I’ve noticed this since last fall when it started getting darker earlier. When I look out my bedroom window, as I usually do when I raise the shade in the morning or drop it in the evening, I don’t see the ocean in the distance so much as the flickering glow of my neighbor’s TV set. Directly in the line of sight with the tiny piece of ocean I can see is a rather tall and narrow window set into the lower part of the next door apartment about a hundred feet away. For six years I put my shade down and up and never gave much thought to what was through that window – it’s really not big enough to see anything and I’m not interested in my neighbor’s furnishings.<\/p>\n
But now I can see this huge TV set flickering away at all hours of the day and night. Really. I’ve been up (for various reasons) at 2, 3, 4 in the morning; I think there was one time in the last three or four months the window was dark. I haven’t made a study of it and it’s harder to see in the daylight so I won’t try to attest to how much it’s on during the day but it’s on a lot.<\/p>\n
I’m actually a little curious. Does this guy ever sleep? Does he leave it on when he’s not there?<\/p>\n
Not enough to go over and ask him, though. Just enough to post this little rant.<\/p>\n
ADDENDUM: Today, not even 24 hours after I wrote this, I came home about 5:45 in the evening. It was nearly full dark. I went into my room to drop the shade and\u00a0 . . . the TV was off!<\/p>\n
Maybe he wasn’t home from work yet.<\/p>\n
Actually, now as I write this, it’s 8 pm and it’s still off. I hope he’s alright.<\/p>\n
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