Would you recognise your neighbours in the street?

whirlpool

I have just completely blanked my next-door neighbour when we were walking towards each other on the street. I was walking towards him and glanced at him briefly and didn't recognise him really. I think he glanced at me too but there's no evidence that he recognised me anyway. It wasn't until I was walking back home five minutes later and I saw him walking into his house that I realised that yes it was in fact him and I'd blanked him.

I'm only renting this place and I've been here for less than two years, and we've only actually talked maybe two or three times, and even those were brief. But he's a really nice middle aged man (read: not some random young c nt) by all accounts and now I feel every so slightly bad about it :pac:

So I'm just wondering, would you recognise your neighbours / next-door neighbours in the street? And if you passed them out walking would you be saying hello to them??

newmug

whirlpool wrote: »

I have just completely blanked my next-door neighbour when we were walking towards each other on the street. I was walking towards him and glanced at him briefly and didn't recognise him really. I think he glanced at me too but there's no evidence that he recognised me anyway. It wasn't until I was walking back home five minutes later and I saw him walking into his house that I realised that yes it was in fact him and I'd blanked him.

I'm only renting this place and I've been here for less than two years, and we've only actually talked maybe two or three times, and even those were brief. But he's a really nice middle aged man (read: not some random young c nt) by all accounts and now I feel every so slightly bad about it :pac:

So I'm just wondering, would you recognise your neighbours / next-door neighbours in the street? And if you passed them out walking would you be saying hello to them??

DAFUQ? 2 years living beside the same person and you didn't recognise him? Round these parts, there's a word on that type of behaviour - snobbery!

GenieOz

I only know what they look like when there's a net curtain filter so no, probably not

Nemeses

newmug wrote: »

DAFUQ? 2 years living beside the same person and you didn't recognise him? Round these parts, there's a word on that type of behaviour - snobbery!

or Clueless maybe?

A snob wouldn't use AH.

whirlpool

newmug wrote: »

DAFUQ? 2 years living beside the same person and you didn't recognise him? Round these parts, there's a word on that type of behaviour - snobbery!

Yes, the fact that our paths almost never cross = I look down on him. You speak the truth.

Nemeses

whirlpool wrote: »

Yes, the fact that our paths almost never cross = I look down on him. You speak the truth.

Are you on a hill up the road a bit?

Tilly

Yes i recognise all my neighbours and even stop and chat to them. Bar one, she's an ignorant cúnt who doesnt say hello to anyone.

turnikett1

whirlpool wrote: »

Yes, the fact that our paths almost never cross = I look down on him. You speak the truth.

You're probably a racist too.

OldMrBrennan83

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Lyaiera

I'd recognise three of the four groups in the apartment. I'd say hello to two of those three if I ran into them. Been living here about eight months.

newmug

whirlpool wrote: »

Yes, the fact that our paths almost never cross = I look down on him. You speak the truth.

Why don't you call round, just knock on the door for a cuppa tea and a chat? It would defuse all the awkwardness next time yiz meet.

Lou.m

I am good friends with them.

They often offer me lifts places and we do coffee etc.

One girl two doors down used to come running with me.

When we had an older neighbor MRS H (let's call her) who went into an old folks home I went to visit her.

We look after each others pets sometimes.

They put up with my family's craziness so I had better be friendly!

People are nice to me generally.

Not saying hello would seem anti-social.

sopretty

I mightn't know them outside of the environment of my neighbourhood if you get me?

Have you ever seen a school teacher in a pub or something, and you're used to seeing someone in a certain environment, so you don't instantly recognise them as being your child's teacher?

I'd be a bit like that, if I saw people in shopping centres or something. I'd be like 'I know I know that person SO WELL', but it could take me a few seconds to cop on to who they were, as they were outside of the usual environment in which I'd recognise them?

darkdubh

We bought our house almost a year ago in Cork city center.Terraced houses a bit like Coronation St.On one side are an elderly couple who are quite nice and we'd often chat with them.On the other side are a couple in their late 40s early 50s with a teenage son.The father will grudgeingly say hello to you if you meet him or rather grunt.The son is kind of similar.The mother on the other hand will just literaly look through you if you meet her without a single word.Always found her behaviour very strange,its almost like we don't even exist to her.

Nemeses

darkdubh wrote: »

We bought our house almost a year ago in Cork city center.Terraced houses a bit like Coronation St.On one side are an elderly couple who are quite nice and we'd often chat with them.On the other side are a couple in their late 40s early 50s with a teenage son.The father will grudgeingly say hello to you if you meet him or rather grunt.The son is kind of similar.The mother on the other hand will just literaly look through you if you meet her without a single word.Always found her behaviour very strange,its almost like we don't even exist to her.

Hi Neighbour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEPT 23 1989

recognise one or two on Crimecall

thimble

I know the ones immediately beside and opposite me, and there'd be a few others on the street that I'd recognise in context (i.e. if I saw them in the neighbourhood). But like sopretty I'd probably struggle to place them if I met them unexpectedly out of context - say in a different city. Except the next door neighbours; I'd recognise them anywhere. (One set is quite distinctive!)

kfallon

Couple of people in the Apartment Block are living here years so know them to say hello. Also know the caretaker for the block well enough to stop and chat.

Pretzill

Tilly wrote: »

Yes i recognise all my neighbours and even stop and chat to them. Bar one, she's an ignorant cúnt who doesnt say hello to anyone.

That's probably me, I recognise all my neighbours but I blank most of them.