to feel a teeny bit triumphant?

[DecapitatedLegoman]

My uber-organised neighbour runs her life with military precision and makes my chaotic existance seem pretty desperate. However, for the first time ever I opened my DC's curtains this morning at 8am (they'd been up for 2 hours, I'd only just got round to it) their DC's were still shut . I have never opened my curtains to anything other than hers opened and windows open to air. Never. In fact by 8am they've probably all done a yoga class and are enjoying the papers in a stylish coffe shop while their DC quietly read classic literature.

Or maybe she's taken it to a new level and her DC sleep late on weekends

[GypsyMoth]

Have her dc merged into the teen years yet?!

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726]

Stop peering through windows, OP, have your own fabulous life instead of pondering hers.

[cantspel]

yabu

there could be any number of reasons why the curtains are shut

[TheOriginalFAB]

Do people really care about curtain opening one upmanship?

[sjuperwolef]

she'll be extra vigilint from now on after seeing yours open before hers i bet she'll scurry past you in the street with shame

[DecapitatedLegoman]

You're right LyingWitch, of course. She's such a lovely woman I can't even bring myself to be irritated by her. I wish she'd share her secret though. I didn't think it was humaa classes and activities into a week. And she does the odd triathlon too. I get so exhausted just living over the road from her that I can't manage to run for a bus

[DecapitatedLegoman]

*humanly possible to fit so many classes

[cantspel]

Do people notice other peoples curtains?

Maybe op lives oposite me as my curtains are still closed when usually they are open by 7 but as my dad died yesterday i cant really be arsed to worry about curtains.

[DecapitatedLegoman]

Not really FAB, but it's quietly amused me/made me feel deeply inadequate for years now.

[KaFayOLay]

My neighbours curtains weren't open one morning by a time she is usually up and about.

I went over to check on her.
She'd had a stroke, she was only 40 :(.

She is eternally grateful for me and my spare key :).

[DecapitatedLegoman]

cantspel I'm so sorry for your loss :(

[ChippingIn]

cantspel - I'm really sorry to hear about your Dad x

Decapitated - my first thought was 'Oh my god, I wonder if something awful has happened' (as per cantspels' post) but then I thought that I was being a drama queen... maybe not. Maybe pop over later to see if they're ok??

However, I can appreciate your small moment of triumph

[mistressploppy]

this made me chuckle - I feel just like you, OP! Also giggling at the DC and their classic literature....

[cantspel]

Thankyou

[mistressploppy]

So sorry Cantspel

[ChippingIn]

Everything that happens to you in life becomes part of you - I guess it makes me sad that I think of the worst thing first a lot of the time - so the first thing I'd think would be 'OMG I hope everything is OK' not 'He he he I've beaten her for once ' but if other people haven't had the same experiences and think of the He he he first - I think it's great - you are lucky to be more carefree.

A neighbour saved my friends Dad's life last year when she noticed his curtains weren't open when they would normally have been. She called my friend and I took her to his house, if we had been any later he would have died :(

[DecapitatedLegoman]

Everything is ok I think because curtains were opened, windows opened and washing out by the time we left the house at 9.30am. I only wish I could have been nonchalantly pegging mine out when she eventually opened them

[DecapitatedLegoman]

I am sorry to be flippant cantspel. Would you like to talk about your dad?flippant cantspel. Would you like to talk about your dad?

[DecapitatedLegoman]

Sorry my phone is doing odd things today.Sorry my phone is doing odd things today.

[TheOriginalFAB]

So sorry cantspel.

[izzywhizzyletsgetbusy]

I'm so very sorry for the loss of your df, cantspel. There'll be a lot of things you'll find you can't be arsed to care about for some considerable time to come. Be kind to yourself and don't fret about the small stuff.

[Alliwantisaroomsomewhere]

cantspel