does anyone else find this...

i was going to ask if anyone else found this odd, but i don't know that i'd class it as odd so much as, um, well, i'm not sure. here, how about i tell you, shall i?

it is night. it is dark out. it is light in. the curtains are all in the wash. i am now on display.

that in itself is an odd and not entirely comfortable feeling, but that is not what this post is about.
while on display in my own home i am doing such sexy activities as sorting things, sweeping, and the pièce de résistance, the thing that will have all the neighbourhood gossiping. . . painting window sills. *gasp* it's true. on display, painting window sills. my oh my. some window painter fetishist's voyeristic fantasy. but i digress (slightly)...

the thing that is not quite odd, not quite funny, and will i suppose remain unnamed, is that directly across from me my neighbour is painting his window sills. so, there we sit, painting our respective window sills, the ones that happen to face each other, and we can both see into the other's house, and not once did either of us acknowledge this. no knowing nod, light chuckle, brief wave, nothing at all.

i mean, come on, how often does it happen that you and your neighbour are even painting at the same time, let alone window sills at 9:30 on a saturday night that happen to face each other.

i think there was some kind of weird protocol at work here. something that stated that we shouldn't admit that we could see into each others houses, or that we might be looking. plus these are the neighbours that we have absolutely no relationship with at all, not bad, not good, just non-existant. in fact, i'm not sure i've ever even waved at them, let alone said two words to them.