When you buy a new home, not everything is as fun as decorating it. You also meet the new neighbors, praying they aren’t gun fanatics or booze-worshipping students. When Cat and her wife got a holiday house, they didn’t know any of the residents in the area. Soon, however, they ran into Mr. and Mr. Nice who lived next door, and things escalated hilariously.
“Basically, I am unsettled and am now having to enter into an arms race of niceness,” Cat described their new relationship. “I am already so behind.” Scroll down to read how a hilarious competition to see who could be the best neighbors began and let us know what you think about it in the comments!
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When Cat and her wife got a holiday house, they ran into a gay couple who lived next door
People related to their experience in hilarious ways
I don't know where this person is from, but this is the most British problem I've ever heard of. We can't accept niceness without feeling stressed by it.
You just have to try it the Canadian way, crack open a beer and relax. Enjoy a nice visit with good people. Needs to be a cold beer btw, I'm pretty sure drinking warm beer is a cause of stress (at least it stresses me out lol)
Load More Replies...Well I mean, not all of us are nice, but it IS kind of the Gay Agenda.
The Gay Agenda: Be very gay (aka happy) and kind
Load More Replies...This is amazing and incredibly accurate. Last time I went to a movie night with friends to one of my gay male friends houses he not only set up the most epic charcuterie board but made coffee cake....from scratch. When I have friends over to my place I buy booze, order pizza and make popcorn.
HAHAHHA i love this! see this is the real gay agenda, they want to kill you with niceness and make you love them! if you are afraid of nice things and nice people, i suggest you run. RUN!
I would. I would run for life. Whenever is someone uninvited comes, and start ringing on our door bell, we are just ignoring that we have heard anything. We just love our very rare times together. :)
Load More Replies...Being nice or an a*****e has nothing to do with your sexual prefernces.
Are you actually this clueless or just really bad at being funny...
Load More Replies...I live in a condo complex, gated and everything- most of my neighbors I never see but on the rare occasion. Now the neighbor to the left of me is an awesome teacher, who loves to decorate the outside of our condos (since our two condos look like-from the outside as one place) and put plants out every spring. But the one to the right of me is an asshat.. 🤮
Load More Replies...I had a neighbour so freaking nice he took over everything like snow or grass cutting. One day though, I left my garage door open. I pull up after a day at work, drive into the garage and sit there staring...at the wall of new shelving he put up.
Eeeek. that would freak me out a bit. I have lovely neighbors one side who know I am a bit disabled and help with rubbish bins, mowing etc. Neighbors the other side are from hell and keep shouting at people.
Load More Replies...My best friend of 10 plus years is gay, sadly he has never attempted any of this lol.
I would die to have neighbors as nice as these guys are! Up here in Seattle, we have what is so charmingly called, "The Seattle Freeze". When I first moved here (from Hawaii) I thought I must be a weird person because I just couldn't make new friends. Even my neighbors ignored me! Being from the "Aloha State", this crushed me and then I was told, Seattleites just arnt sociable people. I've since learned how to basically bulldoze my way into some people's homes and lives, but for the most part, am considered too friendly!! I went over to a new neighbor's house recently with a pie and they acted like I was bringing them a freaking bomb! I bet it went into the trash after I left too.
I found this to be true in parts of West Virginia and Maryland too.
Load More Replies...We are a couple of gay guys ( not a couple) who share a house on an amazing street in Brighton...we are very good friends with our one neighbour...helped the other neighbour get back into her home when she locked herself out and had too much to drink at her work party...have christmas drinks with the other neighbours on the street...visit them in hospital to check that they are ok...its british...just being good neighbours...
Why should you mention they are gay? nearly 50 years ago my parents moved us to a "sleep city" (newly built houses away from a city center in the Netherlands). Our neighbours were two guys. They would watch us when my parents went out. Only after many many years I would find out they were called "gay". To me they were just Freek and Jan. Two very nice people who were always there when our parents couldn't be. I don't, couldn't give a damn whether they are gay or not. I would love it when the world stops denigrating people to some kind of sex, creed, colour or whatever you have. Just enjoy the nice people this world has to offer!
Hahahaha the whole story, the comments are hilarious! WE ALL SHOULD BE LIKE THAT so the WORLD STRESSES ABOUT NICE THINGS AND NOT HATRED & WARS! :)
LMAO!! This is hilarious. I would love to have this problem. My neighbors regularly compete to be the trashiest people in the world. None of the other people in our neighborhood try to outdo them, but that doesn't stop them from upping the ante as often as possible...
In all seriousness though. This is a perfect example how things should work and how we should all be. But instead, our broken society (both on left and right) chooses to focus on what divides us, instead of what unites us.
Lucky bastards!!! The apartment next to me has been empty for months. No one to talk to, no one to invite me for dinner or at least coffee to chat with. Now, I'm ready to cry!!!
I can understand this in a way..I am a single mom with some health issues and after watching me try to mow my lawn a few times my neighbor volunteered his kid to do everything outside of my little fenced in area. For free. And he uses the riding mower on the back part. They came over last fall and trimmed a bunch of bushes and cut down a dead tree. I appreciate all the help, and he seems happy with just thank you, but I wish I could do more. But I don't even know how to bake! I mean, I can follow a recipe, but I subject nobody but my child to my cooking lol I feel like I should be able to do something. Probably doesn't help I'm an extreme introvert due to things in my past, but I even wish I had money to pay the kid. Unfortunately I had $9 left from my last check after bills. Maybe I'll save up for some yarn and crochet them some blankets. It's one of the few skills I have :p
They'd probably love that-handmade things are so rare these days! Casually/mysteriously ask them one day what their favorite colors are maybe.....
Load More Replies...Not all gay people are Mr Mary Poppins. Most of them don't even know how to bake a cake.
This is how why we should give everyone a chance whether they're gay, trans or not. Don't judge a book by it's cover
I wonder if Mr. and Mr. Nice started the nice campaign for the same reason Cat and her wife did. That is, the people who lived in Cat and Ms. Cat's house before they did out-niced Mr. and Mr. Nice and they in turn decided to to get in a preemptive strike on Cat and her wife.
Got 1 amazing neighbor and the other side calls the cops if we look at her- UGH
Can I have that korean roommate? he sounds better than my current one and with an asian person I won't have to worry about falling down the stairs due to empty bear cans. (cause you know their genetic markers that make them light weights in that department) and I myself don't even drink alcohol!
It's kind of sad that this isn't normal...when I'm nice to people they are either suspisciously at my motives or they take it as a sign of weakness and then practice the 'given an inch, take a mile' school of thought.... Always nice to have kind neighbors who become friends. The people make the neighborhood!
Try having neighbors (4 houses down) that call the police because your outside speakers (facing the house, not out to the open), are too loud. The police officers were cracking up! OR the neighbor across the street tells you "YOUR LEAVES ARE KILLING US!" He's out there with a bucket picking up individual leaves. every. day. We live off of forest How does he know they're OUR leaves! I would love to have the problem of nice neighbors! When we said we were going to have a BBQ at our place for the neighborhood, we were told... "We don't socialize in the neighborhood." and. they. don't.
I used to have neighbors that were poor and I considered dropping off some toys for her daughters, but they moved before I had the chance.
Hang on to them, @yotoob! We had neighbors like that. HAD. Not gay but ultra nice. One set retired to warmer climate and a newer house. The other upgraded to a bigger house across town. Now I have neighbors who can't even wave "hello", much less offer to show me their homes and give me candles when the power goes out.
Too many snowflakes in britain who are scared witless when people say hello/good morning. They think you want to climb into their fridge. They are suspicious of nice neighbours, hold them off, but then whinge when they get burgled saying "The neighbours didn't do anything." We lived next door to a man with all the trappings of money. He would greet us with gritted teeth and wasn't overly friendly. Then his £100,000 Harley Davison bike got squashed by a lorry carrying building material. Many of us witnessed it but agreed that we wouldn't do or say anything simply because he put out the word that we were all "Plebs". A week later, cap in hand, he knocked on all our doors asking for witness information. As you can imagine, some of the older residents were pretty fortright. After that incident, he became Mr Charm himself and rushed to help out with flat tires, batteries and other problems. So the moral of that tale is, a smile and a good morning works better than a scowl and looking dow
Well speaking personally I would be rather scared if my neighbor was a gun fanatic, even if they were nice. I just find guns scary
Load More Replies...Yup. Once again BP becomes more like BuzzFeed.
Load More Replies...I get the feeling you wanted to make a troll comment, but didn't want to put much effort into it. Well, good job- this may be the laziest comment I have ever seen. At least try to get people enraged at you, if you're going to be a troll.
Load More Replies...I don't know where this person is from, but this is the most British problem I've ever heard of. We can't accept niceness without feeling stressed by it.
You just have to try it the Canadian way, crack open a beer and relax. Enjoy a nice visit with good people. Needs to be a cold beer btw, I'm pretty sure drinking warm beer is a cause of stress (at least it stresses me out lol)
Load More Replies...Well I mean, not all of us are nice, but it IS kind of the Gay Agenda.
The Gay Agenda: Be very gay (aka happy) and kind
Load More Replies...This is amazing and incredibly accurate. Last time I went to a movie night with friends to one of my gay male friends houses he not only set up the most epic charcuterie board but made coffee cake....from scratch. When I have friends over to my place I buy booze, order pizza and make popcorn.
HAHAHHA i love this! see this is the real gay agenda, they want to kill you with niceness and make you love them! if you are afraid of nice things and nice people, i suggest you run. RUN!
I would. I would run for life. Whenever is someone uninvited comes, and start ringing on our door bell, we are just ignoring that we have heard anything. We just love our very rare times together. :)
Load More Replies...Being nice or an a*****e has nothing to do with your sexual prefernces.
Are you actually this clueless or just really bad at being funny...
Load More Replies...I live in a condo complex, gated and everything- most of my neighbors I never see but on the rare occasion. Now the neighbor to the left of me is an awesome teacher, who loves to decorate the outside of our condos (since our two condos look like-from the outside as one place) and put plants out every spring. But the one to the right of me is an asshat.. 🤮
Load More Replies...I had a neighbour so freaking nice he took over everything like snow or grass cutting. One day though, I left my garage door open. I pull up after a day at work, drive into the garage and sit there staring...at the wall of new shelving he put up.
Eeeek. that would freak me out a bit. I have lovely neighbors one side who know I am a bit disabled and help with rubbish bins, mowing etc. Neighbors the other side are from hell and keep shouting at people.
Load More Replies...My best friend of 10 plus years is gay, sadly he has never attempted any of this lol.
I would die to have neighbors as nice as these guys are! Up here in Seattle, we have what is so charmingly called, "The Seattle Freeze". When I first moved here (from Hawaii) I thought I must be a weird person because I just couldn't make new friends. Even my neighbors ignored me! Being from the "Aloha State", this crushed me and then I was told, Seattleites just arnt sociable people. I've since learned how to basically bulldoze my way into some people's homes and lives, but for the most part, am considered too friendly!! I went over to a new neighbor's house recently with a pie and they acted like I was bringing them a freaking bomb! I bet it went into the trash after I left too.
I found this to be true in parts of West Virginia and Maryland too.
Load More Replies...We are a couple of gay guys ( not a couple) who share a house on an amazing street in Brighton...we are very good friends with our one neighbour...helped the other neighbour get back into her home when she locked herself out and had too much to drink at her work party...have christmas drinks with the other neighbours on the street...visit them in hospital to check that they are ok...its british...just being good neighbours...
Why should you mention they are gay? nearly 50 years ago my parents moved us to a "sleep city" (newly built houses away from a city center in the Netherlands). Our neighbours were two guys. They would watch us when my parents went out. Only after many many years I would find out they were called "gay". To me they were just Freek and Jan. Two very nice people who were always there when our parents couldn't be. I don't, couldn't give a damn whether they are gay or not. I would love it when the world stops denigrating people to some kind of sex, creed, colour or whatever you have. Just enjoy the nice people this world has to offer!
Hahahaha the whole story, the comments are hilarious! WE ALL SHOULD BE LIKE THAT so the WORLD STRESSES ABOUT NICE THINGS AND NOT HATRED & WARS! :)
LMAO!! This is hilarious. I would love to have this problem. My neighbors regularly compete to be the trashiest people in the world. None of the other people in our neighborhood try to outdo them, but that doesn't stop them from upping the ante as often as possible...
In all seriousness though. This is a perfect example how things should work and how we should all be. But instead, our broken society (both on left and right) chooses to focus on what divides us, instead of what unites us.
Lucky bastards!!! The apartment next to me has been empty for months. No one to talk to, no one to invite me for dinner or at least coffee to chat with. Now, I'm ready to cry!!!
I can understand this in a way..I am a single mom with some health issues and after watching me try to mow my lawn a few times my neighbor volunteered his kid to do everything outside of my little fenced in area. For free. And he uses the riding mower on the back part. They came over last fall and trimmed a bunch of bushes and cut down a dead tree. I appreciate all the help, and he seems happy with just thank you, but I wish I could do more. But I don't even know how to bake! I mean, I can follow a recipe, but I subject nobody but my child to my cooking lol I feel like I should be able to do something. Probably doesn't help I'm an extreme introvert due to things in my past, but I even wish I had money to pay the kid. Unfortunately I had $9 left from my last check after bills. Maybe I'll save up for some yarn and crochet them some blankets. It's one of the few skills I have :p
They'd probably love that-handmade things are so rare these days! Casually/mysteriously ask them one day what their favorite colors are maybe.....
Load More Replies...Not all gay people are Mr Mary Poppins. Most of them don't even know how to bake a cake.
This is how why we should give everyone a chance whether they're gay, trans or not. Don't judge a book by it's cover
I wonder if Mr. and Mr. Nice started the nice campaign for the same reason Cat and her wife did. That is, the people who lived in Cat and Ms. Cat's house before they did out-niced Mr. and Mr. Nice and they in turn decided to to get in a preemptive strike on Cat and her wife.
Got 1 amazing neighbor and the other side calls the cops if we look at her- UGH
Can I have that korean roommate? he sounds better than my current one and with an asian person I won't have to worry about falling down the stairs due to empty bear cans. (cause you know their genetic markers that make them light weights in that department) and I myself don't even drink alcohol!
It's kind of sad that this isn't normal...when I'm nice to people they are either suspisciously at my motives or they take it as a sign of weakness and then practice the 'given an inch, take a mile' school of thought.... Always nice to have kind neighbors who become friends. The people make the neighborhood!
Try having neighbors (4 houses down) that call the police because your outside speakers (facing the house, not out to the open), are too loud. The police officers were cracking up! OR the neighbor across the street tells you "YOUR LEAVES ARE KILLING US!" He's out there with a bucket picking up individual leaves. every. day. We live off of forest How does he know they're OUR leaves! I would love to have the problem of nice neighbors! When we said we were going to have a BBQ at our place for the neighborhood, we were told... "We don't socialize in the neighborhood." and. they. don't.
I used to have neighbors that were poor and I considered dropping off some toys for her daughters, but they moved before I had the chance.
Hang on to them, @yotoob! We had neighbors like that. HAD. Not gay but ultra nice. One set retired to warmer climate and a newer house. The other upgraded to a bigger house across town. Now I have neighbors who can't even wave "hello", much less offer to show me their homes and give me candles when the power goes out.
Too many snowflakes in britain who are scared witless when people say hello/good morning. They think you want to climb into their fridge. They are suspicious of nice neighbours, hold them off, but then whinge when they get burgled saying "The neighbours didn't do anything." We lived next door to a man with all the trappings of money. He would greet us with gritted teeth and wasn't overly friendly. Then his £100,000 Harley Davison bike got squashed by a lorry carrying building material. Many of us witnessed it but agreed that we wouldn't do or say anything simply because he put out the word that we were all "Plebs". A week later, cap in hand, he knocked on all our doors asking for witness information. As you can imagine, some of the older residents were pretty fortright. After that incident, he became Mr Charm himself and rushed to help out with flat tires, batteries and other problems. So the moral of that tale is, a smile and a good morning works better than a scowl and looking dow
Well speaking personally I would be rather scared if my neighbor was a gun fanatic, even if they were nice. I just find guns scary
Load More Replies...Yup. Once again BP becomes more like BuzzFeed.
Load More Replies...I get the feeling you wanted to make a troll comment, but didn't want to put much effort into it. Well, good job- this may be the laziest comment I have ever seen. At least try to get people enraged at you, if you're going to be a troll.
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