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Some years ago I operated a mobile catering business north of Brisbane, Australia and one day did a function at a rural type property. After meeting the owners and setting up the serving table in the backyard I was walking back to my prep area and looked towards the house which was quite close and saw the lady owner in the shower. What was unusual here is that the bathroom was specifically designed to be open. That is the windows were full length with no obvious curtains/blinds etc so that anyone having a shower is fully exposed, there were no other houses in view so that is fine when you don't have visitors.

She kept facing the other way so we never saw each others faces but she must have known that I was likely to be walking past as I was quite busy. An interesting thing that struck me was that in her clothes she was not very attractive at all but naked she was very much better. Later in the evening when the function got under way we spoke a couple of times but she was quite offhand and not any more friendly than you would expect. Wouldn't have been able to do anything anyway as I had my young daughter with me helping do the work.

Also on the subject of whether women realise that they can be seen I generally think that they do but sometimes they don't. My current partner will sometimes sunbake topless in the backyard and asks whether the neighbours can see her. She seems to have trouble understanding the principle that whatever you can see from the position of your eyes is where people can see you from. It's like those signs on trucks "If you can't see my mirrors, then I can't see you".