O/T Are you a nosy neighbour?

I used to be a nosy neighbour but not so much now lololol....... imagaine my shock when I discovered that one of the flats in the street I used to live in, was actually a brothel and my mum had read it in the paper!

neighbours I used to have were noisy students or crazy drug dealers so there was always some reason to twitch my curtains lololol...

now we have the blinds closed here permanently so no one can see in!

I'm not a nosy neighbour, but the old lady next door is. She'll often just come and peer (hands enclosed around her eyes and cheeks stylie) through our front window and just watch us. We've told her to stop, but it seems something got lost in translation, as she still does it (she doesn't speak very good English) - it's bloody scarey!

She also always asks why I don't have a job (I'm at Uni and can't find a P/T one) and tells us to get married as we're "living in sin". She also held my OH hostage in her house, (he went to kindly fix her kitchen cupboard) by not moving from her front door, until he told her how much we bought our house for!!!

She's the nosiest and rudest person ever!

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As an aside - she also told me that the council fixed her gate and fences for free, because she's disabled as she only has three toes on one foot!

I'm not particularly nosy, my H is! Terribly! Not long after we'd moved in he was able to tell me all the comings and goings! We'd walk past people in the street or see them up the road in our local and he'd say " oh yeah, they live at such and such or they drive x" I started calling him Mr Mangle!

we are looking for a new car and H made us drive up and down our street the other day checking out all the neighbours cars

He likes the one at no. 25. Its gold thats all I know.

Ooh la la thats weird. you need to get that sorted!

And cheska, i'm ? at him making you drive up and down the street! lol

In the old blocks of flats I used to live in, all the blocks faced onto a communal courtyard and you could see into everyone's sitting rooms so.....

this one couple who lived opposite us used to shag on the sofa in their front room, butt naked with all the lights on and the french windows open. So grim. Although OH thought it was fascinating (typical!)

And she was so quiet when we bumped into her in the courtyard......LOL

Its always the quietest neighbours you need to watch lol!

Yep! I like to know whats going on! We live right next door to a newsagents though so tend to have yoofs hanging around, sometimes kicking our fence down so I like to keep an eye on things!

Speaking of neighbours doing the roodies... My downstairs neighbour and her partner are SOOO loud, you can't fail to hear them and we have started to applaud them at, err, the conclusion of preceedings!

Hahahahahah! ?

Our neighbour (the other side) asked if we had a TV in our bedroom, suffice to say we don't - ooops! I really didn't think we were that loud when we do the dirty! errhum! ?

I didn't think I was but recently we've moved flat and everyone in our block moved in at the same time so OH and I kept spying on the new neighbours since we've not had a chance to meet them yet ?

I am terrible. I know what time most of the neighbours come home, and always watch when they have visitors (ok now I sound weird)

Our next door neighbours are really odd. He is the double of Phil from Location Location Location, so alike in his manorisms (sp) that I sometimes wonder if it's really him in disguise! She is weird, and wittles about everything, like what height fence we are planning to put up when we extend our garden. She had a go at my friend for parking in front of her garden, and made her feel like sh*t, looking down her nose and saying stuff about 'people like you' which my friend took to mean young blonde single mothers who could only afford to drive an old banger. They aren't very sociable, and only do their gardening when people are not around. They mow their front lawn at night, and pick the fruit off their trees at night too.

I wouldn't say I'm nosy, I just like to know what's going on where we live.

I do think our neighbours are a tad odd though. The rest of them in our little cul-de-sac are okay; one of the older ladies invites us all round for drinks at Christmas, which I think is really nice and it's obvious that the retired ones keep an eye on things when we're out at work or away. But the neighbours joined to us are strange - I think the chap must work nights or something and I really don't know if she works or not. For a while they only seemed to clean or do things at night, she'd leave washing on the line for over a week and I'm sure she only likes wearing green. Now I know there's nothing wrong with having a favourite colour and all that but I think she takes it too far - green socks, green shoes, green t shirts, green everything!

Our drive is directly beside their side window and one day OH was getting something out of the car and accidently looked up catching their window. So, she only goes and sticks her fingers up at OH! I couldn't believe it, so rude and it wasn't like he was deliberately staring in or anything.

And I'm sure many of you have/like cats but they have loads and they love crapping in our garden so we had to go and buy a couple of those sonar things, which seems to do the trick!