do you ever spy on your neighbours??

[Gareth]

mine are boring. sometimes i wish they sold drugs or had a dog fighting ring out the back or something exciting like that. not that either activity is particularly cool or legal.

[zorra_chiflada]

from my window i stare angrily at the bratty screaming kids thinking what would be the easiest way to murder them, and how i could get away with it.

[tracky]

For a while I lived in a 3 storey townhouse and it was really annoying knowing that if you went out in the yard someone could be watching you. The second floor roof became a shared balcony (it wasn't meant to be a balcony, it was a slightly slanted corrigated roof), which is where I actually met a lot of my neighbours :cool: but it also got annoying, like I'd be out washing my car in front of spectators. I'm just used to having a closed yard with tall fences all around so if I wanna take a quick wizz I don't really worry about the neighbours seeing.

ps. i found a picture (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/tracky/Junk/oldhouse.jpg)

[ms.peachy]

my building is in a sort of square "U" shape around a centre garden. I'm in a corner. So, our neighbours' bedroom is sort of just across from mine, at a 90 degree angle. Boy, do they have a lot of loud sex! At least, that's what I used to think, until it occurred to me that hey are probably lying there thinking the same thing about me and mr.p. We're just on different schedules, is all.

[kezz]

our neighbours are quite boring also, thus it would be a waste of time spying. except for the one time our whole street was full of cop cars cos the "girlfriend" of theold guy across the road [read- sponges off him] was being investigated about her ex-husbands involvement in some drug sydicate. thats the only exciting thing thats ever happened in our street.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I don't spy. I would say i take a "keen interest" on the comings and going on our street.

I may comment to my hubby that the people opposite us have new curtains (and whether or not i like them) or that the bloke 3 doors down came home in the early hours and that he and his wife had a huge argument on their front lawn.

He, of course, doesn't give a monkeys and says that i'm nosey.

Which is true. :D

[enree erzweglle]

The old guy across the street from me stands in front of his bedroom bay window and lifts weights. I don't have drapes on most of the windows where I live so when he does that, it's hard to miss him.

I don't like curtains. I like having the extra light coming through the windows--where I live, the windows are huge (I live in a house that's maybe 120 years old and the windows are the original/big sizes). I love those windows, love to look through them at the sky at dawn and dusk and would hate to have curtains obscuring those views. I wouldn't mind having some vential blinds here/there because they play with the light in good ways.

Because I don't like blinds/curtains, it would be easy to spy on me, but the people on the opposite side of the street aren't the types--they're older and settled. I've never seen anything that I'm not supposed to see. I do hear some things occasionally that I think I shouldn't be hearing.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I used to have a neighbor that I almost called the cops on for child abuse. Listening to that little boy cry was so traumatic for me, I cant even imagine what it must have been like for him. The only reason I didnt is because my boyfriend at the time talked me out of it.


Same here. Some people who rented the house next to ours - and who have thankfully gone now - would argue non stop. I mean everyone argues but this was full on fighting. They had a little girl who looked about 4 and always looked deshevelled - she would scream the house down and i could hear the father screaming at her "just shut the fuck up" :( It was heart breaking. And i, like you Aimee, got talked out of doing anything about it.

[ScarySquirrel]

Nah, I don't spy on our neighbors. But every once in a while I'll glance over at their duplex and see something I'm probably not supposed to see. Damn my morality though, 'cause I always end up just looking away and walking inside instead of actually getting an eyeful.

Of course, other times you don't have to be a sicko. The girls next door are fond of sun-bathing outside quite a bit and every once in a while they remove their tops. Still though, morality is a bitch for me.

[enree erzweglle]

There's a guy a couple of doors down who yells at his wife. (It's what I referred to in my post when I said that I sometimes hear things that I shouldn't be hearing).

I heard him yelling at her for not hanging out the laundry right. :(

They keep to themselves mostly except for that--the occasional fighty noises that make their way onto the street. Something about them seems wrong. Something about the way she carries herself, eyes down, and the way he just looks. He looks mean--maybe it's just because he looks like Hitler and I'm reading into it. But that situation is probably messed up all things considered.

I don't socialize with my neighbors beyond saying hello and talking about the weather/shit like that. I do that on purpose so that I can keep some privacy. I lived on a block once where everyone knew everyone else's business and I didn't like that. I just ran into a woman from that block. We had this conversation:

her: you used to live on <x> Street.
me: yes.
her: your name is <enree>.
me: yes. I don't know you.
her: sure, you used to drive a red car.
her: you lived with a tall guy with blonde hair. he drove a little blue car.
me: I'm sorry. I don't know you.
her: you had a son, he was very young.
me: <just looking at her>
her: you ran. my yard always had toys in it. I lived next to Sheila Rosenthal?
me: blank, shrugging.
her: I know you.
me: I don't know you. Sorry.

[voltanapricot]

Yeah, I nosed and saw an arrest going on. Riff raff.

[beastieangel01]

no.