We have never spent so much time in our homes as we have since the start of the pandemic. And it’s likely not going anywhere. With more and more workplaces shifting to hybrid, or to entire work from home models, homes are likely to remain our safe office spaces that have obvious perks. In fact, this 2019 survey found that a hybrid working environment would make employees happier (83%), feel more trusted (82%), improve their work/life balance (81%), and make them more likely to recommend their company to a friend (81%). Are we then now living our best lives, well, at least in that sense?
Not so fast. Staying at home means that you not only gotta spend more time with your family members, whether you like it or not, but that you’re not alone doing so. Your neighbors are also here too. That means a lot of noise, from construction sounds to loud quarrels or dance music smashing through the speakers. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Some people are (un)lucky enough to have real weird neighbors to deal with. And when I say weird, I mean it. Thanks to a subreddit called “NextDoor,” we can now get a glimpse into what it's like to live next door to someone that makes you wonder 'what on earth is wrong with some people?'
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Someone Sure Is Cocky
In my early teen years, we had a newly minted minister from seminary move to our small, very rural town. Less than 1000 people and ~23-35% of the homes didn't have electricity, plumbing and some still with dirt floors. There was a particularly large rooster that echoed each morning and it was an alarm clock for many. The new minister tried to get it confiscated and killed by going to the mayor's court. Instead, the mayor called the old minister who been promoted up the hierarchy of the church. The old minister showed up at the court date as a witness and announced that the Church (big C) would build a chicken coop outside the church(little c) to host this loud bird because it was more centrally located so more could hear it. The owner kept custody of his birds, just moved a couple blocks. The new minister quit and the old one gave the church to a young 19-20?? year old woman from town who was acting as the Sunday school leader. Its been ~ 30 years and she's still the minister in the town.
Many years ago my neighbor's two hens jumped over the wall and each laid a dozen eggs in the shed so we had 24 chickens. The neighbor only went for his two hens and gave us the chickens that later grew to about 70. My father was so happy, he never had to mow the lawn again!
I Would've Paid Cash To Have Witnessed This
Patriots? Hahahahaha just like the ones on Insurrection day! They could all use a dictionary.
Obviously those are Patriots, but with the first T moved to the front, two Rs, the O being an S, the A after the Rs, an E instead of a P, the A being an O, and a third R before the I. That still spells Patriots, right?
Load More Replies...I know how do they not tire themselves out. They exhaust me. I guess they enjoy sucking the life out of everyone they come in contact with.
Load More Replies...During the 1918 pandemic, people were arrested for not wearing masks. No one claimed it was "patriotic" to not wear a mask. The people who wore masks were glad the idiots were arrested.
Everyone knows real patriots try to overthrow their own government /s
People keep using that word. It doesn't mean what they think it means
He's Just Trying To Feed His Family In These Tough Times
I am showing it to my cat. She is not impressed. Typical.
Load More Replies...Little stinker! I couldn't be mad! I would just ask his owner to buy me a new rack of ribs.
And I think you need to 1) fix your fence and 2) pay someone for those ribs!
He needs to join forces with the cats who present their owners with sausages and chicken nuggets
From what animal did these ribs come? I've never seen a semicircular rack of ribs before.
It’s no secret that helping to create a sense of well-being in your community is the key to a happy neighborhood. However, fewer Americans are taking time to engage with their neighbors. This recent survey from Zebra backs up the statement. It found that a majority of Americans aren’t friends with their neighbors in real life. In fact, only 33% of Americans consider their neighbors friends or close friends, whereas 66% consider their neighbors strangers or acquaintances. Americans in the Midwest region are most likely to be friends with their neighbors.
Get Paid To Stop Baby Fever
Holy mother of two! I want this woman to be my neighbor. My kids are no longer babies, but OMG would this have been a blessing. Somebody needs to make this woman a saint (not christian so don't know how that all works). PS: If there's an empty-nester out there dying to clean a teenager's bedroom, please let me know. No payment necessary.
That’s so sweet. I could have done with someone like this when I first had children .
At one point I felt a need to hold and cuddle a baby, but came and went pretty quick when I offered to babysit my 8 month nephew, who only wanted his mom, so yes 8 hours of fun.
I actually like this. I would love to have a baby to hold and cuddle and then give back. I can still have children but lord o'mighty, could not stand being pregnant again or signing up for 18 more years.
My husband and I have talked about inventing a "baby rental business" that works like this for many years. There is NOTHING better that baby snuggles and nothing worse than being a new parent...
I Hope He Does It
Why do hoomans have to be so problematic? Just...just live your own life dammit!
However whales are much calmer. Especially space whales.
Load More Replies...Or Gays maybe? A outspoken gay neighbourhood would look so freaking cool, If they all had houses like this. I would love to see that happen
Load More Replies...That building - regardless of its being part of the story - is quite lovely.
I wonder how many little kids have tried to eat the "candy house"?
Ngl, I'd buy the rainbow house right now. Shut up and take my money.
Instead of reporting whatever codes were being violated, how about talking to the neighbor about how they can help. In our Nextdoor, groups of neighbors get together when someone can't get their property to code. One was a disabled woman who's husband just passed. That's being neighborly.
They cleaned up the yard and took turns mowing for her. I love my neighborhood.
Load More Replies...Fred Phelps is an evil man that runs a church in Kansas. They hate everyone and used to protest many things and people in a belligerent manner. One of their most famous was a funeral of a soldier who died in Iraq protecting some children. They showed up with bullhorns at the cemetery saying god killed their son because he worked for a country that allows gays. A group then bought the house across from the front door of the church was and painted it similar to the one above. Its called Equality House and a center of social justice (you can visit it). When it was vandalized and shot up in 2016, neighbors who complained about the house because they too didn't believe in what it stood for, showed up to repair and repaint the house This story regarding the neighbors is one of my favorite because it shows you can oppose an idea but understand that you still have to love the person behind it.
My Neighbors Are Loosing It...
Here too. Very depressing- we had these "cheap" 15 cent goldfish that had been with us for 3 years in my little pond. They weren't Koi or anything expensive, but they were ours...
Load More Replies...Congratulations Larry, you did it! You achieved every goldfish’s dream and made your freedom run. Live free or die! Wait! Um. Hold on a minute……Oh no….
This is actually quite sweet. Mom and Dad doesn't want to tell their young'un that their goldfish went belly up. No 123 area code btw.
This was probably done to sooth a kid's sorrow after losing his pet. I think that's good parenting.
Meanwhile, some experts argue that online neighborhood groups are replacing face-to-face communication. For example, Neighborhood-based site Nextdoor has 236,000 active neighborhoods throughout the world. It reaches 90% of U.S. neighborhoods, and is worth an estimated $2.1 billion. Zebra’s survey also showed that almost a third, 27% of Americans are in online neighborhood groups. Moreover, women are 10% more active in these online communities.
Another study was run by NextDoor in conjunction with Brigham Young University in the United States, University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and Swinburne University of Technology In Australia, and conducted by a team of leading loneliness experts. They found that knowing as few as 6 neighbors reduces the likelihood of feeling lonely and is linked to lower depression, social anxiety, and financial concerns related to COVID-19.
Ice Cream Truck Uproar
Given the attention paid to chickens in this section I'd say a crowing rooster might be better still.
Load More Replies...Something very creepy about a person choosing that ringtone. Do they also drive a van?
Could we just ban ringers all together - maybe the Ice Cream trucks don't like the competition!
One summer we had to listen Camptown Races 7 days a week... and they drove by our house a second after they left the hamlet. The follow year it was a different song that had a long pause at the end and then a very loud "HELLO" in a woman's voice. It was loud enough after that silence that you would nearly jump. The dogs hated it too! I still love my ice cream though.
I Have So Many Questions
I had a neighbor searching for his bees... they found them two Blocks away on this Old ladys porch.
Offering to come get them is thoughtful. Maybe that's the way beekeepers are?
Where I live, if you have a beehive in your house or on your property, you can call beekeepers to take the hives away for free. Some will even offer you some money or free honey. So if people have a bee problem don't automatically call pest control, ring around and see if someone will take them.
Load More Replies...It is,amazing to see a huge swarm of bees gone walkabout. They were just resting on a big bush before finding a new home. Nature is such a joy.
I do have a swarm of 30000 bees that started at 11am on 3rd June, but they don’t look like that swarm, so never mind.
Not All Boomers Are Bad
My boomer mother suggested that I start smoking weed, I have chronic pain and it actually works. It's illegal where I live but she promised to pay any fine if I was caught with it!
Your mother is cool! We must protect her at all costs! Mine told me she would bail me out for murder but not for shmarashuana XD
Load More Replies...Captain Crunch. Every pot smoker who snacked on those beauties got a torn roof of their mouth in return.
I sometimes think the Girl Scouts work for the Dionysus, the Greek god of debauchery, wine and partying. Its mid-January, I'm short on cash and made New Years resolutions to eat better and exercise to get rid of my gut from the end of the year holidays. Then I get out of my car at the grocery store to buy fresh vegetables and see an 8 year-old girl selling thin mints and do-si-does by the front entrance. I have to support this kid so buy a box, ruining my idea to eat healthy. As I leave the store, there's a different 10 year old girl working the card table so I buy another box to help her out. This continues for a month and I have a freezer full of cookies calling my name while I'm trying to eat broccoli.
I'm technically a boomer (born 1951, but believe me, I don't have a boomer attitude), and I can't take the smell of the pot being sold these days. It's completely different from what I used back in the day! what I wouldn't give for a kilo of original Acapulco Gold, hahaha
Load More Replies...Because Nextdoor Isn't Always Racist Or Trashy, Here Is Something On The Lighter Side
A few years ago a cockerel suddenly showed up in our cul-de-sac. I gave him something to eat. He showed up every morning to shriek at the house until I threw him something. I was worried he'd get killed by local cats or dogs until I saw him kick their asses and seemed to be enjoying it. Eventually found he lived about a mile and a half away and he was making the journey here and back, also crossing a railway track.
Last time I posted something like that animal control showed up and tried to catch it. Didn't work. So they tried to dart it with a tranq gun, dart bounced right off the feathers lol. They gave up after 2 hours and let the chicken be a chicken and cross the road as often as it wants. My stomach hurt from laughing. Chicken ate out of my hand that same evening.
Heh, one of my tiny cockerels flew up and away from us and into the trees one day while we were hanging in the backyard. My son and I tried to chase him down and back into the yard and he just kept going higher into the trees. Eventually, all the neighbors behind us came out and wanted to see what was going on. It became the neighborhood entertainment for about 2 days - we'd come outside and someone would say they heard him or saw him. We got him down whenever we brought his girlfriend outside and he heard her, he just jumped down the branches and onto the roof of their shed and then into my backyard again.
All The Best Hoods Have Great Lawn Care
In what world does the grass grow fast enough to justify mowing twice a week?
And in what world do the majority of people have the f*****g TIME AND ENERGY to mow their lawns twice a week? Get da f**k outta here, Karen!
Load More Replies...We have a neighbor who replaced their yard with a native meadow. I absolutely love it. So many birds, butterflies, and bees. We ended up following suit. Not our whole yard, but about 1/3rd. For us, it's the back-yard so nobody complains, but that neighbor had been receiving complaints for years, and has been fined for it several times. Eventually, we flipped the supervisors from Republicans to Democrats. Now he gets a small stipend ($100/year), for promoting biodiversity. We're moving back into the city now, and I will miss the wildlife (especially the baby foxes we get every spring).
If you don't want snakes, you do. I accidentally decapitated a poor brown snake that lived beside my mailbox. Lots of snakes in Florida.
Load More Replies...Karen needs to get herself a MFing job, maybe she would not fixate on lawns so much
A Neighborly Reminder
Well June, you are seeing people who DO live around you, but had jobs during the day before. Now they have a moment to see the sun outside. You joy thief.
In my neighborhood we had someone suggest that at 7 pm everyone go out on their porches and have a dance party (my neighborhood is single family houses, not dense). Someone thought that was HIGHLY DANGEROUS and no one should step foot outside their own doors, 20+ feet away from anyone else.
Oooh you have a nature center near you!? I'm on my way to go walk around it outside! Thanks for the heads up!
Meanwhile
Neighbors falling into three categories: 1) Do your own darned yard, 2) That's trespassing, gonna sue, 3) Thought I'd help out - thanks.
Grew up in a duplex. My mom made me mow the whole shared front yard. When I complained, she made me do their backyard too. FF 40yrs. I live across the street from a duplex complex. One of the occupants is a single mom, her son went off to college. I stepped up and started helping her out by mowing her lawn and doing her snow removal, didn't ask for compensation. Her neighbor only did their half, despite me doing their half if I got there first. I continued to do both half's just to prove how petty her neighbor was
We have a shared front garden with our neighbours. As they are a retired couple, they always cut the grass. Sometime I do it but they have more time. He also has a machine to pull out all the moss. All he ever asked for was to be able to put the garden waste in our green bin. Which of course is fine.
My neighbor lost his marbles when his next door neighbor cut his "side strip". Some people need sh*t to b***h about.
I used to trim the areas that I shared with my neighbors all the way, then one of them mention that after I do their whole lawn only looks half done until they mow the rest. Now I leave a clear boundary.
We use to shovel our sidewalk/steps and neighbor too, but we noticed one time when we came out to shovel he was done( but only his side) so now we only do ours
Depends on what the other neighbor did to make this neighbor feel like being petty, as this looks like a spite mow.
Perfect Little Soup Boy
Maybe it's the wrong house and a little soup boy is waiting for the soup that never came.
Slowly starving, feeling unloved, disappointed about unkept promises. Sniff, sniff.
Load More Replies...Let me know when your first song is out!
Load More Replies...They should donate the soup to the lonely fellow down in the list.
Aw! Quit your bitchen take the soup and leave a thank you note on the porch!
Runaway Roomba
Without a microchip or tags, this could be difficult. You may have to resign yourself to the likelihood your Roomba was taken in by a new family that thought it was a homeless stray. Rest assured that they will love and care for it. It's hard, but perhaps you will find a new Roomba someday.
You shouldn't let your robot vacuum outside. Nature abhors a vacuum.
The offspring should be interesting - break into your house and mow the carpet.
Load More Replies...Even the robots have had enough and are joining the "great resignation." A few days ago, one of the Roomba robot vacuums employed by a Travelodge budget hotel in Cambridge, England, tried to make a break for it. It took staff at the hotel about a quarter of an hour to notice that the Roomba was missing. According to the hotel’s assistant manager, the vacuums usually turn around at the front door, but not this one. It’s unclear if the robot’s sensors failed to notice the lip at the entrance telling it to turn back, or if some other interference occurred. A staff member reportedly found it under a hedge the next day, and it was cleaned off and returned to duty. Honest mistake, or an attempt to run off and start the robot revolution? govtech.com
Need Immediate Help
(You had this coming) "Shut up. Shut up! Shut UP!"
Load More Replies...A giant Chapstick. Actually, I'm extremely good at this. Explained to professional movers how to get my long sofa out of the stairwell in our new apartment. They were going to leave it there.
A Joke Or A Cry For Help?
Sorry man, I go through this with my parents on a weekly basis when I visit on Sundays
Oh Teenagers....
Umm, about that notice-on-fence thing, I would love to try that. I'd write, "We're watching you. Every second of everyday. We're watching you."
Hell, why don’t you just post the lyrics to “Every Breath You Take” while you’re at it? (Probably have to pay royalties to Sting, but oh well, small price to pay, right?)
Load More Replies...What about option #5 - rig up a sound system and blast out classical music interspersed with the sound of the ice-cream truck. Negative re-enforcement to encourage them to leave and positive re-enforcement to remind them of an an acceptable alternative.
Bruh that won’t do crap do you really think you care about Beethoven that much when your high
Load More Replies...Get a noise generator that puts out a 17 KHZ tone. To young ears it sounds like mosquitos.
Used the sprinkler trick frequently when our backyard used to boarder a public park and people would just lie down on our grass and make out. Worked like a charm.
These Are The Posts I Like To See
I need a drink too I'm so out of breath and dry from reading this run on sentence!
Thomas, it’s funny you get so worked up over periods when I’m sure your mother hoped to get one but got you instead.
I went to a neuro psychological eval last week that was that weird. They said I was normal.
This Was Posted On My Local Nextdoor Today...
Why would you do this. Like did you just wake up in the morning and think " I should go poop on people's yards". Like seriously.
Apparently running, especially long distance, can trigger sudden diarreah (sorry don't know how to spell it). There's a whole bunch of scientific explanations for this... So I guess she knew from experience (since she brought paper) but decided her workout was more important than the eventual people that would have to deal with her runners poop...
Load More Replies...Ah, yes... I remember the "Mad Pooper"... https://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/14/mad-pooper-colorado-springs/
Yes the mad pooper! We had a lady do this outside of my work in Atlanta! I didn’t catch her but a shop owner did ! She pushed it to the side with a paper towel she had brought !
Load More Replies...Now i'm picturing them getting an airhorn and next time using it and then shouting bad human bad human.
When you got diarrhea but you firmly committed to your New Year's weight loss resolution
The post said piles not puddles so it's not even diarrhoea, she's dropping logs left and right
Load More Replies...The bicyclists on Indian Rvr Trail pee in their water bottles and throw them up into my neighbors lawns, near doors and driveways, so they can dispose of them. How kind of them /s
Yeah, I know people who suffer this runners poop thing. Some run in woods and go to the bushes which is not optimal but to do it in behind someone's fence is terrible behavior. If I had that problem, I would just find another hobby or run around my own house to be able to make it to my own toilet.
I can imagine a situation where somebody has a condition (IBS, Crohns, etc.) and they have no control over when it comes on, but they also really want to stay healthy in other ways. But there are no public restrooms. Try to keep away from people's homes, and carry a little shovel, so you can dig a hole if you really, really have to go.
I think at that point it might be best to resign themselves to running on a treadmill/track at the gym. Defecating in public, even with a little camping shovel to bury the evidence, is SUPER weird and unacceptable.
Load More Replies...Anybody Out There??
But how many cases of toilet paper does he have?!?!?!
Load More Replies...What about the toilet rolls? Are you OK for toilet rolls? God-damn it! Someone, get him some wipes or a box of tissues! Please!
If he has enough then invite the locked-out guy over. You can hunt in pairs then.
Load More Replies...You've hoarded enough to protect yourself from germs we haven't discovered yet but forgot to pack your warehouse with food. Be a crying shame to die is starvation. What's your Plan B?
Doesn't need to, what with all these chickens wandering around.
Load More Replies...He's Eaten All Of My Cereal
Maybe it's just my imagination, but is that coffee table also a diorama filled with taxidermied waterfowl? That poor goose entered a house of horrors and is likely rather confused!
Me too. I came here for to ask about the coffee table.... what is it? !?
Load More Replies...Ugh. Geese droppings are huge and leave nasty stains on walkways near their homes or migration stopovers. I shudder to think what it can do to carpets and hardwood floors.
He’s from HGTV and he refuses to leave until you get rid of that coffee table.
Illegal Activity Reported By Karen…
That's what's wrong with this country, people need to mind their own damn business.
The funny thing is, we used to have the opposite problem (Google Kitty Genovese and you’ll see what I mean). Seems the pendulum has swung too far on this. Why can’t we ever achieve a balance? You know, like using common sense before taking action? See something happening that might require you to step up? Take a couple seconds to assess the situation first before jumping in. Make sure your assistance is even needed first. Why is this so damn difficult?
Load More Replies...This is annoying of me I know, but the fact that they used “there” and “their” wrong both times really bothers me. If you’re not sure, just reuse one of them repeatedly so you’re tight half the time 😁
Only tight half the time? Guess you've gotta relax occasionally.
Load More Replies...There's a fine line between minding your own business and ignoring signs of danger where people are at risk. If you think an activity is causing harm to others, I think it's okay to call it in. It's not nice to have the police called on you, but it's also worrying to think there is a meth lab selling on your street. One of my neighbours called the police on us because my brother used to sleep during the day and had a big foil reflector in his bedroom window to keep the light/heat out. Someone thought it was a drug den. A police officer came around, had a look, said thank you and apologised for the disturbance. We were all okay with that.
Oooh, I don't know. Candles and soap, and perfumed too, I bet. Sounds like hippies to me, and we all know what they're like - obvious camouflage for a hippy drug-dealer set-up. Might be legit of course, but then she'd be selling product on-line in this day and age of Covid sensitivity.
But cooking meth and making soap and candles is so much alike if you don't know how to mind your own Business.
Sounds like the neighbour needs to learn about hygiene if they think soaps and candles are illegal
I knew I guy in the candle business and he was selling candles with "special filling" got caught when we open a legit candle shop to funnel the money he was making.
Diarrhea
Why did your wife lock you out when you have diarrhea - I guess its a punishment of some sort - go s**t I mean sit in her car - that ought to even things up!
A typical neighborhood in America has more than 500 toilets. Most modern homes have two bathrooms. All businesses in the United States are required by law to have a toilet and a drinking fountain or water for employee use.
Stop
Depends what county/city codes are. In my area, if you are behind a fence... then it's legal
Where I live the fence has to be at least 6-foot high. We had a neighbour who started this. He checked with the local council, then raised his timber fence by a foot all round. Upset me and my brother for ages until we managed to open a knot hole - we didn't have any tall enough trees unfortunately.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately in the UK that isn't strictly true. You are allowed to be naked anywhere (yes, really) *but* not if the reason you are doing it is to cause distress etc. So people can and do complain about people being naked in their own back gardens, and sometimes the naked person does get told they have to cover up as it is causing distress or offence.
You're not allowed to in my city... Maybe the problem isn't your neighbors, maybe you're just an activist trying to change the law!
Alert
Ah just wait a couple of hours, but not a minute more, because then theyll be rotten
Yes, You buy them hard and then store them in different places with different temps so that they don't get ripe at the same time.
That's brilliant! So simple yet I never thought of it!
Load More Replies...You ever want to make guacamole, and find yourself running around 3-4 different stores to find the avocado that’s ready?
Just Because It’s Upside-Down, Doesn’t Mean It Can Be Parked On The Lawn [denver]
Next week's announcement: please do not park tipped over cars in yards
Because you added coordinates, I had to look on Google Maps. I think in all fairness, there is snow on the ground and the driver couldn't see all the big rocks in the front and that is why it tipped over. Give the dude a break. And he didn't block the walkway for both apartments.
lol Denver! not everyone can operate a vehicle while stoned and it SHOWS!
Anyone can park their cars on their own property any way they want to down side up or upside down!
Doesn’t Ring A Bell...
Maybe he lived in apartment buildings all his life up until then and had never seen one before?
Load More Replies...Lol! I know it feels like it's been 20 years instead of two, when people don't know what a doorbell is anymore
Load More Replies...And the damn thing stops when I open the door! Should I just leave the door open? Of course you dumbass!
So. To be clear. This person CAN afford to buy a home and ..and...I can NOT? FFS
If the electrical system has gone bad, a doorbell can make a weird buzzing sound before finally ringing. That could be the problem.
Waffle Stomper
Now we are all rushing to Urban Dictionary to see what a waffle stomper is. (To save you time, it is someone who poops in the shower and then tries to squish it down the shower drain).
Omg! I'm not sure if that knowledge makes me smarter or dumber
Load More Replies...The main problem is the OP is not thinking straight - she plainly needs a bigger iguana. Or better yet a Komodo Dragon. Nobody is going to disrespect a lady walking a 150lb, 10ft long dragon. And with all these chickens and geese wandering around should be cheap to feed too.
And what are you going to tell the authorities? That a teenager called you a waffle stomper while you were walking your iguana John McCain? You might get thrown into a 72 hour psyche hold, that's about it.
I was wondering just WHAT authorities she would call? CapLIZRDre...d7573f.png
Waffle stompers are slang for a type of shoe, and I would greet a beardie with ALL the joy!
In the seventies someone who wore hiking boots all the time was a waffle stomper (from the pattern on the bottom of the boots), or the boots themselves were called waffle stompers.
A Warm Welcome
Having lived in that neighborhood, I agree. All of DC really, is not the most neighborly place. Too many transients, it lacks community cohesion. Also, everybody asked me what I do for a living on first meeting. Like they will only continue the conversation if I hold a high enough status. Happy to not be there anymore.
They're right. Nextdoor is full of mean nasty people and I left them in the dust a long time ago. A horrible site.
You’re All Going To Hell Kids
Counter protest - "kids, do what you feel is right, and ignore that pedo screamer!"
Correct answer. Sit opposite with an even louder loud-hailer and play some nice music or quote bits of the bible about live and let live, let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and loving thy neighbour, etc...
Load More Replies...Next time call the cops and tell them that he is a pervert trying to entice children over with a megaphone. That'll stop him.
Stand in front of him with a bigger megaphone and when ever he starts, you start. Subjects of interest: Church of Satan. Ritual Sacrifice. Harry Potter (Don't ask why, but it really does set them off) and just keep shouting over him until he gives up. Also, if you run out of things to say, either ramble inanely or use the sirens built into the things and finally... feedback is your friend! Get as close as possible and press that button down hard
There’s some dude who stands outside my school with a sign that says “praying for your school, GOD IS THE ANSWER” and honestly I’m not sure what question our school has…
If GOD IS THE ANSWER then the question must be "What is the name of the fictional entity to whom countless people pray?"
Load More Replies...If it creates a regular noise disturbance, especially during unreasonable hours, the police are obligated to respond. Also, this is clearly harassment of minors, another reason the police would respond.
Something very similar went to US Supreme Court and they ruled 8-1 its free speech/religion. Its on public land during hours that a government building is open and operating. Its a case of the one bad apple ruining the basket. If there's a noise ordinance prohibiting loud noises over xx dB during school hours to allow a learning environment, they can be arrested. Then its the volume, not the message, that's being censored and it counts the same for a megaphone, car radio, and jackhammer. Once school is out, the noise ordinance is invalid until night because, once again, you have to allow people to builds their additions and have their house parties so it can't be 24/7.
Load More Replies...Stand there and blow an air horn behind him everytime he opens his mouth... bet he'll move on.
Lol
This happens at our pond fairly regularly, racoons come and steal them in the night for gourmet meals.
No racoons here in town but we have some gourmet herons and storks...
Load More Replies...My brother had this very problem, but it was also his koi carp. It was a heron dropping in and eating them
I had a small pond in my backyard and storks would regularly try to catch the frogs. They were too smart though, and the storks couldn’t catch a single one!
Load More Replies...Are there any large birds where you live? I’m willing to wager there are, regardless. Well, frogs do make a nice snack for large birds. It’s Nature. Unfortunately, it isn’t always pretty.
It is an English slang word for died, kind of like "kicked the bucket" or "bought the farm". If someone croaked, they died. 😁
Load More Replies...A friend use to have great blue herons stop by her house and eat her koi while she was at work.
The first summer I had my house with my little pond out back I had frogs. The next summer they were gone. Haven't been back. It's ok. I'm filling in the pond anyhow lol. Was cool to have them for 1 summer though.
Literally The First Post I Saw When I Downloaded Nextdoor
I actually had this happen. Husband was at work, the kids weren't home and I know it wasn't me..... It turned out that occasionally my cat decides to poop in the toilet instead of his litter box. I can't tell you how many times I've probably fussed at my 5 year old son for not flushing and it's been the cat. I would have thought someone had broken in to potty of I hadn't been home all day.
You sure you just didn’t forget to flush? Or maybe you did, but there wasn’t enough water pressure…
Lost Bird
A pidgeon, you say? Like Walter Pidgeon? ‘Cause he’s been dead since 1984. OMG, they just saw a ghost! (/s)
Walter Pidgeon kiss me when I was 5 years old. Thanks for reminding me!
Load More Replies...Hahaha! I once found a pigeon and it actually did belong to someone!
Here Is A Great Idea For Increasing Property Values!
AGAIN! What's with people wanting to force their neighbors into their ways of life. Frickin umbridge grassholes
These people are often those who have no control of a significant part of their lives (bad job, divorced, 2nd mortgage,etc) and they overcompensate to show that something they want actually affects the world. Thinking a neighborhood dress code could raise your property values (which are meaningless unless you are selling) in 12 months is a cry for help - someone listen to me.
Load More Replies...The best way to increase the value of the neighbourhood is to get rid of weirdos and loonies
I'm guessing this is Florida. It has to be Florida. At some point all morons and dips**ts are forced to migrate to Florida for breeding.
Not forced. They come in droves. Them and serial killers. They all come to Florida.
Load More Replies...“Unaccompanied Poultry” On The City Sidewalk
Our neighbor's peacock and peahens would get out, and cry at his gate until he got home! Silly birds!
Very likely going to pullet a weapon. They're egging each other on.
They weren't unsupervised. See that one in the black. That's their supervisor.
Someone Get This Man A Job At The Cdc
How is this person then sanitising the tongs are each use? Or are they potentially carrying around a contaminated item and if so how is that helping? 🤣
There are workarounds for this. If you can’t find hand sanitizer, use wet wipes, eyeglass cleaner—-or soap and water, plus wear gloves—-until you can find some actual hand sanitizer again.
Buy your own. Bath & Body Works and Dollar Tree have plenty. And of course, soap works even better.
When the pandemic began, our town ran out of three things: hand sanitiser, bleach and... lemons. For some reason, people here believe that viral infections can be cured by 🍋.
Load More Replies...Alright Then
Not a problem, Laurence, as long as you reciprocate (and aren’t doing anything illegal). Welcome to the neighborhood!
I Never Mentioned A Poop Bag
PLEASE use my trash can if it's at the curb, ESPECIALLY for poopy bags! Better where they belong than on the street!
But ONLY if it's at the curb waiting to be picked up. I have seen this get way out of hand and cause a real mess when the poop bag bursts open 3 days before pick up. Also, some places will not pick up trash if the garbage man sees a poop-bag, it's a bio-hazard
Load More Replies...I have a similar issue going on right now…I have a dog so have no issue with bagged poop going in the wheelie bin. But there is a woman who walks her dog past and I’ve seen her throw poop bags onto my neighbours property and I don’t appreciate the bags in the recycling bins (I have to fish them out) or the bag I found thrown over my garden fence, not that I’ve seen whose done that. I mean just dispose of it like a normal thinking person and there wouldn’t be an issue. Some people are disgusting.
I laughed too hard at this. There have been many threads like this that have over three hundred comments on the nextdoor site in my area. On this exact topic!
Computer Goose
Never, ever, never never use your computers as admin, when you set up you PC (windows) the first time set up 2 accounts, one as simple user with no admin privileges and a Admin account. You don't need, must not be admin for daily use. When you nee to change a setting install a program etc you will be ask for admin pass for that operation. Also, set up guest account for kids.
no but this is a mac, it requires an admin password to do basically anything, even if you login as an admin account. I have no idea how they did this.
Load More Replies...I Love This
I'd be pissed and amused at the same time, the internal struggle is real
Some people don’t think it’s funny to see holiday decorations having sex.
Load More Replies...snerk One neighbor has a little seal made of this stuff. Yes. A Christmas Seal.
That's A Bit Too Descriptive
Well, I had a cat once, who was skinny and wiry everywhere but his (proportionately) bubble butt, so I guess I might understand what they’re saying?
Neigbors
Well, I have seen some houses that really need some cleaning up, tbh. Some have honestly been hazards to public health, with garbage piled up in the yard. Imagine the rodents and cockroaches. So yeah, I can see this request being valid in those cases. But, knowing HOA b******t like I do, the house might just have something innocuous in the yard. Like children’s toys and /or bikes, or maybe a chair or something, and the HOA Nazi neighbors are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Or Maybe It Was A Coyote?
Lol usually a coyote. I got tired of reminding them that this was THEIR land first, and will be after we are gone, so watch your pets when they are outside!
The people here will sometimes argue that it can’t possibly be coyotes. I’ve seen them, in person, like 20 feet away. There was a rash of cat murders two summers ago that was ultimately determined to be done by coyotes, and that was in a neighborhood that’s not near the woods.
Load More Replies...The Terrifying Oj Bandit
The soup-giver learned that person did not like soup, and started leaving orange juice instead.
Load More Replies...Poor Lisa, Forgot What The American Flag Looked Like
You again. Walkin' on sunshine and don't it feel good!?
Load More Replies...Lisa grinned secretly while stroking the 24 eggs next to her with the sell by dates going back 3 months. Reaching down, she picks up some vials labelled Salmonella, Botulism and Ecoli. She fills the syringe with a little of each and selects an egg and her grin widened
Holy cow are you suggesting that it’s going to be arch duke Ferdinand all over again but with eggs?!? Sorry if it offends anyone
Load More Replies...Why Lisa? You think you have a chance of being the 4th Mrs Trump? Bwahahahahaha!
Or she is checking the Trump route for grassy knolls and book depository's
Lady Sent Me A Dm With My Home Address And Threatens To Come To My House Because I Left Sad Face Reactions On Her Comments About Homeless People. Yes I Actually Did End Up Calling Police
Been there. I got a very hostile message from someone on nextdoor because I accidentally hit a smile emoji. OMG lighten upl
Saw a story once where an older lady had sent a 🖕🏼instead of a 👍🏼 when thanking somebody. They just said “what emoji are you trying to send?” Rather than start an online fight.
Load More Replies...Did Anyone Else Have Strange People Come By Last Night?
Not if the guy didn't ask nicely. That's part of the ritual right? You are OFFERED a choice as candy dealer. Your goods or your sanity! Muahaha!
Load More Replies...Mysterious Bath
Can you leave a note with my address? I have a dachshund that despises baths and a pitbull that loves them so much it's extremely difficult to get him out of the tub.
Along with strangers that break in your house to have a crap!!! In your toilet
Did I Ask, Linda?
Don’t Let Your Dog Pee On Walks!
?? I don't let my dog wee on other people's lawns. If they're on a lead it's not hard to do. It's not because they're bursting, they're marking the territory and therefore it can wait.
Yes this is 100% true! Mine pees on command where designated, but I also specialize in behavior rehab... most people don't recognize it as dominance (over you even) when they wee on everything in front of you. He wees in my yard 1st, and then a stop sign (bc it's not private property). He's almost the same weight as me, so his bladder is not bursting, nor is he being abused. This is a good exercise in manners for male dogs, especially with powerful breeds; they do not "mark territory " in front of their pack leader. If your dog stops every 5 seconds (unless they're on a medication or have incontinence issues), they are saying "I'm in charge of you and the rest of the neighborhood"... it can Def kill grass, lead to behavioral issues, or cause issues with other dogs.
Load More Replies...I’m not sure what’s wrong with this dog but my four dogs pee all over my yard and none of it is brown. Maybe all that money they’re spending on their yard isn’t doing what they’re expecting it to
It’s just certain dogs that turn the grass brown. Most dogs don’t. I knew a lady who had to train her dog to wee on the gravel driveway and not the grass because of this.
Load More Replies...Upset With My Neighbor's WiFi Name
Our neighbor's WiFi name is Trump2020 so I had to change ours to Trumpsuxdoggiedix.
You, sir, are the kind of people that truly makes America great again!
Load More Replies...If your grandson is crying because he read something that says all cops are buttholes, he is going to have a hard life
Trump trash love cops. Until they lose an election and feel like they have to beat them in the head with metal bars and tase them.
Best one I've come across was Jesus_loves_f@gs I never knew who it was but I wanted to hi five them
Lol, they would HAAATE our wifi names! Especially if they don't see any Black CIA Vans!
TBH good solution for the smoking teenagers problem above.
Load More Replies...Neighbors
TBH, small, high energy dogs do move fast, and some people are a little slow hitting buttons on their phones, so…
Must Have Been A Bummer BBQ...
I hope it's not one of those cute chicks and this was left as a warning for the rest.
The Brown Eye Bandit
"Um, electric company? Yeah, I'm not going to be paying my bill this month and maybe not next month. Why? Well, you see, someone has farted in my mailbox and my bill smalls like fart now." I'll be over here laughing about this for awhile now.🤣🤣🤣
This is so evil and yet so hilarious... lol. I'm definitely going to hell.
Wish we had mailboxes. It's really difficult to fart through a letter box. Some of the springs are just too strong :(
Load More Replies...It’s Very Important For The Attorney To Be Christian
Honest, Christian and attorney in the same sentence? your having a laugh lol.
In my experience, any business or service provider who advertises as 'christian' will be the first to rip you off, sue you, or otherwise screw you over. If it has to be advertised, it isn't self-evident. At least not the brand of 'christian' they think they are.
That would be like flipping a 3 sided coin and having it land on its edge
Oxymoron. Law school teaches you to justify and rationalize any action.
Maybe she wants an attorney called Christian and she just worded it wrong
Can The Kids Find A More Convenient Time To Go Missing?
I mean, you could always put your phone on silent like the rest of the world.
My phone allows me to turn off Amber Alerts. Not that I would!
Load More Replies...This Guy Thinks He Lives In A Small Town
Possibly concussion if he made it through chatting with the driver then returning home before he realized he and his scooter were banged up
Moat likely under shock. I got hit by a car once and was bleeding from knees, arms and face - the driver got out, asked me if I was okay, I said yes (completely out of it) and they got back inside their car and took off. I was nine or ten years old...
Load More Replies...It’s Always Awkward When People Treat Nd Like Their Facebook Feed
I've read this entire feed, now that I've finally had my first laugh of the day I can move on!
Load More Replies...PSA for our friends in USA, This is called a Terrapin. NOT a turtle, and NOT a sea turtle, and not a tortoise.
Yes! Thanks for the lil fun fact, I learned something new today! :D
Load More Replies...Turtles aren't mentioned in the bible (just turtle DOVES). Therefore, according to some, turtles don't exist.
She's Been Asking For Money And Threatening To Kill Herself For Weeks. Please Don't Come Back
Started With An Argument About Fireworks Past 12am And Ended Up With Him Showing Up In Front Of My House With This Sign For About Two Hours
Yeah, we reported fireworks because it's Black Flag level fire danger during a drought and a plague. Go home junior.
I hate fireworks but I’m willing to let it go when there’s not a burn ban and it’s a holiday, except the fireworks have started at 2 pm on December 31 and finally ended at like 4 am January 2. Even though it was intermittent, that’s just beyond unreasonable.
Load More Replies...Take a chill pill bro... tho idk maybe he has a pount abt the fireworks
I Hope Whoever Scooped Up This Deal Appreciates It More Than This Guy's GF
what kind of a girlfriend ask you to get ride of your ants, the deserve just as much love as she does..poor guy
Why would someone downvote this? I can only do so much with one account, so I can bring it to zero. Sorry I couldn't upvote it meaningfully. Great comment! love ants
Load More Replies..."... they bite so be careful!" What were his special memories he shared with ants? How about if I jut half of them. Would his GF be okay with that? lol
No Need To Fear, Vigilante Vedran Is On It
At least this proves the crazies aren't just reporting Existing While Black encounters. They report everyone.
Yeah, no one works from home or is retired! Also, there's this Vedran character who doesn't seem to work, just spies on dogwalkers. Not sure how they can afford this so I've reported them to the IRS. Vigilant 4 lyfe!
Cat Cat Cat Cat Goose?
How’s Your Neighborhood Handling The Pandemic? Mine’s Full Of Ignorant People Like These
"Everyone ratting out their neighbors." You mean like the USA in the 50's when McCarthy had neighbors turning in neighbors for acting suspiciously like communists and were investigated by the FBI?
Getting Deep With Your Neighbors
Have you ever had an allergic reaction to shrimp ? Well it’s similar to that!
Suspicious Duck
Random Outburst From Mike
Kristen's Cat Is Probably Wondering Where's Lunch
Oh No, Not A Jewel!
Occam’s Razor: The simplest explanation is usually the best. It’s probably just a USB stick. BTW, it’s spelled Juul, not Jewel, and if you didn’t find the actual vape or any of the accessories (charger, oil, etc), you can be confident she’s not vaping. Lastly, STAY TF OUT of your daughter’s room!!! If she’s a college freshman, she’s 18, and an adult. She deserves her privacy. If you have NO reason to suspect she’s gotten into anything harmful, then leave her alone, or she will move out and you won’t see her again. I say this from personal experience.
YOU CANT/ARENT REPLYING TO THE PERSON THAT POSTED THAT. ITS POSTED ON NEXTDOOR, THEN SHARED ON REDDIT, THEN POSTED HERE. how do you people not understand that yet?
Load More Replies...Neighbor Sees The Light And Realizes ‘Illegals’ Can’t Actually Vote In Elections
Well, Joe, people sign up to vote at least several weeks before the election. These "applications" are vetted, i.e. "checked out" by the State Election Board to verify that they can legally vote. Then, the 1st time they go to the polls, they do verify the id (if there is time, but if the polls are very busy, that step could be skipped). After that, verified voters get a book telling them who the candidates are and where they can vote. One signature, one vote, nearly no fraud in the entire state. Trust the poll workers.
Wow I've never seen one admit they were wrong. This might be a first.
in our country we just use whatsapp groups like this. I left mine after about a year, it was unbearable. Basically if a person is white and over 50 they spend ALL their time complaining about the existence and life-capable status of persons other than themselves. "Do you think no 6 should really be allowed to hang her washing up? I can see it over her 6ft wall when I am in my upper floor bedroom. It looks tacky and brings the neighbourhood property prices down" etc etc etc.
Where I live, they're all over 70, and violate tons of rules and, yes, state laws, while they rail at the rest of us for putting up bird-feeders.
Load More Replies...My parents told me that there's an elderly man in our neighborhood who uses Nextdoor like Facebook. Apparently he posts "statuses" every day lol.
Our neighbor complained about a table saw that we had on our back deck covered in a blue tarp, he said it was “distracting” or something and it was because we couldn’t put it in the garage, we were going to have my dad take it to my uncle in his truck, but he couldn’t find the time because of work… this neighbor also tried to kill raccoons in his yard, I’m like dude this is their land and we’re the trespassers :(
Ours ended up being a lot of people over 70 who hate bird-feeders, playing children, and anyone who has to drive past their house on the way to work, from what I saw the one time I peeked.
They sound awful. I once had a neighbour like that. If she couldn't stand noise she shouldn't have lived there. Worst was the noises in her own head though. She kept saying to everyone she met that my father used to sneak to her door at night and ring her bell etc. Crazy.
Load More Replies...I live in a blue collar neighborhood that the algorithm decided was the same “neighborhood” as the white collar one about 5 mins away. (Other side of an Arboretum) Those folks have too much time and money on their hands, which apparently frees up a lot of time for complaining. Deleted it after a week 😅
my neighbor thought that he had the constitutional right to leave his yappy dog out all night. He was sure the beast would scare off any burglars. Repeated complaints did not fix this. I had to call out the law about 6 different times to get them to put up the dog, and he still left the dog out after each time. It was a terrier. Not much of a threat. Any burglar could take it out with one kick. Finally, I got the county sheriff to send out two deputies to have a long firm talk with him at midnight one night after a particularly bad yap-fest. The senior officer one was pretty tough and had no patience with this, especially since this was the 7th time no less to get the law to come around. They threatened him with a $200 fine per incident for disturbing the peace after this. The jerk finally relented & started keeping the bark-crazy dog inside. This and many other incidents just as unreasonable earned Jason the prize as being the worst neighbor ever. He eventually moved, Thank God.
Poor dog. I get it annoys neighbours too ofc. just don't like people treating their pets like that.
Load More Replies...Someone n my local nextdoor quit after she made a perfectly polite post reminding people that pets can’t properly articulate how hot they are and to make sure you’ve got water and shade for your pets, along with keeping them off hot pavement. She quit because holy s**t the responses she got were all so vitriolic for no reason. “Keep your opinions to yourself!” was the nicest mean one.
There is a whole thread on best of next door detailing how a fight broke out in a library over a disagreement over football celebrations
Well if they have to fight over something at least it's something important!
Load More Replies...Nextdoor has a lot of great neighbors, some scammers and an equal number of curmudgeons.
in our country we just use whatsapp groups like this. I left mine after about a year, it was unbearable. Basically if a person is white and over 50 they spend ALL their time complaining about the existence and life-capable status of persons other than themselves. "Do you think no 6 should really be allowed to hang her washing up? I can see it over her 6ft wall when I am in my upper floor bedroom. It looks tacky and brings the neighbourhood property prices down" etc etc etc.
Where I live, they're all over 70, and violate tons of rules and, yes, state laws, while they rail at the rest of us for putting up bird-feeders.
Load More Replies...My parents told me that there's an elderly man in our neighborhood who uses Nextdoor like Facebook. Apparently he posts "statuses" every day lol.
Our neighbor complained about a table saw that we had on our back deck covered in a blue tarp, he said it was “distracting” or something and it was because we couldn’t put it in the garage, we were going to have my dad take it to my uncle in his truck, but he couldn’t find the time because of work… this neighbor also tried to kill raccoons in his yard, I’m like dude this is their land and we’re the trespassers :(
Ours ended up being a lot of people over 70 who hate bird-feeders, playing children, and anyone who has to drive past their house on the way to work, from what I saw the one time I peeked.
They sound awful. I once had a neighbour like that. If she couldn't stand noise she shouldn't have lived there. Worst was the noises in her own head though. She kept saying to everyone she met that my father used to sneak to her door at night and ring her bell etc. Crazy.
Load More Replies...I live in a blue collar neighborhood that the algorithm decided was the same “neighborhood” as the white collar one about 5 mins away. (Other side of an Arboretum) Those folks have too much time and money on their hands, which apparently frees up a lot of time for complaining. Deleted it after a week 😅
my neighbor thought that he had the constitutional right to leave his yappy dog out all night. He was sure the beast would scare off any burglars. Repeated complaints did not fix this. I had to call out the law about 6 different times to get them to put up the dog, and he still left the dog out after each time. It was a terrier. Not much of a threat. Any burglar could take it out with one kick. Finally, I got the county sheriff to send out two deputies to have a long firm talk with him at midnight one night after a particularly bad yap-fest. The senior officer one was pretty tough and had no patience with this, especially since this was the 7th time no less to get the law to come around. They threatened him with a $200 fine per incident for disturbing the peace after this. The jerk finally relented & started keeping the bark-crazy dog inside. This and many other incidents just as unreasonable earned Jason the prize as being the worst neighbor ever. He eventually moved, Thank God.
Poor dog. I get it annoys neighbours too ofc. just don't like people treating their pets like that.
Load More Replies...Someone n my local nextdoor quit after she made a perfectly polite post reminding people that pets can’t properly articulate how hot they are and to make sure you’ve got water and shade for your pets, along with keeping them off hot pavement. She quit because holy s**t the responses she got were all so vitriolic for no reason. “Keep your opinions to yourself!” was the nicest mean one.
There is a whole thread on best of next door detailing how a fight broke out in a library over a disagreement over football celebrations
Well if they have to fight over something at least it's something important!
Load More Replies...Nextdoor has a lot of great neighbors, some scammers and an equal number of curmudgeons.
