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Hey BRENDA, I'm nosy. I know most of my neighbors by name, and more... if they care to share.

Just wondering ... how many people on your floor? Do you know anything about them?
If it were me I'd bake a batch of cookies and introduce myself. So, dish... anything interesting?

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Hey BRENDA, I'm nosy. I know most of my neighbors by name, and more... if they care to share.

Just wondering ... how many people on your floor? Do you know anything about them?
If it were me I'd bake a batch of cookies and introduce myself. So, dish... anything interesting?


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Hey BRENDA, I'm nosy. I know most of my neighbors by name, and more... if they care to share.

Just wondering ... how many people on your floor? Do you know anything about them?
If it were me I'd bake a batch of cookies and introduce myself. So, dish... anything interesting?


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I've meet about 3 on my floor, one gentleman and 2 ladies. Think both the ladies are named Carol and I don't know the gentleman's name. There are I think 10 apartments on my floor. Not much else to tell. I speak to them when I see them but that is about all.

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Hey BRENDA, I'm nosy. I know most of my neighbors by name, and more... if they care to share.

Just wondering ... how many people on your floor? Do you know anything about them?
If it were me I'd bake a batch of cookies and introduce myself. So, dish... anything interesting?


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I've meet about 3 on my floor, one gentleman and 2 ladies. Think both the ladies are named Carol and I don't know the gentleman's name. There are I think 10 apartments on my floor. Not much else to tell. I speak to them when I see them but that is about all.

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Ask my family... I walk up to people on the street. People repairing cable networks. Dog walkers. Street maintenance. Police. I don't go door -knocking, but I make a point of getting neighbors' names and (if they care to share) mobile numbers. I text the nearest neighbors if there's a power outage, or if I think I see something wrong.

Busybody. That's me!


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Hey BRENDA, I'm nosy. I know most of my neighbors by name, and more... if they care to share.

Just wondering ... how many people on your floor? Do you know anything about them?
If it were me I'd bake a batch of cookies and introduce myself. So, dish... anything interesting?


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I've meet about 3 on my floor, one gentleman and 2 ladies. Think both the ladies are named Carol and I don't know the gentleman's name. There are I think 10 apartments on my floor. Not much else to tell. I speak to them when I see them but that is about all.

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Ask my family... I walk up to people on the street. People repairing cable networks. Dog walkers. Street maintenance. Police. I don't go door -knocking, but I make a point of getting neighbors' names and (if they care to share) mobile numbers. I text the nearest neighbors if there's a power outage, or if I think I see something wrong.

Busybody. That's me!


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No worries SIG.

I've just never been that way.

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Hey BRENDA, I'm nosy. I know most of my neighbors by name, and more... if they care to share.

Just wondering ... how many people on your floor? Do you know anything about them?
If it were me I'd bake a batch of cookies and introduce myself. So, dish... anything interesting?


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I've meet about 3 on my floor, one gentleman and 2 ladies. Think both the ladies are named Carol and I don't know the gentleman's name. There are I think 10 apartments on my floor. Not much else to tell. I speak to them when I see them but that is about all.

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Ask my family... I walk up to people on the street. People repairing cable networks. Dog walkers. Street maintenance. Police. I don't go door -knocking, but I make a point of getting neighbors' names and (if they care to share) mobile numbers. I text the nearest neighbors if there's a power outage, or if I think I see something wrong.

Busybody. That's me!


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No worries SIG.

I've just never been that way.

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I'm not really sure how I got to know my neighbors that I know anymore. Just kind of happened organically over the years. Pretty cool that I've been useful to most of them from time to time, especially since one is a wood worker and the other is a retired plumber and they've also turned out to be quite useful to me in return. Also nice to have people giving wellness checks to each other if we don't see each other for a while or after a bad weather event too.

But yeah... When I was in my apartments over the years before I had a house the most I really ever did was just say hi if I bumped into people. I never wanted to know anything about people who were were sharing the same building as me in such close quarters. I never really had anybody that was around my age in the apartments either that weren't married with kids anyhow, so that wasn't too hard to do.

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I imagine your interactions don't have much to do with introversion as much as how "up" you are for it on any particular day.

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I think most people don't look at it as if you'd be intruding.

That's probably more our personalities being projected onto other people. I'm going to venture a guess that on most days you would look at it as if somebody you didn't know would be intruding on you if they came up to you out of the blue and started talking. Am I right?

Just yesterday somebody came knocking at my door. I kept doing what I was doing and didn't answer it. I figure it was either somebody trying to sell me something, somebody begging for money or Jehovah's Witnesses. My neighbors all have my number, and anybody I know and/or care about lives far enough away that they wouldn't just drop by unannounced. Anybody knocking at my door wasn't going to offer me conversation about anything I was interested in discussing.


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I guess you're both introverts. I used to be, too. Ok with people I knew well, but very very shy as a child.
Kinda made it hard being a supervisor and having to deal with so many people. (That, and scheduling dyslexia, ha!) So I guess I compensated by trying to put people in the "I know them" category by being kind of nosy.

I found out that by preemptively asking them about themselves and being interested in what they were doing

a) I had a ready made personal response (interest in them) and generated a predictable reaction from them (happy to talk about themselves)
b) I learned a lot. Helpful at work AND with family AND around the neighborhood.
c) I didn't have to say much about myself.

What surprises me is the reaction I get from people I see working - line repair crews, city maintenance crews, people doing god knows what... As it turned out, THAT crew was putting in a commuter rail line across a street, so they had to put in all kinds of switches and controllers and signal lights. Even the guy repairing a fiberoptic cable under the street... he showed me the cable and the coupler they were using.

I found that by asking "whatcha doin'?" most people are HAPPY to explain what they're doing! They'll take a lot of time explaining. It's like they feel so invisible in their jobs that they're happy to be noticed, for a change.

EXCEPT COPS. Try that on cops and you'll get "Get outta here"

And I have yet to try that on EMTS and firefighters. I'd expect the same response as cops.



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I guess you're both introverts. I used to be, too. Ok with people I knew well, but very very shy as a child.
Kinda made it hard being a supervisor and having to deal with so many people. (That, and scheduling dyslexia, ha!) So I guess I compensated by trying to put people in the "I know them" category by being kind of nosy.

I found out that by preemptively asking them about themselves and being interested in what they were doing

a) I had a ready made personal response (interest in them) and generated a predictable reaction from them (happy to talk about themselves)
b) I learned a lot. Helpful at work AND with family AND around the neighborhood.
c) I didn't have to say much about myself.

What surprises me is the reaction I get from people I see working - line repair crews, city maintenance crews, people doing god knows what... As it turned out, THAT crew was putting in a commuter rail line across a street, so they had to put in all kinds of switches and controllers and signal lights. Even the guy repairing a fiberoptic cable under the street... he showed me the cable and the coupler they were using.

I found that by asking "whatcha doin'?" most people are HAPPY to explain what they're doing! They'll take a lot of time explaining. It's like they feel so invisible in their jobs that they're happy to be noticed, for a change.

EXCEPT COPS. Try that on cops and you'll get "Get outta here"

And I have yet to try that on EMTS and firefighters. I'd expect the same response as cops.



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I fully admit to being a shy child and my mother having to push me to get me to talk to people. Back then I would rather spend time with a book or maybe some music I had to learn for band. When my dad was a live he was my favourite person to talk too.

So, yeah you would say I was an introvert. Still am in some ways.

Unless I know the person really, really well I do have a hard time engaging.

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I guess you're both introverts. I used to be, too. Ok with people I knew well, but very very shy as a child.
Kinda made it hard being a supervisor and having to deal with so many people. (That, and scheduling dyslexia, ha!) So I guess I compensated by trying to put people in the "I know them" category by being kind of nosy.

I found out that by preemptively asking them about themselves and being interested in what they were doing

a) I had a ready made personal response (interest in them) and generated a predictable reaction from them (happy to talk about themselves)
b) I learned a lot. Helpful at work AND with family AND around the neighborhood.
c) I didn't have to say much about myself.

What surprises me is the reaction I get from people I see working - line repair crews, city maintenance crews, people doing god knows what... As it turned out, THAT crew was putting in a commuter rail line across a street, so they had to put in all kinds of switches and controllers and signal lights. Even the guy repairing a fiberoptic cable under the street... he showed me the cable and the coupler they were using.

I found that by asking "whatcha doin'?" most people are HAPPY to explain what they're doing! They'll take a lot of time explaining. It's like they feel so invisible in their jobs that they're happy to be noticed, for a change.

EXCEPT COPS. Try that on cops and you'll get "Get outta here"

And I have yet to try that on EMTS and firefighters. I'd expect the same response as cops.



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I fully admit to being a shy child and my mother having to push me to get me to talk to people. Back then I would rather spend time with a book or maybe some music I had to learn for band. When my dad was a live he was my favourite person to talk too.

So, yeah you would say I was an introvert. Still am in some ways.

Unless I know the person really, really well I do have a hard time engaging.

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The infamous "they" say that introversion and extroversion are the most stable personality traits. They appear to last a lifetime. So for me, I had to learn to compensate bc of my job. I developed a "procedure" that lets me get thru with the minimum of discomfort. I hate parties, tho. Not great at chitchat. If it's not a social situation I can control. Also, have a hard time dealing with authority- especially authority figures I really really need something from (like a recalcitrant doctor) , and hostile people. I think it extends to advancing into new learning territory too. I do best when I have an extrovert at my side. Sigh. I do the best I can, but we introverts will always be a minority at a disadvantage in a world of extroverts.

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For your own safety, BRENDA, I think you should develop a reliable contact on your floor. Someone who will notice if they don't see you coming and going, and call emergency services.

My sis just got involved into someone's affairs bc this woman listed her as emergency contact. But it was her apartment neighbors and apartment manager who stepped in when she was rushed to hospital. They waited for ambulance, took her dog in, and visited her at hospital.

Not sure if she's going to make it. Which brings up a whole raft of issues. Is there someone you can trust who lives near you to be your healthcare proxy? i.e. who can make decisions for you, know what you want if you're unconscious and can't decide for yourself? Is there someone with springing power of attorney (i.e power of attorney that doesn't come into effect unless you're unconscious or incompetent, as determined by a doctor) who can pay your bills, take care of your stuff while you can't? Do you have an "advanced directive" that tell a hospital what to do¿

SIX, this goes for you too.

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For your own safety, BRENDA, I think you should develop a reliable contact on your floor. Someone who will notice if they don't see you coming and going, and call emergency services.

My sis just got involved into someone's affairs bc this woman listed her as emergency contact. In reality there was nothing she could do. It was this lady's apartment neighbors and apartment manager who stepped in when she was rushed to hospital. They waited for ambulance, took her dog in, and visited her at hospital.

Not sure if she's going to make it. Which brings up a whole raft of issues. Is there someone you can trust who lives near you to be your healthcare proxy? i.e. who can make decisions for you, know what you want if you're unconscious and can't decide for yourself? Is there someone with springing power of attorney (i.e power of attorney that doesn't come into effect unless you're unconscious or incompetent, as determined by a doctor) who can pay your bills, take care of your stuff while you can't? Do you have an "advanced directive" that tell a hospital what to do¿

SIX, this goes for you too.

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My friend in the foothills lives alone. Her neighbors would step in if anything obviously wrong ... eg. smoke from the house or yard, noisy break-in ... but not otherwise.

For her safety, we text every morning and chat briefly every evening. That wouldn't help in an heart attack situation but for slower moving events it works fine.

Keep your cellphone charged up and with you at all times. BRENDA, a cellpgone can be a good safety measure.

You should both have emergency bracelets ... the medic alert cost comes from them maintaining a database on you, but a simple stamped or engraved tag should do OK. They have do-it-yourself pet tags at pet stores. I probably should too, but not sure which part of my complex medical history and treatment belongs!

An emergency contact is only good if they have healthcare proxy and springing POA, otherwise it's useless. My sis, named emergency contact, couldn't do a damn thing.

Just thinking things thru.

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Back and done for the day and it is hot, hot, hot out. Computer temp reads 29C which is 88F. Tomorrow is suppose to be a little hotter then a cool down is coming.

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Back and done for the day and it is hot, hot, hot out. Computer temp reads 29C which is 88F. Tomorrow is suppose to be a little hotter then a cool down is coming.

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We finally, finally, finally got ours. Free from humidity too.

I mowed my lawn in record time today despite the length. Front and back finished and even took the leaf blower out to clean up all the crap from the curbs and sidewalks in less than 90 minutes.

That's all I felt like doing outside though. Eventually I guess I'll have to get around to that landscaping.

If I feel like it.


Glad to hear your weather is finally going to cool down too Brenda.

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That's why my chandelier has been cleaned exactly one time since I put it up over a decade ago.



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Out and about in a minute. Much cooler again today. Right now sitting at 18C which is 56F.

Phone rang twice this morning at around 9am. Ugh. One was an automated call. Think it was dentist and another from a lady wanting to know about a pick up game for tomorrow. Which I won't know anything about till this evening. That's if the lady who runs the group feels like doing anything after getting back from her cruise.

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Out and about in a minute. Much cooler again today. Right now sitting at 18C which is 56F.

Phone rang twice this morning at around 9am. Ugh. One was an automated call. Think it was dentist and another from a lady wanting to know about a pick up game for tomorrow. Which I won't know anything about till this evening. That's if the lady who runs the group feels like doing anything after getting back from her cruise.

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