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To ask my neighbour opposite to close her curtains?

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Sparklyshoes16 · 21/11/2017 23:42

Last few days we’ve noticed a bit of odd behaviour from our neighbour opposite. She sleeps with her curtains open all night and then gets undressed/dressed with them open in the morning. When she’s going to bed she’s starkers! We’ve resorted to leaving our bedroom curtains closed all day everyday as she’s been naked during the day Confused

My husband opened our curtains this morning after we’d got dressed etc to find her stood staring across butt naked...husband went bright red and nearly ripped the curtains down pulling them shut...we’ve asked our neighbour next door but one if they’ve noticed ...they’ve said yes and asked her to close her curtains or put net curtains up etc she said she didn’t realise but this morning she’s starkers again! Aibu to think she should know better and at least close her curtains when getting dressed?

OP posts:
falange · 22/11/2017 07:47

She’s an exhibitionist. Why not try pointing and laughing at her the next time you see her doing it Smile

SunnyCoco · 22/11/2017 07:48

I’m with the ‘its Just a body’ team! Just don’t look. It doesn’t sound like she’s ‘prancing around’ or flashing or provoking, she’s just going about her business for gods sake.

And yes changing rooms are for changing and therefore you’re bound to have your kit off at some point

Bloody hell some people need to unclench! No wonder girls today have so many hang ups

JonSnowsWife · 22/11/2017 08:03

JonSnow, would you be so dismissive of the feelings of someone’s wife being ‘so offended by the sight of a naked body’ if it was a man?

You might want to read my posts again scaryveg. I didnt say 'so offended'. I said offended, and yes I'd have said exactly the same thing.

But then if my neighbour across the road was doing this I'd go and tactfully approach them and ask if they realise they can be seen. Because after all, I wouldn't want the other neighbours gossiping about her...

JonSnowsWife · 22/11/2017 08:04

Well you're clearly just doing it for attention TigerTown Wink

PiffleandWiffle · 22/11/2017 08:05

How DARE you look out of your window you peeping bloody tom.

You should brick up your window rather that peek at, stare at, perv over your poor innocent naturist lunatic neighbour.

Ask her nicely, drop her a text or email too to back it up if you have those details. If she doesn't stop doing it, I'd start waving at her, making the "vom" sign & maybe even invite friends round to view the show if she's got regular timeslots....

PiffleandWiffle · 22/11/2017 08:07

what happens when you walk back into a room naked and the blinds are accidentally open?

Well, it doesn't happen because blinds are designed to stay closed but still let in light..... Hmm

Thus, they're always preventing outside from looking in - which is as it should be!!

Nikephorus · 22/11/2017 08:09

I've got a similar issue with my neighbour except she seems to be wearing a bra (my eyesight isn't that good & I could be wrong, she could be naked - she's short so I can't see lower down). But every day she's in the front bedroom (which isn't the master bedroom, though to be fair I guess they could be using it instead) getting dressed with the curtains open and the overhead light on. The curtains are closed all night and still are when husband goes to work so it's not that he's opening them every day, it must be her. She must know that she's visible to me (possibly also neighbours to side) and it's not accidental occasionally. I wonder if she's an exhibitionist on the quiet but she doesn't look the type. Very odd. (But then I wouldn't even wander round visible in my underwear as a one-off)

BitOutOfPractice · 22/11/2017 08:13

I wonder if all of these "it's just a body" advocates parade around naked in lit windows themselves. I bet they don't.

BitOutOfPractice · 22/11/2017 08:13

And isn't it funny how someone only parades when they're naked Grin

randomer · 22/11/2017 08:15

Naughty OP this is made up nonsense isn't it

SoupDragon · 22/11/2017 08:18

I wonder if all of these "it's just a body" advocates parade around naked in lit windows themselves. I bet they don't.

There are lots of things that others do that I wouldn't. That doesn't mean they can't do them.

echt · 22/11/2017 08:18

I wonder if all of these "it's just a body" advocates parade around naked in lit windows themselves. I bet they don't.

Just because one believes one thing doesn't mean they have to do the other. You really don't have to do something yourself to think it's OK for others.

JonSnowsWife · 22/11/2017 08:19

I think it is too randomer

JonSnowsWife · 22/11/2017 08:20

bitoutofpractice Grin

I wonder how you prance and parade at the same time?

claraschu · 22/11/2017 08:21

BeALert that was an amazing, moving, thing to listen to.

BitOutOfPractice · 22/11/2017 08:28

Like I thought. It's just a body unless it's theirs Grin

Oh yes, prancing. That's a thing only naked people and Christmas reindeer do.

Bluntness100 · 22/11/2017 08:29

Bwahahahaha at all the daft “it’s totally normal to stand stark bollock naked staring out your window where the neighbours can’t help but see you” brigade.

Sure it is, fucking weirdos. I’ll jjst nip upstairs and get me kit off and stand there waiting for my neighbour to open their curtain and catch an eyeful. Back in a min. Grin

RagingFemininist · 22/11/2017 08:38

Raven dont go on a beach in France or to the swimming pool in Germany.... You will struggle with all those women with their tits out half a meter from you!

I’m wondering if she has realised that with the lights in, everyone can see her.
I would go and have a chat with her reminding her of that AND that she really needs to close her curtains.

If she is still always doing it afetrvtwo people have told her about it, I would assume she is doing iut on purpose. Not sure what you could do about it!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 22/11/2017 08:46

All this "don't look" crap!

Absolutely! OPisn't deliberately spying, but why should she not be able to even open her curtains during the day to get light into the room because the neighbour thinks it's fine not to have nets/blinds up.

Next time OP - give her a wave (I wouldn't suggest your DH do this as he may get into trouble). Try to engage her in conversation (even if it's frantic gestures) and see if she is less keen when you a) don't seem bothered by her nudity and b} put her at a disadvantage by being clothed when she is not.

We are all entitled to do anything (legal) in our own homes, but not if it impacts on other people like this.

JonSnowsWife · 22/11/2017 08:47

Rudoplh and his ilk are dead to us now BitOutOfPractice. Get with the times, only unicorns are allowed to pull Santa's sleigh now.

JaneEyre70 · 22/11/2017 08:52

I think a lot of people missed the bit in the OP where it says My husband opened our curtains this morning after we’d got dressed etc to find her stood staring across butt naked.
Yes we all have a right to wander round our homes wearing nothing, but standing at the window staring out?? She's an exhibitionist. She's been asked by a neighbour to close her curtains, and she hasn't. I'd get some nets OP. Thick ones Grin.

BitOutOfPractice · 22/11/2017 09:01

Rudolph is dead? Shock JonSnowsWife you might have broken news like that to me a bit more gently

SchadenfreudePersonified · 22/11/2017 09:04

Unicorns are shit at prancing, though. Things will never be the same.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 22/11/2017 09:14

The cry would go up "Nora's on the bog again" and fall about laughing. In the end, my mum told us that we were rude to look, it wasn't funny, and Nora almost certainly didn't realise we could see, and that we were invading her privacy

The utter hypocrisy of some on here is just weird. This idea that being in your own home and looking out your own window is peeping, snooping, invading privacy. What nonsense. If Nora wanted privacy she could close the door.

Why is she allowed to look out her window and not be called nosey but if the OP does fully clothed she is being nosey

Exactly- all these posters wanting to show off how relaxed and open minded they are and tripping over their own illogical thoughts.

Sayyouwill · 22/11/2017 09:14

I love the feeling of sunlight on my naked body. It’s absolutely glorious! Don’t get many opportunities to experience it however which is a shame. It’s not perverted to enjoy that feeling. I don’t get aroused by it.
I’m also a naked person. I always walk around my house naked. I don’t want to take my dressing gown into the bathroom or take my towel into the bedroom. It seems quite pointless when I can just walk nude down my own hallway. Sometimes curtains are open, sometimes they’re closed. If someone sees me, they would literally need to be looking directly into my window. I wouldn’t stop. But I don’t make an exhibition of myself either.