So I've been living in my neighbourhood now 14 years, my neighbour two doors up maybe 12. I knew the family before they moved in, nice people. I might chat to them if I meet them on the street occasionally, but usually we just say hello and move on.
Over the past few weeks the man (not too much older than me) has been messaging me on weekends, usually around midnight. Hi, how are you kind of thing. I reply briefly and leave it at that. I had a missed video call last week and decided he'd been hacked.
So last night I had the Hi message again. I was fully prepared to message his grown up daughter to tell her dad he'd been hacked but by his next message I knew it was him. Nothing out of the way, just that his wife was in bed, nice to relax at the weekend, how are the kids?
Am I looking too much into it? I kept my side of the conversation very general. Went straight to talking about dh and the kids but he kept replying. I said I was going to bed and this morning I had 3 further messages asking had I gone to sleep.
It's very random to me and I feel a little uneasy about it but on the other hand I can't see how all of a sudden he'd be interested in me.
Should I just ignore him or do you reckon he's just bored and looking for a harmless chat?