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From Crazy To Hilarious, Here Are 27 Things Folks Accidentally Spotted In Other People’s Windows
Various Christmas and New Year's movies feature a popular and, frankly, rather cliched scene where some character stands alone on a cold, snowy street and looks into the brightly lit window of a house where a family is gathered around a festive table. There's a decorated Christmas tree, everyone is laughing joyfully, and such scenes truly create that hallmark Christmas atmosphere.
However, it's not always the case that these windows reveal something so touching and moving. Sometimes, if you casually glance into someone else's window, you might witness a funny, sad, or outright ridiculous scene. So today's list by Bored Panda is dedicated to such cases.
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#2
My upstairs neighbor was giving a PowerPoint presentation to her cats. Like she had slides. Charts. Pointer stick. The cats were asleep. She kept presenting.
Yayheterogeneity 10 hours ago
An important presentation she had to practice for. Totally normal.
#3
Not through a window but my upstairs neighbor and his girl were getting it ON. They did it for like over an hour. Banging and moans coming from my ceiling.
I know the couple and am cool with the guy so it didnt bother me much since it was a decent hour. I saw him in our building’s gym a few days later and told him that I needed some of his stamina tips- he looked confused and I told him that I heard him getting it on over the weekend and that I was sure his girl would never leave him after how she sounded.
He then said he was out of town for work over the weekend. My heart sank to my stomach. She moved out shortly after and he just looked like such a sad person after that. Every time I think about how bad I feel for him, I don’t regret telling him- I would want to know. I hope he’s doing good, he moved out months later.
Recently, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, the author of which, the user u/PreferenceRoutine531, asked netizens: "People who live in apartment buildings: what's the most unexpected thing you've accidentally seen through a neighbor's window?" It might seem like an unusual question, but the thread has collected many truly interesting and exciting stories.
From funny to piquant, and from sad to downright silly - please feel free to enjoy this dedicated selection of almost thirty tales we've compiled for you based on this thread!
#4
Several years ago my (new) girlfriend and I visited my boss and family at their Cape house and they put us up for the night in their basement spare bedroom.
We all go to sleep and we begin to hear the squeak: squeak: squeak of bed springs. I smiled and didn’t say anything to my girl but then it went on for lIke 45 minutes straight with no letup.
being kinda uncomfortable my girlfriend and I started giggling and laughing knowing what was going on.
Next morning we walked upstairs somewhat sheepishly for breakfast. Right off the bat the wife goes “I hope Kyle (their very young son) didn’t keep you awake last night. He has a terrible time falling asleep and can jump around in his crib / bed forever”.
We both lost it and had to explain to our hosts what we thought was going on.
😂😂😂.
#5
When I was in college there was a dude who would walk around naked in the place across from us a lot. Which isn't really that unusual. But a friend came over once when the dude was out and, with horror, recognized him as her TA. Less expected.
#6
Looked outside once and saw my neighbor gently blow-drying a turtle. I didn’t even know she owned a turtle. Still confused to this day.
People love to 'spy' on other people, and this inclination of ours has actually found reflection in many works of world culture. Attempts to satisfy our curiosity by learning how others live have actually always existed - even thousands of years before humans invented windows for their homes.
From a fleeting glance while walking down the street to experimental avant-garde movies like Andy Warhol's famous "Empire." Then, in 1964, the prominent visionary of modern art and his friends climbed to the 44th floor of the Time Life Building in NYC, set up a camera, and filmed the Empire State Building across the street for six hours and 40 minutes.
Warhol himself described the film's central idea as "an attempt to understand the flow of time," but such works of art are, in fact, incredibly multilayered. So, throughout the film's nearly seven hours, you can occasionally catch glimpses of people doing their jobs in offices, totally unaware that they're being watched by a camera.
#7
A fox. A real fox (the chicken stealing kind) used to sit up in the window of an apartment I’d walk past on my way to grade school in San Francisco. Not a city known for foxes.
Felt kind of sorry for it because it didn’t look like a very large apartment.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 hours ago
A lot of foxes are still bred in atrocious conditions in fur farms. Perhaps this fox was a rescued fur farm fox (farms will often keep "normal-looking" red foxes as breeding stock as well as the unusual-coat-patterned-ones.) If that were the case, the apartment was probably a spacious heaven for it, and it wouldn't be able to have been released into the wild anyway. I'm just hazarding a guess as to its origins XD Plus, in many states (California included), you need a special permit to keep a "wild" animal such as a fox as a pet, even if it was born in captivity, so maybe this was just a random illegal pet fox XD
#8
Our friend's have a house with an apartment building next door. Third floor, right next to their backyard is someone's shower. When he's in there, there's a perfect silhouette. He likes to prop up his phone and do karaoke, make shampoo horns, and.... other things we think. It's an incredible show.
#9
The guy across the courtyard used to shave naked at the sink in front of his bathroom window. The reason I know he was naked is because in the summer he'd open the bottom half of the frosted window, providing a perfect view of his "package". He was very well endowed (a point mentioned more than once by my live-in girlfriend). Never saw his face so I don't know who he was.
Incidentally, sociological surveys clearly confirm that many nations consider peering through others' windows a national sport. For example, this dedicated article at Shutters describes one such survey, wittily called "Nosy Nation," which was conducted among the British.
According to the survey, more than half of Britons admit to regular window-watching. Moreover, 35% have seen something strange or unexpected, 33% admit to catching a naked neighbor or something bizarre by accident, and 29% have even responded to an incident seen through the window.
#10
Not my apartment building but walking downtown Boston, waiting at crosswalk and happened to look up about 4 floors. Completely naked woman standing in a window so still I thought it was a mannequin at first. Then she waved at me. And started combing her hair. I kinda laughed and the lady standing next to me looked at me and then looked up. She started laughing and I started laughing and the light changed and we went on our separate ways.
#11
Goats. A handful of goats.
I was just taking my trash out, and there was a sound I didn't recognize. I turn to look, and there were goats in my neighbor's apartment. She was rather baffled when I asked about her hircine guest a few days later. Turns out, Her BF had rented a bunch of goats to play a prank of his best friend. He felt bad leaving the goats in the truck, so he brought them in the apartment for a few hours, until he packed them back up and drove them away to do the prank, without telling my neighbor.
#12
Was staying in Boston my husband and son went to a baseball game. I was looking out the hotel window and there were some guys working on a car. I settled in with my book. It was nice to hear them ribbing each other. One new guy appeared he went inside the apartment and came out after kissing a woman, I saw through their window. He joined the guys at the car. A different guy went in the apartment then he and the woman went into the bedroom and disappeared from my view. I saw him next putting his shirt on and heading back down to hang with the group at the car. I realized I had just witnessed an affair with the other guys wife. How brazen and bold.
In fact, some sociologists generally tend to view windows as a type of media. Like smartphone screens, existing long before smartphones were invented. "The characteristic of a window as media is that it connects the inside with the outside via the eye while physically separating the inside from the outside," this article on the Window Research Institute website quotes sociologist Georg Simmel.
Of course, now that we devote almost the lion's share of our attention to our smartphones (4 hours and 37 minutes per day, according to this study, shared by Exploding Topics), we've become less likely to look through any windows. But still, from time to time, we get our eyes off this endless carousel of reels, TikToks, and texts - and see something no less captivating in a neighboring window.
#13
I rarely wake up in the middle of the night, I usually sleep all the way through. Woke up one morning and just couldn't sleep. Like 3AM, had a busy day the next day. Went to the bathroom, came back and waaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the distance somehow my eyes locked on and I saw two tiny people up against a glass window going to town. Back was smashed against the full sized floor to ceiling, wall to wall window, then they swapped to her chest against it instead. Laughed, went to bed. Looked over there in the morning and realized it was the stairwell to their building, not even an apartment.
#14
Not seen, but one day me and my wife where walking from our car to our apartment, maybe 11:00PM and we hear a women just exclaim very loudly "I AIN'T NEVER GONE TO BED!" from inside her second story apartment.
To this day one of us will randomly blurt out "I AIN'T NEVER GONE TO BED!" and both break out laughing.
#15
Not a neighbors window, but my own. I got up from some afternoon delight and was pouring a glass of water at the kitchen sink. I hear my boyfriend clearing his throat in the hall behind me. When I looked up, there was a guy on a ladder looking directly into the window above the sink. The landlord had sent him over to check out the roof. God knows how long he was staring at me. Glad he didn't fall when I screamed!
You know, we're almost certain you've also seen something worth sharing through the window. So after you read these stories collected by us, maybe you'd feel free to tell us your own tale in the comments below. And please don't forget to keep a closer eye out when you're walking down the street - maybe something interesting is already happening there.
#16
Saw my neighbor practicing a full breakup speech… to his houseplants. He even paused for their “responses.” Honestly I respected the commitment.
Yayheterogeneity 10 hours ago
Well, if you have no pets to practice with, the plants have to fill in that job.
#18
Visited a 5th floor youth hostel in Vancouver and couldn't sleep. A couple of presumably homeless guys took everything out of a long (40+ feet?) industrial dumpster, carefully picked through them, and they completely put everything back.
#19
Lived in a building of just studio apartments. The one across from me always had the blinds closed, two guys lived there, never spoke to them rarely even saw them. One day blinds were wide open. Nothing inside but stacks of towels folded on the floor in neat rows.
#20
Caught a neighbor practicing his ‘surprised face’ in the mirror for like 10 minutes straight. Oscar-worthy stuff.lmao.
#21
My building is weird but every other window in inset with about a 3 foot ledge beneath it. They dont want anyone going out/putting things out there, and there's no railing so I dont know what the point of it is. Late one night I was coming home from work and there was a ~10yo kid climbing out of the sideways window on the 3rd story. He made it out, turned around, made eye contact with me for about 30 seconds, then crawled back in. I still see him in the hallways every once in a while.
Same kid took all the fire extinguishers in the building and sprayed them into the stairwell.
#22
Walked past my window at night and saw the dude opposite me cutting his pizza with scissors. No shame, no hesitation. Just snip snip dinner time.
#23
Raccoons tore my sliding door screen and broke into my apartment! My dog went crazy but they wouldn’t leave because they found my dog’s treat stash!
#24
Not through a window , but I saw my new neighbor smoking a bowl and throwing matches over the railing. I introduced myself and he told me to come over. He had a lil bird and he had built it like a large play place. He was cool.
#25
The house behind me has foil and fabric covering every window. I went out to do laundry, and heard a knock on one of the windows and someone say *help*
as far as I know, only one boomer motorcycle guy lives there, and i’ve been wary ever since.
#26
Someone repeatedly dangling a giant fake non-realistic spider on a long rope out of their apartment window and over the sidewalk below. I would have guessed it was a prank but they were doing it while no one was walking by
I also worked in a high rise office across from a high rise hotel where I was one day lucky enough to be sat in a conference room in clear view of an attractive very naked man leisurely wandering around his hotel room. I did not pay very much attention to the meeting I was in haha.
#27
MEN really like walking around naked for no reason with the windows open. Multiple apartments where this was the case, whether they live alone or with a partner.
What do you think ?
PenguinEmp 9 hours ago
My neighbour, whom I do not like, mentioned once they could see me naked in the living room waking around. I said lady, if you're going to look into someones window don't complain about what you see. I then said look I know what I look like, you're the one that has to see it not me. So live with it for the rest of your life lol. We are on a first floor and you had to either be 12fr tall or be about 190 ft from the building to see me full naked.
PenguinEmp 9 hours ago
My neighbour, whom I do not like, mentioned once they could see me naked in the living room waking around. I said lady, if you're going to look into someones window don't complain about what you see. I then said look I know what I look like, you're the one that has to see it not me. So live with it for the rest of your life lol. We are on a first floor and you had to either be 12fr tall or be about 190 ft from the building to see me full naked.
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