Neighbourhood Etiquette

[Nymzee]

I'm hoping this spawns some great stories but I'll kick it off with a big one for me since I've been WFH the last few years: taking in parcels for neighbours.

Should you do it? Do you do it? Do you lie and say you can't take them as you're going on holiday that night (used that few times), are their certain neighbours' parcels you refuse to take?

Currently I am sat with 3 parcels from 3 separate houses in my porch. I am not leaving my house, they can come to me to collect, don't care if I have them for days.

 

[PKwalnuts]

I'm hoping this spawns some great stories but I'll kick it off with a big one for me since I've been WFH the last few years: taking in parcels for neighbours. Should you do it? Do you do it? Do you lie and say you can't take them as you're going on holiday that night (used that few times), are their certain neighbours parcels you refuse to take?

Currently I am sat with 3 parcels from 3 separate houses in my porch. I am not leaving my house, they can come to me to collect, don't care if I have them for days.

Haha was this thread typed out in Bold Street


Thread 'Parcels' https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/parcels.111615/

 

[anjelikaferrett]

I have no issue taking in parcels....as long as the neighbours are nice. I refused to have anything to do with a previous next door neighbour who poisoned at least two of our cats, called the police on two five year olds throwing snowballs in the street in case they damaged their car and emptied their grass cuttings on our front lawn. On thexday we moved in he knocked on the door, not to say hello but to point out the boundary lline between the two properties. They were crazy. Nobody in the road liked them. I just told the delivery people I didn't talk to them. By the reaction I don't think I was the first to say that.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I'll take the parcels round but if that ball comes over again I'm putting a knife in it!

 

[maccavennie]

Always happy to take neighbours parcels and sell them back to them when they're willing to pay up.

Only joking of course, I just open them up and then post them in the address next to them

 

[coollino]

We haven't had a garage door for months and the rubble on our front garden (from digging in the back garden) has been there so long, weeds are growing on it

 

[DavidH]

They know there's always at least one of us working from home so I see the drivers literally crossing the road to come straight to us if they get no answer. Does my absolute head in the doors are often the other end of the road. "Can you take this for number 144 Mug Lane in Liberia please mate?" "Yeah ok go on"

 

[john jako]

I always put rubbish in the neighbours bin as I always create so much and they seem to create next to nothing.

I think it’s fair game but I won’t dare be caught so tend to do it when pished at 2 or n the morning. Their ring door bell must be a right laugh.

 

[Nymzee]

Last week, I was walking back to my house from getting dropped off after work, saw the delivery man struggling to find a house to take in this parcel.

My first thought was "this nob is gonna see me go in my house and immediately try give it to me".

So I went and walked around the block 3 times till he'd gone lol

 

[Nymzee]

Have you ever swapped your bin for a better bin if no one else is around? Bins are like gold where I live.

 

[dublinbluenose]

People who put their recycling bins out when its windy and dont secure the top. 'Kin paper and cardboard all over the shop.

 

[john jako]

Dog poo is big issues in neighbourhoods but I’ll tell you what’s worse, cats. Cats need to stick to their own property and stop trespassing the little tits.

 

[Goat]

I take parcels in, I dont really like 1 of my neighbours, but I do it anyway.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Dog poo is big issues in neighbourhoods but I’ll tell you what’s worse, cats. Cats need to stick to their own property and stop trespassing the little tits.

Be nice to tiddles, not having enough cats prowl the land means something else invites itself along...

 

[john jako]

Be nice to tiddles, not having enough cats prowl the land means something else invites itself along...

Id rather take my chances with danger mouse than Garfield.