People who are always on the go

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TeessideCleveland

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Anyone else know people like that?

Bloke near me never stops - pointlessly doing unnecessary ‘jobs’

Up every morning 6am no matter what - often making a racket
Usually I’m up for work but a few times wanting a sleep in and he’s been ‘at it’. I once worked 12 days out of 14 and had to get up 1 of the other 2. So the Saturday I’m off he’s mowing the lawn at 645am when he only mowed it Thursday night
Every day home from work then off out again. Days off he’s in/out all day from 7am

Been away for the weekend and hit back this afternoon- and I said to my other neighbour ‘what time will he be back out again?’ - it was less than an hour. He washed the car in the hour in between!

Washes car twice a week , mows lawn 3/4 times a week except in winter


For all I’ve moaned about him he’s 90 per cent funny and 10 per cent annoying to me while my other neighbours get annoyed with him more often
 
TeessideCleveland said:
Anyone else know people like that?

Bloke near me never stops - pointlessly doing unnecessary ‘jobs’

Up every morning 6am no matter what - often making a racket
Usually I’m up for work but a few times wanting a sleep in and he’s been ‘at it’. I once worked 12 days out of 14 and had to get up 1 of the other 2. So the Saturday I’m off he’s mowing the lawn at 645am when he only mowed it Thursday night
Every day home from work then off out again. Days off he’s in/out all day from 7am

Been away for the weekend and hit back this afternoon- and I said to my other neighbour ‘what time will he be back out again?’ - it was less than an hour. He washed the car in the hour in between!

Washes car twice a week , mows lawn 3/4 times a week except in winter


For all I’ve moaned about him he’s 90 per cent funny and 10 per cent annoying to me while my other neighbours get annoyed with him more often
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We’re all different
Some are active busy bees and others are lazy bstards
 
My other half. She’s a prolific knitter, potter, drawer, baker, cook, gardener. Even if we sit down to watch something on telly, she’ll sit and draw or sew something or press flowers or sketch out ideas for pots and knits. It never stops.

Whereas I’ve sat on my arsè all weekend, watched 6 football matches on telly with Sevilla v Barcelona to come and literally done absolutely sod all since Friday afternoon.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
My other half. She’s a prolific knitter, potter, drawer, baker, cook, gardener. Even if we sit down to watch something on telly, she’ll sit and draw or sew something or press flowers or sketch out ideas for pots and knits. It never stops.

Whereas I’ve sat on my arsè all weekend, watched 6 football matches on telly with Sevilla v Barcelona to come and literally done absolutely sod all since Friday afternoon.
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Don't be hard on yourself viv. By Monday you'll have watched a gruelling 7 games. You must be exhausted, so beware of burnout. Duvet day tomorrow maybe?
 
TeessideCleveland said:
Anyone else know people like that?

Bloke near me never stops - pointlessly doing unnecessary ‘jobs’

Up every morning 6am no matter what - often making a racket
Usually I’m up for work but a few times wanting a sleep in and he’s been ‘at it’. I once worked 12 days out of 14 and had to get up 1 of the other 2. So the Saturday I’m off he’s mowing the lawn at 645am when he only mowed it Thursday night
Every day home from work then off out again. Days off he’s in/out all day from 7am

Been away for the weekend and hit back this afternoon- and I said to my other neighbour ‘what time will he be back out again?’ - it was less than an hour. He washed the car in the hour in between!

Washes car twice a week , mows lawn 3/4 times a week except in winter


For all I’ve moaned about him he’s 90 per cent funny and 10 per cent annoying to me while my other neighbours get annoyed with him more often
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We need people like this around us, it keeps the burglars at bay. He will notice any strangers down your street.

The bloke opposite me loves bin day so he can take everyone's bins up their drives.
 
I cannot sit still and do nothing. Even if I’m watching a film I’ll be reading something else or Googling the cast, or maybe posting on here.

I don’t cut the grass, or wash the car, as often as I should, but there are too many other distractions to jump into.

I am a nightmare on a beach holiday… *hides face emoji*
 
I still get up around 6 am as though I was still going to work. Suppose 50 years of early starts is hard to change.
I don't do anything noisy or in garden till after 7 am or 8 on weekends.

Unlike the lad who bought next door and wanted it gutting inside and building to his plans during the last Ramadan. First time after 11 pm I was at his door,second night I gave him an old alarm clock .
He thought they were allowed to work all night in shifts . After some good humoured words they stopped every night at 7 pm. We get on really well now and look out for each others property
 
Actually my grandad was a lot like the bloke in the OP. He would get up at 6am and be in the shed crushing cans he’d collected from the verges along Crossfell Road with a hammer, ready for the bottle bank, which he would cycle to. He’d be up Norfolk Shops for a paper, then make breakfast and try and prise Nana out of bed, then it’s the dishes, then changed into his old clothes to ‘do the garden’, which was an ongoing project that ran from the mid-1950s to about 2014. Then he’d make some dinner, do the dishes immediately afterwards, tidy up, go and cut the lawn for Mrs Steel or Mrs Barras or Mrs Fry or Mrs Curtis, come back and change, then be up at Morrisons to get stuff for tea, cook the tea, do the dishes.

In between all of these things he’s constantly clearing and emptying cupboards and drawers and bins, washing paintwork and skirting boards, fixing the bike, hanging pictures, hoovering, cleaning windows, mending something. At half 6ish he’d settle down to watch BBC One until half 9, when he made the supper in time for the news, then did the dishes and went to bed.

Every single day. He was painting, chopping, cutting, planting, cooking, tidying, chucking stuff out, cycling to the graveyard, shopping, doing laundry, hammering. The only time he ever stopped for more than 20 minutes at any one time during the day was if there was football on telly on a Sunday.

I’ve picked up a lot of his traits but I’m not sure his feverish, insatiable work ethic is one of them.
 
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viv_andersons_nana said:
My other half. She’s a prolific knitter, potter, drawer, baker, cook, gardener. Even if we sit down to watch something on telly, she’ll sit and draw or sew something or press flowers or sketch out ideas for pots and knits. It never stops.

Whereas I’ve sat on my arsè all weekend, watched 6 football matches on telly with Sevilla v Barcelona to come and literally done absolutely sod all since Friday afternoon.
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This was me. Before I had bairns

Sundays I’d never leave the sofa, PL matches back to back followed by NFL. Girlfriend (now wife) used to go nuts.

Now she goes nuts about other stuff.
 
Plastic grass now so only needs brushing. Local bylaws I believe are ok from 7 am till 11 pm for home and garden work.
 
Yeah there has to be some thought and consideration for the neighbours.

8am Monday to Saturday, 9am Sunday, start for jobs.

I never work late though. I have a five hour rule. Whatever I am doing, regardless of what stage it’s at, I always aim to stop before five hours is up.

I’ve learnt that anything I do after that will be substandard and require redoing anyway.

Took me three months to do the new en-suite. Looks well though.
 
atypical_boro said:
This was me. Before I had bairns

Sundays I’d never leave the sofa, PL matches back to back followed by NFL. Girlfriend (now wife) used to go nuts.

Now she goes nuts about other stuff.
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I got 8mins into the Barcelona match and had to turn it off. It was making me feel sick. It was the end of an absolute binge-fest that started on Friday night, when I had two screens on the go so I could watch Man United v Leicester and Ayr v Hibernian simultaneously.

My other half is away for the weekend but I do watch way too much football even when she’s here. It does get on her nerves but then she likes Lucy Worsley and Silent Witness so it’s much of a muchness.

I could do with stripping it back to just Boro games tbh.
 
There’s a couple on my street just like that. The bloke is out taking his two dogs for a walk first thing in the morning. Within 15 minutes of getting back she takes them out. It goes on all day. I’ve never seen dogs hate going for a walk so much. Though they possibly just hate each other rather than can’t sit still.
 
My neighbour is pushing 80 , every yr Hebrides something. He was moaning about his concrete drive being dirty so painted it grey . Moans about mine but it looks better than battleship grey .
 
TeessideCleveland said:
Anyone else know people like that?

Bloke near me never stops - pointlessly doing unnecessary ‘jobs’

Up every morning 6am no matter what - often making a racket
Usually I’m up for work but a few times wanting a sleep in and he’s been ‘at it’. I once worked 12 days out of 14 and had to get up 1 of the other 2. So the Saturday I’m off he’s mowing the lawn at 645am when he only mowed it Thursday night
Every day home from work then off out again. Days off he’s in/out all day from 7am

Been away for the weekend and hit back this afternoon- and I said to my other neighbour ‘what time will he be back out again?’ - it was less than an hour. He washed the car in the hour in between!

Washes car twice a week , mows lawn 3/4 times a week except in winter


For all I’ve moaned about him he’s 90 per cent funny and 10 per cent annoying to me while my other neighbours get annoyed with him more often
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If it's peak season then nothing wrong with mowing lawn Saturday if it was last done Thursday, as I'll do mine every 3 days - well fertilised lawns will grow rapidly. the time is obviously bang out of order.
 
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