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MoxisPilot
07-27-2008, 07:33 PM
I moved in to my house here in Monteforte not too long ago; we don't have curtains yet. Therefore, because we're two of maybe four Americans living in a forty-kilometer radius, and, as our neighbors are very interested in our weird American habits, we have gawpers. It's a bit like living in a zoo.*

I've taken to the habit of glancing out the windows to make sure we're not being watched. Paranoia, let's call it.

Apparently, despite having lived in their house for YEARS, our immediate neighbors have never heard of curtains? Or CLOTHES, for God's sake?

Yes, after 10 pm, the gentleman next door likes to let 'em swing.

I glanced over, did a double-take, and quickly spun away, praying he didn't see me see him.

But shouldn't it occur to them that if they can see me, I can see them?!


*If you don't believe me about them being interested...my landlady likes to look in my refrigerator because I have "weird things"...like Kraft cheese and uncarbonated bottled water. Her son once brought his girlfriend over to show her that we really *do* have a 70-inch television. We're a freak show.


Anyway, I just had to share that with SOMEONE.
BookstoreEscapee
07-27-2008, 07:49 PM
Well, Europeans do tend to be a lot more relaxed about that sort of thing than us Puritans Americans. He probably just doesn't care.
MoxisPilot
07-27-2008, 07:57 PM
Well, Europeans do tend to be a lot more relaxed about that sort of thing than us Puritans Americans. He probably just doesn't care.

Italians - around here, that is, as it's much different up north from what I hear - tend to be a lot more open than Americans where the media and advertising are concerned, yeah...but you don't see a lot of nudity off the beach.

I think he just wasn't expecting us to still be awake. (We're in bed relatively early compared to them.)
BookstoreEscapee
07-27-2008, 08:16 PM
I would suggest a curtain shopping trip...soon. :)
Evil Queen
07-27-2008, 10:11 PM
Blackout Curtains.
Gawdzillers
07-28-2008, 01:01 AM
Board up your windows.
blas
07-28-2008, 01:05 AM
Gross!

Long before I moved in to this place, two college girls lived here. Both smoked. Both went outside to smoke and would have to deal with the most unpleasant site of Sheriff waltzing around his bedroom butt ass naked.

Thankfully, a few words with the landlord and he was forced to shut his shades.
MoxisPilot
07-28-2008, 05:29 PM
Gross!

Long before I moved in to this place, two college girls lived here. Both smoked. Both went outside to smoke and would have to deal with the most unpleasant site of Sheriff waltzing around his bedroom butt ass naked.

Thankfully, a few words with the landlord and he was forced to shut his shades.

That's an image I won't be able to shake for a very, VERY long time. UGH.

Blackout curtains are an excellent idea...
Spiffy McMoron
07-28-2008, 05:59 PM
Her son once brought his girlfriend over to show her that we really *do* have a 70-inch television. We're a freak show.

To be fair, if I knew anyone with a 70 inch TV, I'd be showing up at their place as well. :lol:
MoxisPilot
07-28-2008, 06:51 PM
To be fair, if I knew anyone with a 70 inch TV, I'd be showing up at their place as well. :lol:

...Yes, well... >.> Party at my place!

I don't think it's so much that it's as big as it is, but that it's big at all. Most televisions around here are your average 17" rabbit-ear sets. They don't watch much TV, so there's not a big demand for it.

That, and the average Italian family income is 12,000 Euro a year...