Ewwwwwww creeps!

[StacieA]

I live in a row house and most of us don't have curtains on our windows. Anyway, I just busted my neighbor 'PEEPING' into my kitchen! He (or she?? couldn't tell) was standing at the window with binoculars looking into my kitchen. Which is kinda confusing because there's really not much to see in there. How frigging creepy is that?!

[Slappy*McFish]

Sounds like buying some curtains and/or blinds is in order. ;)

...and yes, it is creepy.

[nursie]

EEEWW! Sicko. IF it were my husband, he's proceed to clean his shotgun in full view of the peeper..

[StacieA]

If guns were legal in DC I'd have one ;)

Thing is, most people don't have curtains because Capital Hill is really small community and while you don't mind people on the sidewalk looking up into your livingroom (because they can't see all the fish stuff you have strewn all over!), there is however an unspoken rule that you don't 'peer' into each others houses from other rooms like the bedroom or kitchen etc. ewwwww, I've still got the oooggies!

[Slappy*McFish]

Every window in my house has blinds and drapes on them...don't want any freaks watching me like some Reality TV show...lol.

[sublime1184]

I live in a row house and most of us don't have curtains on our windows. Anyway, I just busted my neighbor 'PEEPING' into my kitchen! He (or she?? couldn't tell) was standing at the window with binoculars looking into my kitchen. Which is kinda confusing because there's really not much to see in there. How frigging creepy is that?!


Now, what were you doing that was worthy of being creeped upon? ;) JK but yeah, time to lower the shades and close the blinds.

[StacieA]

I don't want freaks watching me but I might consider being on a reality show. lol

[ofarevolution31]

haha yeah that sucks they do that to you. lol. u must be good looking... really? what show?

[125gJoe]

I live in a row house and most of us don't have curtains on our windows. Anyway, I just busted my neighbor ...Wow..
For real?


I don't want freaks watching me but I might consider being on a reality show. lolSounds like you have a great start...

But seriously - most of you living there don't have curtains??

Time for the confused icon .. (again)

:confused:

Worst case senario - I'll send you some blue tarps left over from last years hurricanes. Call it "modern deco"... Be safe! :D

[nursie]

Play with them:
I bet toy guns aren't illegal. Get one and clean that...if they are looking through binoculars...they probably can't tell the diff.
Hold up a sign that says buzz off creep or I'm calling the cops on you.
Stage a play for them. Either make totally realistic, or take bows at the end.

I can see into my neighbors kitchen from my bedroom. I have shades on the window and keep them down. While nether of us are intentional peepers, there are some things you just don't want to see in passing...or want seen in passing.. :D

You can't have guns at all in DC? That's just wrong. Sounds unconstitutional to me.

[Kasakato]

I like the way nurie thinks! Try a tasor, they HAVE to be legal. *corsses fingers*

[StacieA]

But seriously - most of you living there don't have curtains??

Time for the confused icon .. (again)

:confused:

Worst case senario - I'll send you some blue tarps left over from last years hurricanes. Call it "modern deco"... Be safe! :D

I thought it was weird when I first moved here too but it's cool when you're driving down the street and you can look into other peoples houses (without binoculars thank you! ) and compare how they arranged their house to yours. Looking up at someones livingroom from the street is a bit different than stairing into a small window in the back of the house.

Sorry, no tasers either. If you've ever been to DC you'd understand why! lol

[Kasakato]

Is the XM HQ any where near you?

[StacieA]

Is the XM HQ any where near you?

Yes it is. They don't have curtains on their windows either.

[Boohoo]

Get yourself a full length mirror and set it up in front of the window in question. :D

[StacieA]

Get yourself a full length mirror and set it up in front of the window in question. :D


Brilliant!!! :laugh:

[Holly9937]

Are you sure they couldn't have been looking anywhere else?!?! I always feel like a pervert when I'm bird watching. I have a window on the side of my house that faces my neighbors house, and I always wonder if they think I'm watching them, when theres really just an interesting bird in the brush on the side of the house :laugh: . But creepy anyway :cool:

[nancie2k]

isn't there a law against that????

[Kasakato]

Theres a law againsted everything :D

[Matak]

isn't there a law against that????Against what Holly does or what Stacie is trying to stop?

[StacieA]

Are you sure they couldn't have been looking anywhere else?!?! I always feel like a pervert when I'm bird watching. I have a window on the side of my house that faces my neighbors house, and I always wonder if they think I'm watching them, when theres really just an interesting bird in the brush on the side of the house :laugh: . But creepy anyway :cool:

We live in rowhouses so the only thing between the windows in the back is about 10 feet of air! I honestly can't think what he may have been trying to see as it's my kitchen he was looking into and the only thing I think he might be able to see in there is the top of my fridge which is covered with cat treats.
:confused: Maybe he was just testing his binoculars?? Anyway, I don't think it will happen again because I pointed right at him and yelled 'Hey!!!' not that he could hear me but he knew I saw him.

[sky.eyes.woman]

Every window in my house has blinds and drapes on them...don't want any freaks watching me like some Reality TV show...lol.
Can I get an "Amen!" from all you fine people? :p:
Every window in my house is heavily covered, I don't want anyone looking in at me and I don't wanna see them either. You can't see into any room of my house even with your face pressed against the glass.
Stacie, I'd get some kind of window covering, even if you like having light you can still keep people from seeing in. You just never know whaat kind of freaks people can be these days.

[Lobo.]

i kinduf like the idea of a sign that says "buzz off creep"

[nancie2k]

i remember my mom calling the police and someone got arrested for being a peeping tom in our neighborhood many years ago

[windeindoiel]

This kind of reminds me of something that happened to my boyfriend awhile ago. He does stucco and he was up on the roof of a church of all things. All of a sudden he hears a scream from behind him and he turns to see some girl frantically trying to cover herself. It seems she had been sunbathing naked in her backyard. He didn't even notice her, then she came back out when she was dressed and called him a pervert. Just a story, some things are innocent. I like some of the ideas people posted on here hee hee. A sign that says buzz off or I'll call the cops seems like a good idea to me. No one wants a peeping tom record!

[Bobafish]

Wow, that is just scary, Its kinda nice my mom puts up all these thick curtains all over the place. But when im in the basement someone could just walk by and look in. Must be time to put those curtains back up that I knocked down.

[aknif]

My thoughts:

1) Would you possibly consider "soaping" your windows? My Mom's always done it to basement windows or anywhere else she doesn't want people looking in. You take a soap bar and rub it on the glass in small circles. It comes out kinda pretty, still lets the light in, and you can clean it off whenever you wanted to. If it were me, and I didn't want to opt for curtains or blinds, i'd soap the bottom 1/3 or 1/2 of the window so you can still see out, but they can't see anything but your smiling face! ;)

2) Nursie cracks me up... My Dad used to clean his shotguns in the family room when I brought a new boyfriend home for the first time. Wouldn't ever say a thing... just sitting there cleaning his shotguns... :eek:

3) Leave it to Kas to get his XM plug into every possible thread! ;)

[Cheech]

lol...

Story of my life. I used to live in an Italian community, and for some reason, all my Italian neighbors were super nosy!.. Everytime I would get home late, at least one of them was looking through the window. Every move we did, they were watching.

Even worse, they'd copy everyone. We'd redo our gallery, they would redo it as well. We put new flowers in the rock garden, they would do the same. it was enough to drive us crazy. !!!

Rosie (my gf) still lives in an italian neighborhood, and she gets watched all the time. To the point that she has to strategically cover the railing of her gallery with towels when taking the sun cause neighbors are always there to stare!!! just last week Rosie was taking sun, she went in the house for a little bit, and one of the neighbors asked her little sister if Rosie was done taking the sun.... Really wierd ...

[FishSeller]

I live in a condo and my neighbor across our little courtyard has a bad habit of changing with her blinds open. I'm not a perv at all, but when you're walking to your house at 9 at night with an armload of groceries and you're fumbling with your keys and there's a woman butt naked in front of a wide-open window, you tend to notice.

I had a girlfriend whose father tried the "clean the guns" ritual the first time I came over. As it turns out, we had similar tastes in Browning shotguns. The girl and I broke up pretty quickly. Her dad and I still line up a duck hunting trip once or twice a season...

[Lila]

Oh boy! This gives me an idea for a story!

;)


Seriously, I'd be really disturbed with this.

[mdbaskett]

I think the best way to combat a next door neighbor with binoculars is to get to know your neighbors. I know people are much busier today than they were 20 years ago but you probably wouldn't have had this problem back then - not because you wouldn't catch a neighbor peeping but because you would know him and have a good idea of whether his motivations were innocent or perverted.

Have you ever met this guy?

[125gJoe]

.. just last week Rosie was taking sun, she went in the house for a little bit, and one of the neighbors asked her little sister if Rosie was done taking the sun.... Really wierd ...Time to "visit" the neighbors! That would do it for me...

But then again, maybe the neighbor wanted privacy to 'get rid of tan lines'. Maybe the neighbor waited for their turn.

[OrionGirl]

I had a nosy neighbor when I was living at home. He used to sit with binocs and 'observe' the entire neighborhood. He'd report on my activities to my mom--she was gone most of the time. It annoyed her, so instructed me that the next time she was gone, I was to give him something worth reporting. I had a few friends come over, and we had a big whipped cream/water fight in the front yard--lots of wrestling and noises, wet t-shirts, etc. He never reported another thing. ;)

I have window coverings on all my windows now. Mostly just thin drapes that block the view without stopping light--pointless with skylights. The bedrooms all have heavier, light blocking shades as well.

[Lobo.]

O.o <---- the look on your neighbor's face!

[StacieA]

Have you ever met this guy?

I have met him and his girlfriend so I couldn't believe that he would do that. I saw him this morning leaving for work and asked if he found what he was looking for in my kitchen. He started laughing and said "You must be the 'some lady' that my nephew mentioned he'd thought he startled when he was playing around with my new binoculars."

LOL, at it was just a visitor and not somebody I have to see all the time.

[Cheech]

Time to "visit" the neighbors! That would do it for me...

But then again, maybe the neighbor wanted privacy to 'get rid of tan lines'. Maybe the neighbor waited for their turn.


This particular neighbor is a 28 year old man!!!.. Fortunately I moved to an area that has lots of trees, and it's not easy for neighbors to peep through the fence and trees... plus, my neighbors are french now, and they're all cool. It's not all about competition on who has the nicest garden now. It's all about just being confortable.

On the other hand, when I go to Rosie's house for supper, I can see the neighbhors staring from their gallery, straight into the kitchen where we're eating!! So we gotta close the blinds all the time so we can get some privacy.

[Holly9937]

I saw him this morning leaving for work and asked if he found what he was looking for in my kitchen.

Good for you!! Even if it would have bothered me, (which it probably wouldn't have :laugh: ) I still don't think I could have said something!!

When my husband and I were in San Francisco a year or so ago we were walking to a comedy club late one night and passed a second story picture window, no curtains, all lit up inside with 3 guys, one of whom was naked except for an apron. It was soooo funny and we were a little tipsy, so I said we needed to sit down for a minute and watch the show ;) It was very obvious anyone walking by could see in, so I didn't feel bad :D