I want to know why my landlord has that crazy eye. It’s like Mad Eye Moody and Droopy had a kid and that’s what happened. It’s not scarred, and she didn’t have a stroke, it’s… just… well it likes to look wherever it wants to look.
My client has come up with a new travel request procedure. One of the steps is filling up an excel spreadsheet: there are two columns where we’re supposed to indicate a “date” and “time”, but both require “time” format :smack:
What I’d like to know is: given that the client is a Spanish company, we’re in Spain, and the travel agency is a branch of an American company, why is the error message in French? 
I’m idly curious whether Prince Charles is really Prince Harry’s father. They look nothing like one another.
There’s also a girl I kind of liked in high school, who was pretty bitchy toward me in retun, except when she wanted to use me for something. I recently figured out, through piecing together some public records, that she’s just now finishing up 5 years in the federal pen for a certain species of fraud. Schaudenfreude compels me to want to know all about it, every little detail, but of course I won’t look up any further details.
I’d love to know what one of my neighbors does all day. He lives alone, and is on disability for what he describes as a “nervous disorder”, which I interpret as some sort of mental illness he’s not inclined to talk about. As far as we can tell he is at home all day, every day, except for trips to the supermarket; he sometimes goes out in the evenings, presumably to see friends, but certainly not every evening. How does he fill his time?
What my neighbour looks like naked. I really have no right to know that about her, but by crikey…
Anyway, I generally want to know what really happened at any given accident. Who was really the one at fault, if any. I’m sure at least one of the party knows the real truth, but contradictions, memory loss, and lies get in the way so often.
SDMB.
I’d like to know my colleagues’ commission numbers. Just for comparison, you know?
Also what happened with an old friend who married someone in Vegas after meeting her at summer camp (they were both counsellors). He’s English and she’s American, and I mainly want to find out if it was an immigration thing or they were just young and reckless, considering how little time they could have spent together (different camp sites, maybe three opportunities every two weeks to see each other and almost always with kids about).
There’s this girl that walks past my office window at around the same time every day – apparently even on the weekends as I discovered one day when I was working on a Sunday.
She is very thin – not unhealthily so but rather like a professional dancer: very toned with very low body fat. She moves like a dancer too and sometimes she stops outside my window for a couple of push-ups or for exercises that look like some kind of slow martial arts thing.
She has very white skin and long black hair. The most peculiar thing is, that she looks almost the same very day. She is always wearing dark glasses, black sneakers, dark baggy pants and a black shirt. She’s also always wearing a belt with something attached to it. Maybe a bag? I don’t know. I’m on the first floor and only see her walking by for a few moments so I can never really tell.
There is very little variation in her clothing: in summer she might be wearing a sleevless shirt in winter a knitted black cap, but in my memory she is always wearing the same things every single day.
Somehow she looks like she jumped right out of a manga comic to me. 
I’m absolutely curios about her! Who is she? Where is she going every day? Why does she alsways look the same?
None of my business, sure, but darn is she intruiging!
Lazy eye, probably, EvilTOJ. I have it to some extent, have had surgery twice, but neither time was it successful. I can bring it back to center which will make whoever I am speaking to move their head. 
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Something weird is going on with the people in the house next to us. At one time, a man and woman lived there. They had some loud fights, apparently divorced, and moved out. Recently, the woman has reappeared. We suspect that she was squatting, because although we knew she was in there, she never had the lights on or came outside.
One night, she did come out. She was super drunk and passed out in the yard of the neighbor on the other side of us. Paramedics took her away.
Just a couple of weeks ago, there was yet another incident. This time she was super drunk, called the paramedics herself, and when they came, she was so belligerent that the cops came and took her away. The next day, the man who used to live there called us and asked us to make sure the front door was locked (but he didn’t give us any details, and damn it, the door was locked).
Now she’s back again, with a man we don’t know. They have electricity, and aren’t shy about being seen outdoors, so I guess it’s okay. However, a few days ago, a man came to our door. He told my daughter he was from the bank, and asked if she’d seen anyone living there. She told him yes.
What the hell’s going on? Whatever it is, I’m glad we have an alarm system and a big scary dog.
Obituaries. Why the heck do they never, ever, ever say what people died of? Especially when it’s young people. Drives me nuts.
The first boy I ever had sex with died a few years back. It was listed as “suddenly” which can often imply suicide, according to google. Also, I found an online obituary that referred pretty much only to his activities in college, which was 20+ years prior to his death.
I want to know how he died and why the obituary didn’t refer to anything in the years since his graduation.
Whether my grandparents ever got into anal.
Heck, I want to know, and I don’t even know those people!
I don’t care so much about celebrities, but I’m curious about the sex lives of my friends and their spouses. My wife and I often talk about different couples we know- “what about so and so- something tells me they’re wild!” “Yeah! But I have a feeling so and so get it on maybe once a year, whether they need to or not”; that type of thing. We’re curious if what we do and the frequency with which we do it is similar to other couples in our situation (professional, kids, suburbanites), or if we’re outliers at one end of the spectrum or the other.
I’m also a little curious about the financial situations of (again) other couples/families in our same situation. We see some friends living like they have an endless supply of cash although their professions don’t appear to be able to support it, and also friends who don’t appear to spend a dime but have careers that could support a more extravagant lifestyle. No, none of our business, but one wonders.
Two more for me.
About a year ago I found out that my favorite college professor in the world killed himself…at school. He did it either on a Sunday or during a break, don’t remember, but I do know that class wasn’t in session. I’m dying to know why he did it or more importantly why he did it at school. Was his home life so shitty that he was spending his off days at work? Did he want to spare his family from the mess? Was he (and this is my guess) trying to send a message to the school? Oh to be able to read his letter.
The other, and quite a bit less gruesome. I want to know how my friends afford their vacations. Two good friends of mine. Constantly on the go. Out of the country at least 4 months out of the year, all over the world, always on the move. It’s kind of fun to watch their facebook statuses “Just got back from Barbados, starting the countdown to Australia” or “Coming home from Ireland tomorrow, spent yesterday planning our trip to Egypt.” She works at a department store, don’t remember doing what, accounting department maybe, he’s in the coast guard. Not only how they afford it, but how do they get that much time off of work? I have no idea what the coast guard pays, but if these two worked full with normal vacation schedules, I’d guess they were pulling in maybe 60-80K between them. Plus they just paid for a wedding and bought a house. I’ve never met his parents, but I assure you her’s aren’t helping. In college, she used to send her paychecks to her mom so her mom could afford food.
My friend confided in me that he was molested by another boy when he was a kid. Sooooo many questions on that, yet sooooo not anyone’s business.
I also found out that this friend’s dad committed suicide (I knew the dad had died - he was sick so it didn’t occur to me that it might be suicide). Also something you don’t really dig in to.
Maybe I’m just used to being nosy, but about half the things that you all say are “absolutely none of my business” — I would ask the person! People love to talk about themselves. I would ask the woman about being from Rwanda; you don’t have to come out and ask if she witnessed any atrocities. I wouldn’t, however, quiz people about possible suicides in their families. I do have some couth.
Anyway: I bet the couple that divorced after the honeymoon was like a girl I knew in college. She and the guy had been dating forever and everyone assumed they were getting married. They did, even though for several months prior to the marriage she had been seeing someone else. I guess she felt she couldn’t put the brakes on the wedding preparations, because she went through with it and they divorced shortly thereafter. She then married the other guy.
Actually, her fraud case is totally your business and everyone else’s. It’s public record. It’s all there for anyone to view… why wouldn’t you look?
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There’s this girl that walks past my office window at around the same time every day – apparently even on the weekends as I discovered one day when I was working on a Sunday.
She is very thin – not unhealthily so but rather like a professional dancer: very toned with very low body fat. She moves like a dancer too and sometimes she stops outside my window for a couple of push-ups or for exercises that look like some kind of slow martial arts thing.
She has very white skin and long black hair. The most peculiar thing is, that she looks almost the same very day. She is always wearing dark glasses, black sneakers, dark baggy pants and a black shirt. She’s also always wearing a belt with something attached to it. Maybe a bag? I don’t know. I’m on the first floor and only see her walking by for a few moments so I can never really tell.
There is very little variation in her clothing: in summer she might be wearing a sleevless shirt in winter a knitted black cap, but in my memory she is always wearing the same things every single day.
Somehow she looks like she jumped right out of a manga comic to me.
I’m absolutely curios about her! Who is she? Where is she going every day? Why does she alsways look the same?
None of my business, sure, but darn is she intruiging!
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Intriguing indeed. Is she attractive and well put-together or does she look like she has no other clothes to wear to work?
I have a very keen curiosity about peoples’ sex lives. I don’t ask or snoop, but I’m curious all the same. Even people I don’t know… like other commuters on my way to work. It’s usually not sexually titillating, or anything.
Black ops and black projects? Sure, I’d love to know about all that. However, I don’t think 95% of the stuff the government keeps secret is nearly as interesting as we think it is. (Well, okay… it would be cool to know who our government has had assassinated in the past.)
A mid-to-late-twenties woman who works on my floor. She is stunning. Every guy on the floor between 20 and 40 is ga-ga over her. She’s a very pleasant person, but keeps everything strictly business. She keeps no pictures of friends, family, or significant others on her desk. She doesn’t initiate conversation unless it’s about work. I find myself wondering what the hell she does with her evenings and weekends!
I had a job at a University Hospital. One of the doctor’s got a secretary pregnant, left his wife and married the secretary, who gave birth to his son.
She was a very plain girl in looks to say the least, came from a questionable neighborhood, had dental problems and stank with the odor of anti-biotics…his looks and personae were regular but he is a doctor, after all.
So far as I know, they are still married, some twenty years later.
Well, anyway, I guess it’s none of my business, what he saw in her.