Oh. Hey new neighbor

[rjamz]

So my kitchen window faces the alley and directly across (not far away at all) is my neighbor on the floor (like I'm in the 2 line, that's the 3). The guys who used to live there broke up, and only one of them owned the apartment. They both moved out and the guy who owned it is now letting his brother live there.

I was standing in my kitchen eating baked ziti out of the pan with the spatula (what? H is out.) I looked up to see him staring at me. He waved. I gave a sheepish little wave and ran left the kitchen.

First impressions, huh?

[TrudyCampbell]

I feel like it's against code to wave! The guy who lives across the shaft way from us works from home basically right next to my husband when he works from home. They are probably only like 6 feet away from each other. It is sooo awkward but they never acknowledge each other because then it would be too weird! Once I went in that room and talked to my dogs and he said "what?" as if he thought someone else in his apt was talking to him lol

[bebeetmoi]

Nothing weird about that at all. He probably was embarrassed the MILF caught him googling away! But wait, how did you eat with a spatula?

[bebeetmoi]

Jul 15, 2013 19:29:27 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I feel like it's against code to wave! The guy who lives across the shaft way from us works from home basically right next to my husband when he works from home. They are probably only like 6 feet away from each other. It is sooo awkward but they never acknowledge each other because then it would be too weird! Once I went in that room and talked to my dogs and he said "what?" as if he thought someone else in his apt was talking to him lol

Haha!

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 19:29:54 GMT -5 bebeetmoi said:

Nothing weird about that at all. He probably was embarrassed the MILF caught him googling away! But wait, how did you eat with a spatula?

I got all the delicious bottom scrapings up with it and proceeded to shovel it in my mouth. There was melted cheese there!

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 19:29:27 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I feel like it's against code to wave! The guy who lives across the shaft way from us works from home basically right next to my husband when he works from home. They are probably only like 6 feet away from each other. It is sooo awkward but they never acknowledge each other because then it would be too weird! Once I went in that room and talked to my dogs and he said "what?" as if he thought someone else in his apt was talking to him lol

Right?? It's so against the code to wave. When I was pregnant I didn't sleep at night and at that weird 4am hour I would look out the window to see if anyone else was up. There was a guy across the street who seemed to be doing the same thing. We never waved!

[dbe100408]

LOL!

I find it so strange to not know your neighbors. If I didn't wave at my neighbor, they would give me crap the next seventeen dozen times I saw them for being a snot! (I realize I live in a bubble, and not everyone lives in Mayberry like me.)

[fusion]

huh. city life.

[browneyedhunni85]

This creeps me out that you guys live so close to other people. Do you ever see stuff you wish that you hadn't seen?

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 19:33:43 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

LOL!

I find it so strange to not know your neighbors. If I didn't wave at my neighbor, they would give me crap the next seventeen dozen times I saw them for being a snot! (I realize I live in a bubble, and not everyone lives in Mayberry like me.)

There are a couple who if I see on the street I'll wave to, no one on my floor, though, but we mostly know each other bc we have to take the service elevator together when we're walking our dogs.

I saw one lady in the playground today. I should've said hi bc, you know, she lives in my building and has kids, and we say hi in the elevator, but she was with her parents. And I didn't recognize her until I was there for 10 minutes and then it seemed awkward.

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 19:37:03 GMT -5 browneyedhunni85 said:

This creeps me out that you guys live so close to other people. Do you ever see stuff you wish that you hadn't seen?

Indeed. Like the hairy guy hanging curtains in the nude

[TrudyCampbell]

Jul 15, 2013 19:37:03 GMT -5 browneyedhunni85 said:

This creeps me out that you guys live so close to other people. Do you ever see stuff you wish that you hadn't seen?

The people across the shaft way (prob 3-5 feet from my building) have an identical apartment so all the rooms match up. I was showering once with the window open and his window was open too and he was having WILD, LOUD SEX. At like 9am. 

 

[Faevantastic]

As I was reading this post, I thought your neighbor was going to be like the Ugly Naked Guy. Phew! Lol.

[monkeybabe]

I have decided that I am way too friendly to live in NY. I'd be like, "Hiiiii!"

[skwcm80]

Jul 15, 2013 19:33:43 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

LOL!

I find it so strange to not know your neighbors. If I didn't wave at my neighbor, they would give me crap the next seventeen dozen times I saw them for being a snot! (I realize I live in a bubble, and not everyone lives in Mayberry like me.)

I grew up in the MD, Dc, VA area and my h is from the Bay Area, it took a while for us to get used to small town Indiana. I don't even know that we're used to it yet. We see our neighbors so little that they didn't even know I was pregnant with A.

[TrudyCampbell]

Jul 15, 2013 19:40:45 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

I have decided that I am way too friendly to live in NY. I'd be like, "Hiiiii!"

I'd ignore you, lol. I was telling ruby412 that I avoid the people in my building at all costs. There is a very pregnant girl who lives above me now but I am not in the market for a friend who lives in my building. You can never hide!

[monkeybabe]

Jul 15, 2013 19:42:08 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:40:45 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

I have decided that I am way too friendly to live in NY. I'd be like, "Hiiiii!"

I'd ignore you, lol. I was telling ruby412 that I avoid the people in my building at all costs. There is a very pregnant girl who lives above me now but I am not in the market for a friend who lives in my building. You can never hide!

I'm not friends with my neighbors, we're just friendly. The super nosy old lady across the street comes over and tells us how to garden and Patsy mostly ignores her, because he thinks her taste is ugly. We had dinner with the neighbors to the south of us once, but mostly we just say "hi" when we see them and make small talk occasionally. The people behind us give us fresh eggs from their hens (yes, they have chickens in the city) and I return the favor with cookies.

[dbe100408]

Jul 15, 2013 19:37:07 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:33:43 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

LOL!

I find it so strange to not know your neighbors. If I didn't wave at my neighbor, they would give me crap the next seventeen dozen times I saw them for being a snot! (I realize I live in a bubble, and not everyone lives in Mayberry like me.)

There are a couple who if I see on the street I'll wave to, no one on my floor, though, but we mostly know each other bc we have to take the service elevator together when we're walking our dogs.

I saw one lady in the playground today. I should've said hi bc, you know, she lives in my building and has kids, and we say hi in the elevator, but she was with her parents. And I didn't recognize her until I was there for 10 minutes and then it seemed awkward.

I grew up in a town SMALLER than where I live now. (My HS graduating class had 49 including myself, so there's that). My husband looks at me like I've lost my mind when I drive. Why, you ask? Because sometimes I forget where I am, and wave at every passing car. Whoops.

[TrudyCampbell]

Jul 15, 2013 19:45:41 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

I grew up in a town SMALLER than where I live now. (My HS graduating class had 49 including myself, so there's that). My husband looks at me like I've lost my mind when I drive. Why, you ask? Because sometimes I forget where I am, and wave at every passing car. Whoops.

Haha! Oh my gosh, I can't even fathom this.

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 19:45:41 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:37:07 GMT -5 rjamz said:

There are a couple who if I see on the street I'll wave to, no one on my floor, though, but we mostly know each other bc we have to take the service elevator together when we're walking our dogs.

I saw one lady in the playground today. I should've said hi bc, you know, she lives in my building and has kids, and we say hi in the elevator, but she was with her parents. And I didn't recognize her until I was there for 10 minutes and then it seemed awkward.

I grew up in a town SMALLER than where I live now. (My HS graduating class had 49 including myself, so there's that). My husband looks at me like I've lost my mind when I drive. Why, you ask? Because sometimes I forget where I am, and wave at every passing car. Whoops.

Amazing

[fryjack2]

Jul 15, 2013 19:42:08 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:40:45 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

I have decided that I am way too friendly to live in NY. I'd be like, "Hiiiii!"

I'd ignore you, lol. I was telling ruby412 that I avoid the people in my building at all costs. There is a very pregnant girl who lives above me now but I am not in the market for a friend who lives in my building. You can never hide!

EVERY TIME I was late to the boys' music class, our neighbor would open her door and want to talk to the boys and ooh and ahh over them.   I wanted to say, "you can hear me struggling to get them ready and out of the house, why are you bugging me right this second?"  We share a wall and she can hear the boys sometimes.  I can hear her skyping all.the.time.  I purposefully ignore her knocks and I don't leave my condo if she is leaving her condo.  Or if I see her going into our building, I wait 5 minutes before going in.

[dbe100408]

Jul 15, 2013 19:47:17 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:45:41 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

I grew up in a town SMALLER than where I live now. (My HS graduating class had 49 including myself, so there's that). My husband looks at me like I've lost my mind when I drive. Why, you ask? Because sometimes I forget where I am, and wave at every passing car. Whoops.

Haha! Oh my gosh, I can't even fathom this.

Have you seen Sweet Home Alabama? My hometown's Main Street looks pretty much like that, lol. You're frequently stuck behind machinery on the highway, and to actually shop you have to drive a minimum of an hour and a half. You can't go to the store without factoring in "talk time", etc. It's not for everyone, just like the city isn't for everyone!

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:01 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:42:08 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I'd ignore you, lol. I was telling ruby412 that I avoid the people in my building at all costs. There is a very pregnant girl who lives above me now but I am not in the market for a friend who lives in my building. You can never hide!

EVERY TIME I was late to the boys' music class, our neighbor would open her door and want to talk to the boys and ooh and ahh over them.   I wanted to say, "you can hear me struggling to get them ready and out of the house, why are you bugging me right this second?"  We share a wall and she can hear the boys sometimes.  I can hear her skyping all.the.time.  I purposefully ignore her knocks and I don't leave my condo if she is leaving her condo.  Or if I see her going into our building, I wait 5 minutes before going in.

Oh yeah, I've been known to wait. Or look out my peephole to make sure no one else is waiting for the elevator

[monkeybabe]

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:20 GMT -5 dbe100408 said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:47:17 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Haha! Oh my gosh, I can't even fathom this.

Have you seen Sweet Home Alabama? My hometown's Main Street looks pretty much like that, lol. You're frequently stuck behind machinery on the highway, and to actually shop you have to drive a minimum of an hour and a half. You can't go to the store without factoring in "talk time", etc. It's not for everyone, just like the city isn't for everyone!

I hated going to the grocery store with my mom when I was a teenager. There was no quick trip to the store. My mom was the vice mayor in a tiny town. Oh.my.god it was awful.

[fryjack2]

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:53 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:01 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

EVERY TIME I was late to the boys' music class, our neighbor would open her door and want to talk to the boys and ooh and ahh over them.   I wanted to say, "you can hear me struggling to get them ready and out of the house, why are you bugging me right this second?"  We share a wall and she can hear the boys sometimes.  I can hear her skyping all.the.time.  I purposefully ignore her knocks and I don't leave my condo if she is leaving her condo.  Or if I see her going into our building, I wait 5 minutes before going in.

Oh yeah, I've been known to wait. Or look out my peephole to make sure no one else is waiting for the elevator

The elevator is the worst.  There is a guy in our building who is a huge DB.  But just to his wife. He is disgustingly sweet to everyone else.  I hate when I end up in the elevator with him. Such a sleazeball. 

[monkeybabe]

fryjack2 Where are you located, if you don't mind me asking?

[bebeetmoi]

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:53 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:01 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

EVERY TIME I was late to the boys' music class, our neighbor would open her door and want to talk to the boys and ooh and ahh over them.   I wanted to say, "you can hear me struggling to get them ready and out of the house, why are you bugging me right this second?"  We share a wall and she can hear the boys sometimes.  I can hear her skyping all.the.time.  I purposefully ignore her knocks and I don't leave my condo if she is leaving her condo.  Or if I see her going into our building, I wait 5 minutes before going in.

Oh yeah, I've been known to wait. Or look out my peephole to make sure no one else is waiting for the elevator

I get the wanting to avoid awkward conversations, but when I have to get out of the apartment and into the fresh air, I'm leaving! Wierd neighbor or no wierd neighbor. There was a woman who loves in my old building who was always dressed impeccably and super friendly. I held out being friends with her as long as possible, but couldn't fight it anymore and succumbed to her 64836 invitation for coffee around the corner. Turns out, she works for the biggest fashion PR firm in the city and is a life long designer clothes and secret sample sales hookup. God, I miss NY.

[rjamz]

Jul 15, 2013 20:01:40 GMT -5 bebeetmoi said:

Jul 15, 2013 19:51:53 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Oh yeah, I've been known to wait. Or look out my peephole to make sure no one else is waiting for the elevator

I get the wanting to avoid awkward conversations, but when I have to get out of the apartment and into the fresh air, I'm leaving! Wierd neighbor or no wierd neighbor. There was a woman who loves in my old building who was always dressed impeccably and super friendly. I held out being friends with her as long as possible, but couldn't fight it anymore and succumbed to her 64836 invitation for coffee around the corner. Turns out, she works for the biggest fashion PR firm in the city and is a life long designer clothes and secret sample sales hookup. God, I miss NY.

My neighbors are an elderly woman who is obsessed with dragons. She lives in the largest apartment on the floor (that has no interior alley views!)

Then there's the new guy.

And then there's the unfriendliest family ever. Every single one of them is unfriendly. Like sneeringly so. At least dragon lady loves Jamie and Suzie the Dog.

[bebeetmoi]

Jul 15, 2013 20:08:52 GMT -5 rjamz said:

My neighbors are an elderly woman who is obsessed with dragons. She lives in the largest apartment on the floor (that has no interior alley views!)

Then there's the new guy.

And then there's the unfriendliest family ever. Every single one of them is unfriendly. Like sneeringly so. At least dragon lady loves Jamie and Suzie the Dog.

Elderly neighbors are great. They love babies, have clever little quips/words of wisdom to liven up the elevator ride, but leave you alone once you leave the building. 

[monkeybabe]

Jul 15, 2013 20:08:52 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Jul 15, 2013 20:01:40 GMT -5 bebeetmoi said:

I get the wanting to avoid awkward conversations, but when I have to get out of the apartment and into the fresh air, I'm leaving! Wierd neighbor or no wierd neighbor. There was a woman who loves in my old building who was always dressed impeccably and super friendly. I held out being friends with her as long as possible, but couldn't fight it anymore and succumbed to her 64836 invitation for coffee around the corner. Turns out, she works for the biggest fashion PR firm in the city and is a life long designer clothes and secret sample sales hookup. God, I miss NY.

My neighbors are an elderly woman who is obsessed with dragons. She lives in the largest apartment on the floor (that has no interior alley views!)

Then there's the new guy.

And then there's the unfriendliest family ever. Every single one of them is unfriendly. Like sneeringly so. At least dragon lady loves Jamie and Suzie the Dog.

Are they the type that see you and immediately look like they smell shit or the type that always look like they've just smelled shit? I always get the urge to "accidentally" trip the former.