> "Annie" spake thusly:
>> You'd think so, wouldn't you? Hopefully if she ever does get that
>> far the building's management will try to contact me before doing
>> anything that rash. On the one hand it's nice to have neighbors that
>> make sure I'm alive and well but this woman is pretty intrusive, she
>> pops out of her door as soon as she hears my locks turn. I oil them,
>> I don't slam my door, I'm pretty quiet, but that woman must stand at
>> her peephole waiting to pounce. She has no concept of boundaries.
>Morty wrote:
> Have you considered a system where you keep a sign on your door, and
> move it around each day? I've heard that people do this in this kind
> of cir***stance. It gives your neighbors the warm fuzzies that you're
> OK without them needing to actually see you. Might give you back a
> bit of your privacy.
I appreciate the suggestion but it isn't an issue of safety at all, it's
just one really nosy and gossipy neighbor that has a need to get into
everybody's business and then spread it through the co-op's grapevine. I
know I'm not the only person on her radar because during those times that
she does 'catch' me coming or going she can tell me how many apartments
are
for sale in the complex, who's sick, who got a promotion at work, who
shops
at Stop & Shop as opposed to Pathmark.... the woman is a veritable
fountain
of information I don't need or want to know and she only wants to include
my
business in her list of things to gossip about. However, the more I think
about it the more I'm warming up to your suggestion about moving a sign
around on my door because it would absolutely drive her to distraction.
It's
a shame my co-op has insane uniformity rules that don't allow us to put
anything on our doors that would make them look different than all the
other
doors in all of our buildings.
Annie
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