You know, I was actually going to post a thread about this. I’m very, very not nosy. I like a good scope here and there but if something personal was left in front of me (diary, daytimer) I would not read it. Not even be inclined. However, I think it may have something to do with idealism versus being not interested. It’s like I don’t want to know something about a person that doesn’t fit into their profile of who they presented themselves to be.
Terribly awfully extremely. Like Witch, I get told stuff because I keep my mouth shut, and also because I’m interested and I ask the right questions. I adore being in the know.
I am really, really nosy. When I was doing tests at school, I’d always look at other people’s answers, but not to copy them. I just wanted to see what they’d put.
I’m not very nosy at all. Somebody at work today was trying to tell me about an affair that got a vice president fired from the company, and I stuck my fingers in my ears and said “la la la.”
Also, I used to work in HR, so I’d regularly come across documents in people’s files that told me who had been in drug treatment, who wasn’t paying his child support, and so on. I did my best to disassociate the information from the name unless I needed it to do my job, and I certainly didn’t go looking for it.
I’m currently in the process of trying to break the bad driving habit of glancing over to the shoulder to check out the damage in an accident. It’s surprisingly difficult.