Keep him away from me
What is even worse is that he was quite right. Someone HAS just come round the back.
I put some 'stuff' on our local FreeCycle site and someone was due to collect an item after 10.30 this morning. I stated to my neighbour that I didn't want to go out into the garden as I might miss them, hence his comment.
I was in the kitchen making coffee when there was a knock on the back door sure enough matey had come round the back to collect his microwave.
It's not like this dann sarff.
Honestly I used to refer to my first marriage as a "Mixed Marriage". It often felt like I was involved with another culture altogether. It wasn't just the language she used that was alien to me but so was every social concept I had been raised to obey.
My ex could never understand why I would never simply walk into my Parent's house. Rather I would knock and wait.
SWUTHTBO was baffled by this. "Mak's thee a stranger in thee ow-en ho-em".
"No dear, it is simply that it is no longer my home, it is their home and we are visiting them so it is polite to knock and wait to be invited in".
The times we had rows about that and similar "differences" in attitude.