Getting to know your neighbours ... maybe *too* well!

As I lie here listening to my neighbour's snoring - perfectly audible through my paper thin walls - it's got me to thinking about the weirdest things that people have ever hear their neighbours say or do ... completely unaware that they can be heard.

I've lived in quite a few apartments, but can only recall the typical stuff ... blazing rows (sometimes in a foreign language), drilling (both literal and metaphorical), shocking taste in world music (not *quite* Ray from High Fidelity - but not far off).

But I bet the community can do better than this! What's the weirdest aspects of your neighbours' lives that they've accidentally exposed you to via the magic of cheap plasterboard?

I live next door to LARPers. They practice in the back yard.....

It is not uncommon to experience sword play and screams of "lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt"
be glad for the snoring.

my neighbors are 3km away....

We live across the street from my husband's aunt and uncle, and their rental property. Our residences are the only residences down this street.

His uncle has security cameras... everywhere. I try to stay indoors, or only go into my backyard.

Last place we lived was a townhouse. We heard everything from the parents screaming fuck you at the kids, to the kids beating the shit out of each other and screaming fuck you some more. It was pretty bad. Never had neighbors like that and hope never to again.

The other side of me is a little old lady.... like 4 feet tall, with a wiglet that makes up 1/3 of her height. She throws the leaves that my oak tree sheds into her yard...back over the fence into my yard. She makes a huge effort to do this. Her crape myrtle blossoms fall into my yard............ so I wait extra long to mow the grass just so she has to live beside the shittiest yard in the neighborhood. I hate that old bitch, Also her attic is infested with squirrels, I know this because I see them squeezing in and out of her siding and ducts.....lol

so you live right in the middle of crazy (larpers) and mean (the old lady)..

He who throws stones in glass houses...

"they don't need to be worrying bout me, i got a credit score of 860!" she says driving her electric scooter up the ramp her landlord put in for her. and the bitch can walk...i've seen it.

My neighbors have always been rather chilled out.

But when living in my Mom's house, back in Highschool, my brothers were playing in the club house and looked over the fence to see my male neighbor nude sunbathing.

She fat? Or she all that?

not fat....not old.... but i also know she has prescriptions for vicodin, xanax, oxycodone, morphine and ativan as she also does not have an inside voice.


pretty sure she's batshit crazy, though.

I smell my neighbors' weed.

i do too. it's gross.

four words: Game Cameras.

Oh my, where to begin!?!

I guess I'll just keep it short by recalling a fairly common incident when I was staying at a guesthouse in Bangkok. A couple on my floor were always fighting in the hallway and then would have noisy make-up sex afterward. If they weren't getting in late drunk off their asses, yelling at each other, you might be unlucky enough to have been in a stall of the communal toilet while they went into the shower to have sex just a few feet away It's kind of difficult to concentrate on the call of nature between the sounds of sweaty skin slapping on skin and all the grunting and moaning.

Come to think of it, it may not have always been the same couple as people came and went (so to speak) all the time.

My neighbors use frankincense when they smoke weed...and I feel like that's just as bad.