By Tatiauna Miller

Just like the ghost whispered to Kevin Costner’s character “If you build it, they will come”, and if you leave the blinds open I will look. At least every other household in my complex prefers to leave the blinds open in the evening with every light turned on. Do they know that people can see inside and do they think that people won’t look? I’m looking! Even when I don’t want to look, I end up looking by mistake. That “mistake look” is always with the one couple with the bed right by the window, on a first floor apartment! Their bed is so close to the window it might as well be outside, and they always have the blinds all the way open. I always catch their eye when I walk out the building and see them in bed, looking right at me. The first time I saw them, I felt creepy. Now I’m used to it, I guess they like feeling like they’re on Reality TV.

I have one neighbor that never turns off the TV. I’m serious the TV stays on 24-7. When it’s not being watched it just goes into that screen saver mode, so you constantly see nature scenes flashing through the window. For the first few weeks, I remember thinking “Wow, they really like watching nature shows.” One neighbor in my building is always eating, seriously always! I either see them bringing in groceries or eating. They don’t do anything else but buy food and eat it; I guess that’s a good life. My other neighbor not only leaves the blinds open in every room, they also leave the windows open. So, I also get the visual and audio of what’s happening. This couple just shouts “Babe” at each other all the time and of course babe means a million things. “Baaabbbbbbee” is mad, happy, sad or a question.

We also have the dog and cat window watchers. You know the creepy feeling when the hair on your neck stands up and you’re looking around to see who’s watching you and it’s the neighbor’s cat! That cat upstairs is always looking at me disapprovingly, always judging. As a matter of fact, that’s like every cat in the neighborhood; always looking out the window like royalty passing judgement on the peasants. When I stare too long the cat upstairs always turns around and shows me his royal ass! I saw the new neighbors eating dinner the other day and the cat jumped up on the table and walked across BOTH their plates, in mid bite. What the hell! Were they upset? No, they laughed and kept on eating. The husband even gave the cat a congratulatory pat on his back for that bullshit! I’m going to give you a congratulatory kick in the ass for walking over my damn dinner. I don’t have too many friends in the neighborhood but they will never be a potential on my friends list.

I also can’t stand the houses with the barking dog in the window. Every time I’m walking my dog by this one house, the dog in the window freaks out, which prompts the human to stare at me disapprovingly! I’m outside; don’t stare at me like we are disturbing you. This dog is disturbing us! My dog Stitch is trying to handle his business distraction free and there is some imaginary dog barking at him. I say imaginary because Stitch never sees anything until it slaps him in the face, he also never looks up. So, he’s always confused about the barking dog, he’s likes to look in random places like the drain or underneath a car or behind a pole. I always guide his head up to look and his eyes never follow! He’s a strange dog.

Now I do leave my blinds open in the day but my lights are off and I face the woods. No one can see in but I can see out. Sometimes my neighbor walks by with his dog and looks in but he doesn’t know I can see his ass. At night I always close them because I’m paranoid of people like me looking in the window.

Thanks for giving me your time! Have a beautiful day, laugh more and live more!

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