My neighbours are at it again.

[danny la rouge]

Those of you with no life of your own might remember that my neighbours stole my vacuum cleaner battery ( Post in thread 'Very dull hoover thread'
Very dull hoover thread) , and possibly my DVLA documents. Well, they're at it again.


We were away recently at my nephew's wedding in the Staffordshire badlands and after driving back decided to have a cup of tea and a sandwich. My wife went to the fridge and found, in the top covered compartment in the door, a pair of her socks. (I'm sorry to report they are trainer socks. Look, what can I do? She has to make her own decisions in life).

Now, we have a pulley dryer above that part of the kitchen. And trainer socks, being ridiculous items, do fall off it. But into the fridge? Into a covered compartment?

We concluded one of our adult daughters, who both have keys, had let themselves in and played an hilarious joke on us.

We decided not to mention it, to serve them right. But after some days, and several visits from said girls, no reference had been made to the socks. So my wife asked them. Both deny any knowledge.

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". Therefore the neighbours have once again broken in and are gaslighting us. It's intolerable. This campaign just keeps ramping up.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

could they have been left there by a hypnotised dog?

 

[danny la rouge]

could they have been left there by a hypnotised dog?

Well, we don’t currently have a dog, at the moment settling for dog sitting trips via TrustedHousesitters. And two sets of the neighbours in our close are cat people (another mark against them). So it’s not a line of inquiry we’re currently pursuing.

 

[two sheds]

I may have noted this before but one poster in a gardening forum I used to go on recommended jamming anchovies into one of their air bricks.

 

[danny la rouge]

I may have noted this before but one poster in a gardening forum I used to go on recommended jamming anchovies into one of their air bricks.

I mean, I live in a flat, so that’d likely affect us too. But I’ll bear it in mind.

 

[Saul Goodman]

It'll be car keys next. Then you'll start forgetting why you opened the fridge in the first place.
These things happen to people of a certain age

 

[moochedit]

Those of you with no life of your own might remember that my neighbours stole my vacuum cleaner battery ( Post in thread 'Very dull hoover thread'
Very dull hoover thread) , and possibly my DVLA documents. Well, they're at it again.


We were away recently at my nephew's wedding in the Staffordshire badlands and after driving back decided to have a cup of tea and a sandwich. My wife went to the fridge and found, in the top covered compartment in the door, a pair of her socks. (I'm sorry to report they are trainer socks. Look, what can I do? She has to make her own decisions in life).

Now, we have a pulley dryer above that part of the kitchen. And trainer socks, being ridiculous items, do fall off it. But into the fridge? Into a covered compartment?

We concluded one of our adult daughters, who both have keys, had let themselves in and played an hilarious joke on us.

We decided not to mention it, to serve them right. But after some days, and several visits from said girls, no reference had been made to the socks. So my wife asked them. Both deny any knowledge.

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". Therefore the neighbours have once again broken in and are gaslighting us. It's intolerable. This campaign just keeps ramping up.

Did you give them a key? (Some people do tht with neighbours. I'm far too paranoid to do that personally)

 

[danny la rouge]

It'll be car keys next. Then you'll start forgetting why you opened the fridge in the first place.
These things happen to people of a certain age

Yes! Why do malicious neighbours alway pick on older people? I mean I get my bus pass next year and that’s some consolation, but the pranks are very disconcerting!

 

[two sheds]

Which? had a recent feature on webcams - the indoor ones they recommend were surprisingly cheap. I'll find a couple if that helps - you can surreptitiously let the neighbours know if you're going away.

 

[danny la rouge]

Did you give them a key? (Some people do tht with neighbours. I'm far too paranoid to do that personally)

No. This lot? Fuck that. A friend in a tenement opposite has them though.

I suspect they had copies made when the previous occupant was here.

 

[moochedit]

No. This lot? Fuck that. A friend in a tenement opposite has them though.

I suspect they had copies made when the previous occupant was here.

I suggest a rewatch of the home alone movies Also "rambo 5" (which is utter shit but does have some home defence ideas )

 

[neonwilderness]

Those of you with no life of your own might remember that my neighbours stole my vacuum cleaner battery ( Post in thread 'Very dull hoover thread'
Very dull hoover thread) , and possibly my DVLA documents. Well, they're at it again.


We were away recently at my nephew's wedding in the Staffordshire badlands and after driving back decided to have a cup of tea and a sandwich. My wife went to the fridge and found, in the top covered compartment in the door, a pair of her socks. (I'm sorry to report they are trainer socks. Look, what can I do? She has to make her own decisions in life).

Now, we have a pulley dryer above that part of the kitchen. And trainer socks, being ridiculous items, do fall off it. But into the fridge? Into a covered compartment?

We concluded one of our adult daughters, who both have keys, had let themselves in and played an hilarious joke on us.

We decided not to mention it, to serve them right. But after some days, and several visits from said girls, no reference had been made to the socks. So my wife asked them. Both deny any knowledge.

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". Therefore the neighbours have once again broken in and are gaslighting us. It's intolerable. This campaign just keeps ramping up.

Revenge is a pair of trainer socks best served cold

 

[Brainaddict]

No. This lot? Fuck that. A friend in a tenement opposite has them though.

I suspect they had copies made when the previous occupant was here.

If you really think some people you don't like or trust have a key to your place, surely you need to get the locks changed?

But also I put things in places without meaning to just because I was doing two things at once, and I expect it to only get worse with age...

 

[danny la rouge]

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Revenge is a pair of trainer socks best served cold

Fuck you, Henry, you unweildy, trunk shedding heap of junk!

 

[DotCommunist]

an old trick was crisps under the inside door mat. If you come home and they remain unbroken, no ones been in. Of course you'd have to warn anyone you'd given a key to for the duration about said crisps under mat.

 

[neonwilderness]

Fuck you, Henry, you unweildy, trunk shedding heap of junk!

Don't anger him further

 

[danny la rouge]

If you really think some people you don't like or trust have a key to your place, surely you need to get the locks changed?

But also I put things in places without meaning to just because I was doing two things at once, and I expect it to only get worse with age...

Obviously one of us has picked up fallen socks while putting something else in the fridge and absent-mindedly put the socks in while doing it. But there’s no way I’m admitting that.

 

[moochedit]

Change locks? Burgler alarm? Ring doorbell? Inside cctv?

One or more of them should do it. Although i don't know what you can afford.

 

[emanymton]

Those of you with no life of your own might remember that my neighbours stole my vacuum cleaner battery ( Post in thread 'Very dull hoover thread'
Very dull hoover thread) , and possibly my DVLA documents. Well, they're at it again.


We were away recently at my nephew's wedding in the Staffordshire badlands and after driving back decided to have a cup of tea and a sandwich. My wife went to the fridge and found, in the top covered compartment in the door, a pair of her socks. (I'm sorry to report they are trainer socks. Look, what can I do? She has to make her own decisions in life).

Now, we have a pulley dryer above that part of the kitchen. And trainer socks, being ridiculous items, do fall off it. But into the fridge? Into a covered compartment?

We concluded one of our adult daughters, who both have keys, had let themselves in and played an hilarious joke on us.

We decided not to mention it, to serve them right. But after some days, and several visits from said girls, no reference had been made to the socks. So my wife asked them. Both deny any knowledge.

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". Therefore the neighbours have once again broken in and are gaslighting us. It's intolerable. This campaign just keeps ramping up.

Maybe there was a mix up with the exit portal from the washing machine and they ended up there instead of wherever they normally go.

 

[Pickman's model]

punji sticks under the doormat ftw

 

[MickiQ]

Very recently Mrs Q complained that she had lost one of her pairs of reading glasses only for me to find them in the cupboard in the utility room that houses things like laundry baskets and washing line pegs. She swears blind she has no idea how they got in there. Perhaps you and I are victims of the same conspiracy where some shadowy government agency is conducting experiments on us by secretly moving items around the home to see how we might react.

 

[danny la rouge]

Very recently Mrs Q complained that she had lost one of her pairs of reading glasses only for me to find them in the cupboard in the utility room that houses things like laundry baskets and washing line pegs. She swears blind she has no idea how they got in there. Perhaps you and I are victims of the same conspiracy where some shadowy government agency is conducting experiments on us by secretly moving items around the home to see how we might react.

Like the one that was doing experiments in twins and triplets as uncovered in Three Identical Strangers! That’s it!

 

[emanymton]

I came home from work once and went to make a coffee, and found I had no milk in the fridge. I lived alone so no one else could have touched it. My first thought was I was just and idiot and had used the last of it in the morning and forget, but I checked the rubbish and there was no empty milk bottle.

Eventually I found it the the cupboard with my cups, so no it wasn't me being an idiot but some unknown person had broke in and moved it.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I wonder if your neighbours are related to mine? Ours keep sneaking in and nicking or moving our spectacles. The fecking bastards!

 

[Elpenor]

an old trick was crisps under the inside door mat. If you come home and they remain unbroken, no ones been in. Of course you'd have to warn anyone you'd given a key to for the duration about said crisps under mat.

Flavoured crisps?

 

[Saul Goodman]

Very recently Mrs Q complained that she had lost one of her pairs of reading glasses

She swears blind

.

 

[tony.c]

Poltergeist?

 

[Saul Goodman]

Those of you with no life of your own might remember that my neighbours stole my vacuum cleaner battery ( Post in thread 'Very dull hoover thread'

Didn't you eventually ascertain that they actually hadn't stolen your battery, and it was an absent-minded mistake?
I'm seeing a pattern emerging

 

[danny la rouge]

Didn't you eventually ascertain that they actually hadn't stolen your battery, and it was an absent-minded mistake?
I'm seeing a pattern emerging

Fuck off!

 

[tony.c]

Poltergeist?

On a walking holiday in Iceland I stayed at a bunkhouse that had been converted from an old farmhouse that was reputed to be haunted by a poltergeist which moved things around.
I washed half a dozen pairs of socks and as there weren't any clothes pegs I tied them on washing line to dry overnight. The next morning they were all on the floor. It hadn't been at all windy so I could only think it might have been the poltergeist.