When we moved to Suffolk our next door neighbours were health workers and worked nights. This meant that they were at home during the day.
When we first met them he told us about a tea shop in the nearby town where they brought a cake stand full of cakes and left it on the table. When you paid the bill, you were asked how cakes you'd had. He told us that you could away with eating 2 and saying that you'd had one.
On another occasion the neighbour on the other side came home to see a cable crossing his garden. The man had plugged his car vacuum cleaner into the other man's electricity supply.
A third occasion was when a builders suppliers left a load of timber in his drive. He came round to ask my OH if it was a delivery for him. OH said no but it was likely to be for the man who previously lived in our house. So he moved all the timber to the bottom of his back garden to use for firewood.
He also lied about my OH's planning application to use our garage as a workshop. After 2 years when my OH was given his file when he applied to continue the use of his workshop, we saw the extent of his lies.
He got his comeuppance. He was a charge nurse at a mental hospital and not very popular. One night one of the cleaning staff found him asleep (he was on duty so should have been awake) and reported him. He got the sack and they moved away.
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