Neighbour obsessed with what time I get up

[Mississipi71]

I overheard my neighbour talking about what time I get up in the day. I have no blinds in my bedroom, just curtains, so she can presume see what time I wake up. I even heard her saying "it is 11.30 am now, what time did she get up 11.15?" I don't go into deep sleeps (side effects of anxiety meds) so I never really feel I have had a full night's sleep. I am early retired, with no kids so what time I get up is down to me. I just read in bed, dont play music or watch tv, until I finally drift off. She also has no idea whether I have reasons for sleeping patterns and I don't need to justify anything to her. Anybody else have CF neighbours like this?

Nothing better to gossip about in your neighbour’s sad little life

dont let it bother you

You can get up when you want! Maybe she’s just jealous that you’re a little more rock ‘n roll!

I’d pop some privacy window film up on the glass to irritate her. It’ll mean you can look out and the sun will shine through, but she won’t be able to see in!
She’ll hate it 🤘

this would make me play a game and start acting very wierdly - i would buy a pair of binoculars are start looking at her house with them sat on a chair in front of the window when shes going out to work curtains wide open . or keep you curtains closed and go out and come back to really confuse her. i told my nosey neighbour who rudely asked what i did for living - i told her i was a high class hooker 😂

You don't even have to list your reasons or excuses OP, she is a nosey sod and it's none of her business! Enjoy your lay ins!

Oh I'm laughing because I have a neighbour exactly like this lol let's just say Covid drove her dotty, she is obsessed with me and my life, sad people eh

Thanks again guys. Sometimes you just need reassuring that it is others, who are unreasonable. I guess I just wanted validation that her opinion matters fuck all. I knew it but a general concensus helps x

Oh I'd be having fun with her

Pop a red coloured lamp such as a salt lamp in your window & tell her your curtains are closed because you're working, if you have male friends that can pop in for a visit, even better.

I have one of these CF neighbour's too!

You need to start messing with her

Do you have a spare room? Move there and keep curtains open some nights

My neighbour took a parcel in for me. I popped round there later to collect it and said I did hear them knock but I was in the bath! She said you were in the bath at 2pm in the afternoon? in a disapproving voice! I said We are retired, we can do what we want, when we want! and she said I suppose you are right!
Smile and wave! Don't let the b***s get you down!

You should have said something just as you heard it. Nothing greater than that look people get when they realise they’ve been heard 😂

Ha ha brilliant!

Your neighbours behaviour is highly peculiar, where people get the time for that stuff is a mystery to me, but nosy neighbours can sometimes be a godsend

Sad woman. I would steer clear off her

How do you know she's talking about you? And you say obsessed so is it something she says regularly?

Monday to Friday I have to be up early for work, no choice. It certainly doesn't feel like a virtue that's for sure 🙄
The CF neighbour sounds like a bloody nightmare though. I would just ignore her tbh.

There is a classic term for the person A fucking nosey neighbours; you don’t need to justify yourself to them or anyone else although I would just for your own sanity arrange for a blackout blind to be fitted to your bedroom window asap so that the nosey old fart can’t see when you get up or go to bed.
If it was me personally I would have some fun with it; before going to bed I’d open all the curtain the nosey sod can see; they’d think you were up with the larks, just play about with it, by the end of the month their nosey little nose will be glowing brighter than Rudolph’s xx

Brilliant 😂

This this all day.
I don’t get it and it’s really pissing me off at the moment.
someone in my family is actively making g another feel shit every day mentioning what time they get up.
there is NOTHING wrong with being a late sleeper.
never mind the fact biologically even ,some folk really do better later or with different sleep patterns.
op you don’t need to give us explanations of why you get up at that time!

When we first went into lockdown (Spring 2020), nearly everything was closed. My nosy neighbour was having such a hard time figuring out where the heck I was going at 3:30am, she actually came and introduced herself so she could ask... 😂😂 I’d like to point out that I was picking online orders (4am starts during the pandemic) - not a lady of the night resorting to extreme measures during tough times...
Ignore her OP, DP and I used to laugh at her brazenness at coming for a chat to find out.

This is what I live about my part of London - nobody gives a monkeys arse about this stuff. Moving to a nearby ‘shire’ for a while was an eye opener - couldn’t get back quick enough.

You find the right sleep pattern for you op.we are all different.but your rest and sleep is so important.vital if you have anxiety.some need more,some less,her body is not yours,your sleep pattern non of her fecking business.
get your sleep.as and when you want and need.
I also think some people really don’t like those who can lie in.

We once had an opposite neighbour who not only commented on what time we got up and the curtains were opened but also that she could tell whether DH or I had opened them by the way they were pushed back.

I had weeks of fun, opening and closing both the upstairs and downstairs curtains at random times. Having them all shut while we were outside visibly gardening, opening just one of a pair, hanging clothes on the rails, that sort of thing.

She never mentioned it again and eventually moved away. Some people just have very boring lives. B

I can't stand nosey people. It just smacks of a really boring, empty life.

Our neighbour opposite (who I only exchange 'Hello's' with after some batshittery when we first moved in involving her putting her foot in my front door and trying to barge past because I'd 'stolen her wine' - turned out I'd had our F1 tickets delivered by courier, the same courier who delivers her wine, seemingly, and she'd 'seen me take a delivery' and made an assumption, like the massive twat she is) has a handy rag in her bedroom which she uses to pretend she's cleaning them when we have visitors. Every. Single. Time. I cannot imagine how boring her life must be to want to watch my elderly Grandmother exit my Mums car & waddle her way across the front garden with her trolley.

I was also a bit weirded out after visiting our local pub last Father's Day for sunday lunch and a friend in the village saying 'Oooh, you went for sunday lunch then?' - I thought she must have been in there and apologised for not seeing her and saying hello, but no, it was just a topic of conversation in the pub that evening as we'd been in the pub and don't usually!! I won't be feckin going in again now, I can tell you that much!! So weird.

I don't regret moving from a city to the countryside but I could defo live without people being in each other's bloody business!!

My mum was a late sleeper - admittedly her bedroom was at the back but she used to open her living room curtasins before she went to bed to stop anyone judging!