A woman walked by an opened apartment window while a mother was having an argument with her junky son. Looking in shaking her head in a judgemental way towards the mother who was looking out, with tears streaming down her face. Making the mother feel even worse about the situation with her son.
How dare this woman gawk in the window and judge while shaking her head at the mother. You have no idea about the troubles this mother has with her son. —Ozzy
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.
I find that a rueful shake of the head at a total stranger can indicate sympathy, or a knowledge of shared experience. Tough call, OP
‘…shaking her head in a judgemental way’ – do you know that for sure? Are you an expert on ‘judgemental ways, looks and gestures’? How do you know that it wasn’t pity? Or being able to relate? Were her brows furrowed or did they crawl around her face like two centipedes on ‘shrooms? What a moronic bitch.
Looking in people’s windows is rude…
..are you sure you weren’t watching tv there op? 🙂
damn busy bodies peeping and prying into other people’s damn lives….
go drink a glass of prune juice and do a crossword on the crapper if you have that much free damn time, old bitty.
If you are going to get in a yelling match with your family, could you at least close the window?
More like an “I feel sorry for the shit you’re going through” look, I’d say.
That woman might be the sleep stalker.
and how would you know this unless you were starring at both of them?
Bitch shoulda closed the damn window if she wanted to yell. Who knows what the passer by was looking at? How dare you OP, how dare you pass your judgement on that poor passer by!
Was this before he flew to Toronto for the weekend and got shot?
the ones i get a kick out of, are those with open windows fucking their brains out. some of the sounds are just fucking hilarious.
heard some one night, he was calling her lassie, and she was saying something about a green man. i just had to stop and listen. by the way, they were on the second floor.
thank you for reminding me that i do this sometimes (not in the same situation) and that i shouldn’t. They could have been shaking their head in sympathy, but it’s easy to tell the difference between a sympathy head shake and a disgust head shake.