Writes Michael in Chicago: “Apparently, some of our neighbors had a problem with us being naked in our apartment.” Without knowing any other details of this situation, I’d have to say:
a) “Be more private with yourself” is a phrase I am going to try to work into future conversations whenever possible.
b) Michael, while I 100% support your right to bare all in your own home…curtains still might be a worthwhile investment.
Meanwhile, Scott in Seattle found this note taped to the front door of his apartment building. “Needless to say,” Scott adds, the next time he saw the large bald man from the third floor in the building’s laundry room, “it was a touch awkward.”
related: get your “nozzle” off my “hose”
extra credit: man arrested for being naked in his own home [WTOP news]
160 responses so far ↓
#1
pony girl
Yeah, nobody needs to see that.
I used to have to remind my ex to close the blinds.
I mean, the computer room faces the street!
Yup, I sure can pick ‘em!
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:12 pm rating: +6
#2
Tamara
A friend just moved into a new house. There are no curtains on the bathroom windows – and the glass is not frosted. She is pretty hot though, so I can’t imagine too many people in the neighbourhood will be complaining …
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:13 pm rating: +15
#3
Eve
I wonder if the person that wrote the first note showers with their bathing suit on? I get the whole needing curtains thing, but the ‘private with yourself’ phrase reeks of weird!
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm rating: +22
#4
park rose
But what will you call it? I think Claw’s is the albino python, and CB’s is the black mamba. Curious minds want to know.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:16 pm rating: +3
#5
FG
The ‘be private with yourself’ thing reeks of not being able to speak English.
It’s the ‘it’ at the end of the last sentence that does ‘it’ for me….lo siento….
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:17 pm rating: +3
#6
zombieBlanco
Quite often when I’m ‘private with myself’, the neighbors threaten to call the police. Apparently our city has a noise variance law thingie.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:20 pm rating: +19
#7
ghostbuck
What I find interesting is that these people writing notes seem to be unable to control their own peeping behavior. I mean, is someone forcing them to stand in their window and watch a neighbor? Do they not have curtains themselves? Why are they so obsessed with watching what others are doing in their apartments to the degree they need the other person to take action to break their behavior? Hmmm….
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:26 pm rating: +43
#8
Critical Grass
Be more private with yourself, stop looking into your neighbor’s apartment.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:29 pm rating: +32
#9
BT
Nothing says “I love my child” more than giving them 3-inch pointy sideburns. Or, it’s a terrible Halloween costume.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:34 pm rating: +4
#10
T
I used to live in an apartment complex where the garden apartment (the one right on the ground level by the staircase to the lobby) had a nudist Russian guy (not that that matters) who would use the toilet naked and with the bathroom door open. The “window” was actually a 10 foot wide sliding glass door that had a view into the whole apartment, aside from the bedroom. Every apartment was equipped with vertical blinds, so I know he could have closed them if he’d wanted to, but i guess he enjoyed people accidentally seeing him taking a shit. Needless to say, I learned real fast to look away from the light when coming home at night.
I’m all for nudists, really I am. But for fucks sake, at least close the door when you’re on the toilet. Nobody needs to see that. And I was only 18 at the time. Just a child, really.
My poor pure eyes…
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:41 pm rating: +29
#11
KV
If you leave your windows bare and then bare all, you WANT to be seen. What a terrible neighbor the nudist is! It’s different if someone would have to go out of their way to see into your window, but if it’s open for everybody to see, that’s just gross. Some people do like to keep an air of mystery about their neighbors’ genitals.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:46 pm rating: +19
#12
Canthz_B
I CLOSED MY SHA – oh, wait…I’m not large or bald!
Never mind.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:52 pm rating: +9
#13
Amber
Good luck calling the police, neighbor #1. I tried that when I noticed a guy in the hotel across the alley naked, masturbating, and filming my dormitory. When I called the police, their response was “yeah well, he can do whatever he wants in his hotel room.”
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:58 pm rating: +4
#14
Narwhal
I can’t wait until I get a note that says, “To the girl on the third floor, can you please stop peeing out of your window when you are drunk, I can see your snatch.”
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:05 pm rating: +13
#15
zenvelo
hey, maybe Michael and the bald guy should spend a weekend in New York!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574442872685579850.html
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:06 pm rating: 0
#16
leftfoot
You know, if you don’t like the show, close your own damn blinds or buy yourself some of your own damn curtains.
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:28 pm rating: +8
#17
marky not mark
Or, as Tom Waits sang about dating himself “I’m not weird about it or anything, I don’t tie myself up first.”
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:28 pm rating: +2
#18
pony girl
hehe
a touch awkward.
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:31 pm rating: +2
#19
anglophile
The least the guy on the third floor could do is buy a toupee. No one needs to see that.
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:40 pm rating: +16
#20
luica
i think the website ponygirl is talking about is “why women hate men”
its funny yet disturbing stuff that they got there
Oct 5, 2009 at 9:06 pm rating: +2
#21
Critical Grass
It’s not that offensive. “If you weren’t so defensive it wouldn’t be. You’re so sensitive.”
Oct 5, 2009 at 9:07 pm rating: +1
#22
Canthz_B
At least the guy is a hard worker.
A real hands-on type.
Oct 5, 2009 at 9:27 pm rating: +1
#23
Canthz_B
How much more private can one be with oneself than when communing with his privates?
You’ve eyelids…use them!
Oct 5, 2009 at 9:38 pm rating: +4
#24
octavius
I wonder what version of Windows the baldy wanker is running. He should get a dirty Mac and Flash.
Oct 5, 2009 at 10:26 pm rating: +1
#25
Critical Grass
The neighbor likes to show how good he is with his dick beaters…
Oct 5, 2009 at 10:37 pm rating: +3
#26
bowloftoast
I’m not one to quash anyone’s right to go bare in the ‘privacy’ of their own home, but these folks seem to belong in the same category as those who pick their nose and eat it in their car…on the highway….in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
For the love of god, pack a lunch.
Oct 6, 2009 at 2:00 am rating: +10
#27
Kou
Oh man, if someone threatened to call the cops on me because they were looking in my window and saw me naked I would HAVE to call their bluff. If the cops even came out (which I doubt they would) I would just love to answer the door fully clothed and, after hearing why they were there, ask how I could go about filing a complaint against my peeping neighbor.
Oct 6, 2009 at 2:57 am rating: +10
#28
Canthz_B
Caller: Officer, I can see a naked man in his apartment through his window. Can you send a car?
Desk Sergeant: No, Ma’am…we’re not into that sort of thing.
Oct 6, 2009 at 3:04 am rating: +8
#29
Wade
When the large bald man on the third floor goes to the hardware store to buy shades, I wonder if he will have the presence of mind to also buy a drywall repair kit.
Because ceiling cat is watching too.
Oct 6, 2009 at 5:30 am rating: +13
#30
adnoxious
Please be private with your staring into my window while I masturbate.
Oct 6, 2009 at 7:08 am rating: +1
#31
scattywah
I bet my neighbors really wish I had a curtain in my kitchen window.
Oct 6, 2009 at 9:22 am rating: +1
#32
mystic_eye_cda
I’d love to be the 911 operator on that call, seriously.
Oct 6, 2009 at 9:30 am rating: +1
#33
aaa
Two years ago, there was this nerdy guy who lived in one of the dorms on campus. Evidently this guy was fond of masturbating. With the blinds open. In his room on the first floor. So of course somebody sees him and tells everyone, who then tell everyone else and thus dubbed this dude “Masturbation Boy.” Supposedly somebody even wrote “Stop masturbating!” in permanent marker on the dry erase board outside his dorm room.
TRUE STORY.
Oct 6, 2009 at 11:37 am rating: +3
#34
T.U.M.
Is Ugly Naked Guy dead, or just asleep? Better fetch the Giant Poking Device.
Oct 6, 2009 at 1:43 pm rating: +3
#35
aaa
Michael in Chicago seems to forget that others aren’t quite as enamored with his body as he is…
Oct 6, 2009 at 3:09 pm rating: +5
#36
TenThousand
Haha, my peeping tom neighbor finally moved out. I miss him, though… I always acted shocked and disgusted, but I actually loved it when he watched me shower.
At least, it made my showers longer and porn-ier. Now it’s some lady living there and I’m probably going to paint kittens or something on my window.
Oct 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm rating: +1
#37
Kyle
I think this is a supreme court case. If I remember correctly, its none of the neighbors business what a person does in their own home, exposed or not. However, I think the case was concerning plain nudity, not the beat skeet express. I wonder what Sotomayor would rule?
Oct 6, 2009 at 5:52 pm rating: +1
#38
Germasidle
Ya, that’s pretty nasty (bet they wouldn’t be complaining if the person was hot- male, or female) but why not just look the other way?
You peek out the window, and “oh lame, the dude’s taking care of bizness in front of the window…think I’ll shut my shades”. Problem solved, yes?
Oct 6, 2009 at 6:08 pm rating: +2
#39
mamason
If I see It… I will call It. I will call It Squishy and It will be my friend and… ewww… It spit on me! Bad Squishy!
Oct 6, 2009 at 8:30 pm rating: +6
#40
Guy Smiley
Used to have a GF who lived in a highrise. In the high rise next door (separated by a small park), there was a couple that used to go at it every Saturday morning, windows open to the world. So much so that I got to know their sexual likes and dislikes (as in, she didn’t want to be touched while she was giving a BJ). After they were done, the woman would stand in the window and gaze out at the world. Naked, of course. Pretty sure they got off on being watched. I guess everyone else in our building could see them to and some folks apparently didn’t like it. Not too long after they had blue blinds installed. Boo. Not so “boo” is the fat guy in my building (across from me) who occasionally gets up early in the morning and masturbates in his bathroom window. Saw him several times when I got up early to do laundry. And then later in the lobby talking to the front desk man.
Oct 7, 2009 at 9:42 am rating: 0
#41
MM
I love walking around my house naked, cuz…It’s my fucking house! Goes the same for the back yard. Americans need to grow the fuck up. Eww a penis! *cry*
Oct 7, 2009 at 12:33 pm rating: +1
#42
MM
And why am I the only one that thinks people gawking in your windows and then bitching about what you do in YOUR house is not ok?
Oct 7, 2009 at 12:34 pm rating: 0
#43
mrj
Really people? If i am in my own house I can do what i like. You shouldn’t be looking in my windows anyway!!! Why are you looking in my house? Really?
Oct 7, 2009 at 3:35 pm rating: 0
#44
Scott
Reminds me of an apartment in Minneapolis where I had to tape up newspaper and aluminum foil in the windows. Well, that’s because I was working the graveyard shift and had lots of trouble sleeping during the day. I’ve never been one to jerk off in front of the windows.
Oct 7, 2009 at 9:10 pm rating: 0
#45
Fiona
I have curtains. I just don’t always choose to use them
Oct 12, 2009 at 5:39 am rating: 0
#46
Emy Lee
My ex bf had no curtains in his house and was always walking around nude and would get dressed in front of the side window facing the neighbors drive. He was a cop in a small town and if anyone ever called in about it he didnt worry cuz he was the one most likely answering the phone.
Oct 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm rating: 0
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