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July 31, 2006 at 8:06 am #24287NessaParticipant
Anyone else have an experience with nosey neighbors? If so post your experience, but shall start this off with mine, so here goes:
I moved into my current house with my family about 7 years ago and before this place in my previous houses i had never experienced anything like this. The neighborhood is nice and all but my next door neighbor is extremely nosey! She basically is always snooping out her window to see what’s going on (this is usually normal) BUT mine takes this a whole lot further. When someone comes to visit us and we aren’t home she takes the liberty to go outside and talk to them to question why they are visitng us. She’ll even start telling them stories about people that they of course don’t know, or about us. And if by any chance, i’m home (or my mom) but i’m sleeping or something, she tells them, “Oh, she’s home, keep knocking.”
Then to add on, whenever she finds out things about people, even people we don’t know, she’ll tell us “This happened to so and so” and etc. So when she finds out something about us, of course by the next day, everyone we know that knows her, already knows also! The day i got into a car accident, when someone came to visit, we thought they didn’t know what happened and were about to tell them and they tell us, “Oh, she called us and told us what happened.” I was just like wow…
My friends have noticed how nosey she and her family are, so when they come to my house, they do things for laughs. When we are leaving in a car, they all stick out their hands at wave towards her house. If they are dropping me off, one of them gets out of the car, acting drunk, falling, and yelling… Just so we can all see their reactions. I, of course tell my mom before-hand because i know they will tell her. “:O Vanessa’s friends were all drunk when they dropped her off.” So my mom knows what we do for laughs.
The lady WILL NOT go to bed until everyone on this block has gotten home and fallen asleep, so she can say the next day “Oh, so and so didn’t get home till 4am.” or “I saw you didn’t get home till 3.” or “What were you doing out so late?” She’s so obvious about it too, she puts her head right through her window-blinds looking out all the time!
I have no idea what the heck goes on through her head, and the only upside i can see in all this, is that if anyone ever tries to break-in and steal something from my house. She’ll be the first one reporting it!
So yeah, i think i included all details here. Anyone else got a similar story about nosey neighbors to share?
*I also apologize beforehand if i have any typo’s or some of my story doesn’t make sense, since it’s 3a.m. and i’m not completely awake!*
July 31, 2006 at 10:16 am #149574sarahtownyMemberoh boy that would drive me insane! Don’t know how you put up with that :(.
When we lived in the main town, there was a neighbour opposite who wasn’t a gossip but she used to stand in the window all the time just staring into our house. That just used to give me the creeps, more than anything else.
My worst neighbour experience was more to do with noise. Our first home was connected to another house. The owner rented it out to 3 student girls, who came in at 3 in the morning and blasted music so loud the house moved! I had just had a baby and was deprived of sleep anyway, but if I went round to object they used to slam the door in my face with some rather nasty comments in tow, they then turned the music up even more. In the end we were having to call the police out, dreadful experience.
So we moved very quickly. Just goes to show really nice neighbours can be hard to come by.
August 1, 2006 at 12:34 am #149571shifterMemberI had a neighbor like that as well, though not quite that bad! She was definitely the neighborhood gossip and knew everything about everyone. Very annoying. Too bad she moved away. 😉
August 1, 2006 at 2:56 am #149570Jeff HesterKeymasterI can’t stop laughing. Wow hatedjealousy…that’s incredibly insane! I thought that was only possible in movies. I had a neighbor lady that was just a gossip. She knew what happened to people in the neighborhood but she wasn’t peeking out of windows or anything or questioning people. She was just a normal gossip. That lady you know takes it to a whole different level. Has anybody ever tried confronting her? Or perhaps playing her at her own game to teach her a lesson? Out of curiosity, how old is she anyway?
August 1, 2006 at 4:09 am #149577NessaParticipantMiamiGuy wrote:Has anybody ever tried confronting her?Well, she’ll just go run and tell people that you confronted her because she was saying the truth about you. She is a seriously aggressive lady who will get in anyone’s face. She tells everyone i’m conceited because i didn’t tell her hi, ONE time when i didn’t even see her driving by. (Pfft so now no way in hell do i tell her hi, i rather let her keep thinking i’m conceited. ;)) She also says i’m conceited for going to a university. She says no one needs college or anything, because her daughters supposedly got good jobs without college, but psh their jobs aren’t good…
MiamiGuy wrote:Or perhaps playing her at her own game to teach her a lesson?Ha ha, everyone talks sh*t about her to try to get even, but not even that stops her. Why? Because she talks sh*t about her own family. I got the best way to laugh at her though, even though it wouldn’t be funny if it happened to anyone else. Her grandson is about 12-13, he was really really mad at her because she was yelling at him for no reason, and she had gotten mad at his little brother. The boy was playing outside with my brother in my backyard. She wanted him to go home and he refused, so she came over and tried to grab him to pull him home. The boy just hit his peak and gets her in a head lock and i’m there staring through my screen door thinking Wow. Yes, i’m evil because i waited a while before i went outside to say anything (but hey after putting up with her for 7 years and listening to her make up stuff about you, you’d probably do the same). So before he almost drops her down to floor, i finally step out and simply tell the boy to stop (who is really nice, just that she just makes the worst come out in people). I tell him that’s his grandma and has to respect her regardless and he immediately lets go of her. She just looked at me and they both went back next door. After that she of course called everyone and told them what happened, her own version, making it seem like it was the kids fault of course. Every time people would ask me what happened, i’d break out laughing before i could say anything. Till this day i find it hilarious, that she makes her own family members turn on her.
MiamiGuy wrote:Out of curiosity, how old is she anyway?I think she’s barely in her 60’s. Which isn’t that old, so she still has all that energy to be snooping.
This lady is just seriously bad though, if you see how she treats her own mom, whom is still alive, you’d freak. She has her mom (who is in a wheelchair) in a little back house right behind her home. Her mom receives checks from the state and what not, but the lady gets them for herself and just buys her mom basic groceries. But then when she’s missing groceries, goes and takes them from her mom. She also does not let her run the ac much because supposedly she wastes too much electricity, yet in her house, they leave it running all day! (remember Texas is extremely hot, so the old lady is usually in sweating all day). When her mom gossips something about her that she didn’t want anyone to know, she yells at her so badly, that the old lady stays in tears. Sometimes even telling her, why doesn’t she just die already… She openly tells all her brothers and sisters that when their mom dies, no one is getting any of her stuff, because she’s the one who “takes care of her.” She has life insurance on her mom and guess who the main beneficiary is? Yeah, it’s sad to know all this…
But yeah, it’s a major annoyance knowing you’re being watched and that everyone will hear about anything you do later. Very creepy. I can’t wait to move out of here because of her!
Also yeah, i know most people have the neighborhood gossip, but mine sure does take it to a whole other level…
August 1, 2006 at 5:11 am #149573colinMemberI am the exact opposite of you HatedJealousy. I have been living in the same house for 12-13 years, and I barely know anyone in our neighborhood. I know the names of 2-3 people in the whole neighborhood, how said is that. We are moving to a brand new subdivision in February, so maybe I will actually get to know some of my new neighbors, who knows.
By the way HatedJealousy, where in Texas do you live? I am in Cedar Park, right outside Austin.
August 1, 2006 at 5:13 am #149578NessaParticipantcolin wrote:I am the exact opposite of you HatedJealousy…By the way HatedJealousy, where in Texas do you live? I am in Cedar Park, right outside Austin.
I’ll switch you neighborhoods! And i live in San Antonio, Texas, so you aren’t that far away 😉
*edits my profile to reflect that* 😛
August 1, 2006 at 12:52 pm #149580Tea GrannyMemberhatedjealousy wrote:she’s barely in her 60’s. Which isn’t that oldYou are a good kind person, and one day someone will sing songs of your praises!!!:)
I feel bad for your situation, but I really feel sick for that ladies poor mom. What a horrible indignant way to spend the last days of your life… dependent on a cruel thoughtless person. Perhaps the end won’t come fast enough for her. I can only hope her grandchildren rescue her from her own daughter. Sad.:crying:
August 1, 2006 at 10:35 pm #149572AwesomeSauceParticipantFirst of all, I am absolutely shocked at this nosey neighbor and what you must have to put up with her. If someone like that lived next-door to me, I would probably go insane.
Which brings me to say, have you ever thought that this lady has some serious mental problems? It’s normal for the human to be curious and a little nosey sometimes, but this is absolutely ridiculous. She must have some kind of abnormal issue that makes her want to stare out the window all day and watch people. Perhaps paranoia, or maybe she’s just extremely bored.
I like Miamiguy’s idea of playing her at her own game to teach her a lesson, or somehow getting back at her. I sure would.
August 2, 2006 at 12:18 am #149583TizMemberMy neighbor is just pure “pest”. He can’t/won’t keep a job and is bored 10 minutes after he wakes up.
So, I get the knock on the door…..even as late as 9:30pm.
“I’m bored/ can I have a cigarette/can I have a dollar/can you give me a ride”?
No liscence,either.Can’t walk my dog without fear of him seeing me and running over to gab or bum.
August 2, 2006 at 12:34 am #149581williamleeMemberabout 10 years ago I lived in an apartment on the first floor and had a couple who lived above me. their bedroom and mine was stacked so I could hear their nightly sessions (if you know what I mean). I didnt listen on purpose and even would play the radio to try and drown them out. but seemed like the higher the music went so did they.
They must have been a perfect match because this was an every night thing that lasted at least 2 hours. I tried changing my bed time but that only lasted a night or two. it seemed like they knew just the perfect time I go to bed.
I finally was able to confront the male and told him that sounds travelled from his room to mine, he said what do you mean. I didnt want to be rude but well I seen no other way. I said look every night when you and your woman have sex I can hear every sound.
He said really, I said yeah man. He said ok thanks but just so you know I am not home at night I work night shift. ooppppsssss. I moved shortly after.
August 2, 2006 at 3:39 am #149579MrOatsMemberVanessa… (I hope I spelled your name right, sorry if I misspelled)
Holy SH*T! That is the most extreme case of nosy-ness I’ve ever heard of,
-ever! 😮 *feels sorry for Vanessa*I live in a area where three houses of nosey neighbors live. Across the street, is this women who has trouble walking… (she’s “swollen”) She sits on her porch, several times a day, smoking or making out with her husband… She called the police on my sister and her boyfriend when they were fighting once. Which was pretty stupid, because they were walking -far- down the street(away from her house) when this happaned and there wasn’t that much yelling going on… She even has a scanner, she listen’s to police announcements, and when I was over there once, playing with there -non-nosey child, the husband said: “Hey, wanna listen to your sister’s phone conversation?” …No doubt they were listening beforehand.
The 2 families next door are the most troublesome. (They live in an apartment/duplex type). Both of the women of the 2 families are constantly asking/guessing where we are going. When we go out to go to the grocery store or something, they will ask in a shatteringly loud voice: “Hey Where ‘ya Goin’?!” …And when when we came back from Vacation, they said: “Hey, You’re Back! Where’d You Go?” … When we clearly didn’t want anyone to know about it. And even when I’m walking to a friends house or just around the neighborhood, they say: “You’re always on the Go!” or “Going out -again- huh”? … They say these things in a discriminating tone… It’s annoying. When we’re unloading groceries from the car, they’ll say things like “So Went Shoppin’?” or “Wha’d ya get”? And even come over and see what we did get. “Oh, Ritz! Those are Good!” … Gah.
The children are just as nosey. *wonder where they got it from*
They are constantly asking if my neice(Alicia) can play with them, -every single time- they are out. Twice, they tried climbing through our screen window to get Alicia to play with them. (We told them we were eating dinner before-hand, and as we were eating, my mother jumped when she heard the screen ripping apart). She got very flustered, and some-what screamed: “CAN’T YOU SEE THAT WE ARE BUSY EATING DINNER RIGHT NOW!” … The children even had the nerve to say: “When will you be done?”.So, just slight nosy-ness in my area. Not nearly as developed as Vanessa’s…
April 24, 2008 at 1:33 am #149576NessaParticipantI was looking around at my old posts and found this one and decided to give everyone an update:
Several months ago my neighbor’s mother passed away – I won’t give the details because it’s kinda fishy and it probably wouldn’t be right for me to type that out to the public. Well sadly the daughter (my neighbor) had several insurances on her so she got good money after (I say sadly because I find it pretty repulsing). She has recently remodeled her house with a new paint job a, fancy fence, and a brand new truck – so much for keeping it on the down low, huh?
She’s calmed down on her noseyness towards my family since we broke off major ties with them and hardly ever cross paths. So the situation is better but you can catch her peaking out her window every so often, but now I can’t help but smile and hope that I’ll never end up like that!
April 24, 2008 at 1:37 am #149582PhilipModeratorMy neighbors (in the apartment block where I live) keep pretty much to themselves. So I must be one of the lucky few.
April 24, 2008 at 7:09 am #149575sarahtownyMemberHey Nessa I am glad its not so bad these days!
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