A word to the wise, yadda, yadda
This would seem obvious. But if it were, there would presumably have been no need for this particular bit of instruction:
If it’s dark OUTSIDE, and the light is on INSIDE, people on the street can see you through the sheers. Yes, they can — it’s like a shadowbox performance. Close the damn bathroom curtains before you take off your clothes and engage in heinous acts of personal hygiene, for the love of a sweet and merciful Savior. There are things — vast, Cyclopean, hairy, eldritch horrors — that I do not need to see, O neighbor of mine.
I’d just like to say that my bathroom has blinds, and the window is on the rear of the house, so if my ablutions are being watched, the watcher is in my back yard and is in serious pain from having to twist into a position to see between the slats, or has a system for spying obtained through the good offices of Universal Exports.
Tatyana »
19 November 2008 · 9:47 am
yes, but considering your habit of walking inside your house a naturelle (does that sound how I wanted it to?), shouldn’t you blind-proof all your windows, in every room?
wamprat »
19 November 2008 · 10:02 am
You interested in coming by league to receive FRUITCAKE? Let me know, we’re not playing at home tomorrow nite. Close, tho. Fudge is also available. :)
CGHill »
19 November 2008 · 10:21 am
T: I have blinds everywhere. Not to mention the fact that the house is set way back from the curb at an odd angle, and the further fact that I have massive amounts of foliage to obstruct the view. Someone intent on getting a glimpse this time of year has to work pretty hard at it. (In the spring, when gardening begins, well, that’s a different story.)
McGehee »
19 November 2008 · 11:36 am
Just because there’s a window there doesn’t mean you have to look through it. I use windows for looking at the out-of-doors, and if I’m already out-of-doors, looking through a window is counter-productive.
People who want that badly to see the in-of-doors should go home and look at their own in-of-doors.
Ed Flinn »
19 November 2008 · 11:38 am
Never doubt the dedication of Google Earth photographers!
McGehee »
19 November 2008 · 4:36 pm
Good point, Ed. They only blur faces, don’t they?
CGHill »
19 November 2008 · 5:18 pm
Well, if Google Earth ever snags a shot of me in the altogether, I’ll post the silly thing myself, blurred as necessary.
Street View, on the other hand, is not likely to catch me; they don’t do back yards, generally, and the window of opportunity in the front yard is both vanishingly small and seriously dark.