# Look outside & share! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2003, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670 "2003-11-17T11:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beech)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/1 "2003-11-17T11:01:41Z")
So, if you look out of the window now, whilst reading this post, what can you see that may be of interest to the TM’s. Anything goes, famous buildings, landmarks, views, anything - come on share! To start things off, I’m at work, and I can see the taller buildings and church steeple of the famous Harrow Public School high on the skyline. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/2 "2003-11-17T11:08:26Z")
I’m at home… and I can see a couple of apartment buildings, an aviary (we’re just behind a zoo) and if I stick my head out a bit more I can see [this beauty](http://www.emporis.info/en/wm/bu/?id=100614). ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/3 "2003-11-17T11:09:11Z")
's nightime here, so I can see the lamppost down the street and not much else. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/4 "2003-11-17T11:15:45Z")
I work in a basement. We have no windows. I never see daylight. Thanks for reminding me… ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/5 "2003-11-17T11:19:18Z")
Very dark at around 3:15 AM. That reminds me. It’s beyond bedtime. :o ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/6 "2003-11-17T11:40:37Z")
I’m in a cubicle. It’s beside a window. DIRECTLY beside a window. Blocking the window. And even if I could climb on my desk, reach over the partition, and open the blinds, the view is of a parking lot. Across the street is a hangar. Nothing of interest here. plus it’s still dark out. Aren’t you glad I shared? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/7 "2003-11-17T12:13:13Z")
If I crane my head, I can just see out of the window. All I can see is the old rickety bridge connecting Physics West and Physics East. If I get up, and look outside, I see there’s a hefty drop to the ground, where “Deliveries” and “Post” is. Now, I don’t recall climbing any stairs to get to my office. ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/8 "2003-11-17T12:34:13Z")
At the moment, rain, grey skys and about four residence halls. Oh, and some shrubbery. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/9 "2003-11-17T12:38:25Z")
note the interesting speling of “skies.” Perhaps I need to stay in and learn to spell. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/10 "2003-11-17T12:48:27Z")
The front of Trinity College, and the old Bank of Ireland building. A sycamore tree with only a couple of leaves on it, waving in the cold breeze, a light grey sky. ---
**Author:** ![Beech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beech)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/11 "2003-11-17T12:56:16Z")
Oh jjimm, You’ve just reminded me, right outside our front door is a splendid oak tree, a good 20-25ft tall. This tree was just a sapling when I started this job… god, I must be old. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/12 "2003-11-17T13:02:03Z")
Since it’s fall, the leaves are down on the crape myrtle right outside this window – spring and summer, that’s about all I can see. (Very nice when it’s in bloom – bright pink flowers.) Now, I see a bit of my garden, the neighbor’s porch, parked cars, people walking up and down the street, a passing car, and four or five of the rowhouses across the street. I can hear the trash truck coming but it’s still a couple houses up the street. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/13 "2003-11-17T13:07:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jennyrosity \* > \*\*I work in a basement. We have no windows. I never see daylight. Thanks for reminding me… \*\* Mmmmmm yeaahhhhh, ummm, **Jenny** , if you could just . . . pick up a can of pesticide and spray for roaches. . . mmmm that’d be great, yeah . . . [Sub]This moment from “Office Space” brought to you by the letter “G” and the symbol “%”.[/sub] I too live on the ‘basement’ floor of an apartment building. I can only see snow and the river rocked embankment up to the chiropractal office next to this building. Tripler S’okay. The last place I used to live in _was_ the basement. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/14 "2003-11-17T13:22:02Z")
Every morning the first thing I see is my neighbors’ swamp cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/15 "2003-11-17T13:27:10Z")
leaves. leaves. more leaves. even more leaves. \ ---
**Author:** ![SJSB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SJSB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SJSB)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/16 "2003-11-17T13:30:20Z")
I can see the rest of the close where I live, and a fair bit beyond, as I live on the first floor. Also, there’s the neighbours cat licking its nether regions, and **a lot** of leaves on the ground. If I could be bothered to get up and go to the kitchen window, I’d be able to see the big wood out of the back. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/17 "2003-11-17T14:02:18Z")
A bunch of squad cars closing off one of the major streets nearby - it’s very very foggy here, and there was apparently a really really bad accident which has all lanes blocked. And a flagpole. And geese. Lots of freakin’ geese. ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/18 "2003-11-17T14:09:12Z")
It’s foggy and drizzly and I can see some leafless trees and some evergreen, a bed of ivy, a fountain which is currently not running. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/19 "2003-11-17T14:55:09Z")
From where I’m sitting, I can see the next building over in our condo complex. It’s only about thirty feet away, so all I see is a bit of the light peach/pink wall, two windows, the roof and a sliver of sky. If I walk over to that window (or better yet, to the balcony in the living room) I can see the Atlantic Ocean. And a whole mess of palm trees. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670/20 "2003-11-17T15:05:24Z")
I can’t see outside from here, I’m in a cubicle in a windowless room in the center of a large building. We take security a little too seriously here. :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-outside-share/213670.md?page=2)