I think the new people across the hall from me are moving in. I have no idea who they are.
It got me thinking that I've lived in this building for 12 years and the only person I know by name is the caretaker. I know a few people by sight, but have no dealings with them beyond seeing them coming and going in the building.
When I moved in I did get to know the woman who lived next door to me largely because she worked at a place I used to work at and knew the same people I did. But we never got together as friends or spend time at each others apartment.
In the past I would sometimes become friends with people in buildings that I lived in, but with the exception of one instance, it was always disasterous. They would stop over on a whim "for coffee", and one woman actually came by my apartment asking if she could borrow a couple things. When I inquired what she needed, she produced an entire grocery list (milk, bread, butter, lunch meat, flour, coffee, eggs, cheese etc. etc.) and told me that I didn't need to give her everything on it!
And when I was moving from there she popped by on the pretense of saying "bye" but in fact she was doing her best to get invited in for a few beer that she saw sitting on the coffee table for the guys doing my move.
And then there was the girl who lived in the basement of that building who came over one day and actually had the nerve to steal my very expensive cosmetics from my bathroom. As if I wouldn't notice
given the fact that one eye shadow was almost $30.00 and was only available by mail from England by the time she stole it from me and claimed to have bought it at The Bay where I had bought it originally a year before.
So after that I made it a point to not get involved with my neighbours.
Back when I lived in the upstairs of a house, I became friends with the girl renting the apartment to me. She lived downstairs and we went out clubbing all of the time. And I got to know the people around us too. But for some reason it was different than getting to know people in an apartment building.
Anyway, I find that I tend to keep to myself in order to avoid problems with nosey neighbours.
How about you? Do you like to get to know your neighours on a friendly basis or do you prefer to just know them to see them and keep to yourself?
It got me thinking that I've lived in this building for 12 years and the only person I know by name is the caretaker. I know a few people by sight, but have no dealings with them beyond seeing them coming and going in the building.
When I moved in I did get to know the woman who lived next door to me largely because she worked at a place I used to work at and knew the same people I did. But we never got together as friends or spend time at each others apartment.
In the past I would sometimes become friends with people in buildings that I lived in, but with the exception of one instance, it was always disasterous. They would stop over on a whim "for coffee", and one woman actually came by my apartment asking if she could borrow a couple things. When I inquired what she needed, she produced an entire grocery list (milk, bread, butter, lunch meat, flour, coffee, eggs, cheese etc. etc.) and told me that I didn't need to give her everything on it!
And then there was the girl who lived in the basement of that building who came over one day and actually had the nerve to steal my very expensive cosmetics from my bathroom. As if I wouldn't notice
So after that I made it a point to not get involved with my neighbours.
Back when I lived in the upstairs of a house, I became friends with the girl renting the apartment to me. She lived downstairs and we went out clubbing all of the time. And I got to know the people around us too. But for some reason it was different than getting to know people in an apartment building.
Anyway, I find that I tend to keep to myself in order to avoid problems with nosey neighbours.
How about you? Do you like to get to know your neighours on a friendly basis or do you prefer to just know them to see them and keep to yourself?
