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I'm prepared for this to be an unpopular opinion, but I'm glad my neighbors don't do this. I know my neighbors well enough. We check each other's mail when th

I'm prepared for this to be an unpopular opinion, but I'm glad my neighbors don't do this. I know my neighbors well enough. We check each other's mail when they're away and will help out in other ways. But I have lots of friends to keep up with outside of my neighborhood -- people I have a lot in common with -- my neighbors, not so much. If they wanted to talk with me each time I saw them coming or going, I would likely start actively avoiding them so I could get on my way.

strikelaserclaw 3y ago
i'm sure you can just say hi and move on.
shakow 3y ago
Then just wave and move on, GP and his wife will not sequestrate you to make you mingle.
irrational 3y ago
You would love my next door neighbors. They moved in the same week we did 2 years ago. We saw them when they first drove up and enters their garage (middle age couple). Since then, nobody has ever seen them. They never have lights on in their house at night. They never answer their door. They never open their garage and drive away. They never have packages or anything else delivered. They only way we know they are still alive is their trash bins go out and are taken back in every week (though nobody has ever seen them do it) and in the winter you can see the white smoke/condensation from their utility vents.
- uninformed 3y ago
  Where does the trash come from?
  - GuardianCaveman 3y ago
    Brought in through underground tunnels .
  - irrational 3y ago
    We assume they are leaving in the dead of night and grocery shopping at one of the 24 hour grocery stores. Maybe they have packages delivered somewhere they can pick them up in the dead of night. There is always someone around during the day, so for sure somebody would have seen them come or go if they were doing so during the day in the past 2 years. Our conjecture is either they are vampires (which is unlikely since it was daytime when they first arrived) or they are in the witness protection program. I just remembered another detail. They have grass in their front yard. It is cut, but a service has never come by and cut it and, of course, we’ve never seen them cut it. But we don’t hear any sounds in the dead of night of it being cut and it doesn’t look like it was cut with a scythe. Frankly, it’s a mystery.
    - angelbar 3y ago
      They are one of the Matrix communication ports...
joegahona 3y ago
It sounds like you're in the cohort of "some just waved and moved on."
apsurd 3y ago
it's a little dramatic to say it's an unpopular opinion for you to not want to exchange deep hour-long life stories with your neighbor every interaction. of course! i'm replying because the fact you mention "i know my neighbors well enough" is already the ideal that OP is speaking on. in todays world you can literally not acknowledge your neighbor's existence in all directions and get along 100% just fine. i mean, "borrowing sugar" is why instacart exists! no no no, you're already doing lovely and agreeing with OP that neighbors, as real human people to honor as existing, is a good thing.
onos 3y ago
Yeah there’s a Seinfeld for that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_Hello https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_Hello

strikelaserclaw 3y ago

i'm sure you can just say hi and move on.

shakow 3y ago

Then just wave and move on, GP and his wife will not sequestrate you to make you mingle.

irrational 3y ago

You would love my next door neighbors. They moved in the same week we did 2 years ago. We saw them when they first drove up and enters their garage (middle age couple). Since then, nobody has ever seen them. They never have lights on in their house at night. They never answer their door. They never open their garage and drive away. They never have packages or anything else delivered. They only way we know they are still alive is their trash bins go out and are taken back in every week (though nobody has ever seen them do it) and in the winter you can see the white smoke/condensation from their utility vents.

uninformed 3y ago
Where does the trash come from?
- GuardianCaveman 3y ago
  Brought in through underground tunnels .
- irrational 3y ago
  We assume they are leaving in the dead of night and grocery shopping at one of the 24 hour grocery stores. Maybe they have packages delivered somewhere they can pick them up in the dead of night. There is always someone around during the day, so for sure somebody would have seen them come or go if they were doing so during the day in the past 2 years. Our conjecture is either they are vampires (which is unlikely since it was daytime when they first arrived) or they are in the witness protection program. I just remembered another detail. They have grass in their front yard. It is cut, but a service has never come by and cut it and, of course, we’ve never seen them cut it. But we don’t hear any sounds in the dead of night of it being cut and it doesn’t look like it was cut with a scythe. Frankly, it’s a mystery.
  - angelbar 3y ago
    They are one of the Matrix communication ports...

joegahona 3y ago

It sounds like you're in the cohort of "some just waved and moved on."

apsurd 3y ago

it's a little dramatic to say it's an unpopular opinion for you to not want to exchange deep hour-long life stories with your neighbor every interaction. of course! i'm replying because the fact you mention "i know my neighbors well enough" is already the ideal that OP is speaking on. in todays world you can literally not acknowledge your neighbor's existence in all directions and get along 100% just fine. i mean, "borrowing sugar" is why instacart exists! no no no, you're already doing lovely and agreeing with OP that neighbors, as real human people to honor as existing, is a good thing.

onos 3y ago

Yeah there’s a Seinfeld for that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_Hello https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_Hello