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

Have her dc merged into the teen years yet?!

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

yabu

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

Do people really care about curtain opening one upmanship?

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

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

*humanly possible to fit so many classes

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.

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

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 :).

cantspel I'm so sorry for your loss :(

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

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

Thankyou

So sorry Cantspel

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 :(

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

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?

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

So sorry cantspel.

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.

cantspel