Are you a nosy neighbour?

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

I'm not the interfering kind a la Norris from Corrie

I've got a ring doorbell and I do have a look at what people are doing 🙈

I'll even remark to myself, 'she's going out again, omg' or see what they've brought back from the shops

I love to look out of the window for no reason as well

No point to this thread really 😭😭, just inspired by my neighbour getting another deliveroo takeaway and me passing judgement and secretly wishing I was getting a takeaway 🙈🤭

😭😭 there's not one thing happening on my ring doorbell that I don't know about 🙈

Omggg you're a person after my own heart

I was gonna say, he sounds single - no women/men visiting during the night? What does he do 👀👀

2 maccys and a pizza damn, he didn't enter his kitchen once 😭

12 days!?

Tbf mines had hers out a couple of days now, and it's 0 degrees at night

I mean, this is the gossip I love to hear

Whats wrong with these boyfriends, what makes them horrible? 👀👀

Not always though, don't you have a neighbour our who always knows when bin day is? Don't you have a nose to see when they're bringing them out?

Or if a neighbour has a new guest

Sometimes it's curiosity

Is what i tell myself 🤭🤭

No. I’m the opposite of a nosey neighbour. A family moved in next door this time last year and I still don’t know their name or what they do for a living. And, as long as they continue to leave me alone, I’m not interested.

I live in a village but I’m ‘not from round here’. I’m obviously aware that the locals gossip about everyone & everything so I make sure I don’t engage in any way & give them absolutely nothing to talk about. Which must annoy them intensely.

Am I a nosey neighbour?
Hell yes.
I'm retired. Hovering round the window gives me purpose.
My retired husband is even interested in my reports of the day.
Living opposite a post box is a total bonus.

Oh I’m a nosy neighbour!
I like to know what’s happening 😬

This thread just reminded me of this!
Michael Paine Nosy Neighbour

😄😄 well I mean, he has a point - 2lb of sausages is a lot 🤭

Omg you're in the prime spot - the equivalent of sitting near the water-cooler

I'm not even retired 😭, just going out of my way to be nosy

My next door neighbour and I send each other screenshots of all the tat people on our road are trying to get rid off on the Facebook group and
links of all the houses that go up on sale on the estate so we can talk about the decor. We love a goss

Ah, so these are the people who post in local Facebook groups. Good to know 😂

Yessss! I am a nosy neighbour. Not in a malicious way but I like to know what’s going on in the street! I’m lucky as my neighbour across the road is the same so we are able to keep each other in the loop. I also wfh and have befriended the postman - best thing ever for getting the neighbourhood gossip, he knows it ALL.

Not nosy, I've got a life. Spying on neighbours, looking for gossip is sad and weird. Get a hobby.

see i wanted to be like Jason Bourne and know all the neighbour's details like an intelligence officer 007 style, then i get distracted instead

Omg my postie is very stoic and uninterested in gossiping with me 😭

He was probably sick of all the socially starved people that tried to talk to him during the pandemic, which was when I moved in 🤭 bless him

I like to know what's going on, very harmless

I'm not I know all the neighbours but have no interest in being the local busybody.

Last year I had a serious accident and two ambulances and the fire brigade came to get me to hospital. I subsequently heard that the local nosy parker was sharing a video of me being carried out on a stretcher with all and sundry along our terrace. I was a bit taken aback when I heard about it 😳 it's macabre and she never even got in touch to see if I was okay.

Oh wow, sorry, that sounds serious. I hope you're okay now?

No, being nosy and judging someone's takeaway is not the same as being a complete twat and sending recordings of someone injured to everyone! She sounds awful and wouldn't belong on this thread x

No I'm not, although I'm the 2nd house down in a cul de sac of 10 houses so everyone has to pass my house. I have noticed a few strange cars entering the street lately!😉

I have an incredibly nosy neighbour, who makes no secret of the fact that she spends the day sitting at her kitchen table looking out the window. (If my life was reduced to that I’d be embarrassed to admit it and also hell-bent on improving it, but she doesn’t seem to care). Anyhow, she frequently tries to engage me in conversation about my life and lifestyle and is completely blatant about it. She tells me how she just can’t figure out my work pattern as I leave and return at different times every day, and some days i pop home once or twice, but at varying times and for varying durations. She’s also very curious about the visitors to my home, particularly the male ones. And my online shopping habits fascinate her. That’s before we get to the fact that some weeks I’m at home every night, others away one night, others away 2 or more. That baffles her. And she’s not afraid to ask! Depending on my mood, I’ll either give her fairly short shrift, be deliberately evasive or send her off on a wild goose chase altogether.

I am not doing anything dodgy, and have nothing to hide, but nonetheless my life is none of her business. I’m a private person by nature and resent the intrusion.

Yeah that’s a step too far. It’s one thing having a little harmless gossip ‘oh Brenda left her bins in the middle of the road for 5 days again’ and another to humiliate someone like that.

I didn’t think I was until I caught a few comments out of my mouth, a ‘that car is back!’ or ‘they’re earlier this morning’ etc etc!

I detest nosey neighbours. For those of you who think being nosey is just a bit of fun or innocent or whatever, I wish my next door neighbour moves next door to you so you can experience what it’s like to be constantly watched and ‘judged’ for what time you come home in the evening, what furniture you get delivered, who visits your house, what you grow in your garden, what’s in your recycling bin and absolutely everything else!!!

If this is your despicable level what on earth do you think of the rest of society?
Carry on OP. I love a bit of people watching.