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Not really... I feel like I am THAT neighbour..

I am always painting/doing DIY's in the garage/driveway and I usually have my dog & CAT on a leash out there with me. People probably think I am cray cray.

@betsyboop: That's hilarious. I guess it is a really good ab workout!?

I don't necessarily think this is strange, but I'm still trying to figure it out. We just moved a little over a week ago into a new apartment, it's a house split into first floor/second floor apartments. The woman who lives upstairs keeps really odd hours, like she will randomly leave in the middle of the night, come home early in the morning, etc. I've also seen several different guys come pick her up, or just come to the apartment, and when she comes downstairs to let them in, they just walk back upstairs silently. She never greets them or anything. It's really weird! Like over the weekend, I happened to look out the window and see a random dude sitting on the front porch steps for a few minutes, and eventually she came down, opened the door for him, didn't say a word, and they went upstairs.

My wild imagination thinks she's a "lady of the night", but I know that's probably ridiculous. Then I think, maybe she just has a lot of booty calls? But she totally doesn't seem like the type! From the few times I've talked to her she seems really put together and meticulous and she's really particular about certain things in the common areas of the house, like the foyer and laundry room.

I don't know. Tonight a car pulled up with a guy in it and he was just idling out front for several minutes before she came down and got in, then they sat in the car for a few minutes before driving off. I was totally trying to side-eye watch out the window to see if it seemed like they were a couple. I hope they didn't see me.

@IRunForFun: dude, time to set up a spy cam! lol!

We have Garage Guy across the street. He's an old retired guy that sits out in his garage every morning to watch the news on the TV he keeps in there. During the fall I saw him raking the leaves off his tree to get them into a pile on the ground. I've also seen him sweeping his lawn in the summer, and raking the snow in the winter. That said, he also comes over every grabage day and brings our bins up to the house so they won't blow away. For that reason, I forgive Garage Guy for being so strange.

I have not but this thread fascinates me!

@IRunForFun: hmmmm...that totally sounds like an old neighbor I had who turned out to be a drug dealer! I hope that doesn't freak you out, but that's what was going on in my situation!

ETA: it was a completely normal-looking guy, super sweet actually, and the only reason we found out was because we happened to see an aquaintence meet him once and asked! He only sold pot, though, not that that's not a drug!

We've had two different sets of neighbors that were obsessed with their cars. They would wash them every single day. It wasn't even a quick rinse. They would do a full wash on the exterior and clean the interior. Who has time for that every day!?

@IRunForFun: @MamaMagpie: I was totally thinking drugs too!

Our next door neighbors are just generally annoying, always yellin at the kids, and the kids are always screaming.

Our neighbors upstairs seem kinda weird. Sometimes they have ppl over and they wake us up in the middle of the night by talking loud on their balcony. And I smell them smoking weed a lot :o/

People prob. think we are weird though b/c we're always singing karaoke in the living room! :oP

@.twist.: I used to have a neighbor (across the street) that would WASH her driveway. It was an OCD obsession and she had it painted all the time and would wash it even in the rain.

@Sugar.Biscuit: omg! Such craziness!

Haha, we've always been lucky in the neighbor department. Our next door neighbors have eight kids, so you'd think they would be crazy, but all the kids are really quiet and sweet. My two make more noise than their 8!

I recently lived in an apartment building that 1. had a guy that was very OCD that when he went to park his car it took him 20 minutes because he had to be perfectly aligned in the space. he would continually pull his car in, back it in, then get out of his car to check. If it wasn't aligned right he would get back in and repeat. 2. We had these neighbors that would use the apartment complex's standard grills (like any you see at a public picnic area, etc.) to burn their mail...yes burn their mail. This would happen on consistent basis.

We're probably the weird neighbor doing things outside. Since our older dog passed away, our younger dog doesn't know what to do outside. We have to resort to some weird things to get him to come into the grass, like I run to the end of the yard and do jumping jacks to get him excited and then he'll run out to me. And my husband has taken to jogging around the perimeter of the yard (it's not that big!) to get our dog to chase him for exercise. Eh, the things you do for your pets, right?

@betsyboop: I did want to mention that I work for a park district and in the last year we've started offering hula hoop fitness classes and they are SO popular! They use weighted hoops and it really is a work out! The first time I saw a huge group of people hooping in the park, though, I thought I was losing my mind!

@MamaMagpie: @Sweet T: @kjpugs: I thought drugs at first, too, but I don't know, I'd be really surprised! It's a nice neighborhood with an elementary school on the corner and a daycare across the street. Not that shady things don't happen in nice neighborhoods, but I think other neighbors might have spoken up if they thought something was suspicious like that. Plus, she's been living in this building for 10+ years and is very friendly with the landlord and his wife, who have 2 small kids, and I feel like the landlord would have noticed something by now?

I don't know, I suppose anything's possible! It's a mystery for now...I will keep up with my neighborly duties and continue to monitor the situation!

I'm fairly sure our neighbors are part of the Lithuanian Mob so... yeah. They do weird crap all the time. They're always creeping around looking shady.