions of people!'

[bigeyd]

One side are dickheads,he's a pen15 and she's like a cross between scary Mary and Wayne-netta Slob,we did get on extremely well with the previous owners so the fence was five foot now its over six foot.

When cleaning the car I always have people saying the 'do mine next' line,its a bit like tourettes for some

[SRC]

I'd rather have neighbours who are polite enough to make a couple of minutes' small talk than miserable gits.  And I can multitask just enough to return a weak joke when they say they'll bring their cars over for me to clean. 

They say politeness costs nothing, and it could be a great investment if a burglar's lurking...

[xBERTOx]

headphones! Seriously over the ear headphones work wonders where I live. Pass the wire inside your t-shirt so it doesnt catch on anything and you're goood to go, you dont even need to be listening to anything but you'll usually be left alone.

[OSB]

I'd rather have neighbours who are polite enough to make a couple of minutes' small talk than miserable gits.  And I can multitask just enough to return a weak joke when they say they'll bring their cars over for me to clean. 

They say politeness costs nothing, and it could be a great investment if a burglar's lurking...

You are absolutely right!
I was having a bad morning at work in my earlier post! .......

[xjay1337]

My neighbours are ok. Some take a bit of general interest at times or say things like 'I cant be bothered to fiddle with my car, I take it to the garage' ' 'Yeah, Thanks for sharing a bit of your life with me...'

But what does wind me up is when I'm cleaning the car I get ' Oh, washing your car then' ...... ' No I'm playing a game of footy.... what does it look like I'm doing!'
or ' I'll bring mine over you can do that as well if you like'..... 'No I don't like thanks, wash your own car!'
or ' Washing your car eh? That'll make it rain!' ...... 'No it wont you dozy being - If I had that much power over the climate, I'd be working in the drought ridden parts of our planet changing the lives of millions of people!'

People don't intentionally mean to be annoying
it's just them trying to make conversation / appear to be nice

trust me i get annoyed at things like that too...

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=279459

[missymckay]

I'd rather have neighbours who are polite enough to make a couple of minutes' small talk than miserable gits.  And I can multitask just enough to return a weak joke when they say they'll bring their cars over for me to clean. 

They say politeness costs nothing, and it could be a great investment if a burglar's lurking...

This is true, my neighbour knows everything that goes on in our road which can be handy and I'm always polite to them I just get annoyed with the noise through the wall lol