and my socks still fit too!

And there’s this:

Katlan, I have one of those next door now.

I have two of those next door, not a bad idea sometimes, but most of the time it IS.

She is very sweet and I love them like family, but she does know everything about everyone around, lol.

We have similar. I call him the mayor. Wealth of info there should I ever feel the need.

My maternal grandmother was like that, and the expression of the woman in the middle reminds me of her. She would find out everything about everyone (She lived in a small town of about 3500 people) and then call everyone she knew and tell them. I would sometimes hear her tell the same story verbatim to countless people on the phone, and I found this extremely tiresome! According to some of my mother's cousins, a lot of people in town did not like her, and she was known as the town busybody. Fortunately, she traveled a lot after she retired, and therefore was out of town a lot. I had to feel sorry for people who sat next to her on planes.

Rusty

Katlin,

We have one of those across the street from us. The main problem is that he gets things wrong and still keeps spreading the "news".

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I have a neighbor that sends out a newsletter telling eveyone who he hates and "why".

The one across the street texted me, saying we were stupid to be out working on the hottest day of the year. Uh,,huh. It was 80F...and we were in the shade of a covered porch.

80* is just getting nice. That is not hot.

My mother had one in her condo. He would carry an envelope as a prop so he could pretend he was heading to the mail box when he walked by my Mom's place multiple times a day. The one that really bowled her over is when she was walking into her place with her arms full of groceries so she left her keys in the door and the door open until she could put the bags down. Before she could, he was at the door telling her she shouldn't leave the keys in the door and the door open like that! Sheesh!

Our local news radio is KYW. I have a neighbor I call KYW because she is always spreading the news. She has a heart of gold though. I am just careful what i tell her since I know the entire neighborhood will soon know too.

I moved from the city to a very small town (250 people!) in a rural county. Each little town had a ”social’ column in the weekly newspaper. Or maybe it was a weekly column in the daily paper. We rented a house and directly across the street was our town’s column reporter. We didn’t know anyone in town, but our friends from elsewhere visited frequently on weekends. The INSTANT our friends would pull out of the driveway, she would be on the phone wanting to know who visited, from where, what we did! I tried to discourage her because there was no one reading that column who would know us or care about our social life. She was relentless. After living pretty anonymously in a large city, the invasion of privacy was disturbing. We also shared a party phone line with her. I was SO happy to move!