Love Your Neighbour....'s Privacy

Back in London, when I used to live in a flat, I had this crazy tendency to avoid the neighbours whenever I could. If I was about to leave the apartment, it didn’t matter if I was halfway through the door, if I so much as heard the sounds of their doorknobs turning, so help me, I would jump back in straight away and stay perfectly still (like I expected them to burst through my home with axes if they even suspected I was on the other side) until I could hear them entering the lift. Then I would cautiously double check that they were gone by peering out the peephole and counting to 10 because sometimes people forget stuff and they have to come back, okay?

The most uncomfortablest of times were those instances when I had to share a lift with a neighbor. I’d give an awkward ‘hi’. Maybe they’d say something about seeing me around the building. Then we’d smile at each other, glance away and wait silently until we reached the nearest floor. It’d be even worse if we both lived on the same floor, then the awkwardness would just continue until one of us managed to escape into their own home.  

Sometimes, I would recognize a neighbour walking ahead of me towards our building and I’d just stroll right into the nearby convenience store, buy something, then eventually head home. It wouldn’t matter if it was freezing cold, or if I was dead tired, I’d still delay going home at that moment because I just do not like making small talk.

I’m…I’m not the only one who feels this way…am I?





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Gaming Update

Btw, regarding FF8. I’m at that bit of the game where I’m supposed to abolish 2 card rules in Dollet so that only Open remains. 

It’s entirely based on chance and it is killing me, knowing that I could just ignore this Very Optional mission, but also knowing that due to my insanity need to be very thorough when gaming, that I couldn’t disregard it. I need abolish these rules if I want to complete the Card Quest with ease in the later discs and I so want to just coast through this quest. It’s like grinding up your levels so you can brag to your friends how easy the final boss was, never exactly revealing how many hours it took to prepare for that last battle….

Suffice to say, since doing this is really time consuming and boring, I’ve reached a point in the game where I’ve taken a time off because having to press Reset each time that stupid girl refuses to abolish the Random rule, has given me the tendency to throw things around my room.

EDIT: I finally abolished them! Take that, Elemental and Random! After what seemed like a million days of trying, I can at last leave the boring town of Dollet! I decided to not follow Steve’s online GameFAQ to the letter, and take some forum advice by challenging random people around town, instead of just focusing on the stupid car rental girl. After just 3 tries, Elemental was abolished and after 4 resets, I got rid of Random and internet cookies were handed to all.