Some of our neighbors want us to be spying on them and seem indignant that we’re not.
“You know that car [which was parked illegally] belongs to my niece, who is visiting me from New York, don’t pretend you don’t.”
Uh…no, I don’t pay enough attention to anyone to note who has guests.
“You know how often that happens.”
Uh, nope, I’m blissfully ignorant. Sorry.
Not spying on me per se, but my Mother can be a little “difficult” (even before she developed Dementia), and I’d end up yelling myself hoarse that I was upstairs and couldn’t attend to whatever ‘emergency’ she wanted me to attend to …
Pretty sure the entire estate knew when I was in the shower/using the toilet/washing my hair/getting dressed.
I did toy with the idea of yelling that I was too busy shagging …
Because picking up the newspaper was mentioned, I thought the meaning was that we almost never travel, rather than suggesting that we never leave the house.
Would be fun to flick the lights on and off for a while, see what kind of reaction that gets. S-O-S-S-e-n-d-h-e-l-p
“PEEK”! Not peak - that is a totally different thing.
And I am sure I have been the target of gossip occasionally in my neighborhood. Everyone is friends and relatives. We keep to ourselves and are quiet. When I see my neighbors I am always nice and make a point of being friendly and chatty. My SO doesn’t get this at all, but I know it pays off to at seem normal, even if I don’t match up to their idea of a neighbor.
Oh, no, no. I’ve been the recipient of the “gay stare” on many occasions. If you look carefully in the pupils, you’ll see it means: “He wore that belt with those shoes?!? Some people never look in a mirror.”
LOL!
People care what their neighbors think of them? Weird.
I can see being worried if you think you’re being plotted against. But what happened in the OP sounds like a few people just being drunk and obnoxious, not ill-intended.
This was a large factor in the Stasi’s ability to spy on East Germans. Didn’t they keep getting overwhlemed with the volume of reports they had to sort though?