Neighbors take us as suckers!!!!!

We have a neighbour who only seems to remember we live next door when it suits her. About a year ago she knocked on our door to ask if she could use our shower. The only shower we have is a tiny one in our ensuite, so it meant she had to go through our bedroom to get to it. I didn't mind that so much as I was sure I could trust her. However when she eventually came downstairs having showered and washed her hair she pointed out to me that our shower didn't drain quickly enough and was difficult to use because of that. When I went upstairs afterwards she hadn't even cleaned up after using it.
A year on we have a new shower and have also had a water softener installed so we can now enjoy lovely showers with soft water and very little cleaning afterwards. Of course I don't intend to mention that to her!

Our neighbours pampas grass took a severe battering in the recent gales. It looks quite tatty and bent over. Does this have any effect on the inhabitants, I wonder?

This conversation has been so nice and funny! Just right for a Monday. Thanks everyone - oh and good luck with fending the neighbours off!

Pampas grass and pineapples...well you learn summat new all the time with GN.

And apparently the horse lost !

Wow Maybelle that is indeed taking the biscuit...or should I say cake?

I remember Mum telling me that way back in the 50's my Dad had a work mate, who every Monday used to ask my Dad to lend him a 10 shilling note, which he duly repaid on Friday (payday). After many weeks of doing this, Dad finally said, keep the money as you have it longer than me, but don't ask again!

Beyond cheeky ! Hope you did get it back eventually.
Many years ago my friend borrowed a ring cake tin,
I asked for it back to no avail, turned out her husband had sold it so he could put out a bet on the horses !

pineapples , hoovers and pampas not withstanding, I'm not entirely convinced by the conversation about the grunts and groans.

Really?! It's no the spanking horse lady back again is it?

I had heard about the pampas grass but, was recently told that an upside-down pineapple is also a code used by swingers. Can’t help looking in peoples’ trolleys in the supermarket now to see if they have got a pineapple in there and, which way up it is!

Speechless!

I had a neighbour who borrowed my lawnmower on more than one occasion. When I asked for it back I was told they weren’t going to buy a new one until they were on special offer. I said I couldn’t wait that long.

As Shakespeare said and as my grandmother also quoted "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Make sure you don't lend them anything else or they'll appropriate that as well. Some people are cheeky like that but your neighbours really take the biscuit. "Borrow" your vacuum back and hide it!!

annsixty The reason you don't get any offers is because you left the pampas grass in the garden. I have been told that the correct signal is a vase of the fronds in the front window. Get out there with the secateurs.

Loving this thread. Thank goodness we've no pampas grass in the garden.

I would Dettol the suction pipe

I just spluttered my tea, all over the desk Breeze

We used to have a "mini kitchen" - a small microwave sized electric oven with two burners on top. A neighbour called in one day and said her stove had stopped working so we lent her our mini kitchen. When we got it back several weeks later it had obviously never been cleaned - baked on food on the burners and the inside didn't bear thinking about - we had to throw it away. Since then I have only ever allowed family to borrow anything.

If she didn't have so many visitors she wouldn't need to use a hoover so much. That is one of the best bits of cheek I've heard for a long time.

Don’t understand just go in and get it, problem solved

"we get far more visitors than you do." Eh? I'd wonder what kind of visitors - is she a Madame running what used to be called "a disorderly house"?

What a cheek. You just can't believe the nerve of some people can you?

Very cheeky. I hope you got all the attachments back! or maybe not.

Hahaha....this has given me a giggle...

I found it is unwise to lend anything as not only have you to ask for it back, it often comes back broken if it comes back at all.

A very old saying from my Mum, Neither a borrower or a lender be.

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I have a vision of your neighbours husband hoovering like Freddy Mercury in the I Want to Break Free vid

We've got pampas in our back garden. Wonder what that makes us

I would Dettol the suction pipe

This is exactly like The Simpsons where Homer 'borrows' all sorts from neighbour Flanders and never gives it back!

In the 1980's neighbour asked if we had any dust sheets they could borrow as were doing some building work inside the house. Dust sheets duly returned....full of plaster bits and dust...obviously not washed! I gritted my teeth but saw the light when She said they were having a family party and had we got any records to lend them to play! We didn't get invited altho we knew all the family well. Glad to say we've moved house 4 times since then and had wonderful neighbours!