Should I be up in everyone's business?

[ExLimey]

I currently live in a very small community where everyone knows everyone and/or is related to three-quarters of the population.
I grew up in the big city and tend to keep to myself and don't really care to know all the details of my neighbor's lives. Often people will be walking by and stop to chat and I'm always amazed at how much they know about my life (where I work etc etc) even though I'm not close with anyone in the area.

So I'm out in my garage cutting wood (Yep, still working on the house) and this older couple pulls into my driveway. The lady who's driving rolls her window down and calls me over. My immediate thought was, oh God, they've come to try and convert me again. Turns out she's related to the old lady who owns the house next door. She (the neighbor) recently remarried (she's 70 and her former husband died about four years ago). The lady in the car is asking me where she is. Now I've talked to this neighbor maybe a dozen times in the seven years we've lived next door to each other. I do know that she's not living in the house next door and that she's living in the village three miles away. I have no idea of her current address (nor do I care a whole lot either). Anyway the lady in the car proceeds to tell me in a sarcastic way that I'm a fountain of information. She goes on to say that she's a relative of my neighbor and wanted to stop by and say hi (she lives 30 miles away). So I'm thinking to myself, "You're fucking related to her! Why should I KNOW where she is now?"

I'm a little bit of a hermit, I don't want people knowing all of my business and I don't care to know everyone elses either. Is this wrong of me? Should I be more nosy so that if someone drops by looking for someone I can tell them all the juicy details?

 

[Guest]

I know every single move you make.

Muhahahaha

 

[peachykeen]

So, you've got yourself all riled up over something some crazy old nosy bat said to you?

Sheesh, next thing you know you'll be getting upset over something someone posts on a board at a porn site or something

 

[ExLimey]

I know every single move you make.

Muhahahaha

So who has the sadder life? Me, who lives it or you, who watches me live no life?

 

[ksmybuttons]

When I heard my 7 year old son telling his friend that he had seen my naked butt, I knew that my neighbors now know everything about me.

He has also told me he likes my breasts. "They're big uns, mommy!"

Somethings are just not meant to be shared.

 

[sheath]

I don't know my neighbors. I don't think I want to. I write erotica. They know it. Thus, they don't like me. I live in the fucking Bible Belt. Anyway...

As long as you know them well enough to beat on their door and know they will answer if your house is burning to the ground, then that's good enough.

And if they continue to be nosy...

Make sure you have neon-colored sex toys in plain sight everywhere they can possibly look.

If they are going to talk, at least give them something good to talk about!

S.

 

[Guest]

So who has the sadder life? Me, who lives it or you, who watches me live no life?

An egg came first.

 

[ExLimey]

An egg came first.

No, no, no, twas the chicken first!

 

[sheath]

Bump

I think some really cool stories could come out of this thread, so I'm bumping it. I'm sure there are others out there with stories to tell about their nosy neighbors and the absolute frustration of having to deal with the ole biddies.

S.

 

[Nora]

EL...I'm like you, only meaner. I don't want to know my neighbors. I don't want to buy their kid's band candy or raffle tickets. I don't want to chat over the fence. I don't want them involved with my life or peering in my garage to see if it's clean or not (it is, btw). The smile-and-wave as you pass on the street is more than sufficient, in my opinion.

If anyone gave me grief over not knowing the whereabouts of one of my neighbors I'd likely go psycho on them and show them just why they should steer clear of me.

 

[Pagliacci]

EL...I'm like you, only meaner. I don't want to know my neighbors. I don't want to buy their kid's band candy or raffle tickets. I don't want to chat over the fence. I don't want them involved with my life or peering in my garage to see if it's clean or not (it is, btw). The smile-and-wave as you pass on the street is more than sufficient, in my opinion.

If anyone gave me grief over not knowing the whereabouts of one of my neighbors I'd likely go psycho on them and show them just why they should steer clear of me.

In other words give them two barrels of rock salt to show them the way off your property

 

[Nora]

In other words give them two barrels of rock salt to show them the way off your property

Well, usually a frigid glare and an unfriendly 'tude get rid of 'em. I have other plans for the rock salt.

 

[curious2c]

I grew up in a small town where everyone knew your business. I hated it. There were no secrets, just people acting strange towards others for unspoken reasons. Had a neigborlady come over once and ask me what I had heard about so and so and their marriage. (I was seventeen at the time mind you)

When I didn't anwer her she called my mom up and talked to her on the phone about how rude and insensitive I was towards her. got my butt chewed out. So... the next day this lady comes up and asks about a different couple and their marital problems.

Me being the good son..answered...Well I heard that the husband really has a thing for older ladies...Saw him looking at you the other day...you didn't see him, but I did.

After a few days she never came to talk to me again. Guess she found out that rumors can be false.

 

[Nora]

Me being the good son..answered...Well I heard that the husband really has a thing for older ladies...Saw him looking at you the other day...you didn't see him, but I did.

After a few days she never came to talk to me again. Guess she found out that rumors can be false.

You are mean and evil.


It's making me wet.

 

[unclej]

i'm with ya on this one ex...i live in a town with one stoplight and about 60% of the inhabitants should belong to gossips annonymous. the sad part is that i live next door to my sister and mother and they're two of the biggest. due to owning a music store and doing gigs in the two clubs in town i know a lot of people and my sister and mom can't stand it when i don't play the gossip game with them. i've tried to tell them that i don't care who's doing who and why as long as it doesn't effect me.

i've learned that when they ask me "what's the deal with......" i can give them a blank look and just say i hadn't heard anything about it and they let me off the hook.

 

[curious2c]

You are mean and evil.


It's making me wet.

yep... thats me...mean and evil...to the core.

I still laugh over it though. I never had to worry about rumors after that because pretty much everybody knew that I didn't care for that stuff.

Unless it was handy for the day of evil thereof

There are things to be done for that wetness problem too.

 

[Nora]

yep... thats me...mean and evil...to the core.

I still laugh over it though. I never had to worry about rumors after that because pretty much everybody knew that I didn't care for that stuff.

Unless it was handy for the day of evil thereof

There are things to be done for that wetness problem too.

hehe. I need to take lessons from you. My next "be mean to the neighbors" plot is to explain to them that I'm not paying for half of a NEW fence when all they did was slap up various pieces of an old fence they got from somewhere else.

And that other thing has to wait 'til I'm not at work.