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Yesterday morning around 2am, after an hour and a half hours of exciting SS playing, I was ready for bed. I thought I might take a shower, surf the web for a while then off to sleep. Since it is summer and I have the 1 bedroom apartment all to myself, I was not properly dressed … just in my underwear when I was heading towards the bathroom. Then I found a little cricket on the wall. Usually I have no intention to kill harmless insects such as crickets, but since they make sounds when you turn off the light, and my living room is awfully close to my bedroom, I had to catch it and throw it back into the backyard. I tried to catch it with some tissue paper … then when I raised my head, I saw a face right outside my window. It scared the hell out of me and I literally shrieked … but only for a brief while. He saw me noticed him, quickly ran away.
I am living on the ground floor, but my place is about one meter above the street level and it is facing the backyard. You have to walk up a few stairs to reach the door, and those stairs are only for my place. The window to the kitchen is right next to the door … less than half a meter away and you can see half of the living room on the top of those stairs. Every window in my place has a blind … except for the kitchen, but since it is facing the backyard, and my apartment is the only one in the block facing it, and I can not think of any reason why someone would want to come to the backyard at night, I did not get a blind for the window. Besides, it was raining last night.
Because it was only a brief moment, I didn’t get to have a clear view of the face, but I suspect it was one of my neighbors. He asked me out for dinner once which I turned down. The other time he mentioned something about why was my place blue 3 clock in the morning (my screensaver is mainly blue). But I can not be 100% it is him.
My friends suggested to me that I should move house. But house moving is more complicated than it sounds. I have accumulated heaps of stuff over the years, and changing address, connecting/disconnecting phone, electricity etc, cleaning both old and new places and getting to know the new surrounding is a lot of hassle.
Get a blind for the kitchen is another solution, but it doesn’t help to get over the embarrassment between my neighbor and I.
Pretending nothing happened … it could be good, unless he thinks it is kind of encouragement and do something worse.
So what should I do?
I am living on the ground floor, but my place is about one meter above the street level and it is facing the backyard. You have to walk up a few stairs to reach the door, and those stairs are only for my place. The window to the kitchen is right next to the door … less than half a meter away and you can see half of the living room on the top of those stairs. Every window in my place has a blind … except for the kitchen, but since it is facing the backyard, and my apartment is the only one in the block facing it, and I can not think of any reason why someone would want to come to the backyard at night, I did not get a blind for the window. Besides, it was raining last night.
Because it was only a brief moment, I didn’t get to have a clear view of the face, but I suspect it was one of my neighbors. He asked me out for dinner once which I turned down. The other time he mentioned something about why was my place blue 3 clock in the morning (my screensaver is mainly blue). But I can not be 100% it is him.
My friends suggested to me that I should move house. But house moving is more complicated than it sounds. I have accumulated heaps of stuff over the years, and changing address, connecting/disconnecting phone, electricity etc, cleaning both old and new places and getting to know the new surrounding is a lot of hassle.
Get a blind for the kitchen is another solution, but it doesn’t help to get over the embarrassment between my neighbor and I.
Pretending nothing happened … it could be good, unless he thinks it is kind of encouragement and do something worse.
So what should I do?
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