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15 February 2008

Note to people staying in fancy downtown hotels: If your room is directly across the street from a large office building, it really doesn't matter how high up your room is, people can still see you if you're standing naked at your window. Especially during standard business hours.

post by: occhiblu at: 12:27 | 20 comments

This post is useless without pics.

(Well, maybe not...)

posted by BoringPostcards 15 February | 12:30

Ha. I'd call the hotel and let them know.

posted by CitrusFreak12 15 February | 12:34

Really, you don't want pics.

posted by occhiblu 15 February | 12:34

Maybe he or she wants to be seen?

posted by doctor_negative 15 February | 12:38

He/she probably wants to be seen.

posted by iconomy 15 February | 12:39

posted by casarkos 15 February | 12:41

It's actually a "they," and given that they were sitting at the window smoking, I'm guessing they weren't in a state to be thinking much of anything at all. :-)

They've gone away now. I just seems weird to me that you'd be naked at a window with people at window-level about 50 feet away.

posted by occhiblu 15 February | 12:43

Well, of course people can see you standing naked at the window. Why else would you stay in a fancy downtown hotel?

posted by box 15 February | 12:43

ha! i have this realization every morning when I notice how clearly I can see the joggers on the Lakefront path.

posted by crush-onastick 15 February | 12:45

I'd wave and see what happens.

posted by pokermonk 15 February | 12:57

I never really care if anyone sees me. No one is forced to look.

posted by Ardiril 15 February | 13:05

Someone needs to review How Not to Be Seen.

posted by kirkaracha 15 February | 13:07

I never really care if anyone sees me. No one is forced to look.

I generally feel that way, and I'm kind of blase about it when I'm high up above people, because it's not normal for people to stare up into high windows constantly, but... it's hard not to look from this office building, because my office and most of the other offices (at least on this floor) are set up so that the people using them stare out the windows pretty regularly. My computer is set up right against the window, I tend to look to that side when I'm thinking, etc.

posted by occhiblu 15 February | 13:26

Damnit, I never see the good stuff. :(

posted by mullacc 15 February | 13:30

Now if they were naked zombies...

posted by Ardiril 15 February | 14:03

I had no idea your office would be across the street.

This is really embarassing.

posted by jason's_planet 15 February | 14:27

My office building is right behind a middle school.

The middle school has a concrete wall that separates our lot from their back "forest" - essentially a fitness trail for the kids. It's pretty dense from the ground - I'm sure from the fitness trail you can't see the school, and vice versa. However, we are on the third floor. Behind them.

it's not at all unusual to see kids - oblivious to the idea that we can see DOWN over the wall - hitting the woods in the spring/fall and... well, you know. So we routinely bang coffee mugs, staplers, etc on the windows (they don't open) to get the kids to knock that off.

But the looks on their faces when they realize they've been on display...

posted by disclaimer 15 February | 17:11

They might just be scuzzy and inconsiderate like me- if I'm in a far away city and there's pretty much no chance I'll get busted then -eh... y'all can suffer. I'm not blocking my daylight just so other people don't have to see my pasty self.

posted by small_ruminant 15 February | 17:23

But the looks on their faces when they realize they've been on display...

Awesome.

posted by pokermonk 15 February | 18:00

I'm offended

posted by matteo 16 February | 10:28

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