'She followed us when we went on vacation': Top 20+ Cringe Neighbor Stories

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 20, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Neighbors are only good for three things: occasional company, dog sitting, and gossip. Otherwise, they can be annoying, disruptive, and an all-around nuisance. However, gossip is a human need, and neighbors can provide the perfect window (sometimes literally) into other people's lives. The reality of the matter is we are all generally interested in what other people do in the privacy of their homes. If anything, it can make us feel less weird in our own choices. 

 

The dark side to the curiosity we have for our neighbors is that our eavesdropping can lead to seeing or hearing about particularly bizarre quirks and eccentricities that we wish we could unsee or not hear. We compiled some top cringe neighbor stories based on this r/AskReddit thread. Some of these bizarre neighbors include a family that showered outside during a rainstorm, a fully grown man who sits in his driveway pretending to drive, and a couple that though burning gasoline on top of their snow-covered lawn would be a smart shortcut to shoveling the snow by hand. People are crazy, y'all. Thankfully, these aren't our neighbors, so this extra level of removal makes these stories all the more entertaining because we don't have to deal with these people in any way, shape, or form. 

 

Keep scrolling below for this collection of top cringe neighbor stories. For more compilations like this, check out these embarrassing school memories.

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    Font - r/AskReddit Posted by u/reno222 What's the weirdest thing you've seen your neighbor do?
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    Font - onefortysevenone My neighbour looked over his fence, looked at me straight in the eyes and said 'the last time I looked at somebody like this, they died a week later' After that he just went back to his business like the conversation never even happened. Edit: I was about 8 when he said this to me! So I spent the next week living in fear. I'm alive and well, you, Ray! ↑ 8.3k ↓ Share
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    Font - deltronzi My neighbour regularly sits in his car, which is parked in his garden, and just revs the engine. His Dad got him the car years ago and he has never been able to pass his test so he just revs it. Sometimes genuinely for hours. I think there's something wrong with him.
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    Font - frenchcaptain. Mine sits in his hedge watching my husband and I working (we run a farm) and then he copies what we are doing. He wears cammo and thinks we can't see him! 14.8k Share
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    Font - _BiggieSmalls He likes to play his violin in the small forest between our houses in the early hours of the morning. Scares the out of me. 4.5k ↓ Share
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    Font - amp ursois I live on the second floor of a 2 floor apartment. I was outside, walking down the steps to the ground, when my next door neighbor just walks outside and throws an entire plate of spaghetti over the side of the balcony onto the bushes below. I looked up at him like "WTF?", and he just stared at me and said "I made too much spaghetti" and walked back inside. 4.3k Share
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    Font - bushdid 9-11 One day, I made too much spaghetti so i threw the excess spaghetti off the balcony of my two story apartment and my next door neighbor was just outside my balcony staring at me. Idk how often he does that but it really creeped me out 4.3k Share
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    Font - LederhosenSituation. Had a neighbour who always picked up trash on our street. Great, except dude liked to run the hose over them and hang them up to dry. Bottles, paper, clothes, food, cigarettes, you named it. After drying the stuff out, he'd throw the stuff away. 3.5k Share
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    Font - metal_rooster. We live in an older neighborhood with chain link fences. You can see pretty much everything in the neighbor's yards. We have one neighbor who feeds stray cats and he'll stand in the back yard every evening and call them to dinner.
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    Font - He's a big man with a huge belly and he stands on his back porch in his boxers calling the cats by name. "Here Fat Boy! Here Cry Baby! Here Big Momma! Kitty kitty kitty!" In this really high pitched call. It lasts about 10 minutes and due to some weird acoustics it sounds like he's right outside my window hollering for the cats. I peek through the blinds and there he is in his underwear on his porch calling the cats. Share 2.4k
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    Font - BryBry_Bebo. I live in Michigan. Most winters we get a lot of snow. The house next door has never had the brightest people living in it. Woke up one day to the fire department parked in the street. Apparently my neighbors thought they could save time shoving snow by just covering their driveway in gasoline and melting it. They would also burn trash all the time. 2.4k Share
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    Font - dazasm My neighbor regularly sits in a chair in his garage and...just sits there. For hours. And it's not like his garage faces the street so it'd be comparable to someone sitting on their porch - his garage faces my garage/house so that's pretty much all he has a view of. He also has a back porch which faces his backyard and woods, but he never sits back there.
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    Font - He's a pretty nice dude and I've pretty much gotten used to the obligatory exchange of "Hey" when he's there when I leave the house or get home, but for the first few months I lived here it'd really creep me out that 9/10 times I'd go to leave or pull in the driveway he'd just be there, facing me, sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of his garage. ↑ ↓ 1.9k Share
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    Font - [deleted] The whole family showered outside complete with shampoo when it was raining heavy once. ↑ 1.6k Share
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    Font - tigerneon Mow his lawn in a thunderstorm 1.5k Share
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    Font - [deleted] I went outside to the garden with my dog and saw my elderly neighbour just sitting on top of our shed. He chatted to me for a while before I went back in, and then after a while he got down off the shed and went into his house. The best part was the baffled looks my dog kept giving him. 1.1k ↓ Share
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    Font - weech My neighbor growing up was a bit odd. Once he was walking around his back yard with a G string (overweight balding Chinese guy) chasing after butterflies, putting them in a ziplock bag and running inside. I don't wish to imagine what he did with them. 1.1k Share
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    Font - GravelBallrooms She followed us when we went on vacation and stayed in the same hotel. ↑ 1.0k Share
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    Font - Spaceman Batman Guy's house was foreclosed on so he locked his dogs in the backyard, set his house on fire, and tried to escape via canoe on the intercoastal. He got about three blocks before the Coast Guard picked him up. He got arrested. Dogs are fine. 947 Share
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    Font - QuizMizz I heard screaming from over the fence one day. Look over to see her yelling at her son and throwing KFC chicken pieces at the kid because apparently the little ate the skin off all of the chicken she brought home for everyone and left just the meat behind. Nearly peed myself laughing. 850 Share
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    Font - mrking944 My neighbors got a new 8 week old crocker spaniel puppy and they didn't let me pet it. Maybe not weird but definitely upsetting. 777 ↓ Share FlippantA Absolute freaks, whats a dog's life without pats? 281 Share
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    Font - SupremeSupercows my neighbour, a grown man, with a house and car, was sitting in his driveway, pretending to drive 728 Share
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    Font - JenovaCelestia. My next door neighbor is a sweet elderly lady. I once saw her mopping the carpet in front of her door in the apartment hallway. It struck me as weird, but I'm not so sure now. I love her, she gave me a hug. 557 ↓ Share
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    Font - NiccoloAligieri. ( One time I saw a fat, middle age neighbor of mine come out and get mail from her mail box in a bright pink tutu. I was twelve. edit: it was on valentines day as well. I should probably mention that. 531 Share
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