My weird neighbor.

**Kimberlina** · 11-29-2005, 04:03 PM

Okay, I've known for a while now that the lady who lives a few houses down is a little ummmmmm....obsessive. She is in her 60s, and the only time I ever see her outside is when she is meticulously, obsessively manicuring her lawn.

But I saw her do something two weeks ago that was just too much. Then I saw her doing it again today. And I'm really glad (as I'm sure she is) that I didn't buy the house right next doors to hers, which we looked at.

I kid you not, she was RAKING A TREE!!! Yes, she was raking the leaves out of her evergreen tree. And she picks up EVERY SINGLE LEAF by hand and carries them around. If there are two many, she puts them in a paper sack and carries it across the street and dumps it in the corn field. (And then they blow right back into the yard.)

She would hate to have me as a neighbor. There are leaves all over my yard. LOL

**Dedlered** · 11-29-2005, 04:05 PM

Oh my!! That is bizarre

**Darlene** · 11-29-2005, 04:15 PM

She sounds lonely. The only thing you can really do with eccentric neighbors is try to enjoy them.
Nicole lives in an apartment building on the top of a hill. Along with her apartment there are 6 others each with their own door that opens to the outside. This older woman paces back & forth for hours a day, sometimes looking in Nicole's window. I told her to wave to her and count the # of times she does this for fun.
She ( the wierd lady) also starts doing laundry ( it's in the basement and pass Nicole's window to get down to it) on Wed at 5 in the morning & is still doing laundry at 2 pm. I told Nicole I think she's just putting quarters into the one an only machine to hog it and and to check it next time to see if there is laundry in it.
Nicole is now beating her to the machine,lol.
Speaking of hogging, sorry to hog your thread Kimberly, just wanted to add to the fun.

**Kimberlina** · 11-29-2005, 04:17 PM

Threads are for sharing, right?

I always smile and say hello whenever we walk by. She doesn't seem too interested in being frindly, though. Her husband seems pretty grumpy, too, but at least they aren't the frightening kind of eccentric.

**Mom23boys** · 11-29-2005, 04:30 PM

Whoa! That is weird!!

She wouldn't want me as a neighbor either because my leaves would blow into her lawn.

**Early Bird** · 11-29-2005, 04:35 PM

Hey! You got an obsessive housecleaner! Send her my way!

**Katybird** · 11-29-2005, 04:58 PM

That is very odd. Makes me appreciate my good neighbors.

**bevjean** · 11-29-2005, 05:00 PM

I would kill for those kinds of neighbors. They at least seem to mind their own business and not try to stop you everytime you leave the house (or even just open the door). Whenever I open my door the lady across from me yells at me from inside her house wanting me to come over so she can tell me some trivial piece of nonsense. She won't even get off her butt to actually visit like normal people do. Although today she actually rang my doorbell but just just to whine at me about how I'm leaving her. I know I'm sounding hateful, but she's part of the reason we're moving. We have no privacy and being summoned over to her house everytime I open the door has turned me into a hermit (now I seem like the weirdo in the neighborhood). I feel trapped in my apartment.

**canadian gardener** · 11-29-2005, 05:28 PM

LOL well, I gave my neighbors a treat the other year when I washed my fake Christmas tree. And hung it out on my umbrella clothesline to dry one sunny windy freezing January day.

It comes apart in 3 bits and that wash did get the dusties out. I've had it for about 17 years, and it needed it.

But I did wonder what they thought!

**PrairieRose** · 11-29-2005, 07:04 PM

That is a bit over the top Kimberly. Ever see her mopping her driveway?

**MOMMYDEAREST** · 11-29-2005, 09:56 PM

wow...sounds like she has way too much time on her hands......lol. maybe she needs to come & clean my house.....lol!!

**dhmunoz** · 11-29-2005, 10:02 PM

Wow, this thread gave me a flashback of the neighbor we had in California, before we moved out here.

We lived in a large duplex in a very nice (read: OVERPRICED which is the biggest reason we moved!) neighborhood. The people who lived on the other side when we moved in got evicted, and then new people moved in. The lady worked all the time, so we rarely saw her, but her husband was home all the time. He was a strange one. One morning I heard him mowing his back yard at about 7 am...no biggie. We had maintenance--the lady that owned the duplexes also owned most of the block, and she hired the lawn service out. My DH was one of the services that was used. Our neighbor contacted the property management and refused lawn service, as he didn't want anyone in his yard. Again, no biggie. Okay, so back to the lawn mowing. About 10 am or so, I hear him start the lawnmower in the backyard again. That was weird, but whatever. Maybe he didn't finish. He mowed for a long time...I sat on my back patio for awhile and I could see him through the fence, going around and around the yard. So....finally he finishes.

Just before 1 pm, I heard the lawnmower again. Now I am definitely starting to wonder, LOL.

About 3 pm.....he starts the lawnmower AGAIN. Again!!! So I peek over at his fence, and there he is, going around and around the yard that is already cut pretty darn short!

I personally thought that was enough craziness for one day. The timer box for the automatic sprinklers was in a locked box on our side of the yard. We had the key because of DH's yard service. I went to the side of the house and turned his sprinklers on....and set the timer for 2 hours, to make sure that his grass was nice and wet....like maybe too wet to mow....LOL LOL

He stopped mowing when the water hit him. LOL

About a month later, I came home from the grocery store and when I rounded the corner, I saw that he was cutting his ENTIRE front yard with a small pair of silver scissors. He was just flat-out wacky. LOL

**Kimberlina** · 11-29-2005, 11:09 PM

Okay, I think the cutting the lawn with scissors tops raking a tree any day!

Originally posted by dhmunoz
... I came home from the grocery store and when I rounded the corner, I saw that he was cutting his ENTIRE front yard with a small pair of silver scissors. He was just flat-out wacky. LOL

**Missy** · 11-29-2005, 11:57 PM

when we lived up at mil's house, the neighbor to the north of her had some big gigantic rocks out front. Once a month the neighbor would get out there with a cleaning solution (like a 409 or windex bottle, never thought to pay close attn) and a scrub brush. She'd scrub every square inch of those rocks. She'd even climb on up there and scrub the tops. Getting dirt off the rocks i suppose.

**Kimberlina** · 11-30-2005, 12:12 PM

Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with an OCD neighbor. (I can say that without feeling wierd since my doctor has accused me of having OCD. Imagine.)