Fishbowl Dwellers
Just wondering what others think about this… A new glass building just went up across the street from me. Most of the apartments are now occupied. And the fishbowl effect is making me nuts! The first day, I swear the guy in the second floor apartment was walking around in boxer briefs. For god’s sake,…
Just wondering what others think about this… A new glass building just went up across the street from me. Most of the apartments are now occupied. And the fishbowl effect is making me nuts! The first day, I swear the guy in the second floor apartment was walking around in boxer briefs. For god’s sake, it’s the second floor… Standing there, in boxer briefs, unpacking and pointing the remote at the TV and wandering around like a nut. It’s not like it is ten stories up and hardly anyone would notice. It’s a pretty wide street, so anyone walking on the sidewalk across the street or just below can see EVERYTHING. And so far, not a single apartment has window coverings that do anything except… I don’t know… look cute (in someone’s opinion, I suppose). Everyone with curtains so far seems to have gotten sheer white ones and then tied them in knots so they don’t actually provide any privacy. It’s not just the underwear walking; I even can’t stand seeing all of these people sitting on their couches watching TV. Or chatting over coffee. Am I the only one, or does this drive anyone else nuts?? Just because YOU don’t mind if the world sees you going about all your domestic business doesn’t mean that the world should be subjected to it! I feel like I can’t enjoy hanging out in front of the house anymore! I am tempted to spring for bottom up/top down blinds for them all… But seriously, is it just me???
Well, I would just kind of think these people are exhibitionists and roll my eyes and keep walking. I am fanatical about keeping my own shutters closed as I don’t want people looking at me. My husband will walk around in his underwear in front of an open window and that bothers the f* out of me! Yeah, I have hang-ups.
It’s also bad feng shui.
Actually the glass buildings to me have a sloppy messy look from the outside, as everyone has different window treatments. Therefore not creating a uniform look, and you can’t tell people what to put on their windows.
Then there are the people that have not a clue as how to hang curtains, like the infamous, “tie my curtain in a knot”…that is just about the tackyiest thing one can do in a home….but anyway…
If it bothers you, do not look at it…
besides why would you be interested.??
bowl of dicks, if you could read you’d get that the people can’t see into MY apartment.
i have no problem with the Room with a View type sightings. that’s a part of new york life, and i love it. everyone who lives here knows that, from some particular angle, some anonymous person can see into one’s apartment. but like a room with a view, it’s a private viewing, it’s anonymous, and it’s what makes it a distinctly urban experience. but these all-glass buildings with their fishbowl effect are creating something different. it’s like bad reality TV, 24/7. every time i step out my front door, there are a half dozen enormous TVs glaring. you can flame me all you want for finding it annoying, but i just can’t help but wonder what it says about the people who live in fishbowls…
it might be anecdotal, but it seems most of the people who have moved into these fishbowl apartments are fugly. there is the one on i think carroll street? maybe a block over where you can look right directly into these peoples bathrooms. there are no window treatments on the bathrooms and yet people are living in there. no one wants to accidently look up and see your damn taint
*rob*
lighten up, tanner.
Always drive and window treatment defensively!
Move to the suburbs.
why don’t you put up some window treatments in YOUR windows? After all, those people could be thinking the same thing looking at you.