Are you a busy body?

Ah, warm memories of growing up on Beckford St. Mrs. Wilson's kitchen faced the street, and she was often seen there "doing dishes" for long periods of time, observing the goings on. No, I'm not a busy body. I have too many of my own things to do without finding time to stick my nose into everybody else's.

nah.i could care less what my neighbors are doing most of the time unless i smelled something or heard something strange (like yelling).except for a couple of houses most of them are elderly anyway and don't do anything exciting except when their loud obnoxious grandchildren show up.

look out my front windows all the time dont peek. Mostly I do it to see what dog is barking at. Really dont care what neighbors are doing . WE have a quite neighborhod and only time I really look is when hilacopter keeps flying over a house mostly down the block so have to stand out thre to see any thing so not peeking am in plain veiw lolololol

I am not a busy body as such but if I hear a car or a noise outside my house, I will have a look out the window to see what is going on as I live on a quiet street. My hubby is worse than me & is always looking out the window...I could tell you what some of my neighbours are up to just by looking out the window & I can tell you who is home & who isn't (out of the ones I know) just by standing on my front verandah...

hi mstickle nope I am not a bite noseuy but when I was working as a nurse's aide I lived in a rooming house with some of mycoworkers'and he resident downstairs peeked out at us all the time from behind her curtains. well one day I got her mail be mistake so I went downstairs'to give her her mail and she invited me in. Her name I remember so well was Mrs. Sheriff. She was a widow and old me how her husband used to be train driver. I went there at noon and she feed me, then she sat and talked and we really became friends. she was just lonely not really snoopy and I learned she was actually or had been the owner of that house but let a real estate agent take care of the rents.she lived off her husbands pension and banked the rent in savings. WE became friends and I stopped in whenever I had some free time. she always fed me cookies and hot coffee when ever I visited her. she was just a lonely elderly woman and I got the other tenants to come visit her too.we held a surprise birthday party for her and wa all enjoyed seeing the looks on her face as we brought in catered food and drinks. she played the piano for us and we all sang old songs.it was a great party and we were all so glad we had held it as a few months later she had a fatal hear attack. i

We heard the two teenagers across the road arguing the other day and peaked out our front windows at them. We could hear every word loud and clear as they were swearing and carrying out really loudly. After we started watching, the boy threw something at his older sister as she stormed into the house, she then came running at him, grabbed him in a head lock and started punching him. It was hilarious! The boy's friend who was sitting in their front yard watching, saw us looking on with big smiles on our faces. We hate those kids!

Not that I am aware of, I mean if I hear a horn honk a few times I will look out since we are all bunched up here and never know who it might be for. Which is another thing I hate being so bunched up here. Because the neighbors who are my husbands family are nosy. You can't go outside without seeing one half the time. I hate not being comfortable in my own yard.

Personally I would not consider myself a busy body having to watch people and listen to their conversations without them knowing I am there or listening. There have been times when I will peak out the window just to see what dog might be barking in our yard, or to see if my husband is home, etc. but personally I prefer keeping to myself. Back before we bought this house, we lived in a Condo and our neighbor always had to open the door anytime someone came or left. She would always use the excuse even at 2 a.m. in the morning that she is just checking on the cats. Personally it used to annoy me to where I am glad we no longer live around her. For me I feel the less I am known then there will never be any trouble that someone could ever blame me for as well.

Lol no not me I mind my own business, that is why I never know what is going on lol till someone tells me I have just never been like that as I do not want to know what goes on in Peoples Life that is their Business and I do not let on what goes on in mine, that is why I get annoyed when People try to find out what is happening in my Life nothing to do with them, I do not pry in theirs so they do not pry in mine as I will tell them it is none of their Business

I keep to myself a lot, not meddling with anyone's business I don't like people that do that, although I can tolerate those think positive and not making unreasonable accusation or action so really I never get caught meddling in someone else's business although I was accused to do so LOL I do however, care for my loved ones, including my pet LOL if they go out, I will watch until the car leave the driveway my cat is indoor and if she is quiet, I will look for her I am curious, but not about people

Not too much, but I can kind of see thru the curtains I have on the front window at the moment, so I can sort of see if people are coming up to the house. On the whole, the last few years with the crazy lady, I didn't want to KNOW what was going on since she was stirring up stuff. I'm glad she's gone.

MsTickle I have to say that I utterly hate when people do this as I have had a neighbor that it did not matter what time I left in the day or night and there he was watching my every move. I would see him in the midst of his shadow watching every move I did. Then in the span of 2 weeks my house was robbed twice. Where the heck was he during both robberies, although he stated he was in his house. So I often wonder during the broad day light that my house was robbed why the heck he was not their watching the thieves take my valuables right out the front door. I can understand if they are there watching as perhaps one day they can be alerted of some type of mischief, but not in my burglarized cases. So I often wondered why the heck he watched my ever move.

I don't spy on my neighbors or anyone I know, but I must confess I occasionally eavesdrop on the conversations of random strangers when I am eating out at a restaurant. It amuses me to listen to what people feel comfortable saying in public! The best conversation I remember overhearing was between a man and a woman who were dating. She was breaking up with him because he couldn't hold a job, had no money or savings, was irresponsible, etc. She was basically monologuing, and he was responding with phrases like, "you're right," "I need to change," "I understand why you feel this way," etc. At the end of the dinner, after she had finished explaining all the reasons why she was breaking up with him, she asked him if he had anything to add. His response was to ask if she could pay the whole check because he didn't have enough money to cover it!!! That conversation was definitely worth listening to!

No I'm not a busy body. I don't really care what my neighbors are up to. I don't really talk to them. I see them occasionally when I go to the car or are out for a run. I might say hi or smile at them but that's the furthest I've gone. I just go about with my business. At night we put the curtain down in our living room so nobody can see in. It's not really a problem during the day time as it's lighter outside than inside.

No,I am not. I could care less what others are doing. My mother in law is just hte opposite as she needs to know what is going on with everyone around her and she has to know who everyone who pulls in the driveway is. It drives me completely insane!!

NO ..no no..i am far away from such things...you will be surprised to know that I live upstairs and my sister-in-law on the ground floor ..so i never come to know who visited them and nor i am curious...i have such a packed routine that even i dont get sufficient time to come at mylot...i hardly write 8-10 responses and run away to my daily chores...my ids studies etc etc...

I definitely would not say that I am a busy body at all. I don't really like listening in other people's conversations. I'm not the type of person who needs to know other people's business.

i am a busy buddy and i love being that. i dont usually go out to meet friends. my bf just sometimes ask to me to go and meet them because he is kind worried for me being workaholic. hahaha....well, i have grown up in a family that respects privacy and it was enhanced in nursing. so i am not into juicy stories.

Even though I live in an apartment, I am not a nosey person nor do I have nosey neighbours. I always am busy so do not have the time or the inclination to peep into other people's houses. But I am friendly with all of them and say a hello or exchange plesantaries whenever we see each other on our way out or into our houses. There is my neighbour in my floor who has a daughter of my daughter's age and both of them play together sometimes.(More like fight with each other). Most of them here are like that in the place I live. Or maybe because I don't move with them much.

I try to pay attention only on my life. But my neighbours sometimes are a bit of curious. I have seen 2-3 of them behind the curtains , watching my every move . It's still a mystery to me , what makes me so interesting.