No, not a relationship thread, but time for another "Living in a flat" story. I never had issues when living in a house so I blame flats (apartments for the american readers).
I'm sure others will agree that after a hot shower in the mornings, the best way of cooling off is to get changed in your cool room and let Mr Johnson swing freely in the cool air. The problem is that I now can't do this without being paranoid or checking the curtains multiple times...
I used to get changed in my room as living in a block of flats the rooms are normally dark so I assumed no-one could see in. My theory being that you can see into someone's house at night time and they can't see you because it's light on the inside, but dark outside. This scenario is the opposite. Dark inside, light outside (and no, before anyone says it, I don't make a habit of looking through people's front windows at night - This is just an example of the theory).
It all started a couple of weeks ago when my housemate shouted "BOOBS!!!". I was comfortable in my room and assumed he was looking at something on his PC so said "Yes mate, I've seen boobs before thanks!". He then shouted back "No, boobs, outside, across the road". Boobs outside I thought? WTF. So up I got and went to see what all the commotion was about. It was the middle of the day on a saturday afternoon so surely nothing interesting was going on? Asking him what on earth was so important that my BBC iPlayer viewing of "Traffic Cops" was interupted, he started pointing out the window. I went and had a look and lo and behold the neighbours boobs were on full display in the opposite flat. She was getting dressed and obviously took physics lessons from the same school that I did because the curtains were open and she was in full view of everyone. The "dark inside, light outside" effect doesn't work remotely as well as I thought it did I then realised
We live on a higher floor so we are looking down into her flat and the other flats look down into my room. I then begain thinking does this mean they have seen me merrily dancing around the room listening to the radio whilst getting ready for work? If so, I feel sorry for them as my "manly" physique isn't something a random person would enjoy seeing at 7am before breakfast.
Moving on a couple of weeks, I've now learned to close the curtains whilst getting dressed in the mornings and no longer sit on the sofa in just my pants watching "Street Crime UK" whilst the flat is empty. Unfortunately the girl across the street hasn't realised that the "Dark/Light" theory is all crap. It has happened a few times since and the other day my mates girlfriend said "Eww! There's a naked person across the road". We pretended not to care because we are "mature", but obviously as soon as she left the room we had to run to the window to confirm if it was the same person (she does have a cracking set after all). Indeed it was the same person in the same window and mental "high fives" were given in case his GF came back.
So what do I do? I could make a sign saying "WARNING: We can see your boobs. The dark/light theory doesnt work!", or just go across there and tell her "I've seen your boobs love, you may want to close the curtains" or just keep quiet. I don't know if she realises that people can see into her flat so does it on purpose, or whether she's completely oblvious and failed at basic Physics like I did. I feel I need to tell her that she's flashing her milkers to the neighbours, but at the same time would feel awkward about it so not sure it's my place to do so? I'm sure her BF wouldn't be best please about it either way and I don't fancy a black eye
If my housemate is reading this - I'll buy some febreeze for the sofa on the way back from London so don't get too ****** off with me
I'm sure others will agree that after a hot shower in the mornings, the best way of cooling off is to get changed in your cool room and let Mr Johnson swing freely in the cool air. The problem is that I now can't do this without being paranoid or checking the curtains multiple times...
I used to get changed in my room as living in a block of flats the rooms are normally dark so I assumed no-one could see in. My theory being that you can see into someone's house at night time and they can't see you because it's light on the inside, but dark outside. This scenario is the opposite. Dark inside, light outside (and no, before anyone says it, I don't make a habit of looking through people's front windows at night - This is just an example of the theory).
It all started a couple of weeks ago when my housemate shouted "BOOBS!!!". I was comfortable in my room and assumed he was looking at something on his PC so said "Yes mate, I've seen boobs before thanks!". He then shouted back "No, boobs, outside, across the road". Boobs outside I thought? WTF. So up I got and went to see what all the commotion was about. It was the middle of the day on a saturday afternoon so surely nothing interesting was going on? Asking him what on earth was so important that my BBC iPlayer viewing of "Traffic Cops" was interupted, he started pointing out the window. I went and had a look and lo and behold the neighbours boobs were on full display in the opposite flat. She was getting dressed and obviously took physics lessons from the same school that I did because the curtains were open and she was in full view of everyone. The "dark inside, light outside" effect doesn't work remotely as well as I thought it did I then realised
We live on a higher floor so we are looking down into her flat and the other flats look down into my room. I then begain thinking does this mean they have seen me merrily dancing around the room listening to the radio whilst getting ready for work? If so, I feel sorry for them as my "manly" physique isn't something a random person would enjoy seeing at 7am before breakfast.Moving on a couple of weeks, I've now learned to close the curtains whilst getting dressed in the mornings and no longer sit on the sofa in just my pants watching "Street Crime UK" whilst the flat is empty. Unfortunately the girl across the street hasn't realised that the "Dark/Light" theory is all crap. It has happened a few times since and the other day my mates girlfriend said "Eww! There's a naked person across the road". We pretended not to care because we are "mature", but obviously as soon as she left the room we had to run to the window to confirm if it was the same person (she does have a cracking set after all). Indeed it was the same person in the same window and mental "high fives" were given in case his GF came back.
So what do I do? I could make a sign saying "WARNING: We can see your boobs. The dark/light theory doesnt work!", or just go across there and tell her "I've seen your boobs love, you may want to close the curtains" or just keep quiet. I don't know if she realises that people can see into her flat so does it on purpose, or whether she's completely oblvious and failed at basic Physics like I did. I feel I need to tell her that she's flashing her milkers to the neighbours, but at the same time would feel awkward about it so not sure it's my place to do so? I'm sure her BF wouldn't be best please about it either way and I don't fancy a black eye
If my housemate is reading this - I'll buy some febreeze for the sofa on the way back from London so don't get too ****** off with me
