This thread hasn't been touched since 2015?! Well, instead of starting a new thread of a topic I started myself in the first place years ago, I thought I would just keep this here, as well as hopefully sparking new interest and replies!!
My friends moved into a high-rise at the beginning of the year, 21st floor. Due to quarantine boredom, I was texting with him and his wife on a group text more than usual that went late into the night (it was just the three of us, though, so not really a group), and asking about high-rise living. The topic came up of never closing the curtains to watch sunrises and sunsets (they are on a corner at an angle, so they actually do get both), as well as watching storms go by, and basically never closing their curtains at all.
Then I thought I would be bold and straight out ask them if they change in front of open windows and such being so high up. The husband immediately said, "No, why would we do that?"
Then out of nowhere, the wife texts, "Oh, don't lie, we haven't closed a single shade since the day we moved in, and I personally don't care what people can see, which is likely nothing at all, even from across the street." I asked if they check out the other high rises near them, and then I went on about how I used to have friends in Chicago that said everyone there owns telescopes to check out their neighbors. Then I told the story how I was once in a high-rise hotel on the 16th floor for work and saw no fewer than a quarter-dozen people naked in the hotel across the street in just one trip.
Regarding the telescope idea, the wife then says, "I never thought of that! I think I am going shopping on Amazon for a telescope right now! I will promise to tell you if I ever see anything interesting."
Then I said, "Now that I brought your attention to it, are you going to start closing your shades?" and the wife responded, "The opposite. I am going to take my time and stand closer to the window when I am naked. It sounds like a fun time!" I can't tell if she was pulling my leg or not, though. She is hard to read in person, let alone in a text. I assume she is just pulling my leg about the details, but I wouldn't doubt it will at least cross her mind now. It was also 2am at this point, so who knows if she was tired or a bit tipsy when she told me this.
Notice that my friend (the husband) didn't say a dang word the entire time this conversation was happening.
These are really conservative, church-going, never-even-let-a-brastrap-show type friends of mine that I am only friends with because 1) I have known them both since 7th grade, and 2) the wife says things like this every few years that keeps my interest.
I wouldn't likely start new friendships with such conservative, normally-prudish people.
I do plan to send some follow up texts today, though, asking how much she let be seen through her high-rise windows last night and this morning. She probably, in reality, will start closing her curtains now, but she might shock me. She has shocked me before...like when I stopped by their house in the morning many years ago to pick up something I had left there, and she bent over to keep the cat from escaping, in pjs, braless, nipples on display and much darker than I ever imagined, and she even said, "I bet I am flashing you right now. You can look but don't tell me." Granted that was over a decade ago, but it's the little things...sigh.
Anyway, it just seems more innocent to be naked and in full view when you are several stories up, rather than through a second story window of a house.
I have more and more friends living in high-rises, but I haven't had the window of opportunity (pun totally intended) to ask about this type of thing. I might just start blatantly asking in texts after midnight. You never know what they might say!